James Cameron’s “Avatar: Fire and Ash” was a huge winner at the Visual Effects Society’s VES Awards, which took place on Wednesday night at the Beverly Hilton. “Fire and Ash” won seven awards, ...

In this tutorial, we build an end-to-end visual document retrieval pipeline using ColPali. We focus on making the setup robust by resolving common dependency conflicts and ensuring the environment ...

Visual effects supervisor Baneham and Wētā FX senior effects supervisor Eric Saindon talk to IndieWire's Filmmaker Toolkit podcast about working on James Cameron's 197-minute epic — that has only ...

This video features a handmade wall clock that combines natural elements with clear resin for a striking visual effect. It shows material placement resin pouring and surface finishing. A nature ...

On Tuesday, the visual effects industry’s global honorary society announced the nominees for the 24th Annual VES Awards. Avatar: Fire and Ash emerged as this year's most-nominated project, earning 10 ...

The VES Handbook of Visual Effects, Fourth Edition, includes contributions from 95 visual effects experts and will be published on December 18, 2025 from Routledge. With the Fourth Edition, the VES ...

Learn how to create a glowing light edge rays shine effect in Adobe After Effects. This step-by-step tutorial shows you how to add cinematic lighting and dynamic glow to your videos, perfect for ...

In subreddits and X threads, commenters seem to be railing more and more against terrible visual effects and wondering why modern films and TV shows look so bad. But is that actually true? Let’s flip ...

Todd Vaziri, Compositing Supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic and host of Lighter Darker: The ILM Podcast, recently sat down with Vanity Fair to talk about the subtle yet mind-blowing VFX work that ...