Tippett’s treasure trove of effects
POTTER WEEK: Tippett Studio visual effects supervisor Matt Jacobs takes us through his studio’s work on the treasure vault sequence in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.
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MAXON announces C4D R13
Maxon has announced CINEMA 4D Release 13, the next version of the 3D motion graphics, visual effects, painting, and rendering software application. Scheduled to ship in September, the release includes all new character tools, stereographic capabilities, streamlined multi-artist collaboration and physical rendering. More from SIGGRAPH next week, but click through for new feature highlights.
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Rango’s ‘Holodeck’ – a look at ILM’s virtual set
Gore Verbinski’s Rango was recently released on Blu-ray and DVD, so Mike Seymour talked to the guys at ILM to see the virtual set work on the film first-hand.
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DNeg’s Gringott’s Dragon and Digi Hogwarts
As part of Potter week at fxguide we speak to Double Negative VFX supe David Vickery and executive producer Dominic Sidoli to discuss their great work for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.
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Technicolor buys LaserPacific; sells NY assets
More changes in the film post-production world, with Technicolor announcing it is purchasing LA-based LaserPacific, but also selling its New York post assets.
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Rising Sun’s Green Lantern hi-jinks
We talk to VFX supe Dennis Jones about Rising Sun Pictures’ work on the dogfight sequence in Green Lantern.
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Dark of the Moon: ILM’s magic, in 3D
Industrial Light & Magic visual effects supervisor Scott Farrar and digital production supervisor Nigel Sumner discuss key scenes from Transformers: Dark of the Moon, including Bumblebee catching Sam and the Chicago battle, and working in stereo.
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Case study: how to make a Captain America wimp
Director Joe Johnston rejected notions of having a separate actor play the wimpy Steve Rogers in Captain America, as we discovered when we spoke to Edson Williams, visual effects supervisor for Lola VFX.
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Zookeeper: An animal get together
Imageworks visual effects supervisor Pete Travers delves into the challenging world of working with real animals and creating CG ones for Zookeeper. Includes a making of clip.
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How ILM destroyed Chicago
Check out this video from our friends at The Daily in which ‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ ILM vfx supe Scott Farrar and digital production supervisor Nigel Sumner explore the destruction of Chicago.
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SIGGRAPH GPU Power Panel
At SIGGRAPH 2011, on Monday 8 August at 1:45pm to 3:00pm, fxguide’s own Mike Seymour is moderating a panel hosted by NVIDIA with leading CTOs and R&D experts from some of the world’s greatest facilities. We speak to Dominick Spina, Sr. Product Manager of NVIDIA, about the great panel from WETA, DNeg, Blue Sky, ILM and SPI.
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film RIP one step closer
Variety is reporting that in the USA lab giants Technicolor and Deluxe have reached subcontracting agreements that move them toward an end to their century-old competition in 35mm release printing. ” Deluxe will take over 35mm release printing for the major studios in the U.S. and Canada beginning this week. Technicolor will exit the 35mm […]
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Making Green Lantern – bonus material
fxinsider members can watch two making of clips of Sony Pictures Imageworks’ effects from Green Lantern.
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Foundry releases NUKE 6.3
The Foundry have released an update to their flagship NUKE and NUKE X products today, which are available free of charge for customers under subscription. The big features of the release include a brand new 3D particle system as well as new planar tracker, but there have been an number of other improvements.
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Rhythm & Hues breaks down Popper’s Penguins
Rhythm & Hues details its vfx for Mr Popper’s Penguins in this making of video.
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Peter Wolf – leading the way for deaf filmmakers
Mike meets deaf filmmaker Peter Wolf at the Cine Gear Expo in LA.
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VFX supe Dan Glass on The Tree of Life
We catch up with Tree of Life visual effects supervisor Dan Glass to dissect the different realms of the film’s ‘history of the universe’ montage piece.
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63rd Primetime Emmy Award Nominees
Nominations were announced this morning for the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards.
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Digital Domain shapes Dark of the Moon
We talk to Digital Domain visual effects supervisor Matthew Butler about his team’s 350 shots for Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
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Cars 2 animation progression
Disney/Pixar have released a neat breakdown of the opening drilling platform chase sequence from Cars 2.
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The sound fx of Cars 2
Here’s a video we worked on with The Daily on the sound design and effects by Skywalker Sound for Pixar/Disney’s Cars 2.
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Free Scratch + RED Webinar July 14th
fxguide’s own Mike Seymour will be leading a webinar on July 14th covering SCRATCH and RED workflow. If you own a RED camera — or if you don’t own one and need to manage productions and post that are using RED, this short webinar will be useful for you. Register here or click through for more details.
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Some recent TVC highlights
Here’s just five TVCs from the last few months that have caught our eye for their inventive use of visual effects.
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Green Lantern: Sony suits up
We talk to several members of the Sony Pictures Imageworks team responsible for bringing many of Green Lantern’s visual effects to the screen.
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The Foundry releases NUKE/MARI workflow
The Foundry have announced a new set of tools which makes getting data back and forth between MARI and NUKE much simpler. It’s exactly the type of workflow that compositors using camera projections to do set extensions and fixes will surely find incredibly useful as the lines further blur between comp and CG. Click through for the full press release from The Foundry.
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Fringe takes an animated trip
VFX supe Jay Worth and Zoic Studios creative director Andrew Orloff explain the mind-bending animation techniques required for a recent episode of Fringe.
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Populating Mr. Popper’s Penguins
We talk to visual effects supervisor Richard Hollander about Rhythm & Hues’ CG creations for Mr Popper’s Penguins.
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How previs shaped X-Men: First Class
We recently partnered with The Daily to produce a story on The Third Floor’s previs work for X-Men: First Class.
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Cannes Film Craft Lions
The shortlist for the 2011 Film Craft Cannes Lions has been released, with the winners to be announced on 25 June. We’ve covered a number of these projects at fxguide. UPDATED to include the winners.
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Super 8: ILM’s production value on screen
We talk to senior ILM visual effects supervisor Dennis Muren and animation supervisor Paul Kavanagh about realizing the visual effects in J.J. Abrams’ Super 8.
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