Wanna see what my wife Jess and I have been working on for the past 4 months? And also the reason I haven’t posted diddly on this blog either? Well then check out this shot of Wile E. that Jess lit / comp’d that was featured in the New York freakin’ Times! LINK: New York [...]

You’ve probably never heard of Houston native Steve Johnson, but I know you’ve heard of his work. Predator, The Abyss, Ghostbusters, Spider-Man 2, Where the Wild Things Are, and so on and so on. The point is that he’s had a very long and successful career in practical make-up fx. Now he’s nearing retirement but instead of [...]

OMG…never before seen Ghostbusters II Behind the Scenes footage!

Zoic Studios, one of my favorite VFX studios in the bizzzzzz, has recently launched a new blog called “I Design Your Eyes“! Where a couple days ago they profiled their work on ABC’s newest series “V”. And as always, the work Andrew Kramer and Co., have done on the show is absolutely amazing. Read more about [...]

Motherboard.tv went to London to sit down with director, Spike Jonze, and talk about how they brought the monster-beings of “Where the Wild Things Are” to life. There’s also some great studio footage they took at MPC where they spoke to some of their artists. My favorite part though is when the host asks, in a [...]

Let me start with saying that I’m going to withhold judgement on the actual movie until it comes out on November 13th. Which yes, that is Friday the 13th, and yes it’s ok to roll your eyes now. But no matter how good or bad the film ends up being, I think we can safely [...]

You know what I learned today? That Jim Henson’s amazing creatures from “Where The Wild Things Are” got a little help from CG. Now don’t worry, they didn’t go all Jar Jar and just use these incredible suits for eye line and then replace everything else. Actually they used computer graphics for what it’s really [...]

LINK: Paul Debevec animates a photo-real digital face At TEDxUSC, computer graphics trailblazer Paul Debevec explains the scene-stealing technology behind Digital Emily, a digitally constructed human face so realistic it stands up to multiple takes.

Here’s another VFS grad “done good”. Meet Bernhard Kimbacher, VFX Data Coordinator/Compositor for “District 9″…

Rising Sun Pictures put together two really nice breakdowns for the work they did on ‘Harry Potter 6′ and ‘Terminator 4′. Both reels feature really stunning VFX work. Some of it the obvious stuff like robots, dragons…and magic. But some of it much more hidden. For example, I had no idea that Dumbledore’s blackened hand [...]