VES Career Fair & Workshops
On June 25th, the Visual Effects Society is holding a Career Fair with representatives from many visual effects companies who are looking to meet new talent. Companies hosting booths include Walt Disney Animation Studios, MPC, Sony Imageworks, Digital Domain, Deluxe, Technicolor and many more.
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Academy invites 178 to Membership
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the list of people invited to join as Academy Members for 2011. The list includes thirteen animators, two art directors, nine cinematographers, nine editors and twelve people in the visual effects category.
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Retro spotlight: A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Tony Hudson, who worked at ILM as the CG Model and Creature Supervisor on A.I. Artificial Intelligence, outlines some of his favorite memories from the experience.
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X-Men: First Class – Q&A with John Dykstra
Visual effects designer John Dysktra oversaw 1100 shots for X-Men: First Class. We ask his thoughts on designing effects for the film and how he approached grounding those in a mutant reality.
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Making mutants for X-Men: First Class
In this in-depth article, we take a look at effects for the major characters in X-Men: First Class and the film’s final showdown.
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MPC’s pirates & their ships sail on Stranger Tides
We talk to MPC’s visual effects supervisor Gary Brozenich about some of his studio’s shots for On Stranger Tides, and working for the first time in native stereo.
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Paws, claws and jaws in Attack the Block
We take a look at Fido’s CG fur, paws, claws and jaws for the film Attack the Block, with before and after pics, concept art and screenshots. Warning: spoilers.
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London calling for Pirates 4 at Cinesite
We talk to Cinesite about their visual effects contribution to Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, with the work spanning a carriage chase sequence through London, CG toads and the creation of Barbossa’s peg leg.
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Priest: not your average vampire movie
We take a look at just some of the 750 effects shots in Priest by Tippett Studio, Spin VFX, Svengali FX, Spy Post and The Senate.
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Psyop tested to perfection
For ‘Tested To Perfection’, a Castrol TVC for the company’s newly reformulated EDGE motor oil, Psyop was called upon to help create an elaborate test track complete with giant engine parts and a hero made of oil going through its paces. We talk to Jamie Scott (2D lead and co-vfx supervisor) and Tony Barberi (technical […]
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Elastic opens Game of Thrones
We speak to Creative Director Angus Wall from Elastic about designing and executing the two and half minute opening titles for Game of Thrones.
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VES 2.0 is here and ready to lead
The Visual Effects Society (VES) today released an open letter to “VFX Artists And The Entertainment Industry At Large” announcing VES 2.0, we talk with Jeffrey A. Okun, Chair of VES.
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Dutch Tilt – how much should you be paid?
We spoke to Jules van Den Steenhoven of the NSC about their new iPhone & iPad app that maps global salaries for production and post professionals. Some things like this have been tried in the past, none it would seem as successfully as the NSC’s app is proving to be. But what was their approach to gathering this information and how current is it? Does it take into account month to month currency fluctuation? And just why is this being done by the NSC anyway?
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The latest from Rok!t Studio
We talk to Rok!t Studio creative director Steve Viola about two recent projects – opening titles for Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family and stereo animation work for the Justin Bieber bio Never Say Never.
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Bear of a time at Cannes
Director Nash Edgerton along with producer Lauren Edwards have just completed a week at Cannes with the short film Bear.
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Digital Domain buys site license of KATANA
The Foundry announced today that Digital Domain has purchased a site license for KATANA, making them the first customer of the product. We caught up with Bill Collis for an update on this news as well as more info about open source and support of the recent deep compositing spec that’s part of OpenEXR 2.0
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Pixar’s Chris Ford on RenderMan Pro Server 16.0
We talk to RenderMan Business Director Chris Ford about some of the key features of the new RenderMan Pro Server 16.0 release.
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Mirada dreams of black for ROME
We thought we’d point you to some of the latest work from Mirada, the new studio collaboration between director Guillermo del Toro, director Mathew Cullen, cinematographer Guillermo Navarro and executive producer Javier Jimenez.
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Realms, robots & rainbow bridges: crafting Thor
We talk to Thor visual effects supervisor Wesley Sewell and some of the VFX vendors about a few key sequences from Kenneth Branagh’s film of the Marvel comic.
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Kessler Motion control slider : the rc bonus extra
In this bonus RC video, we speak to Eric Kessler about the new Motion Control Slider – first shown at NAB 2011.
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Cooke Panchros: the rc bonus extra
We caught up with Les Zellan from Cooke Lens. Cooke recently we introduced the Panchros (or Mini-S4s as Les jokes). We talk to Les and test drove the lens.
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FMX 2011 – Day Four
The final day of FMX 2011 included a Harry Potter VFX tribute and presentations on animated films and games. We also talk to Proof’s Ron Frankel about the concept of stereo previs.
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FMX 2011 – Day Three
More impressive talks punctuated day three at FMX 2011. We take a look at some of the highlights and sit down with ILM’s Tim Alexander and Patrick Cohen to discuss Rango.
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FMX 2011 – Day Two
Day two at FMX 2011 brought a major announcement from Weta Digital and The Foundry, along with some great presentations on virtual characters. We also speak to Molinare’s Dayne Cowan about The King’s Speech.
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MPC on track with Fast Five
MPC visual effects supervisor Guillaume Rocheron breaks down the train heist sequence from Fast Five.
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yU+co captures crime for Call of Juarez: The Cartel
We cover yU+Co’s work on the ‘Call of Juarez: The Cartel’ trailer by animation director Richard Taylor and the facial capture tech from Depth Analysis, with an exclusive insider making of video.
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FMX 2011 – Day One
A round up of our first day at FMX 2011 in Stuttgart.
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Outcasts: creating the darkside of space
We talk to Darkside Animation about their work for the BBC series Outcasts and present several break down clips from the show.
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Glassworks manipulates metal and builds a baby
We take a look at two recent TVC’s featuring visual effects from Glassworks – ‘Baby’ and ‘Manipulation’ – completed by artists in London and Amsterdam.
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Engine Room makes a splash with Soul Surfer
We talk to Engine Room founder and VFX supervisor Dan Schmit about creating more than 750 shots for the inspiring true story of Soul Surfer.
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