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quick take: fxpodcast: Heroes vfx @ Stargate Digital

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:41:37 -0500

A new fxpodcast is out, and this week it is an interview with VFX Supervisor Eric Grenaudier from Stargate Digital about their work on the U.S. television series 'Heroes'. The show recently started its third season in the United States, having been nominated for a visual effects Emmy in 2007 and 200...

fxpodcast: fxg-081015-heroes

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:18:09 -0500

Mike Seymour chats with VFX Supervisor Eric Grenaudier from Stargate Digital about their work on the U.S. television series 'Heroes'.

quick take: Ron Brinkmann Interview

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:39:25 -0500

In this week's fxpodcast we speak to Ron Brinkmann about his new book The Art and Science of Compositing Ed. II and take time to both look back on the formation of Shake and also into what the future holds with regards to keying, roto and stereo workflow. Ron discusses his early days at Sony Pictu...

fxpodcast: fxg-081011-brinkmann

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:28:40 -0500

Mike Seymour chats with Ron Brinkmann, author of The Art and Science of Digital Compositing.

quick take: Autodesk Files Lawsuit Against Assimilate

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:43:16 -0500

Google alerts and several readers have let us know that Autodesk has filed a lawsuit in Canadian courts alleging that Assilimate is using intellectual property related to 5D's Cyborg product, now owned by Autodesk (see justia.com). Autodesk purchased the IP related to Cyborg and three other 5D produ...

quick take: Hollywood’s Movie Magicians Step Out For Art Show

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:46:58 -0500

The 2nd installation of the Visual Amalgam Art Show was an enormous success, with an estimated eight hundred people attending the event at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica. The semi-annual event features the personal artwork of film industry and visual effects professionals. Show organizers and...

news: He Sees Dead People: Ghost Town

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:31:29 -0500

In the comedy Ghost Town, Rhinofx provided visual effects, but two effects in particular made us curious here at fxguide: a non motion control timelapse helicopter shot and the principle ghost passing through effect. We figured it would be interesting to find out how these two special visual effects were achieved, so we spoke to the team at Rhinofx.

quick take: RED HYPE - RED BULL Round table

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:43:26 -0500

Around the Red community there was a strong reaction to an article posted about the RED and the HYPE vs the Reality of 4K, RAW and it valid use for Feature film production. To discuss the article we have recorded a round table discussion with film makers and geeks. This week's special podcast finds...

news: Eagle Eye : What if HAL dated Skynet?

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:00:08 -0500

What if the seemingly benign devices we use to control our lives came under hostile control, your cellphone, GPS, public information terminals, even the train system? This is the horrifying future is explored by Disturbia director D.J Caruso in Eagle Eye, supported by the work of Sony Pictures Imageworks, who contributed 250 shots.

quick take: fxguidetv #38 - Quick Takes from IBC

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:38:01 -0500

One of the things about trade shows is wandering around and finding the "little things" or surprises on the floor. In this ep we take a look back at a few of our faves in Amsterdam, including a new LCD reference monitor from Barco, cool gear coming out Sonnet, a look at Gridiron's soon-to-be-in-pub...

quick take: Visual Amalgam Art Show to feature art by VFX Pros

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:26:55 -0500

Visual Amalgam Art Show offers the public a rare opportunity to see personal artwork created by visual effects professionals behind some of the biggest motion pictures at one of the premier art venues in the Los Angeles area. Patrick Finley, a successful painter and visual effects artist for moti...

news: Massive Mummy Clay Armies

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:48:39 -0500

Mummy 3 : Tomb of the Dragon Empero recently opened in secondary markets such as Australia. Digital Domain did some outstanding Massive work to bring the Armies of Mummy 3 to life, as well being responsible for the development and creation of the CG Emperor Mummy villain. We spoke to the DD team about their Massive experience and their procedural pipeline which is heavily reliant on Houdini.

quick take: It's Raining White Papers: The Foundry's Ocula Plugins

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:29:22 -0500

Contrats to the Foundry. Their Ocula stereo plugins received a 'Best of IBC' Award for Post Production by the IBC Daily/TVB Europe team. fxguidetv episode #037 contains an interview with Simon Robinson about the new plugins. The Foundry has published a ocula stereo whitepaper which provides more...

quick take: Scarlet's design pulled!

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:04:46 -0500

Well, RED said their specs were subject to change and not a week after saying RED would also be going into the DSLR camera market with their own video, stills hybrid, the company pulled photos of the Scarlet $3,000, 3K camera off its web site and said the camera is being fully rethought and redesign...

quick take: Autodesk Releases Stereoscopic Filmmaking Whitepaper

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:46:31 -0500

Autodesk released a Stereoscopic Filmmaking Whitepaper delivering a comprehensive understanding of the state of the industry and its current barriers. The whitepaper provides valuable knowledge for anyone curious about the future of Stereo 3D (S3D) and highlights current industry challenges from tec...

fxpodcast: fxg-080914-johnadams

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 07:32:02 -0500

We talk to Jeff Goldman, a vfx supervisor at CafeFX about their emmy nominated work on John Adams

news: Emmys: John Adams

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 07:31:48 -0500

The series John Adams received 23 Emmy Award nominations, the most of any program this year. Among those was the nomination for Outstanding SVE for a Mini-series. This week we speak to Jeff Goldman, at CafeFX about their Emmy-nominated work. As second President of the United States, and one of the most influential Founding Fathers of the USA, the story spans decades of Adams' life UPDATED: EMMY WINNER

news: Meet The Syndicate's Ben Grossmann

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:53:52 -0500

In this week's fxguidetv we speak to Ben Grossmann, VFX Supervisor and Director at The Syndicate in Santa Monica. Grossmann recently won a Gold Clio for visual effects on "The Key to Reserva", working with famed director Martin Scorsese. Earlier this year, Grossmann enjoyed a similar collaboration with Scorsese and VFX Supervisor Rob Legato on the Rolling Stones feature film "Shine a Light". Even more recently he was involved with the cutting edge House of Cards clip for Radiohead.

news: Tropic Thunder

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:48:58 -0500

In this week's fxpodcast, Mark Breakspear of CIS (formerly Rainmaker) discusses how Blades of Glory showed his company how fundamentally different the pipeline needs to be for visual effects in comedies. We follow up with more details and background in our online story.

fxpodcast: fxg-080903-tropicthunder

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:16:39 -0500

We speak to Mark Breakspear of CIS Vancouver about the visual effects in Tropic Thunder and why effects for comedy can be a different challenge.

news: Demystifying Motion Capture Technique

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:06:11 -0500

The VES recently held a Motion Capture event where a range of motion capture experts presented a snap shot of the state of the art in the industry, David Stripinis reports a personal perspective, from someone who works with it daily.

news: Labor Series Part Two: The Animation Guild

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:59:24 -0500

In this fxpodcast we speak with Steve Hulett, Business Representative for the The Animation Guild Local 839 IATSE. This is part of an ongoing series discussing the issues involved in labor laws, treatment of workers and general respect for visual effects in the industry.

fxpodcast: fxg-080824-guild

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:58:14 -0500

We talk with Steve Hulett, Business Representative for the The Animation Guild Local 839 IATSE about the guild, the business and what every artist should know.

news: Siggraph Day Four and Five

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 08:29:53 -0500

We visit the job fair, catch up with Eyeon, Pixel Farm, check out some new fast hardware from Sony and Texas Memory Systems and discuss the FJORG! winning entry.

news: Siggraph Day Two and Three

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 02:23:44 -0500

With the trade show now open and the event fully under way we do a quick survey of cool events and tech on the Tuesday and Wednesday of this years Siggraph. Today we focus on XSI, Massive, C4D, RealFlow, coffee and the great Stan Winston.

fxpodcast: fxg-080814-siggraph

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:47:25 -0500

Recorded on a rooftop in downtown Los Angeles at our traditional tradeshow Barcamp. We are joined by fxphd members to discuss what they have seen so far at Siggraph.

fxpodcast: fxg-080805-journey

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:50:33 -0500

We speak with stereo colorist Jeff Olm about grading and post considerations for Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D.

fxpodcast: fxg-080728-unpaid-artists-rr

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:36:53 -0500

Dave Rand joins us to talk about a group of 100 artists owed a million dollars in wages from work done on Journey to the Center to the Earth.

fxpodcast: fxg-080721-dark-knight

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:09:27 -0500

We chat with Double Negative vfx supervisor Paul Franklin about their work on the latest Batman flick, including special considerations for the IMAX release.

fxpodcast: fxg-080711-motiontheory

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 01:17:42 -0500

We speak with Nick Losq and Matt Winkel of Venice, California based studio Motion Theory.

fxpodcast: fxg-080702-newdeal

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:31:15 -0500

We speak with co-founder of New Deal Studios Matthew Gratzner about their work and the business.

fxpodcast: fxg-080622-thirdfloor

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 12:50:21 -0500

We speak with Chris Edwards, CEO of Los Angeles-based Third Floor, about the pre-visualization work they do for films, commercials, and games.

fxpodcast: fxg-080613-lumapictures

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 11:29:38 -0500

We speak with Chris Sage of Luma Pictures about their work, their facility pipeline, and their tools.

fxpodcast: fxg-080605-Droidmaker

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:58:29 -0500

We talk to Michael Rubin about his book: DroidMAKER: George Lucas and the Digital Revolution.

fxpodcast: fxg-080519-ironman-suit

Wed, 21 May 2008 14:46:20 -0500

A conversation with ILM visual effects supervisor Ben Snow about the work behind creating Ironman's suit.

fxpodcast: fxg-080508-ironman

Fri, 09 May 2008 12:47:58 -0500

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.

fxpodcast: fxg-080417-nab3

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:51:10 -0500

Our last podcast from Las Vegas, covering finds from the show floor.

fxpodcast: fxg-080415-nab2

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:51:11 -0500

Our annual roundtable from fxphd barcamp. We cover the announcements from RED, Eyeon, and more.

fxpodcast: fxg-080414-nab1

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:38:35 -0500

Coverage of the Autodesk Usergroup Meeting. Recorded Sunday evening before the start of NAB.

fxpodcast: fxg-080408-nab2008

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:23:06 -0500

We talk with organizers Chris Brown, Rochelle Winters, and Ben Kozuch about the off-the-showfloor highlights of the 2008 NAB Conference in Las Vegas.

fxpodcast: fxg-080331-localheropost

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:49:44 -0500

Owner Leandro Marini discusses the approach Local Hero has taken in providing a DI solution for the indie filmmaker, offering high quality at prices in line with their budgets.

fxpodcast: fxg-080328-mogul

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:16:22 -0500

We speak with Imagineer founder and CEO Allan Jaenicke about their new mogul vfx product line, to be introduced at NAB and rolled out over the next 18 months.

fxpodcast: fxg-080324-stereoscopic

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:03:31 -0500

Mike Seymour chats with Tim Baier, a vfx supervisor and 3D researcher who now specializes in 3D stereo productions, about the history, technology and trends in the field.

fxpodcast: fxg-080213-madame

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:55:53 -0600

Mike Seymour talks with artist Jason Walker, who created the effects in the animated film Madame Tutlie Putli.

fxpodcast: fxg-080204-attila

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:27:06 -0600

A conversation with Gareth Edwards, director of Attila the Hun, about how he completed over 250 visual effects shots for the film using a combination of After Effects, Premiere, MochaAE, 3dsMax, and more.

fxpodcast: fxg-080108-waterhorse

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:22:08 -0600

Richard Frances-Moore on Weta Digital's work on creating and animating the hero CGI character of "The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep".

fxpodcast: fxg-071229-AVPR

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 09:37:22 -0600

Greg and Colin Strause (The Brothers Strause) discuss their feature film directorial debut, Aliens vs. Predator Requiem. Also a preview of the new fxphd term.

fxpodcast: fxg-071210-strikeadeal

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:48:03 -0600

Mike Seymour and Jeff Heusser discuss the writer's strike and a rally in Hollywood encouraging both sides to come to a deal.

fxpodcast: fxg-071130-tinman

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:13:19 -0600

Tin Man, the modern twist on Wizard of Oz, required 1500 shots for 3 x 2hour miniseries. We talk to Anthem FX founder Lee Wilson the issues involved. It is also our 100th fxpodcast.

fxpodcast: fxg-071112-WGAstrike

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 01:08:55 -0600

In this week's podcast we talk with David S. Cohen of Variety to get a post production perspective on the effect of the Writers Guild strike.

fxpodcast: fxg-071021-wireremoval

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:02:24 -0500

We speak with The Orphanage's Aaron Rhodes about approaches to wire removal, including complex 2D and 3D solutions.

fxpodcast: fxg-071007-kerner

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:08:22 -0500

This week, we speak with longtime Kerner Optical DOP Marty Rosenberg about the company's past history and plans for the future.

fxpodcast: fxg-070906-REDshoot

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:33:45 -0500

The first fxguide test shoot with the newly released RED Camera is the topic of this podcast with Jeff Heusser and Mike Seymour.

fxpodcast: fxg-070731-potter

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:38:55 -0500

This week, our guest is Paul Franklin from Double Negative, who discusses the facility's work on Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

fxpodcast: fxg-070716-siggraphREV

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:18:03 -0500

Get the inside scoop from Conference Chair Joe Marks on how to get the most out of the Siggraph 2007 conference in San Diego.

fxpodcast: fxg-070707-FF2

Mon, 09 Jul 2007 05:52:37 -0500

Mike Seymour interviews Jake Morrison, Visual Effects Supervisor for Hydraulx about Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.

fxpodcast: fxg-070626-variety

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:48:45 -0500

Jeff Heusser speaks with David Cohen from Variety, author of the article "Blockbusters Take Toll on f/x Shops", about the role of vfx and death of post schedules.

fxpodcast: fxg-070621-silver

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:43:13 -0500

Interview with Weta VFX Supervisor Eric Saindon about their work on Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.

fxpodcast: fxg-070612-picturemill

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:40:02 -0500

Mike sits down for an indepth discussion on design issues, the role of titles and the nature of film trailer design with Picture Mill founder William Lebeda.

fxpodcast: fxg-070528-heroes

Tue, 29 May 2007 23:39:16 -0500

We speak with VFX Supervisor Mark Kolpack and Supervising Producer Mark Spatny about Stargate Digital's work on the NBC television series "Heroes", seen in the United States.

fxpodcast: fxg-070521-shrek

Mon, 21 May 2007 12:18:50 -0500

We speak with Larry Cutler and Matt Baer from PDI/Dreamworks about their work on the film, including their insights into how working on a series of films changes the workflow for the better.

fxpodcast: fxg-070514-stu

Mon, 14 May 2007 14:42:29 -0500

This week, we speak with Stu Maschwitz, author of "The DV Rebel's Guide" and one of the co-founders of The Orphanage.

fxpodcast: fxg-070507-cfcDI

Mon, 07 May 2007 19:25:56 -0500

This week, we speak with colourist Asa Shoul and Executive Producer Jan Hogevold of Framestore CFC

fxpodcast: fxg-070418-nab4

Sat, 21 Apr 2007 20:12:55 -0500

Wrap up of the week at NAB, including news from the Foundry about Nuke, the search for non-CRT broadcast monitors, After Effects CS3, and more

fxpodcast: fxg-070417-NAB_three

Sat, 21 Apr 2007 20:12:47 -0500

For today's podcast we invited various guests as well a fxphd professors and postgrads to join us in a sort of bar camp where everyone reports back on what they saw on the show floor and discusses. We then collected the best of this exercise and bring you the results.

fxpodcast: fxg-070416-NAB_two

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:31:17 -0500

Our second podcast from NAB, with guests Emery Wells and Scott Brook. We cover lots of items including Apple, Motor, the Red Camera, and a new joint venture between fxguide, Wells, and Brook.

fxpodcast: fxg-070415-Autodesk

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:35:59 -0500

"Live" interviews and commentary from the Autodesk user group party at NAB 2007

fxpodcast: fxg-070411-fxphd

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 04:26:48 -0500

A roundtable with Mike, John, Tahl Niran, and Rose Draper about fxguide, fxphd, and what's coming at NAB

fxpodcast: fxg-070405-ZoicDrive

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:49:50 -0500

Conversation with Loni Peristere of Zoic about the new Fox show Drive

fxpodcast: fxg-070326-red

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:25:12 -0500

We speak to Ted Schilowitz, Leader of the Rebellion at the RED Digital Cinema Company about NAB, RED CODE RAW, the various options you can buy for the camera.