Movies to watch in 2013: The Croods

| Movies, Showcase | 02/01/2013 14:32pm The Croods Image

Dreamworks’ new animated feature The Croods is slowing gaining momentum after releasing two exciting trailers at the end of 2012 and an ingenious animated poster. See them here and let us know what you’d like to find out about the film..

How Double Negative studio created brave new worlds for the reworked Total Recall

| Movies, Showcase | 29/12/2012 12:00pm ▲ “The Colony was reliant on matte painting. We were able to reconstruct the physical set using a low-res model projected with HDR photography, and use this to quickly give a lit 3D environment,” says CG supervisor Vanessa Boyce

The new Total Recall is a more grounded and yet much more ambitious retelling of Philip K Dick’s sci-fi tale. Double Negative tells Mark Ramshaw how it built two brave new worlds for the film

Sci-fi movie focus: How ScanLineVFX created the heart-stopping final scene in Looper

| Movies, Showcase | 27/12/2012 10:00am ▲ The sugarcane debris and chunks of earth were modelled in 3ds Max

Renee Dunlop talks to ScanLineVFX about the challenges the studio faced when creating the climactic final scene in the film Looper

Framestore’s work on Skyfall’s title sequence

| Commercial, Movies, Showcase | 26/12/2012 10:00am Skyfall art

We ask Framestore’s head of 3D, Diarmid Harrison-Murray, about the studio’s work on the spectacular four-minute opening sequence to Skyfall. Read the interview here…

VFX and animation special: Seth MacFarlane’s Ted

| Movies, Showcase | 22/12/2012 16:00pm ▲ On a typical show you identify the shots that require simulation and only use it when you need it, but in Ted’s case we needed cloth throughout, so we built it right into our pipeline,” says Scott Liedtka

Drink, drugs, fallen women… all in a day’s work for Ted. Tippett Studio and Iloura tell Mark Ramshaw how they created the wise-cracking anti-hero

Movies to watch for in 2012: The Life of Pi

| Movies, Showcase | 17/12/2012 12:36pm All images ™ and © 2012 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved.

Ang Lee brings Yann Martel’s best-selling novel to the big screen in Life of Pi, the tale of a young Indian boy adrift in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger created by Rhythm & Hues

Viral campaign begins for Guillermo Del Toro’s Pacific Rim

| Movies, Showcase | 10/12/2012 12:40pm pacific_rim_viral_video

Can’t wait to see the new blockbuster from Guillermo Del Toro? Neither can we. The monsters versus robots movie is sure to be a VFX treat and the marketing campaign has just begun, reminding us of Cloverfield…

The making of Hotel Transylvania

| Features, Making of, Movies | 05/12/2012 14:00pm 3dw162feathotel

Renee Dunlop discovers how the characters in Hotel Transylvania were brought to life using simple silhouettes, vivid colours and strong graphic clarity

Cool VFX: Elijah Wood in new Flying Lotus music video

| Movies, Showcase | 04/12/2012 10:30am elijah_wood

Prepare to be mesmerised! Pulse Films’ David Lewandowski hooked up Elijah Wood to deliver a live action version of Akira for Flying Lotus’ new video…

The VFX in Indian smash hit Eega

| Making of, Movies, Showcase | 28/11/2012 14:00pm 3dw161debrief

Pete Draper and Adel Adili of Makuta explain how the studio created over 2,200 visual effects shots for Eega, a landmark feature film in Indian cinema

Friday Animation Fun: Watch Little Kaiju and find out about its creation

| Movies, Shorts, Showcase | 23/11/2012 14:28pm Little Kaiju

It’s Friday Animation Fun time! Check out this four-minute movie featuring the adorable character Little Kaiju and read an in-depth interview with Little Kaiju’s directing team TWiN and animation director Nick Losq

Cool VFX: Important Looking Pirates win another gig with makers of Kon-Tiki

| Movies, Showcase | 08/11/2012 14:09pm ▲ A series of famous landmarks feature in the 60-second film for a Norwegian oil guild

In a follow-up interview, Niklas Jacobson and Måns Björklund from Scandinavian studio ILP tell us about a new challenge following Kon-Tiki.

Cool VFX: Important Looking Pirates provides shark action for Kon-Tiki

| Movies, Showcase | 07/11/2012 14:12pm ▲ The shark sequences made up some of the most dramatic parts of the film

We meet Niklas Jacobson and Måns Björklund from Scandinavian studio ILP to find out how they created the white sharks in Kon-Tiki

MPC’s VFX technical breakdown video released for Prometheus

| Movies, Showcase | 16/10/2012 16:10pm TDW158.prometheusmain

To celebrate the release of Prometheus on Blu-ray, DVD and digital download, Moving Picture Company has released its visual effects technical breakdown

Watch short film True Skin

| Movies, Shorts, Showcase | 12/10/2012 12:28pm TrueSkin_1

Stephan Zlotescu’s True Skin is a cool sci-fi short film with VFX of a standard of Hollywood blockbuster movies. Take a few minutes to check out the spectacular True Skin