3 Body Problem’s VFX Designer on Creating a Sci-Fi World
Netflix’s 3 Body Problem won over audiences with its sci-fi mysteries, complex characters, and startling visuals. If you’re still haunted by that Panama Canal scene—in which a ship full of…
Disney VFX Workers Are Moving to Unionize, Too
Image: Disney Just three weeks after 52 visual effects workers at Marvel Studios announced they had filed a unionization vote with the National Labor Relations Board, 18 more internal VFX…
Marvel Studios’ VFX Staff Is Aiming to Unionize
Image: Marvel Studios Almost a full year after allegations of overwork and poor conditions, the visual effects staff at Marvel Studios is forming its own union. io9 Interview: Oscar Isaac…
Netflix Found a Way to Make Removing Green Screens Easier by Turning Actors Bright Purple
Powerful software and talented visual effects artists are usually needed to convincingly pull off the effect where an actor filmed against a green screen is inserted into another shot. But…
Building a better Predator: Behind the visual effects of Hulu’s horror hit Prey
The visual effects team behind some of the most exciting scenes in Prey reveal how they reimagined the Predator and its signature elements for the film.
How Jurassic World Dominion’s VFX made old dinosaurs new again
Jurassic World Dominion’s VFX supervisor takes a deep dive into the creation of the film’s new dinosaurs and explains how they resurrected a few old ones, too.
Vines, gore, and rifts galore: Behind Stranger Things’ season 4 VFX
Creepy vines, severed limbs, and the destruction of Hawkins were just a few of the visual effects elements Scanline VFX brought to Stranger Things season 4.
The comics, colors, and chemicals behind Ms. Marvel’s VFX
The visual effects that helped bring the Marvel hero Ms. Marvel to Disney+ found inspiration in a variety of unexpected places.
How the Thanos VFX team brought The Quarry’s characters to life (and then killed them)
Supermassive’s interactive horror game The Quarry used groundbreaking tech from an Oscar-winning visual effects studio to bring its scary story to life.
Why Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers is a master class in animation
Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers mixed multiple generations of animation styles using clever tricks and an innovative approach to visual effects.