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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Remembering Softimage

Ex-ILMer Steve ‘Spaz’ Williams shares a story about working with Softimage during the making of Jurassic Park. Autodesk has just announced the software is EOL.

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Stories from Pompeii

Find out how Mr. X destroyed Pompeii, got their teaser trailer imagery into the final film and delivered one particularly crucial shot.

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And the winner is…

Gravity has won the VFX Oscar at this year’s Academy Awards.

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ADAPT releases first video

ADAPT (Asso­ci­a­tion of Dig­i­tal Artists, Pro­fes­sion­als & Tech­ni­cians) has released a video titled “Corporate Welfare For Hollywood?”

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Another big visual effects business news day

The MPAA wants trade courts to consider the use of electronic means to distribute intellectual property to be treated the same as physical goods, LA City Council hears testimony, Life After Pi has been released and ADAPT is announced.

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Watch Dolby’s short film ‘Silent’ (updated)

See behind the scenes of the wonderful short film ‘Silent’ made by Dolby and Moonbot Studios. UPDATED with exclusive breakdown video and original artwork.

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Life After Pi and Oscar march plans

A documentary following the bankruptcy of Rhythm & Hues as it won the Oscar for Life of Pi and plans for a second protest march at the Oscars.

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Gravity wins VFX BAFTA

Gravity took out the visual effects gong at the 2014 BAFTA Awards.

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fxguide at the SciTechs

In this special gallery we feature images taken by fxguide at the Scientific and Technical Awards.

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SciTech Awards: from FiLMBOX to MotionBuilder

We talk to one of the original developers of FiLMBOX, which became MotionBuilder, and is soon to be recognized with a SciTech Award.

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12th Annual VES Awards – the winners

LIVE COVERAGE: fxguide is at the VES Awards in Los Angeles tonight, and we’ll be updating this post with all the winners plus photos from the evening.

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fxinsider: bonus full-length LEGO Movie interview

In this special bonus for fxinsider members, we present a full-length interview with Animal Logic CG supervisor Aidan Sarsfield on The LEGO Movie.

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Behind the scenes of Weta Digital’s Smaug

Exclusive Weta Digital breakdowns of Smaug, one of the animated characters featured in this year’s Visual Effects Awards nominations. Plus see our ‘Desolation of Smaug’ eBook.

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