How WeFX Made ‘From’s’ Monsters Feel Uncomfortably Real
From eight-foot dolls and feathered birds to Roger’s brutal demise and Fatima’s transformation, WeFX reveals in this behind-the-scenes look at how it pushed the visual language of…
Category: VFX
Foundry Unlocks Professional-Grade AI for VFX with Griptape Enterprise; Appoints Kyle Roche as Chief AI Officer
Griptape update delivers secure professional-grade AI-accelerated VFX workflows Creative software developer Foundry today announced Griptape Enterprise, a new tier of the Griptape AI workflow orchestration…
Digital Domain Appoints Industry Veteran Patrick Davenport as Executive Vice President, Operations
Digital Domain, the Academy Award®-winning visual effects and digital production company, today announced the appointment of Patrick Davenport as Executive Vice President, Operations. With over 3…
AI Point Tracking Speeds Up Complex VFX Tracks in Mocha Pro
The 2026.5 release adds automatic point tracking, advanced AI matte refinement, faster cleanups, flexible exports, and Windows ARM support. Boris FX Mocha Pro, the renowned…
Faster, More Flexible AI Matting Fuels Boris FX Silhouette
The 2026 release helps artists tackle complex matting, roto, and paint in fewer steps, adds an automated 3D head mesh, and delivers speedier performance. Boris…
Star Trek VFX: Recreating John Knoll’s Iconic Warp Stars without a Slitscan Camera
While ILM’s John Knoll originally used physical slitscan photography to create the Enterprise-D’s warp jump, we can achieve that same organic, colorful trailing look using…
Beeble launches Canvas, a node-based AI compositor for VFX and Virtual Production pipelines
The new visual compositing platform combines AI models, batch iteration workflows, and programmable production automation alongside the SwitchX API Beeble today announced Canvas, a node-based…
ZEISS CinCraft LensCore: Cinema Lens Looks for Compositing
ZEISS announces the launch of CinCraft LensCore, a novel solution for creating physically based cinematic lens looks for visual effects and animation. Built on the…
VFX History: Slit Scan
How did 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Wars, Doctor Who and Star Trek: The Next Generation create mind-bending visuals decades before CGI? The secret is…
Give Your Astrophotography REAL Depth – After Effects Tutorial
In this tutorial, I talk you through the full workflow for taking a static astrophotography image and turning it into a cinematic fly-through using After…