Production & Post
How Scanline VFX recreated the Thames and more for Netflix’s Back in Action
Jan Krupp, VFX supervisor at Scanline VFX, tells TVBEurope how the company created a range of environments for the Netflix film
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Production & Post
Netflix Media Production Suite ‘democratises access’ to innovation
Adopting open standards, the solution aims to provide workflow standardisation, allowing for automation and other innovations across a diverse range of markets
Business
TVBEurope April 2025 issue now available
The "AI issue" takes a look at how AI is reshaping broadcasting, including areas such as sports commentary and archiving and storage, plus we...
Production & Post
Mr Bates vs The Post Office, Baby Reindeer, The Traitors among BAFTA Craft Awards nominations
The teams behind House of the Dragon, Masters of the Air, Silo and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power will compete...
Business
Another VFX company suspends operations
Jellyfish Pictures, which has offices in London and Sheffield, said it has been "battling hard in the face of strong headwinds" over the last...
Artificial Intelligence
Slapshot app makes AI-powered VFX accessible to all
Slapshot aims to make VFX available for a range of users including independent editors, colourists, content creators and established visual effects companies
Business
‘Majority’ of Technicolor UK’s 400+ staff made redundant as administrators officially appointed
The company's administrators said "the economic headwinds which are affecting companies right across the creative industries have proved too challenging to overcome"
Business
Technicolor set to enter administration
Technicolor Creative Studios UK Limited is expected to file for administration today
Production & Post
Neural Performance Toolset, Robbie Williams as an ape, and The Penguin win at VES Awards
The annual awards celebrate global visual effects artists across a wide range of disciplines
Production & Post
Dune: Part Two leads BAFTA Film Awards technical categories
In total, Edward Berger's Conclave received the most nominations and is up for 12 BAFTA Film Awards, followed by Emilia Perez and The Brutalist...
Production & Post
How UNIT created a CG photoreal gorilla for Paramount+ drama Stags
UNIT VFX supervisor Nuno Pereira tells TVBEurope about the work that went into creating an emotive CG gorilla called El Niño
Production & Post
Remembering the legend: how Scanline VFX retold the SENNA story
Craig Wentworth, overall VFX supervisor at Scanline VFX, tells TVBEurope how the spectacular sights and sounds of Formula 1 in the '80s and '90s...
Production & Post
Mapping the great wave: how Lux Aeterna produced data-centric visuals for Tsunami: Race Against Time
VFX house Lux Aeterna used wave height data from the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration for National Geographic's documentary about the 2004 tsunami
Production & Post
Cracking creation: Fun facts from Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
According to co-director Nick Park, the production team "embraced technology" to help create the iconic duo's latest adventure
Production & Post
The security super service provider
Trusted Partner Network president Terri Davies talks to TVBEurope about the importance of collaboration and certification in ensuring security in the media industry
Production & Post
How Rodeo FX blended science fiction and reality for Saudi Odyssey
The advert was worked on by Rodeo FX's teams in Montreal and Paris
People
Meet the… CEO and co-founder
Jon Mason from VFX talent agency Hotspring, tells TVBEurope why the visual effects industry is a perfect blend of art and technology, allowing for...
Production & Post
Taking a bite out of the VFX for Shark Attack 360
Simon Percy from Little Shadow talks to TVBEurope about how the animation studio used a mobile virtual production setup to create a VFX shark...
Production & Post
Watch: How Milk VFX helped create 259 shots for Netflix’s Scoop
The team at Milk had to create and deliver the VFX and environment work for the royal residences featured in the drama from scratch
Production & Post
Water, water everywhere
Vine FX blends practical and CGI elements for ITV's After the Flood, crafting immersive world-building crucial to the post-disaster thriller's authenticity, writes Robert Shepherd
Production & Post
World VFX Day and UpliftHER partner on IWD activities
The speakers will discuss why there are so few women in senior roles, juggling parenthood with a career, LGBTQ+ representation and inclusion, financial literacy,...
Production & Post
UK VFX industry welcomes Budget tax relief
According to UK Screen Alliance estimates, the tax relief changes are likely to stimulate an additional £175 million of VFX work to be performed...
Production & Post
How modern day tech created an age-old monster for Godzilla Minus One
Godzilla Minus One director Takashi Yamazaki explains how Maxon's ZBrush helped create the look of the iconic monster's latest big screen outing
Business
TVBEurope March 2024 issue available to download
The March issue focuses on the on-going move to sustainability in the media technology industry, goes behind the scenes of The Traitors, and discovers...
Production & Post
SCENESIS provides post production services for new film, Ravens
The film is from writer-director Mark Gill and was shot in Tokyo, Japan in October 2023. It chronicles the life of Japanese photographer Masahisa...
Production & Post
Oppenheimer leads BAFTA Film Awards technical category winners
Oppenheimer dominated the night, picking up seven BAFTAs across all categories
Production & Post
Milk officially opens Dublin-based VFX studio, appoints Donal Nolan
The studio's first major project will involve bringing to life prehistoric creatures and environments with high-end VFX for NBC series Surviving Earth
Production & Post
‘Navigating a new methodology’: Painting Practice on the challenge of creating the VFX for Doctor Who’s Wide Blue Yonder
VFX supervisor Dan May tells TVBEurope about the challenge of previsualising the VFX featured in the Doctor Who 60th anniversary special
People
Franck Lambertz appointed head of Rodeo FX’s Paris studio
The studio collaborates with all of Rodeo FX's 900 international artists on productions such as Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon and Monarch: Legacy of Monster...
Production & Post
Anatomy of a murder
Robert Shepherd meets Vinay Chuphal, VFX supervisor on Indian hit Jaane Jaan, who explains how the team at FutureWorks crafted this record-breaking film
Production & Post
Boutique French post house SCENESIS opens doors
The SCENESIS Pictures office includes a CG / VFX open plan area, grading suites, flexi suite, and viewing area
Production & Post
Watch: How Painting Practice created VFX for Doctor Who’s anniversary specials
Painting Practice served as the project's digital art department, delivering concept design, hybrid virtual production previz, post viz, motion graphics and VFX design and...
Production & Post
How BlueBolt went into battle for Ridley Scott’s Napoleon
VFX supervisor Henry Badgett discusses how the company created 126 VFX shots for sequences involving Napoleon’s 1793 Siege of Toulon and his violent suppression...
Virtual Production
An adventure in NearTime: Doctor Who employs Mo-Sys technology for anniversary specials
The project aimed to take pre-visualisations created by Painting Practice in Unreal Engine onto set with the real camera
Production & Post
The trends of 2023: The accessibility of visual effects tools and technology
ACCESS:VFX founder Simon Devereux looks at the drive towards diversity and inclusion in the visual effects industry, and how the industry is becoming democratised...
Business
UK TV and film industry reacts to Autumn Statement
Organisations including the UK Screen Alliance, British Film Commission, BFI and Bectu have reacted to Jeremy Hunt's plan to provide more additional tax relief...
Business
The importance of mentoring at every career level and stage
With statistics suggesting half of women will leave tech-based businesses by age 35, UpliftHER aims to help women elevate their careers by learning together,...
Production & Post
VFX breakdown: How Moonraker created Prototaxities for the BBC’s Earth
Writing exclusively for TVBEurope, Moonraker VFX’s creative director, Graham Stott, provides commentary on a scene from the BBC’s five part Earth series, for which...
Media Management
IaaS: A future-proof solution for media production companies
Sean Baker, managing director at ERA Ltd, explains why media production companies must find faster, more efficient hardware and software systems to support flexible...
Production & Post
A race against time
The team at VFX studio Lux Aeterna was behind the visuals on the glossy BBC Studios documentary series Ancient Powers. The battle was telling...
Artificial Intelligence
Generative AI: ‘neither as revelatory nor as scary’ as first thought
Framestore's chief creative officer Timothy Webber discusses some of the ways Generative AI is already impacting production workflows
Production & Post
Visualising the history of Great Britain in Union with David Olusoga
How the visual effects team at Lux Aeterna used subtle 3D lighting, dust effects, and precise compositions to establish the new visual style of...