Iron Man is a blockbuster hit due to a focus on acting, great action sequences and seamless big budget visual effects by lead facility Industrial Light and Magic, steered by visual effects supervisor John Nelson. Alongside ILM was The Orphanage and we drill down on just one aspect of the film - the Heads Up Display - in this week's fxpodcast with designer Dav Rauch.
At NAB 2008 in Las Vegas, eyeon introduced their new conforming and versioning app called eyeon Generation, which has been in development for about two years. The app contains conforming and editing tools, compositing, collaboration with annotation, versioning, as well as render management. The release will bring a new and valuable type of workflow to the desktop compositing market.
So in the field of Post - just how viable is online videos, webcasts, vblogs and iTV? Anyone can be famous on the internet (starwars kid, Mentos guys, Free hug guy, etc) but a completely different issue to make money on the net.
Just who is making money, how much and exactly how? And - should I really think about giving up my day job ?
If you listened to last week’s fxphd podcast (fxphdod) or the fxguide podcast you’ll know that we have decided to post the odd reflection on the industry here in our Quick Takes section. This is not a policy shift, we remain focused on post. It is just us following our original rule of thumb “if it is of interest to us, - it might be of interest to you”.
Click the Read More to read about the state of online post from a commercial point of view. (no cat videos - no baby videos allowed)
The new Red Centre #5 is out. In this podcast Jason and Mike discuss offline editing and RED.
A key aspect of the RED offline workflow currently is the use of Crimson and the guys talk this week to Crimson founder Ian Bloom about his software and his approach to just solving problems.
There is also a chance to win stuff for your RED camera.
Note: Sydney Red User Group is WED 14th at 5pm - email for an invitation or details*****
Please post comments below or email red@fxguide.com
We never expected we would be posting about keynote here on fxguide.com but one of the surprising things at the Autodesk User group was the amazingly cool graphic design presentation that the team used. Normally we would run a mile than sit through a Powerpoint presentation but with the new Keynote 2, the product has turned into a serious tool for designers.
Of course, without great graphic design at its root, we probably wouldn’t have covered Keynote here. The stunning presentation ran continuously for almost two hours moving from product to product, screen insert to message points as if one continuous animation. The presentation was designed by Alex Olegnowic and the team @ Imarion with implementation by Autodesk Japan’s Hiroyuki Toba.
Click through for a QuickTime movie and interview with the team.
After the award-winning success of Gnarls Barkely’s “Crazy”, HSI director Robert Hales and BL:ND creative director Vanessa Marzaroli teamed up again to create Justin Timberlake’s “Lovestoned.” Blind won awards in the 29th Annual Telly Awards. “Lovestoned,” won two Bronze Telly statuettes: one in the Music Video category, and another in the Use of Animation category Working with director Hale.
Blind was brought in early on to figure out the execution and animation of Justin Timberlake.
First, the Blind team created style frames representing Robert Hales’s idea, to have Timberlake to be made up of sound waves that vibrate to the music. Blind supervised the green screen shoot in Manchester, England, where the video was filmed on location. The green screen footage was shot using HD camera with multiple takes of Timberlake performing: wide, medium, close up shots etc.
The editor then took the footage, editing together the video’s 149 shots, to create a sharp, aggressive video. Once the edit was locked, Blind converted the footage to black and white, then recreated the style frame using AfterEffects filters. Blind also used Maya to track some of the 3D movement of sound waves to Timberlake’s dance moves. Alan Latteri did the final flame work on the spot.
After working for 17 days straight with a team of 7 animators, Blind created a rhythmic visual narrative interpreting the music and lyrics.
Production Company: HSI, Los Angeles Director: Robert Hales
Executive Producer: Coleen Haynes
Post Producer: Oualid Mouaness Editor: Ken Mowe
Creative Director: Vanessa Marzaroli
Flame Artist: Alan Latteri Environment VFX Design: Subvert, Venice, CA
Flame: 20/twenty, LA
SAN RAFAEL, Calif., May 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) today announced that it has completed the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of REALVIZ S.A., the privately held developer of image-based content creation software. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
REALVIZ was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Sophia Antipolis, France. REALVIZ’s technology provides efficient ways to generate 3D content and visual effects from photo imaging and 2D environments. Its products are used for panoramic photography, image-based modeling, match moving and optical motion capture. REALVIZ’s flagship products are Stitcher software for the creation of panoramas and 360 degree virtual tours, and ImageModeler software to produce 3D models from photographs.
Quantel’s regional office in Burbank was broken into last week, and the company’s brand new Neo control panel for its Pablo color correction system was taken. Quantel introduced Neo at NAB in Las Vegas. The stolen Neo was one of only a few in existence, and was slated for use in a series of upcoming demo sessions, says Quantel. And while its impressive design “might have caught the thief’s attention, the unit is worthless without a companion Pablo system and the company’s V4 code to drive it” commented the company. Searches on ebay has failed to spot it. Any leads regarding Neo’s disappearance can be directed to the company
Our latest podcast looks at the RED announcements and includes an in depth technical interview with Graeme Natress CTO of RED. (Yes, it gets very technical)
Mike Seymour and Jason Wingrove also discuss the Red Ray, Land Sea and Air Camera options, and more.
See the podcast block on the right side of this page or subscribe in iTunes.
click read more below for show notes:
Imagineering Systems: new mocha tutorial online 5/15
http://www.imagineersystems .com/products/monet/Mocha_aftereffects_w orkflow.mp4
Flame: Super 8 effect
Hello:D
I need to create a super 8 style effect over some old movie clips and have a bleached out/film burn in parts. Any top tips??
Many Thanks
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fxguidetv #027 From NAB, a look at the new Informer workflow spark and a visit to the DaVinici booth to check out the new features in Resolve.
Behind the HUD of Ironman We speak with Dav Rauch from The Orphanage. Rauch is a director, designer and visual effects supervisor who led the team that conceptualized and designed Ironman's Heads Up Display.
red centre #005 The guys discuss offline editing with the RED and talk to the creator of crimson, Ian Bloom.
This week @fxphd: Cinema 4D with Tim Clapham One of our most popular professors at fxphd is following up his successful AE design course with a brand new Cinema 4D course this term. This course is a direct result of input from our members, who strongly lobbied for a design centric offering in the Maxon app. Not surprisingly so far this term, the classes are getting great reviews from artists taking the course.
Clapham’s company in the UK, hypa.tv, focuses on design with clients such as The Discovery Channel. In this week’s class he’s taking a look at Mocca IK rigging as well as the Sketch and Toon plugin for rendering. I’m looking forward to the culmination of the course: a three week project taking a design task from conception to final output. He’ll take the project from boards, to modeling, to texturing and lighting, to rendering, and then final assembly and enhancement in After Effects.
Next week is our break week during the term — so it’s a great time for members to take a break and for those who have joined in the last several weeks it’s a time to catch up on classes.
We never expected we would be posting about keynote here on fxguide.com but one of the surprising things at the Autodesk User group was the amazingly cool graphic design presentation that the team used. Normally we would run a mile than sit through a Powerpoint presentation but with the new Keynote 2, the product has turned into a serious tool for designers. 
