VFX/SFX Styles
Visual effects styles. Compare 12 vfx/sfx looks for your storyboard. Use the still previews to shortlist a direction, then read each preset's lighting, palette and composition notes.
These are still-image references. Choose your Storyboard style separately.
Reading the VFX/SFX looks
- Practical Effects
- Practical special effects in the 1977-1993 pre-digital miniature and creature workshop tradition. Real pyrotechnics with gasoline fireballs, physical 1:24 scale miniature sets with forced perspective. Visible monofilament wires and rod puppetry, dust and cork debris with realistic gravity. 35mm film grain texture, tungsten practical lighting. That tangible pre-digital craftsmanship celebrating analog movie magic.
- Photorealistic CGI
- Photorealistic CGI in modern tentpole-VFX quality. Indistinguishable from live-action with path-traced global illumination. Subsurface scattering on skin with 3-layer epidermis simulation, strand-based hair grooms with 100,000+ strands. Physically-based materials: skin, metal, fabric micro-fiber detail. Hollywood VFX blockbuster production quality, ACES color management with rec.709 output.
- Particle Effects
- Elaborate particle effects in award-winning debris-and-dust simulation style. Millions of procedurally simulated particles creating magical phenomena: ember orange, fairy dust gold, energy cyan. Swirling vortex dynamics with turbulence and attraction fields, motion blur at 180-degree shutter. Depth of field bokeh circles on distant particles, that ethereal otherworldly VFX spectacle.
All 12 styles
Practical Effects
Real explosions, miniatures
Photorealistic CGI
Film-quality 3D rendering
Particle Effects
Sparks, dust, magic particles
Motion Capture
Performance-captured digital beings
Creature Design
Monsters, aliens, fantasy beings
Destruction Effects
Building collapse, explosions
Water Simulation
Waves, floods, underwater
Fire & Smoke Effects
Flames, explosions, smoke trails
Magic & Supernatural
Spells, auras, telekinesis
Transformation Effects
Werewolf, morphing, shapeshifting
Hologram Interface
Floating holographic HUD, future UI
Weather Effects
Storms, tornadoes, blizzards
Plan Your VFX/SFX Storyboard
Use the visual notes to brief your shots, then select a Storyboard style or adapt a custom recipe in the wizard. Catalog browsing does not select it for you.