Take a look behind ILM’s Award-Winning Partnership with Nerfstudio, a new kind of open source toolset allowed ILM to recreate visual effects shots for Marvel’s 2025 series Ironheart at a degree of efficiency that greatly outpaced established techniques.
At this year’s HPA (Hollywood Professional Association) Awards for Technology & Innovation, Industrial Light & Magic and collaborator Nerfstudio took home a win in the Innovation in VFX, Virtual Production & Animation category.

Lucas O. Seastrom, writing at ILM.com, talks to ILM visual effects supervisor Vincent Papaix and Nerfstudio creator Matt Tancik about their innovative approach to visual effects shot design; read the article in full here.
Stream Ironheart on Disney+.







