Industry Insight

Beck Selmes on her thriving career in VFX, and how communication is the most important skill for a VFX supervisor Starting on International Women’s Day, we began a series of articles looking at the gender...

On International Women’s Day, we asked women from a number of top VFX facilities about the factors behind the industry’s gender imbalance, and what’s being done to address them It’s no secret that V...

VFX supervisor Paul Lambert on his second collaboration with Denis Villeneuve, their philosophy of shooting for VFX, and how AI tech will transform everything Artists behind the visual effects of Dune have ...

BlueBolt VFX supervisor Henry Badgett gives us an insight into his working life, and his advice for those at the start of their careers What’s the best thing about working at BlueBolt? The people - som...

Graham Edwards reflects on the franchise that put the UK visual effects industry on the map On 4 November, 2001, the Odeon Leicester Square hosted the world premiere of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s ...

Graham Edwards explores the current boom in VFX work and the corresponding recruitment challenges As the UK begins to emerge from the COVID-19 crisis, job vacancies have hit their highest peak since records...

RISE co-founder Florian Gellinger talks about working as VFX supervisor on Lisa Joy’s feature film Reminiscence, starring Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson and Thandiwe Newton Following a successful collabor...

Sohonet meets with Picture Shop’s Don Thompson and Allan Pinvidic to talk remote tools, hybrid workflows and delivering shows for Disney+ and Nickelodeon with ClearView Flex Ever the forward-thinking faci...

Outpost VFX COO Gez Hixson provides further detail on the recent announcement on overtime pay Recently we announced a new overtime policy at Outpost VFX. The new system will entitle all UK team members up t...

The transition to remote content production cloud workflows can be daunting for producers and content creators. The pandemic has forced many to act out of necessity, bumping forward decisions on technology jus...

By now you’ve undoubtedly been exposed to Deepfake, a process by which artificial intelligence and machine learning can convincingly superimpose one person’s face onto another in any video. Whether you wer...

The Dark Crystal, Jim Henson’s beautiful new age fever dream that was designed to scare kids, is getting the necromancy treatment from Netflix this August. The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance will be a prequ...

Terminator is an expansive media franchise covering all facets of entertainment including six films, a tv series, comic books, and novels. With the release of the upcoming Terminator: Dark Fate quickly approac...