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This month we take you behind the scenes on some impressive VFX projects, starting with Prime Video’s stunning adaptation of the video game series Fallout. We then move on to epic stuntman movie The Fall Guy, and also check in with MPC’s work on Seas

Mark Malinovskiy Unreal Engine, Blender, Cinema 4D, Maya, Quixel Megascans, After Effects, Audition, PureRef "This level was an experimental project and my introduction to Unreal Engine. During the learning process, I mastered the full cycle of game

Chang Jiu Maya, ZBrush, Substance 3D Painter, Marvelous Designer, Photoshop "I've always been eager to create my own original female character. With my experience and improvement in technical skills in recent years, I thought it was time to make her.

Sun Wenjun (AKA FHNT) ZBrush, Blender, Photoshop "Evangelion's Asuka has always been one of my favourite anime characters. After years of contemplation, I felt it was time to start creating my own fan art. I enjoy challenging myself, so this time I w

BASED ON A CONCEPT BY MAKI (artstation.com/artwork/aYD4n9) "This is a project that was originally done for my intermediate project at Think Tank Training Centre. I've always wanted to learn some rigging and animation skills, so I decided to do so wit

Vladimir Manyukhin Photoshop, 3ds Max "The geometry for this artwork was rendered with 3ds Max, while everything else was rendered in Photoshop. I used the matte painting technique to achieve the final result. In this piece, lighting and mood were th

BASED ON A CONCEPT BY SHENYUE YE (artstation.com/artwork/LellLA) Frankie Eaton Unreal Engine, Substance 3D Painter, Marvelous Designer, ZBrush, Maya "Leila is a character I completed as part of an eight-week character creation course by JHill. Making

"Since Hugh Jackman has returned in his iconic role as Wolverine, I've been excited to create this character. For this project, I planned to render in Marmoset Toolbag and ensure that it's compatible with Unreal Engine 5's MetaHuman and hair grooming

SOFTWARE Maya, RenderMan, Photoshop, Nuke, Blender YEAR CREATED 2022 Dimitri, a cookie knight, and his faithful friend Pépite are heading to the cookie King’s castle. He gives them a very important mission: bring back the Princess’s heart and win her

“We started off with something practical, so most of the Vertibird shots we captured with our full drone, and shot a real helicopter taking off and travelling through the Wasteland,” reveals Worth. “We were tracking to a real physical object that mov

Given that the global video games market generated an estimated $184 billion in revenue in 2023 and the global box office $33.9 billion, we won’t be seeing cinematic adaptations going away any time soon. There have been recent breakthroughs on the sm

“The team at Framestore in Montreal were able to build all of our creatures in prep, so we knew spatially what they were going to be,” notes Worth. “My on-set supervisor Grant Everett had done a bunch of work on His Dark Materials for all the polar b

Cyclopes are hard to make believable given their unusual anatomy. “When you really look back in the way visual storytelling has happened for most cyclopes, they look unnatural,” observes Worth. “The eyes are really big, don't have any humanity to the

Bringing cult 1980s TV series The Fall Guy back to life on the big screen was always going to be a challenge in the modern era of CG stunt doubles, not least because the team at Cinesite – whose filmography includes everything from The Witcher to Spa

Practical tips and tutorials from pro artists to improve your CG skills AUTHOR Marcus Whinney Marcus is a senior character and creature artist with more than 10 years of pro experience in film and game design. He has a passion for creature concepting

As artists, we have the fantastic ability to create everything that we can imagine from thin air. Thanks to modern tools such as ZBrush, it’s even more fun to sculpt bizarre monsters and creatures. Bringing our artworks to life with stunning textures

Bifrost for Maya isn’t just an addition to the software; it’s a transformative tool that has been able to redefine the landscape of 3D animation, modelling and effects. With its advanced visual programming capabilities, Bifrost allows artists to push

Most of us think of motion graphics and After Effects in the same breath. Not only has it been the world’s most popular mograph and compositing tool, its timeline style of animation control is similar to our common video editing tools. Other composit

Being able to create well thought-out environment and prop concept artwork is a super valuable skill for video game production. During my experiences in the industry -working as an artist for clients such as Bandai Namco, Grinding Gear Games and Marv

Mike Griggs is a digital content creator with over two decades of experience creating VFX and CGI for a wide range of clients. www.creativebloke.com Glen runs SouthernGFX, a small Cheshire based studio specialising in character and creature design. H

If you’re doing creature and character designs, at some stage you’re going to be asked to create horns. It’s not just dragons that need them; you might need to design a Viking helmet, aliens, real-world animals from a narwhal to a bull, and of course

There are several reasons procedural generation is so powerful and fun. For me it’s mostly because of the freedom you get when the material is ready; you can create infinite variations by changing just a few parameters. The following material for cre

With your model built or downloaded, create a set of cameras that reflect the various angles you want visible in the final Web Viewer. Next, create a Multi-Material and apply it to your model. All of the materials inside the Multi-Material will be vi

Darius Reese, Phoenix I remember the first time it became possible to visualise my 3D models inside a web browser. What was previously a task restricted to dedicated content creation apps was suddenly visible and interactively available inside the sa

News and views from around the international CG community Small-screen VFX is getting, well, big. Not too long ago, delivering an epic sci-fi show based on a huge video game with a judgemental fanbase keen to see their hero ‘done properly’ would send

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