A new Ultraman animated movie is in development at Netflix
Japan's most popular superhero is getting a new animated movie on Netflix that will be based on an original story.
The Batman to make use of The Mandalorian’s Stagecraft technology
The fantastic StageCraft technology currently in use in The Mandalorian is going to be utilised in Matt Reeve's The Batman movie. This is the way.
Here’s how The Mandalorian used the Unreal Engine to create groundbreaking visual effects
If you thought the visual effects in The Mandalorian were remarkable for a TV series. This behind the scenes footage is about to impress you even more.
ILM show how Gareth Edwards directed Rogue One’s digital scenes in real-time using VR
Star Wars takes place in a galaxy far, far away; one that mostly only exists in a digital form. But thanks to virtual reality technology, Rogue One director Gareth Edwards was still able to direct these digital scenes as if he was physically on set
Transformers: The Last Knight Baysploded the computers at Industrial Light and Magic
Director Michael Bay says that the visual effects for Transformers: The Last Knight actually broke the computers at Industrial Light and Magic.
Guillermo Del Toro talks about changing his mind for the 3D conversion of PACIFIC RIM
As long as there’s some money to be made, the 3D movie gimmick isn’t going to vanish overnight. Plenty of films have been darkened in some post-production 3D conversion that was less than choppy, while only a handful of movies have actually managed to make good use of that extra dimension. Unfortunately, most of them, are Step Up movies. Guillermo …
Game graphics to be “indistinguishable from reality”
Could we see photorealism in games in ten years? Top visual effects people believe so.
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