Mike Seymour, Kanen Flowers and Ian Failes discuss the 2010 feature film ‘Knight and day.’

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Production Credits:
Producers: Mat Graham and Todd Scholton

Show Notes:

Director: James Mangold
Cinematographer: Phedon Papamichael
Production VFX Supervisors: Eric Durst
Visual Effects Companies and VFX Supervisors:
Rhythm & Hues: Greg Steele
Soho VFX: Allan Magled
Hydraulx: Erik Liles
Weta Digital: Charlie Tait
Wildlife VFX: Dottie Starling
Asylum FX
Spin Productions
Filmworks FX
Halon
With a Twist Studio

‘How movie stars get paid’ – article
The Expendables
Sylvester Stallone
Mission Impossible I, II, III
Risky Business
Top Gun
‘Rhythm’s running with the bulls’ – fxguide article
Video of some Tom Cruise rooftop wirework – Youtube video
Ray Bradbury Article mentioned by Kanen
Kong 360 ride – Official site
Universal Studios Backlot Tour – Official site
Stu Maschwitz
Roger Ebert’s ‘Knight and Day’ review
Terminator
With a Twist Studio – News segment video

Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond and Matt Wallin go inside ‘Inception’

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vfxs106 Production Credits:
Producers: Mat Graham and Todd Scholton

Show Notes:

Director: Christopher Nolan
Cinematographer: Wally Pfister
Visual Effects Company: DNEG
New Deal Studios: (Miniatures) New Deal Studios

2001: A Space Odyssey
For Your Eyes Only
The Sting
The Italian Job
Ocean’s 11
Memento
Article about how ‘Inception’ is a movie about making movies
Paul Franklin Interview and podcast on fxguide
Inception’s technical details including info on specific cameras used
American Society of Cinematography article
‘Inception’ Sound for film profile video
Slow Burn
Paul J. Franklin
What Dreams May Come
Vertigo
Blade Runner
‘2001 Filming the Future’ book by Piers Bizoby
Trainspotting
The layers of ‘Inception’ article
Ian Hunter
Steenbeck film editing deck
Editing ‘Inception’ for a Photochemical Finish article
Anamorphic Lenses
Edith Piaf
La vie en rose
‘Inception’ timeline map illustration

Mike Seymour, Mark Christiansen and Todd Vaziri revisit the 1985 classic film “Back to the Future.”

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Production Credits:
Producers: Mat Graham and Todd Scholton

Show Notes:

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Eric Stoltz
Family Ties
Alex P. Keaton
Porky’s
Still shot of flames and Marty and Doc
Wes Takahashi
Jack Mongovan
Thomas F. Wilson
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Hours
VFX HQ
Siggraph – What takes your interest?

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Mike Seymour, Ron Brinkmann and Ian Failes revisit Ian’s favorite film of all time, “Speed.”

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Production Credits:
Producers: Mat Graham and Todd Scholton

Show Notes:

Director: Jan de Bont

Dennis Hopper
Joss Weedon
Keanu Reeves
Sandra Bullock
Die Hard
Hunt for Red October
Black Rain
Twister
Fan Made video of the Speed Bus Jump
Short Video of the making of the bus jump
Mythbusters tackles the bus jump
Boyd Shermis
VIFX
Flame
David Douglas
Wavefront Technologies
Color Timer (Grading)
Scott Squires
Ken Ralston
John Bruno
Rear Projection

Mike Seymour, Mat Graham and Matt Wallin discuss the visual feast that is Toy Story 3.

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vfxs103 Production Credits:
Producers: Mat Graham and Todd Scholton

Show Notes:

Director: Lee Unkrich

Official Site
Notation of original Disney plan for the story involving “Circle 7″ animation department
Day and Night
The Right Stuff
Easter Eggs in Toy Story 3
Lots-o-huggin’ Bear viral video

Mike Seymour and Mark Christiansen discuss the visual effects in the 2010 feature film “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time”.

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vfxs102 Production Credits:
Producers: Mat Graham and Todd Scholton

Show Notes:

Director: Mike Newell

21-years of Prince of Persia (video game)
Jerry Bruckheimer
Jake Gyllenhaal
Quantum of Solace
DNEG
Arriflex 435 camera
CGW Article discussing the Arriflex 435 camera rig and the film
Particle Systems
Crowd Simulation
Massive
2012
HDR and light probes
ILM
Sony Imageworks
Digital Domain
Weta Digital
Animal Logic
Pixar Studios
Company 3
Lola
Framestore
Motion Picture Company-MPC
Cinesite

Mat Graham, Jason Diamond and Mike Seymour discuss Iron Man 2, green screen and major on set lighting.

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vfxs101 Production Credits:
Producers: Todd Scholton and Mat Graham

Show Notes:

Director: Jon Favreau

American Cinematographer Iron Man 2 Story
fxguide Iron Man 2 shows
Ben Snow
Sam Rockwell
DNEG
“Football Suit”
A couple of Versatube demonstration videos
“Big Mo” Lights
Multiple images of the shipping containers set
Bad Boy demo video
SourceMaker lighting
Brief Wikipedia entry on Translight
Matthew Libatique
Iron Man 1 “Tank Scene”
Randy’s Donuts
Siggraph 2010

Mike Seymour, Jason Wingrove and Jason Diamond celebrate the 100th episode of the VFX Show by discussing the visual effects of the first three Indiana Jones films.

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vfxs100 Production Credits:
Producers: Mat Graham and Todd Scholton

Show Notes:

Director: Steven Spielberg

Raiders of the Lost Ark
Optical printing
Industrial Light and Magic (ILM)
Poltergeist
‘Making of’ story discussing the use of water tanks and head effects
Link to ‘Behind the Scenes’ videos for Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Oracle in 300

Temple of Doom
‘Making of’ video
Douglas Slocombe
Stop motion and go motion
Image of the Nikon camera rig
Georges dog, “Indiana”

Last Crusade
Yusei Uesugi-Matte painter
Nazi aging video
Al Khazneh – Petra in Jordan
‘Making of” story from fan site
‘Leap of Faith’ composite shot image
Vic Armstrong
Denholm Elliott
Alfred Molina

Jason’s and his brother’s Danko Jones music video they just directed, shot and edited

Mike Seymour , Ian Failes and Kanen Flowers discuss the visual effects of the 2010 feature film remake“Clash of the Titans” while contrasting it to the original 1981 film of the same name.

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vfxs099 Production Credits:
Producers: Todd Scholton and Mat Graham

Show Notes:

Director: Louis Leterrier

Flicksided review
Ray Harryhausen
Woody Allen
Jason and the Argonauts
Peter Sellers
Mitchell 35mm camera (.pdf brochure)
Particle Animation
Framestore
Ian’s fxguide article
Liam Neeson and his beard
Creature comparison, original vs. remake, by Win Kang
The Matrix and The Matrix Reloaded
Cinefex #5
Dynamation
Cloverfield
Creature from the Black Lagoon (Trailer)
How toTrain Your Dragon
Motion Picture Company (MPC)
The X-files Sewer Creature (short video clip)
Prince of Persia-”The gold trailer”
Prime Focus
Blackhat
Know Tech

Mike Seymour, Mark Christiansen, Jason Diamond and Jason Wingrove discuss the visual effects of the 2009 feature film “Moon” and the validity of ‘old school’ visual effects in a ‘new school’ world.

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vfxs098 Production Credits:
Producers: Mat Graham and Todd Scholton

Show Notes:

Director: Duncan Jones

Moon on Blu-ray
Space 1999
2001: A Space Odyssey
Outland
Silent Running
GERTY 3000
The Man Who Fell To Earth
Blade Runner
David Bowie
Trudie Styler
Multiplicity
Split Screen
Motion Control
Milo Motion Control Rig images and video demonstrations here.
Cinesite
Ping Pong game clip
THX 1138
HAL 9000 computer from 2001: A Space Odyssey
Kevin Spacey
Apollo 11 Flight Journal images for comparison to film effects
Faking the Moon – Gerty and beyond (fxguide Article)
Michael Light’s “Full Moon” book
Star Trek
Stanley Kubrick
Film noir
Tony Noble
Bill Pearson
Alien
Flash Gordon (1980)
Shepperton Studios
Source Code
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
I, Robot