Hey Guys, I recently lost a project for a commercial which is going to be shot in a baseball park. Its around 35 seconds with esentially 20 seconds where we need to do some crowd simulation and the rest is standard paint out and 1 shot requires simple screen comp. What would be the ideal VFX cost,project is in new york.

A range would be helpful

⚠️ Unreliable Payments & Vendor Exploitation – A Cautionary Experience with free your mind vfx madrid, Spain ⚠️

We engaged with FYM VFX Madrid & Quexito Films for a VFX project, where they initially delayed payments for months before making a small partial payment to gain confidence. However, after that, they stopped payments entirely and have been unresponsive for over a year, despite multiple follow-ups via emails and messages.

This is not an isolated case—FYM VFX Madrid & Quexito Films have a pattern of engaging vendors, delaying payments, and then completely ghosting them. Multiple vendors and production houses have faced similar issues, with some projects even being abandoned mid-way, causing financial and operational damage to their clients.

We are sharing this fact-based experience to warn other vendors and clients to be cautious while dealing with these companies. Transparency and professionalism are essential in the industry, and businesses should partner with those who honor their commitments.

Vendors & clients—verify payment history and contractual obligations carefully before working with FYM VFX Madrid & Quexito Films.

⚠️ Unreliable Payments & Vendor Exploitation – A Cautionary Experience with free your mind vfx madrid, Spain ⚠️

We engaged with FYM VFX Madrid & Quexito Films for a VFX project, where they initially delayed payments for months before making a small partial payment to gain confidence. However, after that, they stopped payments entirely and have been unresponsive for over a year, despite multiple follow-ups via emails and messages.

This is not an isolated case—FYM VFX Madrid & Quexito Films have a pattern of engaging vendors, delaying payments, and then completely ghosting them. Multiple vendors and production houses have faced similar issues, with some projects even being abandoned mid-way, causing financial and operational damage to their clients.

We are sharing this fact-based experience to warn other vendors and clients to be cautious while dealing with these companies. Transparency and professionalism are essential in the industry, and businesses should partner with those who honor their commitments.

Vendors & clients—verify payment history and contractual obligations carefully before working with FYM VFX Madrid & Quexito Films.

Looks like MPC is still alive.

https://www.mpcvfx.com/en/jobs/

Hello, I have footage of characters smoking cigarettes, but we used prop cigarettes as our actors didn't want to actually smoke.

What's a good method of creating cigarette smoke? Specifically smoke that comes off the cigarette in the scenes and follows hand movements?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Hey guys

i am new to video editing and i was watching this music video from Pashanim (Airberlin) and i was wondering how can i recreate such an effect by myself, what is it called or does someone know how to recreate this in premiere pro?

Thanks in advance!

Hello! I have some footage for a film project where a character turns on a chainsaw and holds it close to another characters head. Of course for safety, we didn't actually have the chainsaw on.

So is there a way to make the chainsaw actually move with VFX? I'm pretty new to VFX work and wanted to see if I can do something like this, so any advice, tips or help would be greatly appreciated!!

I read a whole lot about quadros, and gpus in general, especially the rtxa8000, things used in pro vfx studios for movies. I am very interested in making grandios destruction scenes like in pacific rim/Godzilla/and Man of steel with city wide destruction, and explosions everywhere. It's very juvenile yes, but since I was young I wanted to get into it, but now being an adult I want to fulfill that. Is a 3060 12gb a good place to start and 32gb ddr5 ram?

Just heard that Scanline is shutting down its operations in Germany by the end of this year. Considering the company was founded there, this hits hard.

Can’t say it’s surprising, though. Netflix bought them, and now here we are. First Animal Logic, now Scanline. Netflix’s global restructuring feels like it’s stripping away what made these studios special in the first place.

Really sucks for the teams affected. If you know folks over there, reach out and show some support.

I've completed 2 years of VFX degree at UAL london. I've also got a DPS and over a year experience in industry. Despite this I still want to complete my degree just because. But honestly I'm sick of the UK. I'm interested in transfering University's for the 3rd year. I don't even know where to look. I heard Canada is good for VFX. Any university suggestions? I'm more interested in VFX for live design than TV/film/advertising, but my original course didn't cover this so I don't think I could switch to a course like that. Any suggestions for anything would be fab.

Any helpful tips or tricks on how to grid for a insta360 or something similar? 

Right now I’m thinking to face the one lens parallel to the grid, then rotate it 180 and face the other lens towards the grid. Then just to cover all my bases, rotate it so it’s perpendicular to the grid and do the same? Not sure if catching the seam on the 360 is completely necessary though. 

Any thoughts? Has anyone ever done this before?

I am looking for a vfx artist to do some work on a music video and He sent me this

I am only $50/hour compared to physical post houses. I used to charge over $100 when I owned a post house and had overhead, but now after Covid, I work from home and no overhead.

What is a post house and what is having over head ? Does he mean he doesn’t have the equipment he needs to create something exceptional like he use to ? Like he doesn’t have the proper tools anymore now that he is working from home ?

Actually I am editing for a farewell video, I have clips of several phones casually on park benches, just showing some text about farewell, and the videos are just shot through a phone camera. I need a iPhone (preferably 12) shot too, basically with green screen on its screen so we can edit that later. What we are gonna do is just add the basic message "YOU ARE INVITED" continuously (like what's done in this video with the iPhone, we will just replace the message with the "you are invited", if you can do that already it will be lovely).

The problem arises because we all have androids, the one who's leaving has an iPhone, and he has broken it, I did try to find stock footages of a iPhone with a green screen on a park bench, but no results, either someone's holding it in hand, or it looks too much like a obvious stock footage.. All your helps are really appreciated.. Even if someone can link to a stock footage that matches my need, it would be extremely helpful.

This visual effect, created by Stormvn 3D-CGi on YT, made this cool car crash effect I wanted to recreate for an upcoming film I'm making. Essentially, the car ends up in a rollover crash, and I wanted to show some scenes of it all damaged. I'm wondering how would I go about creating it. Below is the video for reference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBSNPyFNom8

I won't expose my surprising ignorance on this matter...but what do we all think the tariffs will do to motion picture and episodic production and post-production?

Since Disney bought Lucasfilm, they've been using light up props for lightsabers in their movies and shows.
And for that I have a question regarding ignition shots:

How do they paint out the plastic prop blade so only the lightsaber blade is visible?

Here's an example: https://youtu.be/wUGH_wBUQnA?si=RXvpFGAP2bixxzBa&t=13

So judging by the faces getting illuminated in a realistic way, the plastic blade prop must have been there in the raw footage.
But painting it out would be a huge pain, wouldn't it? You'd have to reconstruct parts of the background, the background being the character's faces.

Or do they have a much simpler solution? Any ideas?

I want to work in major VFX studios like ILM as a generalist. In their job posts, minimum 3 years of work experience is required for a intermediate role, 5+ years for a senior role and 7+ years for a lead role. I know it's a competitive field but I was wondering what they are looking for in a generalist demo reel? Do they want to see all epic 3d environment shots from major sci fi blockbusters in a demo reel otherwise I won't stand a chance? I would appreciate it if anyone who landed a generalist gig or actually worked as a generalist in ILM could share some of your experiences and advice.

Anyone who works in this field, can you tell me if it's a good idea to plan to go to college for 3d animation & visual effects? What are the chances of getting a good job and what are the prospects in this niche?

I want to go to an American community college as an f-1 student, but I'm hesitant to choose a direction, out of all the options I like VFX/3D the most, but I'm not sure about a successful future and a high paying job

P.S I would like to work in America after my studies.

can anyone plz composting showreel material / footage share me plz 😔

im wondering why no one is talking about this …

https://www.wetafx.co.nz/articles/weta-fx-appoints-new-ceo

“Wellington, 28 January 2025: Wētā FX today announced the appointment of seasoned VFX executive, Daniel Seah, as their new CEO.

Mr Seah brings a depth of experience in the VFX industry having served as the CEO, Chairman, and Executive Director of major VFX companies for the past 12 years. He has a Master’s Degree of International Politics and Bachelor Degree in Law and has a background in investment banking. “

maybe he should update his Linkedin …

https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-seah-28b62492?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app