VFX

  • Movie News

Inside the Visual Effects of Succession Season 3 With Phosphene’s Aaron Raff

When you're watching Succession, it probably never crosses your mind that the Roy family's private jets aren't actually flying through the…

2 years ago
  • Movie News

Team Technicolor Shares their Color, Sound, and VFX Secrets

The world of moviemaking is in a constant state of evolution, and the demand for a wider variety of content…

4 years ago
  • Cinematography

Eye Piece: Mirrors, Neon Signs and Other Lighting Tricks Create Disorientation in DP Peter Flinckenberg’s Woodshock

I was not familiar with Kate and Laura Mulleavy’s impressive career in fashion, but from the first minutes of our…

7 years ago
  • Interviews

Luc Besson’s Technology Allergy, Squid Superpowers and a Really Complicated Market: Inside Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is a longtime passion project of French director-writer Luc Besson, known for…

7 years ago
  • How They Did It

How They Did It: Eliza Sherman’s Revenge Made, Then Ripped Off a Prosthetic Arm Without Paying an Arm and a Leg

No-budget indie moviemaking is hard enough as it is, but when you decide to throw in visual effects, it can…

7 years ago
  • Moviemaking

Perfecting Camera Movement, Angles and Lens Type for VFX: An Excerpt From The Filmmaker’s Guide to Visual Effects

With his new book, The Filmmaker's Guide to Visual Effects, Emmy- and VES award-winning visual effects supervisor Eran Dinur takes moviemakers…

7 years ago
  • Moviemaking

How They Did It: To Juice Its UFO Scenes, Phoenix Forgotten Used Air Vacuums, Taxidermied Animals and Other Practical FX

Before directing Phoenix Forgotten, I started out my career as a graphics guy, doing titles and animation with Adobe After…

7 years ago
  • Cinematography

One-Stop Shop: Low-Budget Horror Feature American Gothic Made Blackmagic Design Work Three Times Over

This post was sponsored by Blackmagic Design. The lives of two convicts, Nick and Guy, are turned upside down when…

7 years ago
  • MM Guide 2017

Getting A+ VFX: How Top-Notch Visual Effects Can Make Your Indie Feature Dazzling

The average indie moviemaker: “Visual effects? Not on my budget.” Not so fast. Independent features can make the most of…

7 years ago
  • Other

Stunts on a Budget: Basic Tips for Directing Indie Stunts, From the Director of Game of Aces

Are you afraid of attempting stunts on your shoestring budget? Don't be. Stunts are exciting to craft, awesome to shoot…

8 years ago
  • Cinematography

Basic Training as a Wake-Up Call: Tom Antos’ 2Day Cine School

Earlier this month I had the pleasure of attending the 2Day Cine School with Tom Antos in Houston. After about 90…

8 years ago
  • Cinematography
  • Directing
  • Inside MM - Directing
  • Spring 2015

Intelligent Artifice: Alex Garland’s Smart, Stylish Ex Machina

Well before Alex Garland became the acclaimed writer of 28 Days Later, Sunshine and Never Let Me Go—some of the…

9 years ago
  • MM Guide 2013
  • Other

Cheap Effects: Ways to Pull Off Impressive FX in a Pinch

When it comes to a movie of any budget, good storytelling is always key. Sometimes, though, part of that storytelling…

11 years ago
  • Things Learned

Things I’ve Learned: Chris Weitz’s Golden Rules of Filmmaking

This week, our Things I've Learned come from the Hollywood jack-of-all-trades that is Chris Weitz. The consummate professional reminds fellow moviemakers…

11 years ago