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Colour Awards deadline approaches
Entries for the 2026 colourist awards close 31 July, with documentaries folded into Spotlight and clear ProRes upload specs.
VINZI Atlux λ arrives on Fab
Atlux λ is now on Fab, bringing a virtual photo studio and one click renders to Unreal Engine, plus Mac support.
Texturing XYZ puts SKAP online, pores included
Texturing XYZ’s SKAP turns 2K to 8K inputs into 16K skin maps in a browser, priced in credits at $1 each.
Grading Kraken: insights from the colour grade
Senior Colourist Dylan Hopkin (Shortcut Oslo) outlines the grading process behind the new sci-fi film Kraken, and how contrast, colour and AI-assisted tools were used to support storytelling.
Lazy Composer 2 Teaches Blender to Pretend It Shot Film
Lazy Composer 2 adds film emulation presets and grading sliders to Blender, aiming to make renders look expensively intentional.
From Animatic to Art Direction: Previs Pro Adds Video Styling
Previs Pro introduces Video Style Grade, bringing AI-driven visual styling to animatics, combining storyboard, previs, and art direction in one workflow.
DaVinci Resolve 20.2: Ripple Discipline, ProRes RAW, and AI Fog on Demand
Resolve 20.2 ships with ProRes RAW decoding on all OS, AI-driven haze, cleaner ripple edits, immersive EXR support, and metadata flexibility.
Unreal Engine Gets a Hair-Raising Tool
New free tool "Hair Cinematic Tool" for UE5 simplifies grooming workflows for realistic hair in real-time cinematics.
Blackmagic’s $30,000 URSA Cine Immersive Camera Enters Pre-Order Stage
Blackmagic Design's new URSA Cine Immersive Camera targets VR pros with stereoscopic 3D video capture at a steep $30,000 price tag.
FilmConvert Hazy: Digital Mist for Cinematic Post-Production
FilmConvert introduces Hazy, a plugin for Resolve, Premiere and FCP. bringing mist filter effects to post-production workflows. Aimed at enhancing cinematic visuals digitally.
Through the Woodlands
Creatures made of tree branches and roots seem to have a firm place in the history ofVFX. Just…
Beauty-Grading in Resolve
Using software to approximate images of people to current conventions of beauty is work that has shifted more and more from compositing to the domain of grading. As the possibilities increased, so did the demands. Following on from the last article, which dealt with best practices in colour grading in general, we would like to take a very specific look at tips in the area of beauty and retouching. Here, too, we take the perspective of filmmakers who, for budgetary reasons, are "forced" to grade all or at least part of their films themselves and have already gained some experience in Resolve.
Fallout becomes cinematic.
Paul Hatton catches up with Nikita Travnikov, an executive producer for Huuuge Games and 3D tinkerer - and we chat about the whole Fusion/Resolve pipeline!
Behind the FMX..
... are Mario Müller and his team. And we wanted to ask what they see as trends.
Doctor Strange 2 | VFX Breakdown
Strange to weird effects from Sony Pictures Imageworks: VFXers wield the wrecking ball for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness!
She-Hulk – Attorney at Law | VFX-Breakdown
Breaking (joke) news: clients represented by lawyer She-Hulk will benefit from nearly 1,000 VFX shots from Digital Domain!
Die VFXen aus “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings”!
VFX supervisor Ara Khanikian from Rodeo FX explains how the stylish action scenes from the Marvel film were created.
How did the Moon of Shame scene from Thor come about?
Method Studios do it in monochrome: visual effects on the moon - and with ridiculously low gravity. How did visual effects supervisor Pete Dionne & team manage that?
Moonknight | VFX Breakdown
Oscar Isaac in the face of the ancient Egyptian moon god Khonshu. Visual effects in series from London - and from Union VFX.
Ms. Marvel | VFX Breakdown
The superhero guard of the Avengers is getting a new addition: for Ms Marvel, aka Kamala Khan, the super-duper hero duties straddle puberty.
Create this Iron Man suit with Blender!
Known from Avengers: Infinity War: Bbbn19, 3D artist from the USA, shows you how to create the shiny nano-tech effect for Tony Stark's superhero exoskeleton. Suit up - and shiny!
Spider-man saves Blender?
Everyone falls for his web - even Tobey Maguire's Spider-man: this Blender artist wraps the craziest hero in film history in a latex costume!
New CG villains for Spider-Man 3 |
Review: In DP 04 : 2007, Spidey made his third appearance on the big screen and had to fight three villains at the same time. Imageworks created characters made of air, sand and black mass.
Loki | VFX-Breakdown
Industrial Light & Magic conjures up the powerful visual effects of the hit series!
Creating Shang-Chi’s Mythical Creatures
VFX supervisor Christopher Townsend discusses the mythical creatures created for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
Digital Domain’s Masquerade 2.0 Advances Facial Capture
Digital Domain's Masquerade 2.0 facial-capture system supported performances such as Thanos and the recreation of Martin Luther King Jr. for TIME.
Black Widow | VFX-Breakdown
New VFXs from Weta Digital? That's where we're heading - like a pig to a trough.
Matt Aitken on Weta’s Digital Characters
Matt Aitken traces Weta Digital’s character pipeline from Gollum and Kong to Thanos, facial solvers, Manuka and cloud rendering.
Cinema 4D Tutorial Builds Thor’s Hammer
Motion designer Sean Dove demonstrates how to create a comic-style version of Thor’s hammer in Cinema 4D.
animago AWARD 2018 – Winners and Nominees
After almost a thousand entries, it was quite difficult for the jury to decide who should take home the coveted prize - and after lengthy discussions, these were their choices. We will introduce all projects in the upcoming 2O19-issues of Digital Production. So without further ado...
Spider webs vs. electric flashes
Review: In DP 07 : 2014, the most popular spider-man in film history was electrostatically charged. "The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Rise of Electro" was one of the most elaborate projects for Sony Pictures Imageworks in 2014. We caught up with digital effects supervisor David A. Smith.
These Olympic Games bring gold
More than half a million viewers already showed their enthusiasm for ASTERIX AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES
Vantage Point opens on February 28
This breathless thriller stars Dennis Quaid (“Traffic”), Academy Award winner William Hurt (“Syriana”), Matthew Fox (“Lost”), Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker (“The Last King of Scotland”), Sigourney Weaver (“The Village”) and Eduardo Noriega (“Che Guevara”). Directed by Pete Travis.
Meet the Spartans
Can ancient battle turmoil and modern gossip be crossed? MEET THE SPARTANS can. Cinema opening: February 28.
“The Golden Compass” Points the Way to Number One
In recent years, Christmas has always been the time of the big fantasy blockbusters. After "The Lord of the Rings", "Narnia" and "Eragon", this year "The Golden Compass" is on the wish list. Around 460,000 visitors saw the film on its opening weekend. The adaptation of the Philip Pullman novel enters the media control cinema charts directly at number one. 834 cinemas had the film in their programme at the weekend. Director Chris Weitz hired Daniel Craig, Nicole Kidman and Dakota Blue Richards for the leading roles.
Christie boosts projector production
400 percent production increase expected due to worldwide digital cinema boom