Goodbye Kansas Studios delivered 180 shots for the BBC series Vigil. Originally released in the UK in August 2021, episode one of Vigil attracted an audience of 10.2 million across its first seven days, making it the BBC’s most-watched new drama Read more
In 1999 Kim Libreri was the bullet time supervisor on the original 1999 Matrix film. Today he is the CTO of Epic Games, and he and the team have just returned to the Matrix. In a remarkable tie-in between the Read more
For many, the advent of volumetric capture poses an interesting technical challenge, but it also offers a wide range of creative opportunities. Today there exists a set of trade-offs between the technical and creative, but the area Is rapidly evolving Read more
IBL Image-Based Lighting (IBL) is the CGI technique that involves capturing an omnidirectional representation of real-world lighting information as an image with a high dynamic range. This can then be used as a reference and starting point for recreating matching Read more
Eternals directed by Chloé Zhao is the story of the Eternals, a race of immortal beings who live on Earth and have shaped its history and civilizations. Weta Digital was the lead visual effects house on the film, and rather than Read more
In the world of motion capture, mo-cap suits for body capture and head-mounted cameras for facial capture have perhaps received the most widespread attention and use. But a growing amount of research and innovation is being made in hand motion Read more
Foundation on Apple TV+ is a complex saga of humans scattered on planets throughout the galaxy all living under the rule of the Galactic Empire. The show started with psycho-historian, Dr. Hari Seldon (Jared Harris) and his loyal followers who attempt Read more
Katana is a lookdev and lighting tool and as such it benefits from close integration with the applications it interfaces with most often, especially Mari for texturing and Nuke for compositing. With the new version 5 of the software, Foundry’s Read more
Unity has just announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Weta Digital, specifically its artist tools, core pipeline, intellectual property, and award-winning engineering talent. The Academy Award-Winning VFX service teams of Weta Digital will be known Read more
Just as the growing friendship between a malfunctioning robot companion and a socially awkward middle schooler is the emotional core of Ron’s Gone Wrong, the animated adventure comedy happens to be the first production for co-collaborators Locksmith Animation and DNEG Feature Read more
