Congrats to our HP EliteBook Winner
We got some great entries for our HP EliteBook giveaway, but there can only be one winner. And that winner is Chris Hocking, whose “server room shower” took top place with an inventive install to get the job done in pinch. Click through for more images as well as some impressions of running The Foundry’s Mari on the EliteBook.
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Busted! How The Mill helped Mythbusters blow stuff up
We go behind the scenes with The Mill for a Discovery Channel Mythbusters promo using motion control, practical elements and CG.
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Your Highness: A little bit of Framestore magic
Framestore visual effects supervisor Mike McGee talks about collaborating closely with the Your Highness filmmakers.
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Mr. X’s spy effects for Hanna
We talk to Mr. X visual effects supervisor Brendan Taylor about his work for Joe Wright’s coming-of-age espionage thriller, Hanna.
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ZYNC: get your own vast renderfarm – instantly
We speak exclusively to Atomic Fiction and Zero vfx, about their use of ZYNC cloud computing.
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The Easter Bunny lives, in Hop
In Hop, teenage rabbit E.B. laments his impending crowning as the new Easter Bunny and instead makes way for Hollywood. Director Tim Hill called on Rhythm & Hues to realize E.B. and the film’s other anthropomorphized animals as CG creations.
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De-compiling the VFX of Source Code
For Source Code, director Duncan Jones looked to visual effects supervisor Louis Morin to help realize 850 shots of trains, explosions, virtual transitions and other crucial sequences in the film.
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Q&A with Ross Shain from Imagineer
As NAB approaches, we’re starting to mark the showfloor map of products we’d like to check out. We’ve always been big fans of the tech behind Imagineer’s products over the years, so we thought we’d get a bit of an update from Imagineer’s Ross Shain. We chat about how the company started, the expanding user base, and how the development of the never-released mogul effected the company.
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Opening the door to The Adjustment Bureau
In The Adjustment Bureau, two lovers played by Matt Damon and Emily Blunt find themselves kept apart by mysterious business men in hats. Visual effects supervisor Mark Russell enabled several portal door transitions and a signature ‘Escher stairs’ sequence to reveal the Bureau’s secret world.
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The tale of the wolf: Red Riding Hood
In Red Riding Hood, a terrifying werewolf haunts the inhabitants of a medieval village. Rhythm & Hues tells us how they brought the wolf to life for this modern re-telling of the classic fairytale.
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Fractal zooms and other side effects in Limitless
The best part about vfx is when someone comes up with a cool new original look or shot, we talk to Look Effects and Comen VFX about creating the amazing fractal zooms and out-of-body moments in Limitless, designed as an inside glimpse to the power of a new fictitious wonder drug.
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Rob Legato Special Edition
We had such a wonderful time interviewing Rob Legato for fxguidetv that we filmed a lot more than we could possibly use in fxguidetv alone. So here for fxinsider members only, we have an additional “part 2” of that interview (with some real treats). Rob discusses shot design on Apollo 13, use of stereo on […]
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Paul: Double Negative’s alien adventure
With Paul, Double Negative adds to its already impressive list of visual effects credits through a major character animation show. We talk to animation supervisor Anders Beer and visual effects producer Hal Couzens about the film.
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Rising Sun Pictures finds The Way Back
In The Way Back, a group of prisoners escape a Siberian Gulag camp during World War II and trek many, many miles through Mongolia, China and over the Himalayas to India. Director Peter Weir called on Rising Sun Pictures to create 200 visual effects shots to complement the harrowing journey. We talk to visual effects supervisor Dennis Jones.
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HDRx: The Impossible Shot
Every camera – film or digital – has limits of exposure latitude. With the EPIC those limits just got pushed…a lot.
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Storm & Nuke on set with Space Digital
The Foundry released STORM 1.0 recently, but it’s already been widely in use in production during the beta process. Manchester-based Space Digital utilized the app along with Nuke, some Apple TVs, and Dropbox to create a useful on-set workflow for a recent Castrol engine oil project.
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Introducing Silverdraft Mobileviz
Silverdraft invited fxguide to tour Mobileviz, a 53 foot trailer with some serious and unique tech on board. Join us as we find out what users plan to do with 30 teraflops, 1536 cores and 20TB of SSD storage in a mobile configuration.
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Cinesite runs rings around Battle: LA
The arrival of destructive beings on the west coast of the U.S. in Battle: Los Angeles is heralded by a unique take on alien spaceship technology: mysterious smoke rings. The rings, used heavily in the film’s marketing, were created by Cinesite and from their visual effects supe Ben Shepherd.
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Aiding the invasion in Battle: Los Angeles
In Battle: Los Angeles, the Californian city once again finds itself under attack from alien invaders. Visual effects supervisor Everett Burrell and an army of effects artists wrought havoc on the city as well as realizing the other-worldly warriors.
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Carlyle Group acquires stake in The Foundry
The Carlyle Group announced that it has acquired a significant majority stake in The Foundry, from Advent Venture Partners and other stakeholders. What does this mean for facilities and artists using the company’s software? In an fxguide exclusive, Mike Seymour caught up with Foundry CEO Bill Collis to get the scoop.
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Storm Launch
Last night The Foundry hosted a launch event for STORM at RED Studios in Hollywood. STORM is a software solution aimed at improving RED workflow for on set, review and finish. The event focused on people who have been using the beta version in production sharing their real world experience. No event at RED would […]
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Revv-ealing effects: Drive Angry 3D
Director Patrick Lussier’s Drive Angry 3D tells the fantastical story of a vengeful father who escapes from hell to save his granddaughter. VFX supe Glenn Neufeld takes us through the key effects shots and how he used them to help slowly reveal some of the film’s key surprises.
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Back to NBA’s future with a52
Vancouver. 1996. A young Steve Nash is visited by a fan from the future whose life was changed by the NBA superstar. But it’s all thanks to visual effects from a52. Lead Flame artist Glyn Tebbut guides us through how this ‘Nash’ future kid spot for the NBA was realised. We also have a making of clip.
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Autodesk 2012 releases: change is good
For the first time ever, Autodesk announced new versions of their creative applications on a single global launch day. There are new 2012 versions of Flame, Smoke, Maya, 3ds Max, Softimage, MotionBuilder, and Mudbox. We have information about the new releases as well as details about some key structural changes that have the teams working together more than ever before.
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Flame 2012 New Feature Videos
fxguidetv covers the new 2012 Flame Premium release from Autodesk. But there’s way more in the new releases than we had time to show.. We have over two hours of additional and unedited overview videos with Product Designer Philippe Soeiro from Autodesk.
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Reach for the Sky: MPC goes full circle
Scenes of Monument Valley, NYC, the English countryside, a distant space station & a vast icescape were brought to life as a continuous shot by MPC in a recent stereo spot for Sky Movies. We chat to MPC’s 3D supervisor Duncan McWilliam about shooting the 360 degree pan in stereo, creating worlds and then stitching it altogether.
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STORM 1.0 Now Shipping
After a winter of beta testing, The Foundry have released the first version of STORM, their digital workflow app for RED files. It’s now available for purchase on The Foundry’s web site for 375USD/250GBP/300EUR. Click through for the full press release.
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Highlights from the Oscars
Congratulations to all the Oscar winners from the 83rd Annual Academy Awards. Here are some of the highlights from the awards ceremony.
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Today was EPIC
Today the rollout for the new RED EPIC-M continued and fxphd was there to get one of the very few cameras now out in the wild. Jeff Heusser and Mike Seymour spent the day at RED, not only running through the new 5K EPIC and it’s advanced new features, but also looking at a few new features still in development.
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Life with the EliteBook: DreamColor Calibration
The previous “life with” article was an overview of the DreamColor display and why it’s especially suited for our field. In this installment, we examine the HP-branded software and hardware used to calibrate the monitor and ensure the colors you’re viewing are accurate.
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