VFXWorld Magazine
FuseFX Gets a Room with a New York City View
The visual effects studio has opened a new office in NYC’s Financial District; the new digs are part of the company’s global expansion strategy and will accommodate its growing staff.
NVIZ and George Clooney Take a Virtual Spacewalk on ‘The Midnight Sky’
Leading visualization company and their ARENA virtual camera system helped the filmmaker and his VFX team plan, visualize, shoot, and deliver key astronaut spacewalk and airlock death sequences on their Oscar-nominated, VES Award-winning sci-fi drama.
GMUNK Creates Hypnotic Fluid Sims for ‘The Living System’ Short
The renowned digital artist, aka Bradley Munkowitz, uses a water and smoke system to simulate a swell of energy for the collaborative Z by HP project.
Unlock 15 Minutes of ‘Army of The Dead’ on Netflix Livestream
Join the May 13 interactive event on Netflix’s YouTube channel - first 15 Minutes of Zack Snyder’s highly anticipated zombie heist thriller will be revealed.
Netflix Drops ‘Sweet Tooth’ Featurette
Executive producers Susan Downey and Robert Downey Jr. explore the post-apocalyptic fairytale about a hybrid deer-boy embarking on an epic journey; show, based on Jeff Lemire’s groundbreaking DC comic, premieres on Netflix June 4.
Realtime Conjures VFX Magic for ‘A Discovery of Witches’ Season 2
UK animation and VFX house provides previs, ‘scrying magic,’ a fire drake, and host of supernatural elements in Sky TV’s hit series.
Platige Image Creates Work-Weary Mandrill for the Tajawal Travel Agency
The music-video inspired commercial features an emotionally nuanced CG primate portraying an everyday, burned out businessperson needing a break from life’s mundane routines.
Have a First Look at ‘Venom: Let There Be Carnage’ Trailer and Key Art
Tom Hardy returns to the big screen as Marvel’s lethal protector Venom in Columbia Pictures’ action thriller, only in theaters, September 24, 2021.
Marvel Drops New ‘Black Widow’ Character Posters
Highly anticipated MCU Phase Four action flick comes to theaters and Disney+ with Premier Access July 9, 2021.
FMX Concludes 2021 Virtual Conference
‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Synopsis Revealed
The vaguely worded Marvel announcement states the sequel will ‘continue to explore the incomparable world of Wakanda, and all of the rich and varied characters introduced in the first film.’
FuseFX Goes Otherworldly on NBC’s ‘Debris’
Award-winning visual effects company creates a mysterious alien ship, its crash wreckage, and a dimensional window, all obviously engineered by beings not of this world, for the new sci-fi mystery series.
Crafty Apes is ‘My-T-Sharp’ in ‘Coming 2 America’
Led by VFX supervisor Aldo Ruggiero, the visual effects studio helped recreate the signature barbershop storefront, a library, and other New York environments that couldn’t be shot due to the pandemic, in Eddie Murphy’s ‘Coming to America’ sequel now streaming on Amazon Prime.
Hannah John-Kamen is the New ‘Red Sonja’
Marvel and Dynamite Entertainment’s chain mail bikini-clad warrior will hit the big screen for the first time since 1985, after decades of roadblocks and no shortage of drama.
Disney Drops ‘Becoming Cruella’ Featurette
Watch fashionista bad-girl Cruella Deville’s origin story with Emma Stone; ‘Cruella’ the movie comes to theaters and Disney+ with Premier Access May 28.
New ‘Stranger Things’ Season 4 Teaser Reveals… What Exactly?
We know the new season of Netflix’s hit sci-fi thriller is officially in production, Hopper may be alive, and there are some kids with telekinetic powers, in hospital gowns, playing in a sterile facility… with a special room just for Eleven?
‘Loki’ Series Coming 2 Days Early
The mischievous horned God’s Disney+ series will now premiere Wednesday June 9, moving back from June 11, avoiding competition with subsequent Friday ‘The Bad Batch’ releases as well as ‘Black Widow’s July 9 launch.
HBO Releases First ‘House of the Dragon’ Images
It’s official… George R.R. Martin’s long-awaited ‘Game of Thrones’ prequel series has taken flight, ready to incinerate hapless armies, helpless civilians, and eager TV screens in 2022.
Scanline VFX Tackles the Cosmic Rewind in ‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’
Led by VFX supervisor Bryan Hirota, studio delivers 1,000 visual effects shots across 22 sequences, from Steppenwolf’s complete redo to the Flash’s epic time reversal.
Noah Centineo Steps Away from ‘Masters of the Universe’
The notable He-Hunk will no longer play He-Man, leaving production of the already shaky live-action adaptation at a stand-still.
Streamline Media Finalizes Technicolor Post Acquisition
First announced this past January, deal brings new artists, technical experts, and strategic locations to the company’s expanding base of business units.
Who Knew Road Runner Cartoons Inspired Hollywood’s First Jet Plane Film?
Watch a clip of Oscar winners Ben Burtt and Craig Barron sharing insights into the groundbreaking special effects on Humphrey Bogart’s 1950 film, ‘Chain Lightning,’ his last at Warner Bros.
SIGGRAPH 2021 Announces Virtual Art Gallery
The gallery features 14 virtual installations representing an international slate of artists; highlights include Academy Award-nominee ‘Opera,’ Best in Show ‘Cangjie’s Poetry,’ and interactive lighting installation ‘Isle of Reflections.’
Surprise Set Photos Reveal First Look at ‘Ms. Marvel’ Costume
Iman Vellani stars as Kamala Khan, the spunky teenaged Parkistani American ‘Ms. Marvel’ with polymorphous powers, in the upcoming Disney+ series, as well as alongside Brie Larson as Carol Danvers and Teyonah Parris as Monica Rambeau in 'The Marvels' coming to theatres in 2022.