Eye candy: the new Man of Steel trailer
Updated: First TV trailer packs the highs of Zach Snyder's Superman reboot into just 30 seconds.
Wednesday, April 10th, 2013
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Eye candy: the 'official' Life of Pi 2 trailer
Parody video in support of the #VFXprotest campaign shows why blockbusters need effects artists.
Friday, March 22nd, 2013
Review: Oz the Great and Powerful
Sam Raimi's take on Oz is a visual spectacle, but it favors style over substance, argues Fernando Caire.
Tuesday, March 12th, 2013
Eye candy: the visual effects of Our Lady of Lourdes
VFX supervisor Peter Szewyczk explains how he created the hallucinatory FX on a laptop in the Arnold renderer.
Friday, March 8th, 2013
UtopiaBook offers global agency for VFX freelancers
Register for the cloud-based service for free and get your reel in front of studios all over the world.
Monday, March 4th, 2013
Project Dogwaffle team ships Howler 8.2
Free update to digital-paint-cum-VFX tool adds basic terrain generation, GPU support, new Bokeh filter.
Monday, February 18th, 2013
Videos: How Weta created the creatures of The Hobbit
Updated: New video shows the environment work, along with Gollum, Azog and the Goblin King.
Monday, February 18th, 2013
Eye candy: the new Arnold renderer showreel
Recent outings at Digic Pictures and Psyop prove that the raytrace renderer is not "just for big studios".
Wednesday, February 13th, 2013
VFX breakdown: the making of Little Kaiju
Animation director Nick Losq runs through the pipeline for this cute but gritty anime-inspired VFX short.
Wednesday, February 13th, 2013
Spoof UFO video becomes YouTube hit, Wired story
Check out some nice work by Meni Tsirbas and his Gnomon students. Can you guess how much is CGI?
Tuesday, February 12th, 2013
Why the visual effects business is failing
Tax breaks partly - but only partly - to blame for recent layoffs, says Digital Domain co-founder Scott Ross.
Monday, February 11th, 2013
Five great VFX spots from Super Bowl 2013
Discover how the effects for our own fave five ads and teasers from Sunday's big game were created.
Wednesday, February 6th, 2013
Rhythm & Hues in cash crunch, TheWrap reports
Oscar-winning VFX house to take "emergency capital infusion" from major studios, says trade press.
Tuesday, February 5th, 2013