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Pakistan animation preview: Allahyar and The Legend of Markhor
This feature is being made by 3rd World Studios, using Unreal Engine 4. Check out the story at Cartoon Brew.
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The story behind Cloverfield’s classic Statue of Liberty shot – in the teaser AND the final film
In the summer of 2007, Paramount Pictures ran a teaser trailer for an unnamed film with the release of Michael Bay’s Transformers. It featured a group of New York friends at a party who suddenly witness a massive explosion and then see the head of the Statute of Liberty careening down a city street. That…
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Retro VFX: Cloning Freddie Prinze, Jr.
In 2005, a new show called Freddie starring Freddie Prinze, Jr. briefly made it onto US television screens. While the show’s one and only season may not have been that memorable, its opening titles were pretty cool – they featured a number of ‘Freddie’ clones getting up to mischief in one continuous shot. Back then,…
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Behind the scenes of BBC’s Christmas stop-motion film
Head over to Blinkink’s website which was behind the production of BBC One’s Christmas animation film, The Supporting Act, for some neat making of footage showing the stop-motion in progress. The characters were animated that way, but their facial features were done digitally.
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The things you find when you’re doing retro vfx research…
Love these old ads for Rising Sun Pictures and Animal Logic (from a publication called Cinema Papers, June 1999.)
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Thanks to ftrack for sponsoring vfxblog
My thanks to ftrack for its continued sponsorship of vfxblog.com. As regular vfxblog readers would already know, this site is a repository of links to my articles for various publications, but there’s also a whole host of original visual effects and animation stories, interviews and observations that I also publish here, so it’s great to…
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Guillermo del Toro on the language of visual effects
If you haven’t seen Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water yet, I heartily recommend you do. It’s simply a great story, which I won’t spoil. But it’s also incredibly engaging as a film that combines practical make-up and suit effects with digital augmentation. Del Toro has taken that approach in several of his films…
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How Snoke evolved in The Last Jedi
For Cartoon Brew, I sat down with ILM London to discuss Snoke, and how a bunch of changes were made during and after shooting to make the character more menacing.
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Making memories with BUF
When Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 came out, I remember thinking one of the coolest scenes was Dr. Ana Stelline (Carla Juri) designing replicant memories – you see her scrubbing through moments and making slight tweaks and adjustments. One part of that scene features a children’s birthday, which was achieved by shooting real kids on…
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Woh, a VFX event on Last Jedi, Apes, Blade Runner, Paddington 2, Star Trek and Neill Blomkamp shorts
Check out that list again in the heading – those are some of the biggest visual effects projects around, and they’re all going to be discussed by the studios behind the work at the upcoming SPARK FX 2018 in Vancouver. It’s on Saturday 10th February at the VIFF Vancity Theatre, a neat cinema venue which will…
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