Animation and VFX shake up the musical biopic format

Daft Punk and Pharrell Williams as Lego figurines in "Piece by Piece."

The Oscars have a long history with the musical biopic: Consider “What’s Love Got to Do With It,” “Bohemian Rhapsody” and even the less straightforward Elton John film “Rocketman.” These staples of awards seasons are […]

How Wicked’s VFX team did ‘the most difficult things you can do in CG’

The studious goat Professor Dillamond in Wicked: Part I, a heavily bearded goat in a tartan-looking coat, with small round spectacles perched on his nose. He’s entirely CGI.

From plucky talking bears to motion-capture apes, from Avatar’s sentient space whales to Toho’s relentless Godzilla, computer generated creatures take center stage in movies more and more often these days. If there’s a big-budget film […]

Andy Serkis Talks “AI Characters” Project & VFX

Andy Serkis as Gollum in

Andy Serkis has teased a new project featuring “AI characters” as he describes the growing, invasive tech as “another form of magic that is frightening people.” The Lord of the Rings star said his Imaginarium […]

Kingdom of the Planet of Apes required AI for VFX — but an ethical kind

Noa (a chimp) and Raka (an orangutan) from Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes look at each other while Noa holds a weapon

Right now, every industry faces discussions about how artificial intelligence might help or hinder work. In movies, creators are concerned that their work might be stolen to train AI replacements, their future jobs might be […]

VFX team gives the ‘Guardians’ all they’ve got, one last time

A walrus, an otter, a racoon and a rabbit who've been brutally experimented on (and can now talk) bond in their cages.

Saying goodbye isn’t easy. And for director James Gunn, “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” a film he almost didn’t make after controversial social media posts resurfaced, became his swan song in more ways than […]

How VFX bring new dimension to Sam Raimi’s ‘Doctor Strange’

Two people tumble through the multiverse with giant beings looking on in "Doctor Strange Multiverse of Madness."

The last time we saw Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, he was making the world forget Peter Parker (Tom Holland) was the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man in “No Way Home.” Now, in […]

Avatar 2 VS Avengers’ VFX Comparison Pisses James Cameron Off As He Takes A Dig At Thanos’ ‘Facial VFX’ & Says “It’s Not Even Close”

Avatar 2 VS Avengers' VFX Comparison Pisses James Cameron Off As He Takes A Dig At Thanos' 'Facial VFX' & Says "It’s Not Even Close" - Read On

Avatar 2 VS Avengers’ VFX Comparison Pisses James Cameron Off As He Takes A Dig At Thanos’ ‘Facial VFX’ & Says “It’s Not Even Close” – Deets Inside ( Photo Credit – Wikimedia; Instagram ) […]

Avatar 2’s Visual Effects Team Member Calls Out VFX Partner For Paying Him Low Salary: “Well Below Industry Standard”

Visual Effects Team Member Of Avatar 2 Calls Out VFX Partner

Visual Effects Team Member Of Avatar 2 Calls Out VFX Partner, Deets Inside(Photo Credit –Poster From Avatar 2/Twitter) James Cameron‘s Avatar 2 is all set for a grand release on 16th December. Just like its […]

Avatar VFX Artist Calls Out James Cameron For Exploiting Them With “Endless Unpaid Revisions” & Then Winning A Bunch Of Oscars

Avatar VFX Claims James Cameron 'Exploited' Them Through Unpaid Work

Avatar VFX Artist Claims Working Under Harsh Conditions(Photo Credit –wikimedia/Poster From Avatar ) James Cameron’s Avatar has been touted as a film that has had the best VFX ever. Besides its remarkable screenplay, it was […]

VFX Artists Are ‘Depressed’ About Marvel’s Upcoming Projects

VFX Artists Are 'Depressed' About Marvel's Upcoming Projects

Marvel Studios Marvel Studios has overworked the visual effects industry to such an extreme extent that there is a sense of “burnout” settling in and a sense of “depression” about working on the MCU’s upcoming […]

Spider-Man: No Way Home’s VFX wizards couldn’t see the memes coming

Spider-Man: No Way Home’s VFX wizards couldn’t see the memes coming

By the time Marvel eventually got around to using Spider-Man: No Way Home’s trio of Spider-Men to recreate the pointing Spider-Man meme, the Spider-Man fandom had already taken matters into its own hands and turned […]