Year: 2018
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2001: a 50 year space odyssey
When I wrote Masters of FX, one of the many highlights was speaking to visual effects supervisor Doug Trumbull. He, of course, was the pioneer behind several of the effects sequences in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, which celebrates its 50th anniversary today. 2001 is still one of those films effects practitioners refer to…
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Toys, mocap and some killer anim
Giant robots! Here’s a new piece on Pacific Rim Uprising I wrote for Cartoon Brew, about Double Negative’s work on the film.
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From live-action to final shots: a Weta Digital case study on Maze Runner: The Death Cure
“We have a tonne of data, we actually went a bit nuts on the film and we just over-covered.” – Chris White, Weta Digital visual effects supervisor When I watched some of the b-roll footage for Wes Ball’s latest Maze Runner film, The Death Cure – releasing soon on home entertainment – I was really struck…
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Down the rabbit hole
The latest 3D World magazine includes my piece on Animal Logic’s vfx for Peter Rabbit. Check out the magazine here.
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Visualizing The Last Jedi
Previs, postvis and techvis: it’s now pretty much part of all big VFX films. Here’s how The Third Floor contributed its skills to The Last Jedi, at VFX Voice.
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How to animate a Wes Anderson film
Isle of Dogs. Isle of Dogs. It’s here. And so is my first piece on the film for Cartoon Brew, with animation director Mark Waring.
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Hostiles, an invisible fx film
I do love writing these invisible visual effects stories, and here’s a new one on Hostiles for VFX Voice.
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The Tick and the CG human
Have you been watching The Tick? It’s a really zany superhero show with some pretty great VFX work, including a fully CG human giant made by FuseFX. Check out Cartoon Brew for the story.
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Mandelbulbs, mutations and motion capture: the visual effects of Annihilation
When Alex Garland’s Ex Machina won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in 2016, it was perhaps considered a major surprise in the VFX community. But the win also highlighted just how crucial the visual effects were in bringing the story of the A.I. robot Ava, played by Alicia Vikander, to life. Now Garland…
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New mocap video of Andy Serkis as Snoke
Most vfxblog readers have probably already seen ILM’s fantastic Snoke visual effects breakdown here, but Lucasfilm has also just released a clip from the upcoming Last Jedi Blu-ray/DVD that features an unaltered Andy Serkis performing Snoke in his motion capture suit. Back in January, I wrote a piece for Cartoon Brew on how ILM transformed…
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