This article contains mild spoilers for The End of Oak Street. Various paint-overs for a Baryonyx. Rather than bring prehistoric creatures into the present day through the power of DNA, filmmaker David Robert Mitchell uses a mysterious cosmic event to transport an entire suburban neighborhood into a prehistoric world in Warner Bros. Pictures’ The End [...]

Courtesy of Apple & DNEG. Exploring the space race through an alternative-history lens, Star City imagines a timeline where Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer Sergei Korolev, who died during surgery in 1966, survives and helps the Soviet Union become the first nation to land a person on the moon. The Apple TV+ sci-fi series [...]

Images courtesy of Blind Beagle VFX and NEON In NEON’s The Wrong Girls, down-on-their-luck best friends Frankie (Kristen Stewart) and Molly (Alia Shawkat) are struggling to make rent when a case of mistaken identity lands Frankie with a briefcase containing an experimental hallucinogen. When the duo decides to test the drug themselves, they develop telepathic [...]

ILM is one of the primary VFX providers on Supergirl, sharing the action with Digital Domain and Framestore. (Image courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures) Everyone loves to hate Gen Z – I can say this; I’m one of them. Born between 1997 and 2012, Generation Z is making its mark on the workforce, prioritizing flexibility, [...]

A heartfelt mother-daughter moment is brought to life by Zoic Studios for The Miniature Wife. (Image courtesy of Peacock) As CGI permeates film and television productions, opportunities have increased exponentially for visual effects studios to grow from hired hands to creative partners in the design and execution of shots. On projects that rely on a [...]

Images courtesy of Universal Pictures. The eye of the cyclops was a real one rotoscoped, composited and timed perfectly with the action. Given that Christopher Nolan has explored cloning in The Prestige, conjured a dream version of Paris that folds into itself in Inception and devoted an entire trilogy to a bat-obsessed billionaire vigilante, the [...]

Alissar Kobeissi, Senior Animator, Sony Pictures Imageworks. Although animation is not typically the first medium mentioned in relation to the Middle East, Oscar-nominated films such as Persepolis and The Breadwinner illustrate its effectiveness in addressing social issues affecting the region. Among a new generation of artists emerging from the region is Palestinian-Lebanese multimedia animator Alissar [...]

For Digital Domain, it’s about more than chasing the highest rebate; it’s aligning their global footprint with high-yield regions and tapping into top-tier talent in those locations. Digital Domain was a primary vendor creating digi-doubles and character animation for Supergirl. (Image courtesy of DC Studios and Warner Bros. Pictures) The economics of visual effects seem [...]

John Goodson, Digital Artist, ILM One of the most heartbreaking scenes in the Disney+ documentary series Light & Magic, which explores the history of Industrial Light & Magic, details the closure of the Model Shop. Long the heart of ILM’s practical effects operation, it laid the foundation for the pioneering visual effects studio that George [...]

Images courtesy of LAIKA Studios. Sixteen years in the making, Travis Knight’s passion project Wildwood finally takes flight. Releasing two movies within the same year is not for the faint of heart. “I’m sure it has taken years and years off my life,” laughs Travis Knight, who directed both Masters of the Universe and Wildwood, [...]