The original Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) created by Gene Roddenberry first aired on September 28, 1987. It ended this run on syndication on May 23, 1994, after 178 episodes over seven seasons. The show was significant in many ways, but Read more
Union VFX provided the VFX for the Award-winning and Oscar-nominated The Banshees of Inisherin. The film is a remarkable dark tragicomedy film that is set on a remote, fictional island off the west coast of Ireland in 1923. The film stars Colin Read more
Iwájú, a comics-style animated series set in a futuristic Lagos, Nigeria, is the first production between Disney Animation and an outside studio, African animation company Kugali. CG animation is provided by Cinesite. (Image courtesy of Disney+) What does the road Read more
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
Here are some insights from those leading the way … Kaitlyn Yang,Visual Effects Supervisor and Founder of Alpha Studios I’ve been asked which of these characteristics that describe me (disabled with spinal muscular atrophy, Chinese-American, woman) have posed the biggest Read more
The studio delivered almost 400 visual effects shots, with its London facility producing a single 10-minute sequence and Montreal facility creating a range of sequences, including full water simulations, integrating CG ships, digi-doubles and a helicopter crashing into the ocean. 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
