Death of Naiad. Horse’s head in the bed or vast opportunity?
Autodesk effectively bought the heart and soul of Exotic Matter (EM) but not the company. It purchased the rights to the technology, leaving the product Naiad completely dead. It will not be developed, supported or individually developed past the current version.
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More from SIGGRAPH 2012
In our end of week update from SIGGRAPH, we cover news from Side Effects, the RenderMan user group, NVIDIA, Massive, Open Source, Dreamworks, and the Weta Virtual Production session.
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Keeping it real: Total Recall
Inside the hover car chase, ‘in-one-shot’ gun fight, Synths, holograms and destruction vfx for the new Total Recall.
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iPad app beta program for fxinsiders
Thanks to the amazing support of our readers during our fxinsider membership drive, we’ve begun development of our fxguide iPad application. In fact we’re happy to say that thanks to your support, we’ll soon be opening a beta program for testing the application…
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Moving Day – now a free ‘making of’ iBook
We’re proud to announce a free behind the scenes iBook on the making of fxphd’s short film Moving Day.
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SIGGRAPH 2012 opens
Our report from the opening of SIGGRAPH 2012 in Los Angeles looking at major sessions and tech announcements.
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The Foundry releases MARI 1.5
At SIGGRAPH in LA, The Foundry announced they have released MARI 1.5, with new overlapping UV support, Maya texture export, and mirroring in the paint buffer. Click through for the press release from The Foundry.
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How to destroy aliens, a cow and a Costco: The Watch
Animating aliens, blowing up a cow, destroying a Costco: Digital Domain’s effects for The Watch.
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Pixar’s encouraging performance – by giving away the good stuff
Pixar is contributing to the open source community by making their interactive friendly, high speed Open SubDiv available to all.
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Siggraph things ‘to watch out for”
The start of our Siggraph coverage 2012
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The latest in music video VFX
A look at the recent MTV VMA nominations and some other killer music promos.
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DaVinci Resolve 9 public beta released
Blackmagic Design has released the public beta version of their popular color grading tool DaVinci Resolve 9, with an entirely redesigned user interface, and further camera and file type support.
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Laguna College of Art and Design
Laguna College of Art and Design (LCAD) is celebrating its 50th Anniversary. We visited the campus and spoke with Jonathan Burke, President of the University as well as with Catharin Eure, chair of Design.
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Sinbad: The Mill’s effects voyage
VFX supe David Houghton from The Mill tells us about the elemental visual effects in the new TV series Sinbad.
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Founders Series: industry legend Jim Blinn
Ivan Sutherland once commented: “There are about a dozen great computer graphics people, and Jim Blinn is six of them.” We are proud to interview the man who invented bump maps, did the JPL flybys and taught us so much.
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Blackmagic Design Acquires Assets of Cintel International
Blackmagic Design has acquired the intellectual property and all aspects of Cintel’s entire portfolio of film scanning products. This includes all of the IP, name and brand ownership and product development rights…
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DMM: FEA for VFX
A look back at the success of Pixelux’s finite element analysis tool DMM – from LucasArts’ The Force Unleashed to MPC’s Prometheus ship destructions. And a peek into a new pre-made VFX online store using DMM tech.
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Ice Age 4: riding the new wave
Blue Sky Studios talks water sims, voxels, sky systems and characters for Ice Age: Continental Drift.
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2012 Emmy Nominations
The 64th Primetime Emmy® Award nominations were announced this morning at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in North Hollywood. The nominees for visual effects related categories are…
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Katana in production: changing the structure of the workflow
The Foundry’s look-dev and lighting tool Katana is being adopted by more and more VFX houses. We take a look at the current state of play with the software. Includes exclusive Katana screenshots from Sony Pictures Imageworks.
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Going bananas: Madagascar 3
DreamWorks Animation’s Scott Peterson tells us all about banana guns and other absurd effects in Madagascar 3.
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Greenscreen to small screen: three great ads
Behind the scenes of 3 VFX-filled ads with making of breakdowns from Method Studios, Alt.vfx and Rhythm & Hues.
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It’s Art. It’s Science. SIGGRAPH 2012 preview
We preview the key technical papers, visual effects production sessions, talks, courses and more in the upcoming SIGGRAPH 2012 conference being held from 5-9th August in LA. fxguide is a major media partner of Siggraph and will bring you heaps from the show…
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Space Nazis: the making of Iron Sky
Iron Sky vfx supe Samuli Torssonen discusses the realities of making a moon Nazi film and how he created many ambitious visual effects with a small team of artists.
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Alvy Ray Smith: RGBA, the birth of compositing & the founding of Pixar
Dr Alvy Ray Smith from Xerox to Lucasfilm, PIXAR to Microsoft – he is truly one of the founders of our industry.
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Shooting diary of Spider-Man: bringing it to the screen
A Special RC Written Report: Light Iron’s Michael Cioni shares the early days of testing the brand new RED EPIC for shooting The Amazing Spider-Man in stereo, and how the filmmakers pulled it off.
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Clarisse iFX: a new approach to 3D
Rarely do companies attempt to change the way we work, but Isotropix and its Clarisse iFX product is attempting just that. Clarisse iFX aims to change the way CGI pipelines work, via one central mantra: reduce to a minimum time to first pixel output in any situation. And that’s just the start. Exclusive high-res output samples and much more.
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Spider-Man: the detailed vfx of spiders and lizards
We speak to SPI about lizard skins, spiders and vast city blocks.
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Ted: the bear facts
Behind the scenes of Seth MacFarlane’s Ted, the very naughty bear brought to life by Tippett Studio, Iloura and The Creative-Cartel. Updated with several making of videos.
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Vampire Hunter: two killer sequences
How Weta Digital and Method Studios used novel approaches for two sequences in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Features breakdown images and videos.
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