A twist to the Willis O’Brien tale

Cinefex has uncovered a new side to the revered stop motion and effects ‘pioneer’ Willis O’Brien.

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In-house production: making a TVC

We talk to Dutch studio The Ambassadors about their work from start to finish on a fully CG ‘claymation’ animated television commercial.

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Storyboarding the Star Wars universe

A new book presents storyboards and concept art discovered in the Lucasfilm archives from the original Star Wars trilogy.

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The making of Electro

Watch how Sony Pictures Imageworks turned Jamie Foxx into Electro for The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

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FMX 2014: Houdini Engine for Cinema 4D & RealFlow 2014

In our final report from FMX2014, we cover the announcement that Cinema 4D will be supporting the Houdini Engine as well as have a sneak peek at the upcoming RealFlow 2014.

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Arnold: used to help in the fight against child exploitation

In a real world operation, ‘Sweetie” was a completely virtual girl rendered in Arnold and driven in realtime by an operator, then used in chat rooms to interact with internet predators.

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FMX 2014: day three/four report

We have a variety of sessions in our third recap from FMX. This includes a panel discussion on applying animation pipelines to vfx, the Arnold Renderer workshop, Shotgun, Rush, and Paul Debevec.

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FMX 2014: day two report

FMX day two, with a variety of presentations on films, commercials, animation, and more. With some help from Matt Leonard, we recap a few of the day’s offerings including the sneak peek at Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.

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MODO 801 – just released

Find out what’s new in The Foundry’s latest release of MODO.

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FMX 2014: day one report

FMX 2014 got underway in Stuttgart, Germany on Tuesday. Over the years, this has become Europe’s premiere VFX related conference and this year is no exception. We recap some of the highlights from the first day, with help from fxphd prof Matt Leonard.

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VFX in TVCs: amazing baby and amazing SUV

Behind the scenes of two recent TVCs for Evian and Nissan with VFX by Mikros Image and Digital Domain.

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Divergent’s digi-environments and creatures

In this bonus article for fxinsiders, find out more about the digital environments and CG work in Divergent.

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fxinsider bonus videos: more on ILM’s Noah vfx

In these bonus videos for fxinsiders, we talk to ILM’s Grady Cofer & Philippe Rebours about the ‘creation’ sequence in Noah & the Watcher characters. Thanks for being a member.

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The Winter Soldier: ILM’s Helicarrier crash: Exclusive

See how ILM crashed a Helicarrier in this video on Marvel’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

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Foundry NAB live stream

fxguide won’t be doing live streaming from NAB this year, but The Foundry will be doing two live streams from the show: an “exclusive announcement” on Monday and four hours of streaming from the booth on Tuesday.

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Adobe video apps – what’s coming

Adobe has announced a suite of updates for its Creative Cloud video apps – Premiere Pro CC, After Effects CC and Adobe Anywhere.

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NVIDIA GPU Tech Conference: report 2

We recap presentations from MPC, Pixar, Fabric Engine, and Red Giant about how they are exploring and using GPU tech in their facilities or projects.

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Checking in on The Foundry’s FLIX

DreamWorks Animation is the latest studio to adopt The Foundry’s story development tool FLIX.

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NVIDIA GPU Tech Conference: day 1 report

Our day one coverage of the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference includes highlights from the keynote by NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang as well as the Octane Renderer 2.0 announcement.

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Catching up with V-Ray’s founders (& V-Ray 3.0 for Maya)

We sit down with Chaos Group founders Vladimir Koylazov and Peter Mitev to discuss the latest with V-Ray and what you can expect into the future.

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Like an animated painting: Child of Light

Part 1 of a making of series for Ubisoft’s painterly role-playing game Child of Light.

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Virtual production: Animatrik

We talk to Animatrik Film Design about their approach to virtual production work.

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Red Giant takes on the Universe

Find out what Red Giant Universe is and what it means for you.

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3DEqualizer – German precision where vfx needs it

A tracking Q&A about 3DEqualizer with the co-founder of Science.D.Visions Rolf Schneider.

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