In our The Falcon and the Winter Soldier VFX interview, Charles Tait explores the creation of the show's big aerial action sequence.
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New Zealand-based visual effects company Weta Digital has launched Weta Animation, a new division which will create its own original content.
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Weta's visual effects supervisor, Matt Aitken, walks us through that epic Avengers Endgame final battle and shares how it all came together.
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Watch a new War for the Planet of the Apes visual effects featurette that shows behind the scenes footage from the movie alongside fully rendered shots.
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Read our The Jungle Book review. Jon Favreau directs the live-action update of Disney's 1967 animated film. Neel Sethi, Idris Elba, and Ben Kingsley star.
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WETA had to recreate the actor's performance. There are 350 Furious 7 Paul Walker CG shots -- some of which are noticeable, some of which are not.
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A new video essay called The Weta Effect tries to explain why special effects may be very advanced, but simultaneously not as impressive as they once were.
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Get the first look at Weta's Thunderbirds Are Go!, from San Diego Comic-Con 2014. The remake of the '60s series debuts sometime in 2015.
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In a weird way, special effects are never less noticeable than when they're done really well. The best artists are able to blend the real and the unreal so seamlessly that it's all but impossible to tell where one ends and the other begins. So it's cool to get a chance to see the painstaking…
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What's weirder than a resurgence of the supermarionette show Thunderbirds, which originally premiered in the UK in 1965? How about a version that eschews the puppetry that has long characterized the title, in favor of a blend of live-action and CGI? The weird part is that this isn't the first live-action venture for the characters.…
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Duncan Jones would like WETA to help bring his next sci-fi movie to life and, after that, he's changing genres. The director of Moon and Source Code has been talking about making his third film, an "homage to Blade Runner," for some time and now he says it might be his last in that genre.…
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UPDATE: The 15 second tease that premiered at the end of this webcast is now embedded after the jump Earlier this week, 20th Century Fox and WETA Digital revealed a first look at one of the performance-captured apes from Rupert Wyatt's Rise of the Planet of the Apes, scheduled for release August 5. The extremely…
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Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back producer Gary Kurtz is going back to big effects films with Panzer 88. We first heard about the film very briefly last year, when Hellboy co-writer Peter Briggs was said to be directing "a supernatural horror film set in a German tank during WW2." At the time, Briggs…
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Last week the big news on the Mad Max franchise was that the new film, Fury Road, wouldn't be the only new film. A pair of reports said that series director George Miller is prepping two films to be shot back to back: Fury Road and the follow-up, reportedly called Mad Max: Furiosa. Now we've…
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Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, which follows four anthropomorphized characters in a classic pastoral English countryside, has been adapted to the screen many times. Now there's a new version on the way, to be directed by Ray Griggs, with Peter Jackson's WETA providing a suite of animatronic effects to bring the animal characters…
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Photo credit: Matt Dentler WETA Workshop has signed on to create practical and creature effects for director Kristoffer Aaron Morgan’s independent horror film, The Home. Written by friend of /Film, Eric Vespe, better known to the masses as Quint from Ain't It Cool News, and produced by Steven Schneider (Paranormal Activity), the film is currently…
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