Who are you: FXGuide in focus

November 19, 2002

Did you ever wonder how FXguide got started, – or which are the best tips on the site? Ever wonder who you are, when you visit, or where you live ?

Starting in December we have a huge range of new things coming and we are keen to connect with you about what’s coming and where we are right now.

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Mill Film closes

November 18, 2002

With great sadness we report that Mill Film in the UK shut its doors today. Mill film has been a truely great contributor of visual effects shots, most noticeable Gladiator, for which they won the Academy Award and many others such as Black Hawk Down.

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Artist in Action: Die Another Day at MPC

November 7, 2002

Traktor directed this title track for the much awaited Bond film – Die Another Day – by arguably the biggest artist in the world, Madonna. The promo was posted at MPC, who also created visual effects for key sequences in the Bond film.

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GenArts offers 5D Customers special on Sapphire Plug-ins

November 4, 2002

During the month of November, GenArts is offering a special 20% discount
on Sapphire Plug-ins for any Discreet or Avid|DS machine currently
licensed for 5D Monsters plug-ins…

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Eyeon Ships Digital Fusion 4

October 28, 2002

Eyeon Software says that the latest version of their 2D compositing and special effects solution, Digital Fusion 4, will ship October 28, 2002. Digital Fusion 4 is eyeon’s 9th major release and incorporates hundreds of enhancements and new features, including real-time RAM caching, floating point image processing, macro tools, advanced tracking, grid warping and integrated scripting.

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View Studio Creates Models for Minority Report With REALVIZ

October 28, 2002

REALVIZ, ImageModeler software was used to create 3D images from photographs, by View Studio in their work on the visual effects in the Tom Cruise / Steven Spielberg movie ‘Minority Report’.

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Masters of Previs: The very best at bad 3D

October 23, 2002

Increasingly Previz is being used in Features, Commericals and Film Clips.

Perhaps the 3 best previz artists in the world are David Dozoretz, Ron Frankel and Colin Gree, at JAK, Proof and PLF respectively. We spoke to them recently about the state of the art in Previz and some of their films such as Fight Club, Minority Report, Panic Room, Star Wars and at their current films such as Peter Pan, The Matrix Revolutions and Cat in the Hat.

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New Cleaner for Mac

October 20, 2002

Discreet has announced it is shipping Discreet Cleaner 6 video encoding software for the Macintosh.

FXGuide caught up with the developers and had a chat with John Worthington of Discreet about the new release, the new features, and just why we need to encode New Orleans’ hurricane videos for our cel phones!!!

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Artist in action: Vico Sharabani

October 14, 2002

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.

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5D Followup: Colorfront to support Colossus (Updated 10.16)

October 13, 2002

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

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Breaking News Exclusive: 5D Closes Doors

October 11, 2002

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……

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Oregon3D Appointed as Authorized Training Center for Discreet

October 11, 2002

Only Independent U.S. Training Center to Offer Courses on Discreet flint, flame and smoke

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Digital Domain Launches D2 Software, Inc

October 9, 2002

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.

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The Invisible Art : The Legends of Movie Matte Painting

October 9, 2002

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

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Discreet DROPS price on Combustion . . .

September 30, 2002

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.)

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