Artist in action: Vico Sharabani
Rhinoceros Visual Effects and Design Supervisor and Creative director Vico Sharabani, created a full character animation rig within Inferno, and used it to produce an x-ray effect for Fox Sports Net.
Read the Article5D Followup: Colorfront to support Colossus (Updated 10.16)
The underlying technology of 5D Colossus was licensed from a company called Colorfront. In the wake of the news of 5D closing, the CEO of Colorfront has given us a statement on the future of this technology…
Updated to include official company statement
Read the ArticleBreaking News Exclusive: 5D Closes Doors
It’s sadly come to our attention from multiple sources inside and outside the company that 5D Solutions, Ltd., makers of the high-end compositor Cyborg and color corrector Colossus, has closed their doors……
Read the ArticleOregon3D Appointed as Authorized Training Center for Discreet
Only Independent U.S. Training Center to Offer Courses on Discreet flint, flame and smoke
Read the ArticleDigital Domain Launches D2 Software, Inc
We don’t normally parrot Press releases, but this one follows up on a story we broke back in July that is currently the second most read story on fxguide. Digital Domain has formed D2 to provide high-end digital production software for Windows®, Linux and IRIX Platforms.
Read the ArticleThe Invisible Art : The Legends of Movie Matte Painting
At FXGuide we don’t normally do book reviews, but we have had the pleasure of reviewing arguably the best book on visual effects we’ve seen this year, The Invisible Art, The Legends of Movie Matte Painting. It is not over stating it to say this is the best book ever published on matte painting and a must have for anyone who works in compositing and digital matte painting today. Written by Mark Cotta Vaz, well known to the fx community as a senior contribut
Read the ArticleDiscreet DROPS price on Combustion . . .
In a surprise announcement, Discreet has introduced a world-wide aggressive price package for the software bundle of Combustion v2 with Cleaner (available for both MAC and PC platforms.)
Read the ArticleFrom IBC – 5D Annoucements
5D made several announcements today from IBC regarding the introduction of new products as well as improvements and updates to existing ones. Without having actually gotten to the booth yet, here’s a preliminary look at their announcements…
Read the ArticleDiscreet’s burn to be introduced at IBC
burn is Discreet’s new Linux-based network rendering solution for inferno, flame and flint systems. burn allows you to render Batch setups in the background using low-cost PC workstations while simultaneously freeing your online suite for more creative tasks.
Read the ArticleExclusive! Plug pulled on Socratto
“Socratto is Dead” rumors have been flying around the effects industry this week, reaching a fevered pace yesterday. Ordinarily we’d hold of posting such news without direct confirmation from the company, but word has come from many directions…..
Read the ArticleExclusive! 5.0/8.0 Effects Preview Part 1
The fxguide crew has had the good fortune to have an up-close look at the new 5.0/8.0 effects software which discreet is releasing later this year. It is a substantial update to the software, with the biggest change being resolution independence within a project. We’ve also obtained a couple of exclusive screen captures from the new batch and action. If you have any questions, please feel free to post your comments at the end of the article and we’ll try
Read the Article5D Expands USA Reseller Network
London, L.A. & Miami, September 9th, 2002 — Post-production solutions developer 5D today announced that it has signed resellers in major post production centres across the US to reinforce the sales, training, installation and technical support of its products – 5D Cyborg visual effects compositor, 5D Colossus creative digital colour timing and grading, and 5D Commander data portal and review system for digital dailies.
Read the ArticleVES 2002
VES 2002
This year the Visual Effects Society conference was held in San Rafael Film Center instead of the usual LA base, to allow tap into the wealth of Northern Californian talent at places such as ILM and PIXAR, both of whom where heavily involved in this years conference. Visual Effects Supervisor Peter Webb ( Phenomena VFX, Australia) reports for FXguide on this years sessions including Spiderman, a review of Ridley Scott’s Classic “Blader
What’s the story with Socratto?
April at NAB this year Sony showed Socratto to the public on an exclusive Socratto Stand.
Since then FXGuide has been trying to get someone from the company to comment. After months of emails and broken promises, we have decided to publish what we know and our review of the product – without their direct involvement. While we have tried to get Sony to comment they have declined.
So is Socratto the white elephant that proves Sony can
Read the ArticleArtist in action: Method Software
FXGuide caught up with Andreas Wacker of Method Studios in Santa Monica.
Famous for its award winning commercials and music clips for directors such as Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, and artists such as Madonna and many more. Method’s visual effects artists, and much of their signature styles on-screen, is supported by proprietary code developed by Method Studios team of engineers, headed by Andreas. Method Software provides such things as speedchange sof
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