Insights

Behind the scenes with the artists, studios and tech shaping the future of VFX and animation.

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Artist Spotlights

Artist Spotlight: Raine Anderson

How Mari and Katana pair perfectly for Raine Anderson’s look development efforts.

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Product Focus

Bringing you the tech of tomorrow for over 20 years

How Foundry has kept one eye on the future, so artists can keep both on being creative.

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Studio Stories

The de-aging of Hollywood: How deepfakes are keeping us young

Deepfakes, de-aging, and its effect on the VFX industry.

Artist Spotlight

Artist Spotlights

In the spotlight: Christophe Brejon

Lighting Artist, Christophe Brejon, talks to us about his career, his new book and the lowdown on Foundry’s top VFX trends.

Be transported into new virtual worlds with AR portals

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Be transported into new virtual worlds with AR portals

In this article, we explore the latest augmented reality trend, AR portals, and how it can take you anywhere, from fictional worlds to outer space

Trends 2019

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A wrap-up of 2019’s top trends for the VFX industry

As 2019 comes to a close, we look back at how the big trends this year have evolved—and where they’re headed.

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Studio Stories

Cooking up a slow turkey with The Mill, Mari and Nuke

We caught up with The Mill to talk all things turkey and how they perfected their virtual bird

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Wargaming

Studio Stories

Creating a ‘beast made of steel’ for Sabaton with Foundry tools

Discover how The Agency of Wargaming used Nuke, Mari and Modo to support Swedish metal—and tell the epic tale of Bismarck

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Dev and lighting trends 2020

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Five look development and lighting trends to watch out for in 2020

From cloud rendering to USD: the hot topics set to shape your landscape next year

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Studio Stories

Unleashing your full potential as a texture artist

Framstore’s Head of Texturing, Michael Borhi, reveals the one skill you need to become a better texture artist.

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Blog

Artist's eye - Putting the Painter Back in Texture Painter

Raine Anderson, ILM Texture Supervisor, investigates the key to becoming a better texture painter

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Space Film and TV made with Nuke X

Careers

Citipati: from student project to VES Award-winner

This past February, Filmakademie student Andreas Feix won the VES Award for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Student Project for his short film Citipati.

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