I hadn’t sent an Instagram story (or IG story) in over a year (an unforgivable lapse for a filmmaker in the content business). As I planned my triumphant return, I sat mesmerized, watching the loop ...

Think virtual production is the preserve of James Cameron? The confluence of games engines with faster PCs, LED backlots and off-the-shelf tools for anything from performance capture to virtual camera ...

VFX professional Kert Gartner has been pioneering new ways to make capturing virtual worlds as compelling as filming in the real world. His latest technique makes a real virtual camera out of an extra ...

When a movie is more CG than it is real — think movies like Avatar or any of Pixar’s stuff, where all or nearly all of the environment is rendered — a new challenge appears: the camera. Getting a fake ...

Game researchers at the University of Abertay Dundee have developed a virtual camera based on the same techniques pioneered in James Cameron’s Avatar movie for less than $200. The new method of ...

James Cameron is famous for the highly inventive tools he uses to make his movies, and the what it took to make Avatar: The Way of Water is no different. In an exclusive video shared with Polygon, the ...