The best of the Super Bowl spots – part 2
Our second Super Bowl XLVII article goes Gangnam Style with Mirada’s Wonderful Pistachios VFX, Method’s Kia hotbots and more from The Mill.
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Sci-Tech Oscars: technical coolness
fxguide goes in-depth with three of this year’s SciTech winning technologies: wavelet turbulence, pose space deformation and PDI/DreamWorks’ Light tool.
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VES commercials: Nike Biomorph
We talk to Digital Domain visual effects supervisor Aladino Debert about ‘Biomorph’, a promo spot for Nike’s Flyknit tech that is nominated for a VES Award for both Outstanding Visual Effects in a Commercial and Outstanding FX and Simulation Animation in a Commercial or Broadcast Program.
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Rhythm & Hues reportedly receives $20m cash injection
Industry website The Wrap is reporting that visual effects studio Rhythm & Hues is to receive an ’emergency $20 million capital infusion from three major Hollywood studios in order to keep its doors open through April’, citing three sources with knowledge of the situation.
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The best of the Super Bowl spots – part 1
Part 1 of fxguide’s look behind the scenes of the Super Bowl ads looks at work by Method Studios, MPC and The Mill. UPDATED with the Space Babies making of.
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Prime Focus London commercials div to go into administration
Prime Focus London’s Commercials division is to be placed into administration, according to a ‘Company Update’ regulatory story posted on the London Stock Exchange’s website, and on Prime Focus London PLC’s corporate site.
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New Silhouette v5 Released
We don’t normally publish press releases at fxguide, but the new version of Silhouette V5 deserves a callout. New features like Imagineer-licensed planar tracking, IK rotoscoping, and new shape-baed morphing make this a major release. Click through for full details…
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The inside story behind Disney’s Paperman
How 2D and 3D animation styles were merged in the wonderful Oscar-nominated short film Paperman.
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A new wave of brilliant invisible effects
A breakdown of face replacements in Chasing Mavericks, house extensions in Hyde Park on Hudson, CG traffic in Banshee and conjoined twins from Maattrraan.
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VES Announces the 2013 Board of Directors
The Visual Effects Society announced the 2013 Board of Directors, including the continuation of Jeffrey A. Okun as Chair…
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Models and miniatures: a celebration. Special VES coverage
Behind the scenes of the ‘Outstanding Models’ VES Award nominees, plus an fxinsider bonus interview with New Deal Studios on their miniature effects for The Dark Knight Rises.
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Octane Render: realtime ray tracing
OTOY has released their Octane high end GPU ray tracing renderer – with farm offline and LIVE rendering about to go into beta. If you want a glimpse into one future for very high end gaming, look at what Octane is doing today.
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Working in zero light for Zero Dark Thirty: VFX making of
EXCLUSIVE: How Image Engine dealt with explosions, stealth helicopters and almost ‘zero light’ for the Oscar-nominated ‘Zero Dark Thirty’. Updated with VFX breakapart videos.
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Bonus interview – Double Negative’s Paul Franklin
In this bonus interview for fxinsider members, Mike Seymour talks to Double Negative vfx supervisor Paul Franklin. Paul discusses technology at DNeg and how it was used on films such as the BAFTA nominated: The Dark Knight Rises.
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How to make a cinema ad 15 million will watch – every month
Behind the scenes of this fully-CG ‘evolution of flight’ Cineplex spot by Dashing Collective. Includes video breakdowns.
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Making a musical: Les Miserables
How director Tom Hooper overcame the challenges of bringing Les Miserables and its magical reality to the big screen.
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House of Moves: in-house transmedia production
House of Moves has developed a powerful game engine pipeline that is now being used internally on TV spots. This expansion by HOM is both extremely flexible with directors seeing their final imagery much earlier, but assets can move across almost all media, from games to print.
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Oscar Nominees 2013
This morning The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for the 85th Academy Awards®. The nominees are…
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BAFTA Nominees 2013
Nominations were announced for the EE British Academy Film Awards which will take place on Sunday 10 February at London’s Royal Opera House.
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VES Announces Nominees for 11th Annual VES Awards
The Visual Effects Society (VES) is pleased to announce the nominees for the 11th Annual VES Awards, which recognize outstanding visual effects artistry in 24 categories
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Making The Impossible
A befores and afters breakdown of scenes from The Impossible, which tells the story of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami.
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Video chat omegle
Video chat omegle! Meet new people, with omegle. Our site can video chat, omegle can chat with other users. Omegle, as distinct from, and the quality of our website audience have enhanced chat features. Our site is enhanced security, without members chat, chat with random users, an environment level, with features such as unlimited and free chat […]
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VES to Honor Ang Lee with Visionary Award
The Visual Effects Society announced today that it will honor Academy Award® winning filmmaker Ang Lee with the VES Visionary Award at the 11th Annual VES Awards
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10 films face-off at VFX bake-off
The annual Oscar VFX bake-off has just been held to whittle 10 films down to the final 5. Here’s our guest post from Michael Scott who attended the event.
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Scientific and Technical Oscars announced
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that nine scientific and technical achievements represented by 25 individual award recipients will be honored at its annual Scientific and Technical Awards Presentation.
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17th Annual Art Directors Guild awards
The nominees for the 17th annual Art Directors Guild awards have been announced, and with the cross-over now between production design and visual effects we list the films, shows and TVCs under consideration.
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Grimm: creature case studies
How the talented artists at Hive FX & Bent Image Lab create the morphing effects in the TV series Grimm.
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Blood & Chrome: a possible VFX future?
As a new model for a cutting edge production, the production of Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome is extremely interesting, both from a production/virtual production standpoint and distribution.
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Kon-Tiki: water sims & digital sharks
Behind the scenes of Norwegian film Kon-Tiki, which features water sims, environment work and sea creatures, including, yes…those…sharks (the best CG sharks we have seen).
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The Hobbit: exclusive 85 page iBook by fxguide (now closed)
Our Christmas present to you!
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