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‘Shadow and Bone’ VFX Supe Ante Dekovic Guides Us Through the Magic and Monsters of S2

Trevor Hogg - March 20, 2023

To ground her storytelling while bringing something new to the fantasy genre, novelist Leigh Bardugo combined the elemental magic of Avatar: The Last Airbender...

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Visualizing a Magnificent Nervous Breakdown in ‘Bardo’

Trevor Hogg - February 24, 2023

A Mexican-born, Los Angeles based journalist and documentarian Silverio Gama (Daniel Giménez Cacho) goes through a visually arresting existential crisis in Bardo, False Chronicle...

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‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Director James Cameron & VFX Team Dive into Pandora’s Magic

Trevor Hogg - January 3, 2023

***This article originally appeared in the February '23 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 327)*** Watching the Hollywood blockbusters of James Cameron, it is not hard...

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‘Black Adam’ VFX Supe Bill Westenhofer on Creating a New Big Screen Antihero

Trevor Hogg - December 9, 2022

***This article originally appeared in the January '23 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 326)*** A passion project long in development for action star Dwayne Johnson,...

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The Year’s Top VFX Oscar Contenders

Trevor Hogg - December 5, 2022

***This article originally appeared in the January '23 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 326)*** December marks moviegoers’ return to Pandora after a 13-year absence, which...

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‘Slumberland’: VFX Supe Adrian de Wet on Updating Little Nemo for the 21st Century

Trevor Hogg - November 18, 2022

***This article originally appeared in the December ’22 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 325)*** In his fifth outing with filmmaker Francis Lawrence, visual effects supervisor...

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‘The Rings of Power’: The VFX of a Dazzling Return to Middle-earth

Trevor Hogg - October 30, 2022

***This article originally appeared in the December '22 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 325)*** With a reported production budget of $465 million, Amazon Studios' blockbusters...

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‘The Woman King’ VFX Supe Sara Bennett Details the True Story’s Meticulously Researched Visuals

Trevor Hogg - September 29, 2022

If you thought that the Dora Milaje of Wakanda did not have a real-life counterpart, then the recently released feature The Woman King directed...

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What Dreams Are Made Of: Neil Gaiman and ‘The Sandman’ VFX Team Spill the Show’s Visual Secrets

Trevor Hogg - August 29, 2022

***This article originally appeared in the Sept./Oct. '22 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 323)*** In 1989, celebrated fantasy author and comic-book writer Neil Gaiman (American...

Features

It’s Hammer Time, Again! VFX Supe Jake Morrison Takes Us Behind the Scenes of ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’

Trevor Hogg - July 28, 2022

***This article originally appeared in the August '22 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 322) *** After achieving box office and comedic success with Thor:...

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Exclusive: How the ‘Stranger Things’ VFX Team Conjured More Demons for Season 4

Trevor Hogg - July 5, 2022

***This article originally appeared in the 35th Anniversary Issue of Animation Magazine (June-July '22, No. 321)*** The VFX artists working on the fourth season of the hit...

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Exclusive: ‘Jurassic World Dominon’ VFX Supe David Vickery Unleashes the Dinosaurs Again

Trevor Hogg - July 5, 2022

***This article originally appeared in the 35th Anniversary issue of Animation Magazine (June-July '22, No. 321)*** Twenty-eight years after the release of Steven Spielberg’s ground-breaking movie Jurassic...

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‘The Batman’: Re-Imagining the Dark Knight with VFX Supe Dan Lemmon

Trevor Hogg - April 18, 2022

***This article originally appeared in the May '22 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 320)*** Ever since his remake of Swedish vampire tale Let the Right...

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Simulating an Imperfect Reality: VFX Supe Dan Glass Details ‘The Matrix Resurrections’

Trevor Hogg - February 21, 2022

***This article originally appeared in the March '22 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 318)*** With the current advances in virtual reality, real-time rendering and AI,...

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‘Moonfall’: Roland Emmerich & VFX Supe Peter Travers Discuss Their Latest Disaster Epic

Trevor Hogg - February 15, 2022

***This article was written for the April '22 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 319)*** During the mid-1960s and early 1970s, the Moon was the center...

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‘Nightmare Alley’: Dennis Berardi on Crafting a Carnival of Souls for del Toro’s Noir Showpiece

Trevor Hogg - December 20, 2021

***This article was written for the February '22 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 317)*** Nightmare Alley is a departure of sorts for fantasy-horror master Guillermo...

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An Early Look at the VFX Oscar Race

Trevor Hogg - December 10, 2021

***This article originally appeared in the January '22 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 316)*** With no magical crystal ball available and lacking the ability to...

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Conjuring Visual Magic: ‘The Wheel of Time’ Delivers an Epic Fantasy in VFX

Trevor Hogg - December 3, 2021

The team behind the new adaptation of Robert Jordan’s fantasy series The Wheel of Time are hoping to capture the magic of other epic...

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A Monster Evolves: Upping the Visual Ante in ‘Venom: Let There Be Carnage’

Trevor Hogg - October 28, 2021

***This article originally appeared in the December '21 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 315)*** One of the benefits of producing a sequel is that the...

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Neill Blomkamp’s ‘Demonic’: Possessed by New Technologies

Trevor Hogg - September 7, 2021

***This article originally appeared in the Sept./Oct. '21 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 313)*** Acclaimed filmmaker Neill Blomkamp (District 9) goes beyond his usual realm...

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