How Spencer Tom went from Campus VFX grad in the Effects Technical Director Program to working at Industrial Light & Magic with credits on Predator: Badlands, Avatar: Fire and Ash, Silo and Invasion.
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Powering a VFX Oscar winner ->
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For 'The Girl Who Cried Pearls', NFB TD Eric Pouliot explains in this new video featured at @beforesmag.bsky.social how the team chose to integrate 3D-generated mouths directly onto the stop-motion puppets, using UV light for tracking.
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Tech news at @beforesmag.bsky.social!
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How a combination of Xsens and volumetric capture was used for the feature film, 'Napes to New York'.
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Tech at @beforesmag.bsky.social: KIRI's New iPhone Update Uses AI To Fix LiDAR’s Quality Limitations --> KIRI is excited to announce KIRI Engine Version 3.14.
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Tech at Befores & Afters: Reallusion iClone 8.53: Advanced Sync For Professional Mocap Workflows -->
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Beyond Limits: How iRender Powers Octane Rendering in 2025 -->
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New tech at Befores & Afters --> The Evolution of 3D Gaussian Splatting in Blender.
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Geoff Hecht on 'Love Is A Championship', and how he used AccuFace and iClone for facial capture and animation.
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See WHAT'S NEW in Reallusion iClone 8.52. Lots of updates for professional animation editing, including AccuPOSE for natural 3D posing.
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The joy of creativity --> Victor Perez on the journey to bring the VFX of 'Naples - New York' to the screen. This new #vfxinsight piece at Befores & Afters goes deep on the work, and includes a ton of fun before/after images and clips.
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