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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.
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When Annabelle Grew Up: The Digital Domain Horror Pipeline
425 shots, one terrifying doll, and a CG mill town: Digital Domain’s Alex Millet explains how his team built the horror of The Conjuring: Last Rites and kept it real.
“A Model of Madness” Scott Ross Why VFX Fails as a Business
Scott Ross: VFX is “a model of madness.” ILM, Digital Domain, and decades later, the business still cannot stand on three legs.
Digital Domain on Fantastic Four: From Baby Mocap to Bearded Rock
Digital Domain’s Phil Cramer explains Fantastic Four VFX: Masquerade3, Baby Franklin, The Thing’s beard, and multi-vendor Marvel pipelines.
BMD ups the ante with 16 TB Media Module for URSA Cine 12K LF
Blackmagic Design introduces a 16 TB Media Module (M.2 SSD) for URSA Cine 12K LF, doubling storage to support 12‑bit BRAW at 1 432 MB/s and 10G workflows.
Thunderbolts* Vaults: Digital Domain on Marvel’s Most Grounded Brawl
Digital Domain VFX Producer Ryan Wilk breaks down Marvel’s Thunderbolts* vault chaos, Ghost phasing, and why less is more for photoreal CG.
Digital Domain vs. the Nether Horde: Behind the VFX of Minecraft
When Warner Bros. enlisted Digital Domain to tackle the final battle in Minecraft: The Movie, they weren’t just signing up for blocks and shaders...
Digital Domain Lets Agatha Fly
The prettiest Marvel show this year was "Agatha All Along" Time to ask Digital Domain how they did that!
All the teeth!
Sometimes there are fantastical productions, where you get a
monster that feels fresh and new – and once we had seen Season 2 of “Carnival Row” (Release on Amazon Prime), we needed to talk about
the toothy skinned bat: Sparas!
That girl is green!
For Marvel Studio‘s most recent streaming series, “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law”, the concept of a workplace dramewdy (think Ally McBeal, 90s kids!) merges with Superhero-battles (think all the Marvel movies, comic-book-geeks!) – leading to 6-foot-
7-inch-sized, gorgeously green,
super-powered viewing pleasures.
A conversation with VFX Production Coordinator Erika Feijoo Spena and Visual Effects Supervisor Chris Smallfield about Hulk-ifications at VFX-powerhouse Trixter.
Black Adam!
The DC Universe has a new “Hero” – well, not really a hero, but you’ll have to watch the movie for that. What is one of the best entries into that universe though, is Digital Domains work in the beginning – the “Introduction” of Black Adam is a superpower-extravaganza, with super-speed, bullets everywhere, punching through walls and a healthy dose of electricity – and we asked DD’s Supervisor Nikos Kalaitzidis how that was done.
A memorable VFX project
Review: In DP 06 : 2013, we spoke to VFX supervisors Thilo Ewers (Pixomondo) and Paul Lambert (Digital Domain) about the science fiction film Oblivion - and about Tom Cruise's 3D model.
RRR | VFX-Breakdown
Four fists for a triple-R: Digital Domain dominates in Bollywood blockbuster - and the Bollywood blockbuster dominates British colonial powers.
Lost in Space | VFX Breakdown
They just want to play: Robo-phobics should click away from the series finale of "Lost in Space".
Venom: Let there Be Carnage | VFX Breakdown
Facts, facts and more facts (in number): 12 is still too low, because you can expect 1003630198099968 bytes of hard facts for the Tom Hardy superhero hunt.
Matrix Resurrections | VFX Breakdown
The battle between man and machine continues: can the Wachowskis revive the Matrix - and is Digital Domain helping out?
Free Guy | VFX-Breakdown
More than just collateral damage: This breakdown smashes minivans and family cars into scrap metal!
And here comes the new DP!
The autumn issue (DP 06 : 2021) warms you up with RiseFX, RodeoFX and Digital Domain - and the much-loved GameBoy Classic finally gets a love letter..
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.
Epic Games Releases Virtual Production Field Guide Volume 2
Epic Games’ second free Virtual Production Field Guide offered nearly 100 pages of interviews, remote collaboration guidance and Unreal Engine 5 coverage.
The Twilight Zone | VFX-Breakdown
Proud as Sterling: Marble UFO, Monstermade & ghostly apparition.
Digital Domain Introduces Masquerade 2.0
Digital Domain’s Masquerade 2.0 facial-capture system targets detailed eye, lip and wrinkle animation for film and game characters.
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. | VFX-Breakdown
Digital Domain swings and jazzes through the MCU in Breakdown.
animago Pictures 2016: CONFERENCE
The two-day conference programme at animago was packed with presentations by Industrial Light & Magic, Framestore, Digital Domain, Pixar, Disney Animation Studios, and many more speakers. Here are a few impressions from the talks.
Conference programme & last call for early bird tickets
So ... our animago birthday party is slowly coming together! Here is an excerpt of the presentations at the animago CONFERENCE: Speakers from Disney, Pixar, ILM, Digital Domain, Platige Image and many other well-known animation and VFX studios will be there.
Former DreamWorks Artist Sues Major Studios
Bold: an artist formerly employed by DreamWorks Animation files a "Class Action" lawsuit against Pixar, Disney, SPI, Digital Domain 3.0 and Lucasfilm, among others.
Sci-Tech Oscar 2015 Consideration List
The Scientific and Technical Awards Committee has presented the technology developments being considered for an award in the coming year.
Making of Ender’s Game
"Ender's Game" is not only a film adaptation of Orson Scott Card's science-fiction book classic, but also a project crucial to the future of Digital Domain.
Digital Domain Under New Ownership
VFX studio Digital Domain not only has a new owner from Hong Kong; its CEO has also been replaced.
Reel Showcase
Los Angeles artist Cenk Cevdet Kilar has put not only an impressive demo reel but also an excellent tool-demo video online.
Digital Domain Goes Under the Hammer
Oh dear, this is surely not what James Cameron had in mind when he founded Digital Domain around 20 years ago—tomorrow, the entire contents of the Florida department will be auctioned.
Bidder for Digital Domain in Sight
Prime Focus is considering submitting a bid for the insolvent VFX company Digital Domain.
Digital Domain Is Bankrupt
The studio responsible for Cameron's "Titanic," among other productions, is going bankrupt.
License for 3D Conversion
Digital Domain Media Group and Prime Focus World have reached an agreement after a lengthy patent dispute over the rights to a 3D conversion technology.
E3: New Teaser for Transformers – Fall of Cybertron
Digital Domain worked together with Mothership director Neil huxley on the production of a new teaser for the game Transformers – Fall of Cybertron.
Digital Domain Opens Middle East Facilities in 2013
At the Cannes Film Festival, Digital Domain Media Group announced that it would work in the future with the Middle East-based twofour54 entertainment and media center to further advance Abu Dhabi's film, advertising, and TV industry.
Ride Along with the Tron Production
Industry giant Digital Domain was among those responsible for the FX in Tron: Legacy. In an eight-minute video, the specialists show everything they did on Tron.
Autodesk M& E: Sebastian Sylwan new Senior Film and Television Manager
The new manager was previously Director of Technology at Digital Domain
SIGGRAPH: D2 Software Announces Nuke 4.6
Since D2 Software got a new owner, the company has been picking up speed: A new Nuke is due this year
Digital Domain taken over by investor group
Effects studio bought by group around director Michael Bay