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Displaying all articles tagged:
Vfx
‘historic first step’
Aug. 7, 2023
Overworked and Underpaid, VFX Workers Vote to Unionize at Marvel
On Monday, a group of more than 50 on-set employees filed a petition for an election to be represented by IATSE.
By
Chris Lee
into it
June 6, 2023
VFX Artists Are Tired of Fixing It in Post
Amid the writers strike, another unionization effort is brewing.
By
Sam Sanders
anonymous in hollywood
Feb. 22, 2023
‘Honestly, I Equate It to Human Greed’
Three VFX workers break down why
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
looks the way it does.
By
Chris Lee
out of the uncanny valley
Dec. 20, 2022
Why Does
Avatar: The Way of Water
Look Like That?
A tour of the VFX tech that pushes the look of James Cameron’s
Avatar
sequel — shot at 48 fps, twice the industry standard — into a deeper ocean.
By
Chris Lee
boom! clap!
Dec. 12, 2022
Christopher Nolan Makes His Nuclear Bombs the Old-fashioned Way
For the Trinity test in
Oppenheimer
, the director used practical effects over CGI.
By
Rebecca Alter
where’s the beef?
Aug. 3, 2022
The
She-Hulk
Team Responds to Calls for a Bigger, Beefier Jen Walters
“I think that has to do with our culture’s belief in its ownership of women’s bodies.”
By
Bethy Squires
anonymous in hollywood
July 26, 2022
I’m a VFX Artist, and I’m Tired of Getting ‘Pixel-F–ked’ by Marvel
What’s it like to work as a visual-effects artist for the MCU? “I’ve had co-workers sit next to me, break down, and start crying.”
As told to
Chris Lee
mcu-nionize
July 11, 2022
Waititi Taikes the Piss out of
Thor: Love and Thunder
’s VFX
No, the blame doesn’t lie with overworked effects artists.
By
Rebecca Alter
rip
Feb. 8, 2022
Douglas Trumbull, VFX Visionary, Dead at 79
Trumbull worked on films including
2001: A Space Odyssey
and
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
.
By
Ashley Shannon Wu
tiktok
July 22, 2020
TikTok VFX Star Julian Bass Did Not Have to CGI Himself an Agent
The 20-year-old will now be represented by ICM Partners.
By
Rebecca Alter
urban legends
Mar. 18, 2020
Cats
Fans Are Clamoring About ‘the Butthole Cut.’ Does It Actually Exist?
An urban legend, or something more?
By
Nate Jones
gotta go fast!
Feb. 14, 2020
Beyond the Creepy Teeth: How
Sonic the Hedgehog
Saved Itself
A complete timeline of the Sega character’s return to the big screen, from dental horror to emergency redesign to today.
By
Chris Lee
movie review
Feb. 13, 2020
In
Sonic the Hedgehog,
It’s Like Golden-Era Jim Carrey Never Left Us
The movie is fine, but the villain’s a delight.
By
Bilge Ebiri
oscars 2020
Feb. 10, 2020
VFX Society Says Oh No, You’re Not Pinning This One On Us to Oscars
Cats
Bit
“The best visual effects in the world will not compensate for a story told badly.”
By
Halle Kiefer
behind the scenes
Jan. 18, 2019
How
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Changed the Animation Game
The story behind the hit film’s unorthodox, exhilarating pop art.
By
Charles Bramesco
movies
Jan. 7, 2019
How
First Man
Faked the Moon Landing
Damien Chazelle and the team behind
First Man
on recreating Neil Armstrong’s history-making moment, almost entirely with practical effects.
By
Abraham Riesman
and
Kalyn Corrigan
special effects
Dec. 24, 2018
How
Mary Poppins Returns
Turned a Bowl Into a Fantasia
Director Rob Marshall on combining live-action, 2-D animation, and 3-D computer rendering to create a passage of eye-popping originality.
By
Charles Bramesco
and
Lisa Liebman
need a hand?
Sept. 17, 2017
How to Chop Off a Hand on TV, As Explained by
Outlander
Outlander
’s VFX supervisor talks us through one gory scene.
By
Jackson McHenry
four guys
Jan. 18, 2016
One-Hour Convo About VFX in
Star Wars
Wait, Maz is not real?
By
Emma Barrie