• Big directors and VR

    Here’s a look at Jon Favreau’s VR experience Gnomes & Goblins made with Wevr, for Cartoon Brew.

  • Spike gets it

    The best commercials are more art projects, right?  I think most of what Spike Jonze makes is exactly that, which is why his latest perfume spot for KENZO is so watchable. And it also happens to have a bunch of seamless vfx from Digital Domain, which I wrote about at Inverse.

  • Latest 3D Artist mag pieces

    Check out the new issue #98 of 3D Artist – I wrote two features on ZBrush and on MPC’s digital assets team.

  • How good is VFX on TV right now?

    Here’s a preview of the nominees for VFX Emmys this year, which I wrote about on Inverse.

  • Fractals and XBox mocap

    That’s just some of the work Imageworks had to tackle for Suicide Squad, which I looked into for One Perfect Shot.

  • Storytelling details

    For SideFX, I wrote about Disney Animation’s use of Houdini for Zootopia – everything from hair to water fountains. The film is great, but the detail is sometimes what makes it so re-watchable.

  • When you want to know, ‘How was it made?’

    UPDATE: Russell Earl from ILM is now attending VIEW, to break down his studio’s huge vfx work in Captain America: Civil War (remember that airport sequence?). And the directors of Dreamworks Animation’s Trolls, Mike Mitchell and Walt Dohrn, will both be there too.   Last week I wrote about Turin, Italy. The city has had a big…

  • Houdini in TVCs

    You might usually associate Houdini with big budget film visual effects, but it’s been finding a large place in commercials for many years too. Like this Honda spot with vfx by Alt.vfx. I wrote about the work at the Side Effects website.

  • Bark like a dog, and other director advice

    Inverse had me ask a bunch of visual effects supervisors what the best direction was they had received from directors they’ve worked with. Check out their responses for some pretty cool insights from directors like Sam Raimi, Barry Sonnenfeld, Ang Lee and others. And thanks to Todd Vaziri for the idea behind this one. Link…

  • Up&Up&VFX

    This Coldplay music video with VFX by Vania Heymann (who also co-directed the clip and GloriaFX and others just won the MTV VMA for Best Visual Effects. Check out the behind the scenes video which shows how some of the contrasting VFX were achieved – some very neat comp work and clever design in there.