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Cooke’s Jordan Thistlewood joins us to explain why lens /i Tech may be the missing link between what was shot on set and what VFX needs to finish the shot, and we should now be demanding it.

On this 'vocal' episode of the VFXShow, we discuss how Disclosure Day works as a Spielberg UFO film, how its visual effects support both spectacle and invisible effects - all with some surprising reactions from the guys.

Our latest fxpodcast with ILM's John Knoll on miniatures in a tiny LED cube, the Star Wars style, and why the practical and the digital still need each other.

From brain-sucking horror to heartbreaking empathy, for this fxpodcast we go inside the creature work of The Boroughs with VFX Supervisor Tara DiMarco and ILM’s Steve Ellis.

The crew reviews the VFX of Backrooms - which is in a genre that Mike absolutely HATES.

We talk with Man on Fire VFX Supervisor Kevin Lingenfelser about the explosive building collapse, chaotic rubble aftermath, and high-octane Learjet sequence.

Jason, Matt and Mike return to a galaxy far, far away to unpack the VFX, creatures, puppetry and theatrical scale of Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu.

Union VFX and Clear Angle are turning Gaussian splats from a tech demo into a crowd-pleasing production pipeline. Literally. We speak with David Schneider, VFX and Technical Supervisor at Union, in this fxpodcast episode.

We talk with Academy Technical Achievement Award recipient Paul Debevec about HDR image-based lighting, Fiat Lux, virtual production, NeRFs, 3DGS, machine learning, and why now is a great time to do research.

From hacky Stable Diffusion experiments to production-ready pipelines, ComfyUI is shaping how AI fits into VFX.

Find out how Stranger Things season five deployed previs and real-time storytelling using Unreal Engine & splats, from Proof's VFX Supervisor Jordan Nounnan.