Avatar: The Way of Water won the Best Visual Effects Oscar at the 95th annual Academy Awards. The Oscar went to Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, and Daniel Barrett. This is Joe’s 5th Academy Award, having won previously for: 2010 Read more
‘All Quiet on the Western Front,’ ‘Avatar: The Way of Water,’ ‘The Batman,’ ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,’ and ‘Top Gun: Maverick,’ the five films nominated for Best Visual Effects at this year’s 95th Oscars, coming March 12. Perfectly reflecting the Read more
Nevercenter has released Silo 2023, the latest version of its lightweight 3D modelling software, and Milo 2023, its Unreal Engine-based real-time renderer. The Silo 2023.0 update brings procedural modelling to Silo, adding a new set of modifiers to make it possible Read more
Now available on the Academy Software Foundation GitHub, the flexible, feature rich program is designed to meet the diverse needs of a broad range of review scenarios across teams of connected users, whether on set, in office, or remote. Leading VFX Read more
Nominees in 25 categories for this year’s VES awards were selected by VES members at 27 in-person and virtual nomination events conducted worldwide last weekend (the event unfortunately overlapped with the Oscar Bake-off). The VES has nearly 4,500 members in Read more
Wētā FX has developed an entirely new face pipeline. The team first developed this breakthrough new approach in 2019, but the company has only just revealed the new approach at SIGGRAPH ASIA in Korea, to coincide with the release of Avatar: Read more
Michael Banks Repeta as Paul Graff and Anthony Hopkins as Grandpa Aaron Rabinowitz in James Gray’s Armageddon Time. (Photo: Anne Joyce. Courtesy of Focus Features) Set in 1980s Queens, New York, James Gray’s autobiographical tale, Armageddon Time, follows Paul Graff as he Read more
Some of the Foundation series’ visual effects were achieved at DNEG’s India studios, which have handled big productions from Hollywood as well as China and India. (Image courtesy of DNEG and Apple Inc.) “We’re seeing a VFX explosion worldwide, and it’s not Read more
Images courtesy of HBO. Lord Asriel Belacqua (James McAvoy) pilots the Intention Craft, which was a combination of practical and CG elements. As with the fantasy trilogy written by author Philip Pullman, the HBO, BBC Studios and Bad Wolf production Read more
FutureWorks, a Mumbai-based VFX house completed 550 shots for HBO’s Emmy-winning last season of Westworld. We caught up with the team for this look at how some of the defining aesthetic elements of the show were brought to life, such as Read more
