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These Are the Clones You’re Looking For: Hoplite VFX Fires Up ‘Star Wars: The 212’
Hoplite VFX trades stormtrooper aim for clone trooper precision in Star Wars: The 212. Producer Maurine Fauvert reveals how a two-artist side project turned into a full-blown studio production, complete with Move AI mocap, Blender’s GPU power, and some very unlucky troopers.
Digital Domain Lets Agatha Fly
The prettiest Marvel show this year was "Agatha All Along" Time to ask Digital Domain how they did that!
Third Floor Company Reel 2024
The Thri floor is all about previs, pitchvis, techvis, postvis and things like that - here is their showreel, including Avatar 2, Star Wars series, House of the Dragon and more.
Andor | VFX Breakdown
Streaming the Star Wars: For the War of the Stars series, VFX house Rising Sun Pictures overthrows the Empire together with the Rebellion.
The Book of Boba Fett | VFX Breakdown
Three desert wretches with canine followers: VFX powerhouse Hybride Technologies pulls perhaps the most popular bounty hunter in stellar history through desert sand.
Obi-Wan Kenobi | Breakdown Reel
VFX house Image Engine brings Jedi veteran Obi-Wan Kenobi out of retirement - and into his own streaming series on Disney Plus.
Obi-Wan Kenobi | VFX Breakdown
Jedi Knight alumnus Obi-Wan Kenobi got his own mini-series. Whether the Force was hybrid with VFX service provider - and what is an eopie?
The making of the Star Wars short film E-11
Robert Hranitzky explains at the International Broadcast Convention how his unboxing video-turned-love letter to Star Wars came about.
Behind-the-scenes video for The Book of Boba Fett released!
Spaghetti westerns in space: ILM uses traditional animation techniques to create bounty hunters Cad Bane and Wookie Black Krrsantan for the Star Wars streaming series. Nevertheless, the LED Volume Stage also features high-tech.
Marvel at Boba Fett’s digital stuntman!
Riding the Rancor: Texture Artist from ILM releases the Digital Double - from the streaming series "The Book of Boba Fett". But that's not all from a galaxy far, far away..
The best fan film of the year!
Something to laugh about at the weekend: "E11 Standard Issues". Anyone who knows DP author Robert Hranitzky knows about his love of the Star Wars universe - now even as a fan film.
Trailer for the somewhat different Star Wars fan film
After R2-D2, C-3PO and BB-8 now comes - E-11? This cinematic declaration of love to Star Wars celebrates its online premiere on 4 May!
Star Wars: Dark Forces Rebuilt for VR
Shadow Art Games rebuilt the 1995 shooter Star Wars: Dark Forces in Unreal Engine 4 with virtual-reality support.
Carl Schroeter on Star Wars Compositing
Senior compositor Carl Schroeter discusses his ILM Star Wars work, move to DNEG and the realities of professional VFX compositing.
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker — VFX Supervisor Roger Guyett Interview
ILM VFX supervisor Roger Guyett discusses the global production, practical and digital techniques, virtual production and fleet work behind The Rise of Skywalker.
Inside ILM: Creating the Razor Crest for The Mandalorian
Doug Chiang, John Knoll and ILM artists explain the design and visual-effects production of the Razor Crest spacecraft for The Mandalorian.
Weta Digital Breaks Down Valerian’s Compositing, FX and Characters
Three Weta Digital breakdowns examine compositing, effects simulations and performance capture for Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.
Hybride VFX Reel Revisits Star Wars and The Mandalorian
Canadian visual-effects studio Hybride showcases its work on The Mandalorian, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and Solo in its 2021 reel.
Denis Muren Joins Live Q&A at VIEW Conference
Nine-time Academy Award winner Denis Muren discussed his career, creative vision and audience questions during VIEW Conference 2020.
The Rise of Skywalker | VFX-Breakdown
What language does Babu Frik actually speak? Can he speak binary, like BB-8 and D-0?
The Mandalorian | VFX-Breakdown
Pixomondo saddles you up with the Blurrg. Don't forget your sun cream: The desert sun is blazing.
Emmys 2020 | VFX Winner
The Mandalorian won over the viewers - but did it win over the jury?
Tutorial Builds a Star Wars-Inspired TIE Fighter
Data Art Resources’ tutorial covers a hard-surface TIE Fighter workflow, geometry creation, Substance Designer and Photoshop masks.
El Ranchito’s Mandalorian VFX Reel Crosses Desert and Space
El Ranchito’s season-one Mandalorian reel showcases desert environments, the Sandcrawler and Razor Crest space effects.
SpeedTree 2020 VFX Reel Showcases Digital Flora
SpeedTree’s 2020 reel collects film highlights featuring digitally generated jungles, forests and other vegetation.
Prop Store’s 2020 Hollywood Auction Featured Star Wars and Jurassic Park Props
Prop Store’s August 2020 auction offered 870 film artefacts from Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Alien, Ghostbusters and other productions.
2020 3D and Motion Design Show
Maxon's three-day online event covered VR, AR, character animation, photoreal VFX and motion design during SIGGRAPH 2020.
Hal Hickel Previews Virtual Production
ILM animation director Hal Hickel discussed The Mandalorian's virtual-production methods in a free preVIEW session for VIEW Conference 2020.
Hybride Breaks Down IG-11 VFX
Hybride’s Mandalorian breakdown shows the design and hyper-articulated animation work behind bounty-hunter droid IG-11.
The 2019 Oscar Nominations
On February 24, the best films will again be honoured at the 91st Academy Awards – animation, VFX, editing and production design!
ILM – Solo: A Star Wars Story VFX
Industrial Light and Magic feeds us Star Wars: The Behind the Magic clips show L3-37, chases and more.
ILM Breakdowns for Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Finally, new VFX breakdowns from Industrial Light & Magic: these Behind the Magic clips show breakdowns for Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
Rogue One: Behind the Magic by ILM
New breakdown clip from ILM: In this Behind the Magic clip, the team shows its work on “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” (2016)
MaterialX: Open Standard from ILM
New open standard for exchanging materials between applications: ILM and Lucasfilm release the first version of MaterialX.
John Knoll in an FMX Interview
Anyone who could not experience John Knoll's talk about "Rogue One" live at the FMX Conference 2017 no longer needs to be sad. AWN conducted a longer interview with the VFX supervisor at FMX; here is the video.
Save Money with Maxon on “Star Wars” Day
Second day of FMX, and make a note of this offer from Maxon tomorrow for "May the 4th": On "Star Wars" Day, there is a 30 percent discount on all licenses and upgrades for 24 hours!
Tutorial Time: HitFilm and the Rebels
The free editing and VFX tool now offers a series of Star Wars tutorials. Suitable for recreating on your personal droid!
CG Characters for “Rogue One”
Spoiler alert: one of the most impressive CG achievements for “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” was the digital re-creation of two human actors. In this video, ILM shows how this demanding task was accomplished.
The 10 Contenders for the 2017 VFX Oscar
Before the nominees for this year’s Oscar are announced in mid-January, the Academy has already made a preliminary selection. These ten feature films are on the shortlist.
“Rogue One” Trailer #2
The second trailer with many beautiful VFX shots for the Star Wars spin-off "Rogue One" is out.
“Star Wars” Fan Film Including Scene Files
Trevor Kerr realised "Call of the Empires" as a non-profit project. A breakdown of the short film and the scene files are included.
Free “Star Wars” 3D model pack!
Andrew Kramer is deeply connected to "Star Wars" - both professionally and as a fan of the film series. To celebrate "Star Wars" Day on 4 May, Video Copilot has therefore published a 3D model collection in HD quality with 4K textures, which can be downloaded free of charge.
Saber Plug-in Finished!
After several night shifts, Andrew Kramer has released the free After Effects plug-in Saber for creating lightsabres, neon lights and more.
Old Boys’ Club Declares: CGI Is Out
The New Yorker is not known for VFX insight and proves it with a supposed Hollywood shift from animated to practical effects.
10 Minutes of “Star Wars” VFX Breakdowns
CG Record has published an extensive breakdown video for “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”.
Home Video with “Star Wars” Effects
With these plug-ins, anyone can decorate their footage with simple lightsaber and lightning effects.
Free BB8 Model
He is the new android hero of the current “Star Wars” installment: BB8. Mac Mave Studios created a 3D model of the android and is making it available as a free download.
Stirring Emotions
According to Pixar’s "Inside Out," humans are controlled by exactly four emotions. See how they react in the mind to the "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" trailer here. Enjoy!
Cinema Competition for IMAX
Dolby vs. IMAX: The audio company is entering the movie-theatre market with its own cinema systems.
“Star Wars” in the Down Under Version
That is what you call true fan devotion—the Australian team worked on this 30-minute "Star Wars" fan film for ten years.
Star Wars 3D on Ice
Is Disney getting cold Star Wars feet? The 3D release of Episodes II and III has been postponed indefinitely.
Lucas Retires
At the age of 68, it is apparently time for the Star Wars creator to take things a little easier – his successor has already been chosen: Kathleen Kennedy will take over the management of Lucasfilm Ltd.
NAB 2011: Star Wars 3D Gets a Studio
Prime Focus will handle the implementation and conversion of Star Wars into 3D.
May the Force Be with You …
Anyone who cannot decide between a Star Wars marathon or a round of gaming next weekend and also wants to see great animations now has a new game in stores.
Image Gallery: Cool – R2D2 as a Projector
The company Niko has brought an R2D2-design projector to market. It drives through the house, can play CDs and DVDs, and much more. We have cool pictures.
Siggraph Ends with Increase in Visitors
A total of 29,000 visitors / Next conference takes place at the end of July 2006 in Boston
Siggraph: Keynote with George Lucas
"Star Wars" creator gave an insight into his work and plans as an interview guest at this year's keynote