Framestore's approach has always been that great VFX are powered by great tech. On Superman, they became the first to use 4D Gaussian Splatting in a feature film to capture volumetric performances with photorealistic fidelity.
Explore how Disney revolutionized visual effects with the sodium vapor process, a technique pioneered by Disney Legend Ub Iwerks that allowed filmmakers to create natural-looking backgrounds, decades before blue and green screens became common in filmmaking.
Snowfall, fog and atmospheric conditions were carefully composited using a segmentation and depth extraction toolkit. Combined using deep data and onset LIDAR remapping, the weather was transformed to become not just a beautifully harsh environment but also a key character in the episode.
On this very special episode, Wren and Niko are joined by VFX legend Joe Letteri from Wētā FX to get into the details of his work on James Cameron's Avatar: Fire and Ash.
Eran Dinur reveals how his team meticulously recreated period accurate crowds in Tokyo and Wembley while keeping the digital work entirely invisible. For Eran, the ultimate compliment is a viewer who walks out of the theater believing every single frame was captured in camera.
Wētā FX's work in Predator: Badlands included the emotive animation for young Yautja Dek's performance, the terrifying Kalisk creature, weapon effects and digital world-building on Planet Genna and beyond.
Clear Angle Studios discusses photogrammetry booths, LiDAR scans and other capture on big projects. The company is responsible for scans of actors, locations, and props on many big productions. These include, recently, Wicked: For Good, Superman, and Stranger Things season 5.
Cinematographer, Michael Bauman, breaks down how 'One Battle After Another' blends the rich detail of VistaVision with the raw, gritty energy of 1970s cinema.
Ian Failes from befores and afters magazine sits down with Wētā FX senior visual effects supervisor Guy Williams and Wētā FX sequence visual effects supervisor Joanna Davison to discuss the VFX of James Gunn's Superman.