VFX Engine Weekly | |  | | CoSA VFX · Lanterns · 1 minute 57 seconds |
| Three studio breakdowns, practical AI cleanup, and an artist reel. | | | Before / after · CoSA VFX | Lanterns gave Aaron Pierre a CG beard | CoSA added Aaron Pierre's beard digitally and turned Los Angeles locations into Nebraska. Watch the environment swaps, then spot the character detail near the end. ▶ Watch the 1:57 breakdown | | | AI in production · October 26 · Lux Aeterna Keep the real light. Train away the markers. For RENO, Lux Aeterna trained Nuke CopyCat on hand-cleaned frames to remove orb tracking markers. Vicon supplied 3D tracking, including off-screen motion. See the CopyCat breakdown → | AI VFX · Open beta · Foundry  | AI enters the Nuke graph |
| Before / after · Image Engine  The frog that spits Grogu back outImage Engine's 154-shot contribution includes a giant frog. Watch the transition from the photographed world to the CG creature. ▶ Watch on YouTube |
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Inside the workflow · Foundry  Pixar takes Toy Story 5 through NukeVFX supervisor Thomas Jordan walks through Pixar's Katana, Nuke and USD workflow. A look inside the pipeline behind the finished frames. ▶ Watch on YouTube | From the platform 1,035 open VFX roles on the platform Filter by craft, studio, country, or salary. Updated daily. |
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| ▸ Reel of the week |  | Character and creature modeling. Look for the sculpted cat and the frog reference-to-model comparison. |
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