By TREVOR HOGG Images courtesy of Digital Domain and Warner Bros. Pictures. Bringing the paranormal investigative stories of the Ed and Lorraine Warren full circle is the haunting that started everything reemerging in The Conjuring: Last Rites under the direction of Michael Chaves and starring Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Mia Thomlinson and Ben Hardy. Brought [...]

By TREVOR HOGG Images courtesy of MAPPA. In most cases, an anime project is based on an original manga, but MAPPA decided to take a different approach from Chainsaw Man and Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku and come up with their own IP called Zenshu. The title translates to ‘redo everything,’ which is a term often used [...]

By TREVOR HOGG Ingenuity Studios provided and coordinated the visual effects work for the music video for “My Universe” by Coldplay + BTS, with contributions from AMGI, BUF, Rodeo VFX and Territory Studio. (Image courtesy of Ingenuity Studios) Seen as a breeding ground for celebrated filmmakers such as David Fincher, Spike Jonze and the Daniels [...]

By CHRIS McGOWAN Daredevil, Colossus and other Marvel characters in the Electric Theatre Coke commercial bridged high-end visual effects and classic comic book art.(Image courtesy of Coca-Cola and Marvel Comics) It’s not just advances in traditional VFX software that are transforming advertising, it’s the rise of emerging technologies like generative AI that is reshaping the [...]

By TREVOR HOGG Images courtesy of Disney Enterprises. Practical Light Cycles were built with LED light strips, which allowed for scenes in the real world to have the proper reflections and refractions. As much as Tron was prescient in regards to the technological and societal impact of computers, the growing debate over the application and [...]