How Masters of the Universe Built Eternia: A Look Behind the Visual Effects
- Film & Television, Visual Effects & VFX Breakdowns
- cleanup, Compositing, green screen, match moving, Rotoscopy, visual effects
- June 14, 2026
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Deadpool’s Mask: How Wētā FX Animates the Face Behind It
- Film & Television, Visual Effects & VFX Breakdowns
- Cinematography, cleanup, Compositing, Cursed, David Sewell, Dneg, Drama, Episodic TV, filmmaking, green screen, match moving, netflix, Post production, Rotoscopy, visual effects
- August 15, 2024
Deadpool’s mask is animated by Wētā FX across three films. Warped plates, hand-painted eyelids, a Nuke face setup and a machine learning model for twitches.
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Forrest Gump (1994): How ILM Put Tom Hanks Into the News
- Film & Television, Visual Effects & VFX Breakdowns
- Cinematography, cleanup, Compositing, Cursed, David Sewell, Dneg, Drama, Episodic TV, filmmaking, green screen, match moving, netflix, Post production, Rotoscopy, visual effects
- July 10, 2024
Forrest Gump visual effects: how ILM put Tom Hanks into old newsreels, the tracking algorithm behind it, Lt. Dan’s legs and the ping-pong ball.
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John Wick: Chapter 4: How the Arc de Triomphe Scene Was Made
- Film & Television, Visual Effects & VFX Breakdowns
- Cinematography, cleanup, Compositing, Cursed, David Sewell, Dneg, Drama, Episodic TV, filmmaking, green screen, match moving, netflix, Post production, Rotoscopy, visual effects
- May 5, 2023
John Wick 4 VFX: how the film built its Arc de Triomphe chase and the top-down Dragon’s Breath shot. Real stunts, a Berlin airport and 1,500 shots.
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Movie Scenes Before and After Special Effects: 10 Breakdowns
- Film & Television, Visual Effects & VFX Breakdowns
- cleanup, Compositing, Episodic TV, filmmaking, green screen, match moving, movies, Post production, Rotoscopy, Technology, Video Production, visual effects
- January 21, 2021
Ten movie scenes before and after special effects. What was filmed on set, what was added in post, and the numbers behind each one.
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Before and After CGI: 6 Film and TV Locations That Were Mostly Built
- Film & Television, Visual Effects & VFX Breakdowns
- body tracking, cg animation, CG assets, CG doubles, CG environments, Cinematography, cleanup, Compositing, Digital Doubles, Digital Environments, features, filmmaking, green screen, Look Development, lookdev, Marvel, match moving, movies, Post production, rigging, rotomation, Rotoscopy, visual effects, Weta Digital
- June 7, 2020
Before and after CGI: six film and TV locations that were mostly built digitally, from the Colosseum to Reactor 4. What was real and what was CG.
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How Digital Domain Rebuilt Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for VR
- Film & Television, Visual Effects & VFX Breakdowns
- body tracking, cg animation, CG assets, CG doubles, CG environments, cleanup, Digital Domain, Digital Doubles, Digital Environments, features, filmmaking, green screen, Look Development, lookdev, match moving, movies, Post production, rigging, rotomation, Rotoscopy, Technology, visual effects
- April 12, 2020
How Digital Domain and TIME Studios rebuilt Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in VR for The March. Performance capture, machine learning and the timeline.
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