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  • Get ready for more ‘Game of Thrones’

    The July 2017 issue of VFX Voice from the Visual Effects Society is out, and it includes a bunch of articles I am proud to have contributed. I’ll link to them here at vfxblog over the next few days. First piece is a retrospective on Game of Thrones, with the new season just around the…

  • Wonder Woman’s home

    For VFX Voice, I chatted to vfx supervisor Bill Westenhofer about making Wonder Woman’s home.

  • The making of ‘Extravaganza’

    A VR experience made with the help of Cinema 4D. Pretty neat. Here’s the VFX Voice story I wrote about it.

  • Wingnut AR’s super-cool ARKit demo at WWDC

    At Apple’s WWDC, Peter Jackson’s augmented reality studio Wingnut AR demo’d a scene using Apple’s ARKit – here’s a look behind the scenes at Cartoon Brew, including lots of testing photos.

  • Getting back on the Trojan Horse

    The first time I went to Trojan Horse was a Unicorn, we built sandcastles. The second time, there was bubble soccer. Who knows what’s in store for my third time? I’ll find out on 18 September, when the fifth edition of this highly unique event – known as THU – gets underway in the resort…

  • MPC on its digital make-up advancements in ‘The Mummy’

    Previously on vfxblog, The Mummy’s overall visual effects supervisor Erik Nash weighed on crafting the 5 stages of transformation of Princess Ahmanet. Key to bringing her to life in closer-to-human form was augmenting real photography of Sofia Boutella by taking away portions or her face or body to show the re-generation process. MPC was behind…

  • Bumblebee’s new groove, and new move

    ILM’s Scott Farrar has worked on each one of the Transformers films, and for The Last Knight, I asked him about Bumblebee’s newest kind of transformation. Check it out at Cartoon Brew.

  • Breaking down Princess Ahmanet’s 5 stages in ‘The Mummy’

    One of the key visual effects components of Alex Kurtzman’s The Mummy was the Mummy herself – Princess Ahmanet – seen in 5 various stages as she re-generates from her entombed and emaciated state into a more human-esque appearance. Some shots of the creature were fully digital creations completed by ILM, others were meticulous CG…

  • Anatomy of a scene: fleeing the undead in ‘The Mummy’

    In one incredible action scene in Alex Kurtzman’s The Mummy, Tom Cruise and Annabelle Wallis’ characters take control of an ambulance while being pursued by several undead and Princess Ahmanet (Sofia Boutella). The high-octane chase sees Nick Morton (Cruise) and Jenny Halsey (Wallis) out-run their attackers, but then dramatically crash the ambulance, before being confronted…

  • Quickshots: How that incredible animated mural in ‘Wonder Woman’ was made

    Perhaps taking inspiration from The Tale of the Three Brothers animation in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1, Wonder Woman has its own animated sequence. This is seen early in the film when the history of the Amazon women warriors, and their relationship to Zeus, the leader of the gods and Ares,…