# vfx (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 8 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover vfx. Page: Feed: --- ## [See how Vine FX created 150 VFX shots for Enola Holmes 3](https://www.cgchannel.com/2026/08/see-how-vine-fx-created-150-vfx-shots-for-enola-holmes-3/) _2026-08-20 · Jim Thacker · CG Channel_ See a VFX breakdown for the Victorian era mystery drama, from subtle invisible effects to creative sequences visualizing Enola's thoughts. ## [Emmy-Nominated Your Friends & Neighbors Showrunner Talks Workflow](https://postperspective.com/emmy-nominated-your-friends-neighbors-showrunner-talks-shoot-and-post/) _2026-08-19 · Randi Altman · postPerspective_ By Iain Blair Your Friends & Neighbors, a black comedy/crime drama about the ultra-rich, was created by author Jonathan Tropper, who also serves as showrunner, director and executive producer. It stars Jon Hamm as Andrew “Coop” Cooper, a wealthy, divorced New York hedge-fund manager who, The post Emmy-Nominated \Your Friends & Neighbors\ Showrunner Talks Workflow appeared first on… ## [Scantic trains 3D Gaussian Splats entirely on your phone](https://www.cgchannel.com/2026/08/scantic-trains-gaussian-splats-entirely-on-your-phone/) _2026-08-19 · Jim Thacker · CG Channel_ New iOS app generates 3DGS scans of objects and environments entirely on your phone, without cloud processing. The base app is free. [Listen](https://www.cgchannel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/260819_Scantic_FreeGaussianSplatiPhoneApp_tw.mp4) ## [See how Storm Studios created its VFX for Season 2 of Percy Jackson](https://www.cgchannel.com/2026/08/see-storm-studios-vfx-breakdown-for-season-2-of-percy-jackson/) _2026-08-19 · Jim Thacker · CG Channel_ Discover how the studio created custom solvers to attach CG barnacles to the surface of the Sirens for the fantasy TV series. ## [CreativeRates tells you how much other people are earning in VFX](https://www.cgchannel.com/2026/08/creativerates-tells-you-how-much-other-people-are-earning-in-vfx/) _2026-08-19 · Jim Thacker · CG Channel_ New site shows real-world pay data for jobs in VFX, animation, games and motion graphics, submitted anonymously by other users. ## [Colorist Chat: Studio RM Colorist Juliette ‘Jules’ Wileman](https://postperspective.com/studio-rm-colorist-jules-wileman/) _2026-08-18 · Randi Altman · postPerspective_ Juliette “Jules” Wileman is a London-based colorist at Studio RM , a color grading and post studio for film, print and digital. Since 2010, Studio RM has discovered and collaborated with new and established artists from around the world. The studio has studios in London, Paris and New York. The post Colorist Chat: Studio RM Colorist Juliette ‘Jules’ Wileman appeared first on postPerspective . ## [Emmy: Gustav Danielson on Shooting Final Battle for HBO’s Seven Kingdoms](https://postperspective.com/emmy-dp-gustav-danielson-talks-battle-climax-in-hbos-a-knight-of-the-seven-kingdoms/) _2026-08-18 · Randi Altman · postPerspective_ HBO’s A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms , a prequel to Game of Thrones , is set about 100 years before the original Game of Thrones series and about 100 years after House of the Dragon . The series follows Dunk (Peter Claffey), The post Emmy: Gustav Danielson on Shooting Final Battle for HBO’s \Seven Kingdoms\ appeared first on postPerspective . ## [Arts Academy Promotes Charlee Mackey to Editorial Roster](https://postperspective.com/arts-academy-promotes-charlee-mackey-to-editorial-roster/) _2026-08-18 · Randi Altman · postPerspective_ Post collective Arts Academy has promoted Charlee Mackey to its editorial roster. Mackey has been a longtime Arts Academy collaborator, and this promotion marks her first official representation as an editor following nearly four years with the company. She has a growing body of work for brands including Visa, The post Arts Academy Promotes Charlee Mackey to Editorial Roster appeared first on… ## [Check out benuts’ 1980s-tastic VFX breakdown for Police Flash 80](https://www.cgchannel.com/2026/08/check-out-benuts-1980s-tastic-vfx-breakdown-for-police-flash-80/) _2026-08-18 · Jim Thacker · CG Channel_ Check out benuts' VFX breakdown for the cop comedy - from stunts and gunfire to an eye-replacement for a cartoon aubergine costume. ## [ArtDeck is a new alternative to PureRef that supports video](https://www.cgchannel.com/2026/08/artdeck-is-a-new-alternative-to-pureref-that-supports-video/) _2026-08-18 · Jim Thacker · CG Channel_ $6 app collects visual reference for art, animation and motion graphics projects into organized boards, and can import and step through videos. ## [Open coordination for humans & AI (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/DpN26RNrmBAY) _2026-08-18 · **Sponsored**_ Shared schemas and CLI tooling to validate, route, and audit human-agent workflows. ## [Colorist Kalvin Johnson Joins Remote Grading Company Colornation](https://postperspective.com/colorist-kalvin-johnson-joins-remote-grading-company-colornation/) _2026-08-17 · Randi Altman · postPerspective_ Colornation , a remote color grading company founded by post veteran Reid Brody, has expanded its roster with the addition of colorist Kalvin Johnson, whose commercial portfolio includes work for Apple, Nike, and numerous other global brands. Johnson recently completed color correction work on a new campaign for Bissell, The post Colorist Kalvin Johnson Joins Remote Grading Company Colornation… ## [ARRI Partners With Honor on Robot Phone for Content Creators](https://postperspective.com/arri-partners-with-honor-on-robot-phone-for-content-creators/) _2026-08-17 · Randi Altman · postPerspective_ Honor has launched the Robot Phone, which it is calling a new species of smartphone that integrates key elements of ARRI Image Science and carries the “co-engineered with ARRI” designation. The product is the first commercial outcome of the companies’ Cinematic Imaging Partnership and brings ARRI’s established imaging expertise into mobile content creation. The post ARRI Partners With Honor on… ## [Video Village Partners With Node Mill on LensNode 2 Lens-Simulation Plugin](https://postperspective.com/video-village-partners-with-node-mill-on-lensnode-2-lens-simulation-plugin/) _2026-08-17 · Randi Altman · postPerspective_ Video Village has partnered with Node Mill to distribute LensNode, a lens-simulation plugin for shaping the optical characteristics of images. Under the agreement, LensNode is now available exclusively through Video Village, which will handle purchasing, licensing, installation and updates through its Video Village Plugins app. Node Mill developers Elliott Nieves and Jarrad Russell will continue… ## [See ReDefine’s VFX breakdown of Indian war drama Ikkis](https://www.cgchannel.com/2026/08/see-redefines-vfx-breakdown-of-indian-war-drama-ikkis/) _2026-08-17 · Jim Thacker · CG Channel_ Check out ReDefine's making-of for the tank combat sequences, some visceral, recreating events from the 1971 India-Pakistan war. ## [New CG software you may have missed: 16 August 2026](https://www.cgchannel.com/2026/08/new-cg-software-you-may-have-missed-16-august-2026/) _2026-08-17 · Jim Thacker · CG Channel_ See the week's other updates to CG tools, like V-Ray 7.4 for Cinema 4D, Storm HydroFX 1.5, and free motion graphics tool Autograph 2026.1. [Listen](https://www.cgchannel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/260816_NewCGSoftwareYouMayHaveMissed_16August2026_Autograph20261_tw.mp4) ## [How to Use Three.JS's new Native Gaussian Splats](https://ben3d.ca/blog/how-to-use-threejs-native-gaussian-splats) _2026-08-17 · Ben Houston's Website_ How to use Three.js's native Gaussian Splatting support (GaussianSplatMesh, SPZLoader) — loading .spz/.ksplat/.splat/glTF splats, picking a file format, and a full capture-to-render workflow with Polycam, Luma AI, and SuperSplat. ## [Tutorial: Tracking & Compositing VFX for Film & TV](https://www.cgchannel.com/2026/08/tutorial-tracking-compositing-vfx-for-film-tv/) _2026-08-15 · Jim Thacker · CG Channel_ Master common real-world production workflows with The Gnomon Workshop's essential new visual effects tutorial. ## [How Dupp Film created a hybrid CG mermaid for Summer of 1985](https://www.cgchannel.com/2026/08/how-dupp-film-created-a-hybrid-cg-mermaid-for-summer-of-1985/) _2026-08-14 · Jim Thacker · CG Channel_ VFX Supervisor Anders Nyman reveals how the unsettling creature from the TV series was created via a mix of practical and CG effects. ## [Neural appearance models in Three.js](https://ben3d.ca/blog/neural-appearance) _2026-08-14 · Ben Houston's Website_ A material lives in a small learned latent texture and a shared decoder MLP instead of hand-authored PBR channels. This walks the whole system — why conventional mipmapping breaks, the auto-decoder architecture, distillation from a MaterialX teacher, hand-written WGSL backpropagation, the runtime, and what still doesn't work. ## [Dalet Intros Cloud-Native Suites for Media Production and Archive](https://postperspective.com/dalet-intros-cloud-native-suites-for-media-production-and-archive/) _2026-08-13 · Randi Altman · postPerspective_ Dalet , a technology and service provider for media-rich organizations, has launched Dalet Solution Suites , a portfolio of cloud-native solutions that helps organizations produce, distribute, manage and archive media. Built on its Dalet Flex media asset management platform, the suites feature preconfigured workflows, media-aware intelligence and automation for Production and Distribution and… ## [Privacy-first AI-native browser (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Ln74cwRzUcOq) _2026-08-13 · **Sponsored**_ No telemetry or ads — built on Ungoogled Chromium with a built-in AI sidebar and CLI. ## [Director Destin Daniel Cretton Talks Spider-Man: Brand New Day](https://postperspective.com/director-destin-daniel-cretton-talks-spider-man-brand-new-day/) _2026-08-13 · Randi Altman · postPerspective_ By Iain Blair It’s been five years since Spider-Man swung his way around New York fighting crime and saving the world. Now he’s back in Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: Brand New Day . It’s an apt title because, while it again stars Tom Holland in his fourth outing as the superhero, The post Director Destin Daniel Cretton Talks \Spider-Man: Brand New Day\ appeared first on postPerspective . ## [Emmy-Nominated Editor Russell Griffin Talks Cutting Comedy Leanne](https://postperspective.com/emmy-nominated-editor-russell-griffin-talks-cutting-comedy-leanne/) _2026-08-10 · Randi Altman · postPerspective_ By Randi Altman The Netflix comedy Leanne follows Leanne (Leanne Morgan), whose husband of more than 30 years leaves her for another woman. Devastated, Leanne leans on her free-spirited sister, Carol (Kristen Johnston), while also trying to keep up appearances for her children and parents. The show is co-written and co-executive produced by Chuck Lorre ( Two and a Half Men , The post… ## [Adding Native Gaussian Splatting Support to Three.js](https://ben3d.ca/blog/gaussian-splatting-for-threejs) _2026-08-07 · Ben Houston's Website_ How I added Gaussian Splatting to Three.js with WebGPU, TSL, a reusable GPU counting sort, SPZ v3/v4 and interoperability loaders, and SH1-SH3 view-dependent color. ## [Strawberry Mansion Forwards and Backwards](https://personhouse.substack.com/p/strawberry-mansion-forwards-and-backwards) _2026-08-06 · Albert Birney · Person House is Making Movies_ Remember 15 years ago when someone made an experimental version of “The Shining” that played the movie forwards and backwards at the same time? ## [The Secrets of Strawberry Mansion: A Field Guide](https://personhouse.substack.com/p/the-secrets-of-strawberry-mansion) _2026-07-23 · Person House is Making Movies · Person House is Making Movies_ As I’ve mentioned recently, I am surprised and invigorated by how many people still watch and discuss our film, “Strawberry Mansion,” and how many people list it as one of their four favorite films on Letterboxd (almost 1,000!) It’s good to know there are still people out there who are entertained by a man in a paper mache frog mask playing the saxophone or by a cute turtle named Sugar Baby eating… ## [Reporting Web 3D Capabilities on a Budget of $3 a Month](https://ben3d.ca/blog/reporting-web-3d-capabilities-on-a-budget) _2026-07-19 · Ben Houston's Website_ The architecture behind Web3DSurvey, two Cloud Run services, a partitioned BigQuery store, and a transparent JSON cache that let me report real-world WebGL and WebGPU support for a few dollars a month. ## [Rendering Real-Time 3D Before GPUs](https://ben3d.ca/blog/rendering-real-time-3d-before-gpus) _2026-07-17 · Ben Houston's Website_ How I built real-time 3D rendering on a slow 486 with only 256 colors in VGA Mode 13h, using fixed-point math, palette quantization, matcap-style Phong lighting, and x86 assembly. ## [React Native in 2026](https://ben3d.ca/blog/react-native-in-2026) _2026-07-16 · Ben Houston's Website_ React Native is an excellent development platform again. Here is what changed since AirBNB moved off of it in 2018, how its New Architecture works, and where the Expo framework fits in. ## [React Native in 2026](https://ben3d.ca/blog/react-native-in-2026) _2026-07-16 · Ben Houston's Website_ React Native is an excellent development platform again. Here is what changed since AirBNB moved off of it in 2018, how its New Architecture works, and where the Expo framework fits in. ## [React Native in 2026](https://ben3d.ca/blog/react-native-in-2026) _2026-07-16 · Ben Houston's Website_ React Native is an excellent development platform again. Here is what changed since AirBNB moved off of it in 2018, how its New Architecture works, and where the Expo framework fits in. ## [AI publishing with human taste (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Drypu07WGK7q) _2026-07-15 · **Sponsored**_ Convert AI research into blogs, podcasts, and newsletters with optional human review. ## [You Might Be a Consulting Company With Good Tools](https://ben3d.ca/blog/consulting-company-with-good-tools) _2026-07-15 · Ben Houston's Website_ Many founders believe they are running a SaaS company when they are running a consulting company with good internal tools. If your team uses the platform to deliver work for clients who never log in, you are the latter, and that changes how you should hire, price, and focus. ## [Web 3D Survey v2](https://ben3d.ca/blog/web-3d-survey-v2) _2026-07-12 · Ben Houston's Website_ Web 3D Survey v2 rebuilds the site on TanStack Start, adds homepage support summaries, WGSL and adapter reporting, browser capability stats, and a live /machine report. ## [A Breakdown of the Practical VFX in "Strawberry Mansion" | Part 2](https://personhouse.substack.com/p/a-breakdown-of-the-practical-vfx-ba7) _2026-07-09 · Albert Birney · Person House is Making Movies_ Here is the second part of our VFX breakdown for our movie “Strawberry Mansion”. ## [A Breakdown of the Practical VFX in "Strawberry Mansion" | Part 1](https://personhouse.substack.com/p/a-breakdown-of-the-practical-vfx) _2026-07-02 · Albert Birney · Person House is Making Movies_ We didn’t have millions of dollars to make Strawberry Mansion. ## [Resurrecting Memories From The Digital Graveyard](https://personhouse.substack.com/p/resurrecting-memories-from-the-digital) _2026-06-24 · Albert Birney · Person House is Making Movies_ How a decade of forgotten footage became a 60 minute ambient dreamscape ## [Adventures in Fluid Simulation](https://ben3d.ca/blog/fluid-simulation-adventures) _2026-06-22 · Ben Houston's Website_ I spent ten years building fluid simulation tools for VFX: a three-day Stable Fluids prototype, sparse level sets for Scooby-Doo 2, tetrahedral and vortex solvers at Exocortex, and three pieces of my software on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. ## [Frameworks vs. Toolkits for Multi-Market SaaS](https://ben3d.ca/blog/framework-vs-toolkit-saas) _2026-06-22 · Ben Houston's Website_ Why SaaS products that stretch one opinionated framework across multiple markets often become harder to use, and why scalable multi-market products separate universal toolkit primitives from market-specific frameworks. ## [Adventures in Fluid Simulation](https://ben3d.ca/blog/fluid-simulation-adventures) _2026-06-22 · Ben Houston's Website_ I spent ten years building fluid simulation tools for VFX: a three-day Stable Fluids prototype, sparse level sets for Scooby-Doo 2, tetrahedral and vortex solvers at Exocortex, and three pieces of my software on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. ## [Adventures in Fluid Simulation](https://ben3d.ca/blog/fluid-simulation-adventures) _2026-06-22 · Ben Houston's Website_ I spent ten years building fluid simulation tools for VFX: a three-day Stable Fluids prototype, sparse level sets for Scooby-Doo 2, tetrahedral and vortex solvers at Exocortex, and three pieces of my software on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. ## [My Dad, an Apple IIe and a Stack of Nibble Magazines](https://ben3d.ca/blog/how-my-dad-got-me-started-in-computer-graphics) _2026-06-21 · Ben Houston's Website_ My dad bought an Apple IIe and a stack of Nibble Magazines. This was the start of my career in computer graphics. ## [Optimizing TanStack Start for Cloud Run](https://ben3d.ca/blog/optimizing-tanstack-start-for-cloud-run) _2026-06-20 · Ben Houston's Website_ TanStack Start runs on Nitro, and Nitro's default Node output can split server code across many files. On Google Cloud Run, that file fan-out can add seconds to cold starts. Bundling the server and pre-warming Node's compile cache reduced first render time on this site. ## [Episode 2: Making of "The Stone Balloon"](https://personhouse.substack.com/p/episode-2-making-of-the-stone-balloon) _2026-06-18 · Person House is Making Movies · Person House is Making Movies_ Hi there—first of all, we’d love to send you a postcard! ## [A Solution to Rampant Token Theft: Proof of Possession](https://ben3d.ca/blog/proof-of-possession-api-tokens) _2026-06-14 · Ben Houston's Website_ Static API keys in environment variables and files are too easy to steal. A better model is proof-of-possession, where every API call must be signed by a non-exportable private key that is available only through a constrained signing interface. ## [Core to Core: How I Went from Mumblecore to Dreamcore](https://personhouse.substack.com/p/core-to-core-how-i-went-from-mumblecore) _2026-06-11 · Person House is Making Movies · Person House is Making Movies_ We’ve been getting a lot of notifications of late—apparently there’s a new wave of TikTok videos and Reddit threads listing “Strawberry Mansion” as an example of something called dreamcore. ## [React Internals](https://ben3d.ca/blog/react-internals) _2026-06-10 · Ben Houston's Website_ Understand what React is doing when your components render, pause, skip work, commit to different hosts, hydrate server HTML, split work with Server Components, and hand animation off between frames. ## [Introducing vitest-command-line](https://ben3d.ca/blog/introducing-vitest-command-line) _2026-06-10 · Ben Houston's Website_ Testing command-line tools is deceptively hard - hanging processes, lost stderr, temp file juggling, and unreadable failures. I built vitest-command-line to make CLI testing in Vitest simple and robust. ## [React Internals](https://ben3d.ca/blog/react-internals) _2026-06-10 · Ben Houston's Website_ Understand what React is doing when your components render, pause, skip work, commit to different hosts, hydrate server HTML, split work with Server Components, and hand animation off between frames. ## [React Internals](https://ben3d.ca/blog/react-internals) _2026-06-10 · Ben Houston's Website_ Understand what React is doing when your components render, pause, skip work, commit to different hosts, hydrate server HTML, split work with Server Components, and hand animation off between frames. ## [React Server Components](https://ben3d.ca/blog/react-server-components) _2026-06-09 · Ben Houston's Website_ Part 7 of the React Internals series. React Server Components split a tree into server-only and client-interactive pieces, serialize the server result as an RSC payload, and still rely on SSR and hydration for the Client Components that reach the browser. ## [React Server Components](https://ben3d.ca/blog/react-server-components) _2026-06-09 · Ben Houston's Website_ Part 7 of the React Internals series. React Server Components split a tree into server-only and client-interactive pieces, serialize the server result as an RSC payload, and still rely on SSR and hydration for the Client Components that reach the browser.