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MPC’s Cold Storage
MPC Paris delivered 575 shots on Cold Storage, from invisible fixes to slime, creatures and a nuclear finale. But how?
Digital Domain welcomes IT to Derry
Digital Domain supervisors break down the design, rigging, lighting, and animation challenges behind the Skeleton Man creature for HBO’s return to the Stephen King universe.
Houdini Equinox 2025 HIVE Session Recordings Online
The session videos from Houdini Equinox 2025’s HIVE event are now live! Covering Houdini 21’s car-destruction RBD tools, CFX for creatures, ML workflows and major production case-studies.
Sculpt-Offs, Anniversaries & Anatomy: ZBrush Summit 2025 celebrates 25 years
ZBrush turns 25 and Maxon is celebrating online, 7-9 November, with live Sculpt-Offs, artist sessions and a first look at what’s next for ZBrush.
Lola Post’s VFX Survival Guide on Walking with Dinosaurs
Lola Post’s Rob Harvey shares VFX details on Walking with Dinosaurs 2025: 800 shots, 200 artists, Unreal Engine for dinosaurs, and zero Jurassic Park liberties.
WeFX Saddles Up for “1923”
From pristine scans to viscous blood foam: how 50 artists spent six months on 20 shots that make one horse’s final tumble painfully believable.
Through the Woodlands
Creatures made of tree branches and roots seem to have a firm place in the history ofVFX. Just…
His Dark Materials | Featurette
Cuddling with an ice bar? Things get animalistic in the BBC series based on the novel trilogy - with creature effects, puppetry and Master Petz.
Back in Dinoland
Review: In DP 01 : 2016, "Jurassic World" celebrated its opening. We asked VFX supervisor Martyn Culpitt from Image Engine for a chat - about impressive CG environments and even more impressive CG dinosaurs. Who is the biggest pipeline eater?
400 MPH | Animago Afternoon
To infinity - until the sound barrier shatters? This primate is a speed junkie. Does human ever-moreism suit the chimpanzee?
The Witcher | VFX Breakdown
Cinesite lets the tatzelworms off the leash: In the season finale, Geralt of Riva faces off against these scaly lapdogs. "Make way, deadly weakling!"
New version of Ziva released!
Dino-like strength: Ziva VFX is released in version 2.0. If you want to flex your muscles with Allosaurus and co. you should take a look at this Maya plugin.
Gael Kerchenbaum on Creature Art
Creature artist Gael Kerchenbaum discusses anatomy, freelance practice and work with DNEG, Axis Animation, CGMA and Facebook AI.
ZBrush and Blender Tutorial Creates a Stylised Mushroom Character
Character artist Tarek Samaan demonstrates the design and production of a stylised anthropomorphic mushroom using ZBrush and Blender.
Independence Day: Resurgence | VFX-Breakdown
The Federal Minister of Transport warns: squeaky yellow American school buses attract alien monsters!
Weta Digital Breaks Down Rise of the Planet of the Apes VFX
A Weta Digital breakdown revisits the performance-capture and visual-effects work behind Caesar in Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
Weta Digital Breaks Down War for the Planet of the Apes VFX
Four Weta Digital breakdowns examine the hidden fortress, ape facial animation, prison camp and FX simulations in War for the Planet of the Apes.
Monster Hunter | VFX-Breakdown
Are these still Ankylosaurs - or already Koopa Troopas? No, these are the Apceros from the video game film adaptation!
Zoo Tools Pro 2.5 Expands Its Modular Maya Toolkit
Zoo Tools Pro 2.5 updated Andrew Silke’s Python-based Maya framework with revised animation tools plus improvements to modelling, texturing and lighting.
Lighting Artist Samuel Felix Eugene Presents Film Showreel
Samuel Felix Eugene’s lighting showreel features work from Artemis Fowl, Dolittle, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil and Detective Pikachu.
Tutorial: Sculpting a Primate Aviator in ZBrush
Konstantin Gdalevich demonstrates the ZBrush character-sculpting process behind Marcus, a stylised primate aviator.
The Elephant Funk? Inside the VFX of Dumbo
VFX supervisor Richard Stammers explains how MPC and Framestore created Dumbo, Dreamland and the film’s highly detailed digital elephants.
Creating a Skater Boar with ZBrush, 3ds Max and Substance Painter
A speed-sculpt making-of follows the creation of a skateboarding boar using ZBrush, 3ds Max, Substance Painter, Ornatrix and Corona Renderer.
Sculpting Alice in Wonderland’s Caterpillar in ZBrush
Surface artist Yan Blanco demonstrates how to recreate Alice in Wonderland’s Caterpillar using ZBrush, Blender, Substance Painter and Photoshop.
The Twilight Zone | VFX-Breakdown
Proud as Sterling: Marble UFO, Monstermade & ghostly apparition.
FMX Spotlight Explores Framestore’s Lovecraft Country Creatures
Framestore’s Grant Walker and Stephen Nixon discussed creature design, asset building and animation for HBO’s Lovecraft Country.
Nomad Brings Sculpting to Tablets
Nomad offers layered sculpting, vertex painting, dynamic tessellation and PBR rendering on iPad and Android tablets.
VFX-Breakdown zu Disney’s Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
In this visual effects breakdown, a polar bear becomes a boy's best friend.
Warrior Nun | VFX-Breakdown von The Embassy
The Canadian visual effects house created supernatural creatures for the fantasy drama.
DNEG Breaks Down Westworld Robots
DNEG artists discuss robot characters from Westworld season three across animation, creature technical direction and asset build.
Sven Martin in Highlights of FMX
Pixomondo CCO and VFX supervisor Sven Martin joined Highlights of FMX to discuss dragons, major productions and sixteen years in VFX.
Oxford Shares Cambrian Animals in 3D
Oxford’s First Animals collection offered 19 downloadable Cambrian creature models with annotated anatomy through Sketchfab.
The Witcher: Cinesite VFX Breakdown
Cinesite in the Witcher universe: the studio releases a new breakdown of its work on the major Netflix project!
RodeoFX | Crawl VFX Breakdown
Alligators, CG water and more: RodeFX offers a look at its work on Crawl in a new VFX breakdown!
Wild West Creature Creation
"Once Upon a Time in the West" – Imagine this soundtrack playing with this tutorial, hehe.
ZBrush 2018.1
This patch is also a free update and is only very warmly recommended by Pixologic. After all, it primarily contains many fixes for crashes that may have given one or another person grey hairs until now.
The Mill’s Animal & Creature Reel 2017
Whether small or large CG animals, with fur or without—The Mill has a broad range of expertise in this area.
So much cattle stuff!
Review: In DP 03 : 2017, Warner Brothers reached for "Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them", because J.K. Rowling was finished with Harry Potter after volume seven. Off we went to the beasts (wherever they are to be found)!
Alt.vfx Showreel
Alt.vfx has studio locations in Brisbane, Sydney and Los Angeles. Here is the company's current, highest worth-seeing showreels.
Fantastic Beasts in the Breakdown
Image Engine was part of the VFX crew on “Fantastic Beasts”. The team was responsible for the Graphorn family and the brain-eating creature Swooping Evil. Both creatures can be seen in the studio’s latest breakdown video.
Ghost Effects by Video Copilot
In this amusing horror short film, Andrew Kramer of Video Copilot created the VFX for 6 shots with Element 3D in After Effects.
Turn 2D into 3D!
A few steps to a finished animal animation: researchers at the Max Planck Institute are developing software to create animated 3D models of animals from videos.
Sneak Peek: DP 01 : 17
In DP issue 01 : 17, our focus will be on "Character Design and Creation" – one of many CG artists' favourite subjects. DP will arrive with our subscribers on 16 December and appear at newsstands on 19 December, right on time for Christmas.
animago Still Gallery: Creatures & Animals
The animago AWARD honours the best CG stills each year. Many more entries from around the world also deserve to be presented.
“Witcher” ZBrush Models and Cinema Plans
The launch cinematic by Digic Pictures for “The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt” won the animago trophy this year. Here are a few of the game’s 3D monster models to look at, as well as more about plans to adapt the game for film.
Steampunk Panther
Review: In DP 02 : 2014, a steampunk panther caught the readers' eye - with emerald green eyes and filigree decorations. An animago submission by 3D artist Anna Huber.
From another star | Retro article
Review: In DP 01 : 2010, Weta Digital created a wacky planet, alien life forms and humanoid screen heroes. For what? For James Cameron's Avatar!
ILM Spin-off: Kerner Optical
While ILM concentrates on digital effects, ILM’s specialists for classic film effects found their own company