‘Okja’: Finding the Personality Of A CG Super-Pig
How the vfx crew used on-set puppeteering and cg to bring the star of ‘Okja’ to life.
Ian Failes
Inside Peter Jackson’s New Augmented Reality Studio
We go behind the scenes of Wingnut AR’s tabletop augmented reality experience made with Apple’s new ARKit.
‘Transformers: The Last Knight’: Behind Bumblebee’s New Trick
How the “Transformers: The Last Knight” vfx crew crafted a new kind of transformation for the franchise’s fifth outing.
Inside Neill Blomkamp’s First Experimental Oats Studios Short ‘Rakka’
Oats Studios isn’t just creating fresh new content, they’re creating a fresh and new approach to the process of making vfx-driven films.
How They Did It: Making The War Scenes In ‘Wonder Woman’
Director Patty Jenkins “always couched the visual effects in emotions,” the film’s vfx supervisor Bill Westenhofer tells Cartoon Brew.
ANNECY 2017: The Long Journey Behind The German Indie Feature ‘A Stork’s Journey’
The writer and co-director of “A Stork’s Journey” shares the ups and downs of making an indie animated feature across four European countries.
Midas Touch Automates 2D Animation With New Creature Tool
A new tool automates the tedious task of secondary animation, like cloth and hair.
Just How Did They Make Javier Bardem Look Like He Was Underwater in ‘Dead Men Tell No Tales’?
MPC made Captain Salazar appear underwater, even when he wasn’t.
FIRST LOOK: Bron Animation Pushes Forward With Quirky Feature ‘The Willoughbys’
Ricky Gervais is voicing a cat in Bron Animation’s upcoming cg feature based on the book by Lois Lowry.
The Biggest Motion Capture Studio in Canada Just Opened
Already a hub for vfx, animation and games, Vancouver now has a new mo-cap studio.
Brazen Animation Reveals ‘Tempest’ Feature Film Pitch [Exclusive Making-Of Video]
The Dallas-based independent commercial studio has released a three-minute teaser that combines 2d and 3d animation styles, and complex fluid simulations.
‘Alien: Covenant’: How On-set Suit Performances, Mo-cap, And VFX Each Played A Role In Production
Behind the scenes of Ridley Scott’s newest “Alien” film, with before and after image breakdowns.
Limitless Wants To Be a Pioneer in VR Character Animation and Interaction
Limitless, made up of Pixar and Bungie alumni, is aiming for high-end – and interactive – characters in vr.
How They Animated Baby Groot In That Epic Opening To ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2’
With a little help from Framestore, Baby Groot stole the show in the opening battle scene of ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2.’
‘Agent 327: Operation Barbershop’ Trailer: How Blender Was Used To Pull Off Hollywood-Level Animation
The animation test, intended to be a forerunner to a feature film project, was made in Blender and is inspired by a famous Dutch comic series.
The Beautiful Side of ‘Ugly’: How A Film Embraced Errors And Happy Accidents In CG
How deliberate errors, unusual animation inputs, and ‘ugly’ simulations resulted in a one-of-a-kind animated short.
Step-By-Step: How They Made Those Disturbing Godflesh Scenes in ‘American Gods’
The adaptation of the Neil Gaiman novel had some out-there god imagery that was so crazy it needed a custom-made camera rig to make it possible.
Can You Pick the Real Car in This Shot? Behind-The-Scenes of ‘The Fate of the Furious’
By the end of production, even the vfx artists and filmmakers had difficulty telling the real cars apart from the digital ones.
‘Everything’ Creator David OReilly On The Hard Truths Of Moving Away From Animation
David OReilly conquered the world of indie cg animation in less than a decade. Now he aims to repeat that success in games with his stunning new work Everything, out today on Steam.
Looking to Get Into Animation For Games? The Community Is Out There, And It’s Growing
There’s a lot to learn if you’re making the move to game animation, but some specialized community outlets have sprung up to help.
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