Ahead of its cinema release, Christopher Nolan famously made a big thing of saying that Oppenheimer didn’t include any CGI. That’s not the same as saying the film doesn’t contain any VFX, and so the matter’s now being clarified. For the, as has been mentioned here before, pivotal Trinity Test sequence, for example, the VFX […]
This promo for German post-hardcore band ANNISOKAY’s new single ‘Throne Of The Sunset’, taken for their upcoming EP ABYSS Pt. 1 was made entirely inside Unreal Engine 5.2. The video was directed by Christoph Wieczorek, who also produced, mixed and mastered the music. The DoP was Peter Leukhardt and Arthur Baum took care of the […]
A team of Netflix researchers, including Paul Debevec, has created a new, faster and more accurate AI-powered form of green screen – Magenta Green Screen (MGS) – that uses magenta light and can produce realistic VFX in real-time. Actors are filmed against a background of bright green LEDs. They are lit from the front by […]
Cinesite has announced that is has taken a stake in Andy Serkis’ performance capture and virtual production company The Imaginarium Studios, which has facilities at Pinewood Studios in Iver, Bucks and Trilith Studios in Atlanta, Georgia. Recent Imaginarium projects include Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3 and Spiderman: Far from Home and TV Shows such as Marvel’s She-Hulk: Attorney at […]
Tom Cruise is well-known for liking to do his own stunts where possible and has a list of mishaps behind him that remind us they don’t always go to plan, but how much of Top Gun: Maverick, and particularly the stuff that happened ‘up top’, was real and how much was CG? Actors in the […]
Not really much to go on with this other than it was created by Chennai-based VFX artist Prakash Kumararajan (AKA Wild VFX) using the Beta version of Wonder Dynamics’ Wonder Studio, “an AI tool that automatically animates, lights and composes CG characters into a live-action scene”. If this has grabbed your attention and you are […]