DNEG's Coyote vs. ACME Breakdown | VFX Engine Weekly

This week is for watching the work happen: a cartoon coyote entering live action, a dinosaur built for suburban streets, and a CG bear against an alternate space race.

DNEG puts Wile E. Coyote into live action

DNEG's new breakdown jumps from gray character passes to finished shots in Coyote vs. ACME. The studio built toon line controls to tune outline thickness and taper, helping its CG Coyote keep the drawn character's silhouette in photographed scenes.

Watch for: how the line treatment and shading change between the desert, props and live-action road shots.

ILM creature work in The End of Oak Street

ILM shows the Spinosaur behind The End of Oak Street

A new featurette puts ILM's creature in the middle of a suburban street. ILM visual effects supervisor Jay Cooper also shows the augmented reality tool used to place and view the dinosaur during production.

Framestore: Star City VFX breakdown

Framestore builds a bear and a space race

Framestore breaks down its work on Star City: a fully CG bear, a rebuilt Baikonur Cosmodrome, CG N1 and Soyuz rockets, and launch simulations. Watch the scale shift from creature close-up to vast flight hardware.

Rodeo FX 20-year legacy reel

Rodeo FX cuts 20 years into one reel

The Montreal studio's anniversary reel moves through work on Game of Thrones, Dune, Stranger Things and Blade Runner. A fast visual tour of environments, creatures and effects.

These reels put the intermediate frames back in view. The coyote's outline, a creature's scale and a rocket launch all depend on choices that disappear in the final composite. Those are the frames worth pausing.