How Do VFX Artists Make CG Animals?

In the world of VFX, there’s two final bosses - Two big challenges that place the most pressure and demand on the VFX artists working on them. Now, one of them you’ve probably heard of - and that’s CGI humanoids - characters like Thanos or Tarkin or the blue people from Avatar - These guys tend to get a lot of coverage in the media these days for all their technical breakthroughs and how hard it is creating a photorealistic human But… There’s also a second huge challenge… that no one really talks about… - and that is: the creation of CG animals. Because under the surface - These guys have almost the exact same same features as a CG humanaid - They’ve got muscles, and tissue and skin that all needs to be very carefully figured out by a massive team of artists. And on top of this, since things like the Lion King remake in 2019 - CG animals have exploded in popularity, to the point where they are filling the same positions narratively as these other CG characters - Now w