Find out how special FX legend Aaron Sims propelled himself from creature designer to Hollywood director with the help of his sci-fi short
Discover how Shane Acker’s student-created short was made into a full-length feature film backed by the mighty Tim Burton
Cinesite has completed 831 VFX shots and converted 87 minutes of film into stereoscopic 3D for Disney’s John Carter, which hit cinemas last week
Weta Digital embarked on a new quest with The Adventures of Tintin, complete with crashing waves, pirate battles and an extremely stylish wardrobe. Renee Dunlop takes us behind the scenes
Do you remember the original Transformers-style Citroën C4 spot? Five years ago it became a worldwide cult hit and we asked The Embassy’s CG team to reveal some of the ad’s technical secrets. Catch up as Transformers week continues…
Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen blasts your eyes with thousands of hard metal parts, spinning and sliding gears, wheels, crankshafts, pistons and headlamps as nearly 60 jaw-dropping robots fight to the bitter end. Read how Industrial Light & Magic rose to the challenge of animating the Transformers sequel
They’re 30-foot-high shapeshifters. They’re made out of thousands of moving parts. And they’re out to beat the living cogs out of one another. Transformers might have posed something of a problem for an average VFX studio. Fortunately, ILM is anything but average…
It’s just won the Academdy Award for Best Animated Short – now, Moonbot Studios takes a retrospective look at the highs and lows of the short’s production and explains how its iPad storybook, created with the help of Maya, blurs the boundaries between film and literature…
Find out how many VFX shots ILM produced for Rango, meet the man behind the chameleon and take a look at the animation and effects work on the celebrated animated feature film
Rune Spaans of Superrune and Lars Erik Hansen of Gimpville reveal how they helped bring Norwegian folklore to life in André Øvredal’s monster hit, The Troll Hunter
Out on DVD this week, Jonathan Liebesman’s Battle: Los Angeles shows the nightmare of war becoming a reality. Cinesite and SPIN VFX talk about the challenges surrounding the creation of full on combat sequences in a documentary-style film
Attack the Block, the recently released UK sci-fi movie features a mysterious brand of alien, which are all teeth and fur. Swedish studio Fido tells 3D World how they created the frightening VFX shots for the movie
Tangled has been released on DVD and Blu-ray in the UK this week – on its release 3D World spoke to the studio about its blend of traditional aesthetics and CG animation
The Soho-based effects house was tasked with giving Dobby the house elf a makeover in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, Framestore explained how it was done at FMX 2011
Several sessions at last week’s FMX conference dealt with creating humanistic characters. Double Negative took the opportunity to discuss the studio’s approach to Paul
