Wētā FX Delivers the Dragons - and More - for HBO’s ‘House of the Dragon’
VFX Supervisor Wayne Stables talks about how he and his team helped manifest a slew of dragons – without getting toasted – for HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’ prequel.
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Rodeo FX Soars in ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 2 VFX Breakdown Reel
See how the studio created the show’s iconic, larger than life dragons with a seamless fusion of on-set footage and CG assets, each crafted to embody a distinct personality; the terrifyingly regal and composed Silverwing joins the hunt in the new season.
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Proof Shares ‘Dashing Through the Snow’ Postvis Reel
Leading visualization studio helps create balance between magical wonder, grounded, convincing behaviors, and funny antics for Disney’s holiday adventure film, contributing to several sequences including the final reindeer battle.
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Rodeo FX Shares ‘Monarch: Legacy of Monsters’ VFX Reel
The VFX studio awakens the monsters in Legendary Picture’s latest Apple TV+ series starring Kurt Russell, Wyatt Russell, and Anna Sawai, which follows survivors of Godzilla’s attack on San Francisco as they grapple with the Secret Monarch organization.
VFX Breakdown Reel: Digital Domain Adds Non-Stop Thrills to ‘Extraction 2’
VFX team seamlessly integrated 99 individual shots into a 22-minute oner spanning a prison escape, car chase and train crash; directed by Sam Hargrave and written by Joe Russo, the action-adventure is now streaming on Netflix.
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Union Shares ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ VFX Breakdown Reel
‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’ writer/director Martin McDonagh taps the studio as sole visual effects vendor on his award-winning film starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson; the invisible VFX included creating 1920s environment digital matte paintings and various CG objects and elements.
Trioscope Begins Licensing Proprietary ‘Trioscope Platform’ Technology
The suite of production and post-production tools fuses live-action with CG elements to create highly stylized worlds; tech and media exec Greg Mandel joins Board of Advisors as business strategy advisor.
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Framestore Lends Its Invisible Touch to ‘No Time To Die’ VFX
Leading visual effects studio delivered nearly 400 shots, adding CG elements to everything from icy lakes to forests and high-speed car chases, in MGM’s latest action-packed James Bond spy thriller.
Union Illustrates Marie Curie and Radium’s Impact in ‘Radioactive’
UK visual effects studio tackles a choreographed radium dance, WWI battlefield, Hiroshima bombing, and Chernobyl disaster in Marjane Satrapi’s captivating biographical drama.
Folks VFX Recreates JFK’s Fateful Dallas Visit in ‘Umbrella Academy’ Season 2
VFX supervisor Laurent Spillemaecker and his Montreal team turned Toronto into early 1960s Dealey Plaza and surroundings with an exacting, detailed set of CG environments, people and digital assets.
Different Day, Different Doomsday in ‘The Umbrella Academy’ Season 2
VFX supervisor Everett Burrell breaks down the Netflix series’ almost 2,000 VFX shots, a mix of nuclear holocausts, digital characters, time jumps, and a goldfish.
Nviz’s Gravity Flip Makes Yoga Much More Exhilarating in HBO’s ‘Avenue 5’
VFX studio handles previs, visual effects, postvis, and graphics production for the inaugural season of Armando Iannucci’s space tourism comedy
Image Gallery: Weta Brings Emotion & Drama to CG for ‘War for the Planet of the Apes’
As the sole visual effects vendor on the final instalment of the prequel trilogy based on the 1968 science fiction classic ‘Planet of the Apes,’ Weta Digital is in the midst of a creative and technological renaissance.
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Hail Caesar! Weta Delivers Digital Mastery for ‘War for the Planet of the Apes’
Models supervisor Florian Fernandez talks about his team’s use of proprietary Manuka ray tracer to create photorealistic apes and more for Matt Reeves’ futuristic action-adventure hit.
