Breakdown reels and studio showreels posted here between 2007 and 2022. Each entry keeps the date it was first published and links out to the video.
Part of the VFX Breakdown Archives. 33 entries on this page.
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- CG Baby in Children of Men
- ILM Developed New Fluid Simulation Tools for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
- Sci-fi Monsters Movie Made For about $15,000
- ILM Talks About The Visual FX of Star Trek
- Compilation of Green Screen Use in Movies
- Hereafter Visual Fx Breakdown Reel
- The Walking Dead Visual FX
- The Visual Effects of Looper
- Look VFX Gore Enhancement Visual FX Reel
- ILM’s Battleship Visual Fx Showreel
- Incredible CG Eagle Attack Video Fools The Internet And Goes Viral
- ILM Spoils Us With Another Visual FX Breakdown Reel
- The Walking Dead Season 3 Visual FX Breakdown Reel
- The Great Gatsby Visual FX Breakdown Reel
- ILM’s Star Trek Visual FX Breakdown Reel
- Weta Digital – Animating The Smaug Dragon With Motion Capture
- MPC Releases Their Godzilla Visual Effects Breakdown Reel
- ILM’s “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” Visual Fx Breakdown Reel
- How Double Negative VFX House Composited Ex Machina’s Ava Robot
- Scanline VFX Breakdown Reel For Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
- Blender and The Man in the High Castle Visual FX
- How to Create a CG Bear Fight Scene For HBO’s ‘His Dark Materials’
- Come and Watch the Awesome Visual FX on Amazon’s sci-fi space opera “The Expanse”
- Weta Digital Creates Breathtaking VFX Dragons for “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings”
- Digital Domain Visual Fx Show Reels
- Stargate Studio Visual Fx Demo Reel
- HBO’s John Adams Visual Fx Reel
- The Foundry Animation Showreel 2012
- Vray Visual Fx 2012 Reel
- Stargate Studios 2012 VFX Demo Reel
- Fox Studios Picks Up Aaron Sims’ Short Scifi Film “Archetype”
- The Foundry’s New 2013 Visual FX Show Reel
- Weta Digital 2019 Visual FX Showreel
More breakdown reels
CG Baby in Children of Men
Originally posted 4/14/2007
This featurette shows the behind the scenes process and the visual effects elements needed in creating the Children of Men CG baby – a fully digital infant built by Double Negative for Alfonso Cuaron’s 2006 film, seen up close in one of the film’s celebrated long single-take sequences, where any visible seam in the effect would have broken the illusion instantly. Watch on YouTube.
ILM Developed New Fluid Simulation Tools for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Originally posted 5/31/2007
As most moviegoers now know, “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” contains a 20-minute climactic sea battle in a massive maelstrom. There is said to be more visual effects in this one sequence than are found in many VFX-driven feature films in their entirety.The big challenge in this “Pirates” sequence — and the new film — was the water.here are 3 featurettes Video 1 | Video 2 | Video 3.
Sci-fi Monsters Movie Made For about $15,000
Originally posted 9/25/2010
The most anticipated fx movie since Cloverfield, Monsters takes place 6 years after alien monsters overrun Mexico.Utilizing the Sony EX-3, a letus 35 mm extreme adapter and some top notch vfx wizardry, the director, Gareth Edwards has made a true guerrilla film.here is monsters trailer and behind the scenes, the making of monsters. Video 1 | Video 2.
ILM Talks About The Visual FX of Star Trek
Originally posted 5/27/2011
ILM sits down to talk about visual fx shots and setups for the space jump sequence in Star Trek.Part 2ILM talks about the Starship Enterprise’s lighting and weaponry. Video 1 | Video 2.
Compilation of Green Screen Use in Movies
Originally posted 11/23/2011
Everything is not what it seems. This compilation of green screen in movies shows just how much of what looks like a real location is actually an actor standing in front of a blank colored backdrop. Watch on YouTube.
Hereafter Visual Fx Breakdown Reel
Originally posted 4/26/2012
ScaanlineVFX’s stunning breakdown of the compositing work and cg water fx used in the making of Clint Eastwood’s Hearafter film. Watch on YouTube.
The Walking Dead Visual FX
Originally posted 8/2/2012
Check out how Stargate Studios busted out all these cg zombies and assorted visual fx on AMC’s hit series The Walking Dead.Lightwave CG ZombiesCentral Casting Zombies?Cg Zombies
The Visual Effects of Looper
Originally posted 10/22/2012
Scanline VFX created some impressive visual fx shots for the time traveling motion picture “Looper”. Here is one of the scenes that take place in field.This ain’t no Inception.Looper Trailer: Video 1 | Video 2 | Video 3.
Look VFX Gore Enhancement Visual FX Reel
Originally posted 11/9/2012
A look at Look VFX’s gore enhancement reel. This is unreal, gore enhancement is a thing. Viewer Discretion is advised! not really, most of this is on TV. Watch on YouTube.
ILM’s Battleship Visual Fx Showreel
Originally posted 12/7/2012
Here’s ILM’s Battleship visual fx breakdown reel recently posted on youtube. I think it’s great when a vfx reel is as elaborate as this and dramatically shows all the compositing layers flying into place. Give that team a raise! Watch on YouTube.
Incredible CG Eagle Attack Video Fools The Internet And Goes Viral
Originally posted 12/20/2012
Have you seen the video entitled “Golden Eagle Snatches Kid” it shows what appears to be an Eagle, swooping down and grabbing a toddler before dropping him to the ground. With ~20 Million views (in one day) people were quite fooled and some where even mad, with internet forensic experts in full force the video went viral, and in the end, it was found to be a fake. Watch on YouTube.
ILM Spoils Us With Another Visual FX Breakdown Reel
Originally posted 1/12/2013
This is the second amazing behind the scenes breakdown video of ILM’s Oscar nominated vfx work on The Avengers. Take an epic journey through the making of the pivotal battle scene at New York City’s Grand Central Terminal. Watch on YouTube.
The Walking Dead Season 3 Visual FX Breakdown Reel
Originally posted 4/8/2013
Now that the 3rd season of the critically acclaimed zombie show is over, why not check out Stargate Studio’s awesome work in this amazing vfx breakdown video, from “The Walking Dead”. Watch on Vimeo.
The Great Gatsby Visual FX Breakdown Reel
Originally posted 11/22/2013
Rising Sun Pictures shows us some of the compositing elements and vfx work that went into the making of “The Great Gatsby”. Redshark has an interesting article detailing the compositing fx work used in The Great Gatsby.Warning, these clip contains spoilers. Video 1 | Video 2.
ILM’s Star Trek Visual FX Breakdown Reel
Originally posted 1/9/2014
Star Trek Into Darkness gets the treatment in this awesome visual effects breakdown reel from ILM. Watch on YouTube.
Weta Digital – Animating The Smaug Dragon With Motion Capture
Originally posted 2/26/2014
This Smaug dragon motion capture breakdown from Weta Digital explains the process behind one of the studio’s most acclaimed creatures. Watch on YouTube.
MPC Releases Their Godzilla Visual Effects Breakdown Reel
Originally posted 11/25/2014
Although, there were some complaints about the Garet Edwards’ Godzilla film, there’s one thing certain: MPC went to town and created some really awesome visual effects! Watch on YouTube.
ILM’s “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” Visual Fx Breakdown Reel
Originally posted 1/2/2015
ILM put together about a gazillion crazy vfx shots for the Winter Soldier and here’s the vfx breakdown video. Happy New Year! Watch on YouTube.
How Double Negative VFX House Composited Ex Machina’s Ava Robot
Originally posted 1/7/2016
Here’s Double Negative’s breakdown video, highlighting their vfx compositing work on Ex Machina’s beautiful female robot.This Ex Machina Ava VFX work is a great example of digital erasure rather than full CG replacement. Alicia Vikander’s face, hands and voice stayed entirely real in the finished film. Watch on YouTube.
Scanline VFX Breakdown Reel For Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Originally posted 12/25/2016
Here is the amazing visual effects breakdown reel from Scanline VFX for the movie: Batman vs Superman. Watch on YouTube.
Blender and The Man in the High Castle Visual FX
Originally posted 11/5/2018
Blender all grown up. Watch this amazing vfx breakdown video for Amazon’s highly rated series: “The Man in the High Castle”.Get Blender it’s free! Watch on YouTube.
How to Create a CG Bear Fight Scene For HBO’s ‘His Dark Materials’
Originally posted 1/5/2020
Hello, and welcome to 2020! Here is a vfx breakdown video where Framestore discusses their role in creating the bear fight scene in HBO’s “His Dark Materials” TV series. Watch on YouTube.
Come and Watch the Awesome Visual FX on Amazon’s sci-fi space opera “The Expanse”
Originally posted 1/8/2020
Thank Protomolecule that Amazon swooped in and saved The Expanse, and has already renewed it for another season. Check out Spin VFX’s breakdown reel for The Expanse S4: Watch on Vimeo.
Weta Digital Creates Breathtaking VFX Dragons for “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings”
Originally posted 2/23/2022
In the latest Marvel film, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Weta Digital created some breathtaking VFX dragons. The dragons are a mix of practical effects and digital effects, and they look so real that it’s hard to believe they’re not actually there. Watch on YouTube.
Studio demo reels and showreels
Digital Domain Visual Fx Show Reels
Originally posted 4/27/2007
Wow, these digital domain visual fx show reels are so damn sweet, it just shows the dedication and the attention to detail that these folks have.I didn’t see any transformers sweetness, however these are just badass.DIGITAL DOMAIN 2007 MONTAGEAUTOMOTIVE REEL (2007)CHARACTER ANIMATION REEL (2007) Watch on YouTube.
Stargate Studio Visual Fx Demo Reel
Originally posted 12/19/2009
shooting on location is so pass now. Watch on YouTube.
HBO’s John Adams Visual Fx Reel
Originally posted 3/14/2010
This is an awesome compositing reel of Hbo’s John Adams miniseries. The amount of work that went into this is truly amazing! Watch on YouTube.
The Foundry Animation Showreel 2012
Originally posted 7/25/2012
The Foundry’s latest animation showreel is up! showcasing their animation work on various projects while using their commercially available high-end vfx tools, such as Nuke, Ocula, Mari and Katana.Visit The Foundry Watch on YouTube.
Vray Visual Fx 2012 Reel
Originally posted 10/10/2012
Chaos Group’s V-Ray impressive rendering engine is showcased in their 2012 vfx demo reel. good stuff. Watch on YouTube.
Stargate Studios 2012 VFX Demo Reel
Originally posted 10/27/2012
Stargate Studios, the people behind the cg zombies in The Walking Dead tv series, have just released their 2012 visual fx demo reel. Watch on YouTube.
Fox Studios Picks Up Aaron Sims’ Short Scifi Film “Archetype”
Originally posted 1/24/2013
Fox Studios have bought the rights to the Aaron Sims’ Sci-fi short film “Archetype”, The studio will have “Chronicles” producer develop a feature based on the popular short. Aaron Sim is a concept artist and character designer for every cool film you ever saw.Aaron Sims Company FX Reelwww.aaron-sims.com Watch on YouTube.
The Foundry’s New 2013 Visual FX Show Reel
Originally posted 4/12/2013
The Foundry has released a 2013 show reel featuring the amazing work of many vfx studios who use The Foundry’s top shelf production tools such as: Nuke, Mari, and Modo. Watch on YouTube.
Weta Digital 2019 Visual FX Showreel
Originally posted 10/3/2019
Award winning New Zealand based Visual Fx house releases their 2019 visual FX showreel. Check it out! Watch on YouTube.