fxguidetv #148: Men In Black 3

May 28, 2012

This week we sit down with Sony Pictures Imageworks to discuss their impressive visual effects in the hit: Men In Black 3.

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fxguidetv #147: FMX – Virtual production

May 22, 2012

In our second fxguidetv report from FMX 2012, we talk to Autodesk’s David Morin about the new wave in virtual production and to Digital Domain’s Erik Nash on how it was used so successfully on Real Steel. And we speak with Glassworks Amsterdam’s Rüdiger Kaltenhäuser about a CG origami commercial.

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fxguidetv #146: FMX – The Third Floor & RealFlow

May 15, 2012

This week we are at FMX and we talk to Chris Edwards, CEO & creative director of The Third Floor and Gustavo Sanchez-Perez, RealFlow product manager, at Next Limit.

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fxguidetv #145: AE and Adobe CS6

May 8, 2012

John Montgomery heads to Adobe HQ, where fxguide was given exclusive access to the After Effects development team in Seattle for the CS6 release.

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fxguidetv #144: NUKE and OCULA in action

May 1, 2012

This week we have a stereo shot correction tutorial on NUKE and OCULA from Mr. X visual effects supervisor Aaron Weintraub based on his studio’s work for TRON: Legacy.

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fxguidetv #143: Flame 20th anniversary – the recent years

April 10, 2012

After 20 years, flame is still going strong. To celebrate the anniversary, we visit with Autodesk’s Philippe Soeiro for a discussion on the renaissance of Flame, as well as highlight some of the new features in the 2013 release.

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fxguidetv #142: NUKE Skies for Happy Feet 2

April 6, 2012

Continuing our popular series of artist breakdowns in NUKE, VFX Supervisor Alex Fry takes us through the pipeline used to create the skies for Happy Feet 2.

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fxguidetv #141: Cinesite and John Carter

March 30, 2012

Cinesite production director Courtney Vanderslice discusses the moving mining city of Zodanga in ‘John Carter’ and Cinesite’s stereo conversion work.

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fxguidetv #140: Future parkour, by Mirada

March 20, 2012

We go behind the scenes with Mirada on their work for the Wrigley’s 5 Gum ‘Choose Your Energy’ TVC – a futuristic parkour-inspired piece directed by Jon Favreau.

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fxguidetv #139: COPA’s Turn Me On music vid

March 14, 2012

We talk to COPA co-founder and VFX supervisor Alex Frisch about ‘Turn Me On,’ a music video for David Guetta and Nicki Minaj, and about how the new virtual studio used collaboration tools to complete the work across the globe.

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fxguidetv #138: CVMP Conference

March 9, 2012

Coverage from CVMP, a conference that brings together image science researchers and creatives in production and post. Excerpts from papers on Automatic Object Segmentation from Calibrated Images and HD Stereoscopic Free Viewpoint Video.

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fxguidetv #137: This Means War

March 2, 2012

This week we’re at Method Studios in LA talking to VFX supe Mitchell Drain and Flame artist Ian Holland about their work for This Means War. Some of the 400 shots included full 3D rendering of effects objects and props – and a car – in Flame.

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fxguidetv #136: John Knoll on Stereo

February 21, 2012

In this week’s episode we are at ILM talking to John Knoll about stereo. John supervised the conversion of Star Wars – Episode One: The Phantom Menace, and Mike sits down with him to discuss this and stereo 3D in general.

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fxguidetv #135: Sci-Tech Oscars 2012

February 17, 2012

In this week’s episode we are at the 2012 Scientific and Technical Oscars in Hollywood. We have an in-depth discussion with industry veteran Douglas Trumbull about the technical possibilities of future cinema, and catch up with ARRI to talk Master Primes and the new Alexa Studio and Alexa M cameras.

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fxguidetv #134: 10th Annual VES Awards

February 9, 2012

We report from the 10th Annual VES Awards hosted by Patton Oswalt this week in Los Angeles and speak to many of the award winners, plus Rob Legato, Stan Lee and Douglas Trumbull.

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