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Art of Stereo Conversion: 2D to 3D – 2012

May 08 2012

An in-depth look at the art of stereo conversion, including The Avengers, John Carter, Titanic and Transformers: Dark of the Moon. read more...

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BL4Nuke: Baselight for Nuke and on set

May 15 2012

We take a look at Baselight's new Filmlight and FLIP products for on-set through to post color management and grading. read more...

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Art of Digital 3D Stereoscopic Film

Mar 25 2008

From U2 to Hanna Montana. From Beowulf to Journey to the Center of the Earth. 3D is hot once again. One of the strongest trends in visual effects films today is stereoscopic capture, post production and projection. Technology is catching up just when theatre owners read more...

popular features

Top 5 Feature Stories

  1. Art of Stereo conversion: 2D to 3D
  2. X-Men: Extreme Makeover
  3. Art of Tracking Part 1: History of Tracking
  4. VFX roll call for The Avengers (updated)
  5. Children of Men – Hard Core Seamless vfx

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Top 5 Quick Takes

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  3. Digital Skin Grafting using Eyeon “Fusion”
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RED: Mike and Ted sit down at NAB

by Mike Seymour

Here is a chat between Ted Schilowitz, Leader of the Rebellion at RED Digital Cinema (and employee number 1) and our own Mike Seymour. Note this was recorded by RED on EPICs at RED's own NAB booth. read more...

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Work hard, play…

by Mike Seymour

We like to think we work fairly hard at fxguide, certainly at NAB we were surviving on not much sleep - but we also really enjoy each other's company, and the company of the great people we get to work with. Here is our unofficial goof reel video from NAB 2012. read more...

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NAB 2012: What we are talking about

by Mike Seymour

fxguide will be LIVE all day April 17th from The Foundry booth (#SL9724), streaming from 1700GMT - 2300GMT. Here are some of the announcements that have been made already, embargoed until this morning, or cool stuff we expect to be talking about tomorrow. read more...

fxguide nab twitter feed

by John Montgomery

Our NAB coverage this year includes a combined twitter feed from the fxguide crew. You can see our tweets from events and the show floor by visiting our NAB live page. read more...