Doug Hogan has 18 years in VFX and consults with the ComfyUI team. His course covers clean plates, mattes, set extensions and EXR exports in 8 hours of training, built for compositors who want AI inside their existing pipeline. bit.ly/4oMJvqH

Fire on a moving vehicle needs flames bent by wind. 49 real fires shot in high wind from six angles, with motion blur captured in camera. Pre-keyed, up to 6K R3D. bit.ly/4nQwfAr

Blood spreads differently on concrete, carpet and snow. 55 elements covering all three, from first formation to old smeared aftermath. 30 clips plus 25 textures, across five camera angles. bit.ly/4ophLHE

Small details sell water. 46 clips of bubbles breaking the surface: single pops, pulses, steady streams and short bursts. Swimmers, divers, boiling pots, anything dropped in. Alpha included. bit.ly/4o4pawa

Boats, ships, jet skis. 36 wake and trail clips from side, high, top-down, front and back angles, from light ripples to heavy foam spray, with slow-motion takes for the big ship shots. bit.ly/47CLnvs

60 real Molotov cocktails: wall hits, ground hits, the fire trailing through the air, and a few bottles that don't break. Keep the duds. A riot where every throw lands perfectly looks staged. bit.ly/44aCOGr

Real paper, animated in stop-motion. 34 loopable backgrounds in white, notebook, graph and brown craft paper, each with its own amount of wrinkle and speed. Easy texture for motion graphics and explainers. actionvfx.com/collections/pa…

A headshot needs more than red mist. 33 splatters that mix real blood with chunks of flesh and brain matter, firing sideways, upward and at angles. Pair them with Chunky Blood Hits for the full impact. bit.ly/3K8jx1t

134 muzzle flashes from pistols, assault rifles, .50 cal snipers and WWII rifles. Shot on a global shutter camera, so every flash is whole, with no rolling shutter tearing the frame. bit.ly/48ndSN1

The giveaway in most ground fire comps is the ground. These 53 fire elements come with the real light spill each fire threw on the floor, so the interaction is already in the plate. bit.ly/4rqMgzi

83 wound textures shot from real prosthetics made by a professional makeup artist. Bullet wounds, cuts and burns, fresh and aged, each from three angles so they track onto any body part. bit.ly/42Xl6W5

Fire and smoke shot together move together. 15 real daylight fires with dark smoke plumes rising straight off the flames, filmed on the RED V-RAPTOR 8K. No stitching two elements and hoping they match. bit.ly/4qx1LnG

A fire comp without sparks looks wrong even when nobody can say why. 39 real spark and ember clips across five angles, real-time and slow-mo, all shot with natural motion blur. bit.ly/4rkl5FS

Nine compositors, 610 shots, one Oscar. Shirogumi's team mastered time-saving VFX on #GodzillaMinusZero. bit.ly/4a8uCtD #VFX #VisualEffects

Blender 5.3 adds native 3D Gaussian splat support—import PLY/SPZ files and render photoreal scans in Cycles with no add-ons! Learn capture tips in our course: bit.ly/gaussiansplatting #GaussianSplatting #VFXNews #3DRendering #VisualEffects #3DScanning

The industry's changing fast. The artists who adapt their strategy — not just their software skills — are the ones still working in five years. actionvfx.com/academy/the-ne…

Nine compositors, 610 shots, one Oscar. Shirogumi's team mastered time-saving VFX on #GodzillaMinusZero. #VFX #VisualEffects

There's endless training on executing a shot. Almost none on how to run one. That gap is exactly what we're building a course to close. actionvfx.com/blog/why-techn…

Shoot smarter on set, use AI where it actually helps, deliver client-ready VFX without a department. That's the whole idea behind this course. actionvfx.com/courses/vfx-fo…

A flat panel is tough to scan; rust helps! Watch Clinton Jones scan a tank start to finish → #GaussianSplat #GuassianCapture #Nuke #UE5 #RealityCapture