VFX in 2011
Take a look back at some of the big visual effects films of 2011, courtesy of our media partners at The Daily.
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Assimilate webinar : Jan 10th
Mike Seymour will be doing another Assimilate Webinar on Scratch. Working With Scratch in a Pipeline. Webinar is 10th of January at 10:00 am PST To register for this event, please visit this link We will look at the challenges of working in a multi-suite, modern day workflow. Rather than just using Scratch to complete […]
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Tintin: Weta goes animated
Weta Digital vfx supe Wayne Stables tells us about the challenges of creating Steven Spielberg’s ‘Tintin’.
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Melancholia: when worlds collide, beautifully
We talk to ‘Melancholia’ VFX sup. Peter Hjorth, plus Platige Image and Pixomondo, about the visual effects for Lars von Trier’s film. Includes a video breakdown of the effects work with commentary by Hjorth.
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More incredible, invisible effects
We look at more seamless VFX work in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Breaking Dawn, Machine Gun Preacher, Jack and Jill, Young Adult and Dolphin Tale.
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Happy Feet Two: extended interviews
fxinsider members can watch extended interviews with the VFX and mocap supes behind Happy Feet Two.
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The Art of Destruction (or Art of Blowing Crap Up)
As part of our ongoing in-depth ‘Art Of’ series, we present the Art of Blowing Crap Up: destruction pipelines.
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Breaking Dawn: Tippett crafts a scene
In this video from our media partners at The Daily, Tippett Studio talks about its digital wolves for the lumberyard sequence in Breaking Dawn – Part 1.
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15 Features in Line for VFX Oscar
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 15 films have been selected for consideration for Achievement in Visual Effects for the 84th Academy Awards®.
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SIGGRAPH Asia: the CAF, courses, ETech and art gallery
Before SIGGRAPH Asia begins next week in Hong Kong, we take a final look at some conference highlights.
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An ad for beer, with deer
Alt.vfx supervisor Colin Renshaw tells us about the Tooheys Extra Dry ‘Nocturnal Migration’ spot, featuring both real and mocap’d digital deer. Includes a behind the scenes making of vid.
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Puss in Boots: color grading in stereo
Puss in Boots colorist Jeff Olm discusses working on the animated film for Dreamworks Animation, in this fxinsider podcast.
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SIGGRAPH Asia preview: extinction transmittance maps
In this audio podcast, we talk to Pascal Gautron from Technicolor Research & Innovation about a SIGGRAPH Asia technical sketch on Extinction Transmittance Maps.
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Mo-capping penguins, and krill, for Happy Feet Two
In this video from our media partners at The Daily, the motion capture supervisors discuss their work on Happy Feet Two.
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Hugo: a study of modern inventive visual effects
We delve into the extraordinary stereoscopic visual effects work in Martin Scorsese’s latest film, Hugo.
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Breaking Dawn: making wolves
In this special fxinsider only podcast, we visit Tippett Studio to discuss their digital wolves for Breaking Dawn – Pt 1.
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Digital District’s UK MVA noms
We talk to French vfx studio Digital District about two music vids they worked on that were finalists at the UK music video awards.
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J. Edgar’s motorcades and marching bands
Method Studios discuss their invisible virtual environment and crowd effects for Clint Eastwood’s biopic ‘J. Edgar’. Updated with before and after pics.
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The Muppets: It’s time to raise the curtain
We go behind the scenes with Look Effects VFX supe. Max Ivins on The Muppets.
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For Example: The Mill LA’s Tim Davies and Flame
In the first of our new ‘For Example’ series, lead 2D artist Tim Davies from The Mill LA talks about how he uses Autodesk’s Flame and what tools he uses, for example, in his daily work.
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How to crash a train: Super 8
In this video from our media partners at The Daily, ILM VFX supe Dennis Muren and animation supe Paul Kavanagh break down Super 8’s amazing train crash.
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Killer visuals: Tippett’s God speed fx for Immortals
We go in-depth with Tippett Studio on their Gods vs Titans vfx for Immortals.
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Immortals: Q&A with VFX sup. Raymond Gieringer
Immortals VFX supervisor Raymond Gieringer discusses the planning, on-set InterSense and live-viz systems for the visual effects in Tarsem Singh’s film.
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View from the penthouse: Tower Heist
Effects supes from Method, Phosphene and Gravity discuss their visual effects work on ‘Tower Heist’.
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IATSE… One Year Later
One year ago the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees announced their intention to organize visual effects artists. What is the status of this effort, what has happened in the past year?
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SIGGRAPH Asia speaker preview: Bill Buxton
We chat to SIGGRAPH Asia featured speaker Bill Buxton, one of the key people behind Maya and Sketchbook Pro, about human-computer interaction and computer graphics.
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Breaking down MOTOR’s Rockland spots
We look at MOTOR VFX’s breakdowns for its Rockland TVCs.
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Breaking Bad: the end of Gus
Visual effects supervisor William Powloski breaks down the face off shot in the final season four episode of ‘Breaking Bad’.
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Minute by minute: the vfx of In Time
The effects supes from soho VFX and Luma Pictures discuss their work on Andrew Niccol’s ‘In Time’.
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The Foundry releases OCULA 3.0
The Foundry has released OCULA 3.0 featuring new tools to help fix mis‐focused camera pairs and retime in stereo as well as a range of workflow tweaks and improvements. Included in this article are some video demos showcasing new features.
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