In Memoriam: Sande Scoredos
The Visual Effects Society reports that Sande Scoredos, who served as Executive Director of Training and Artist Development At Sony Pictures Imageworks for the past 12-plus years passed away Saturday morning after a prolonged illness. More information as well as details about services can be found after the jump…
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Variety reports Montreal’s Fake Studio leaves workers unpaid
David S. Cohen reports in an article today in Variety that Montreal’s Fake Studio (part of Camera e-Motion Group) has left a handful of VFX artists unpaid since April for work done on the film Piranha 3D. The article discusses the familiar nature to the Meteor story, mentions the Visual Effects business as a Ponzi […]
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CVMP 2010 London: November 17-18th
This year’s This year’s Conference on Visual Media and Production is taking place in London on November 17th and 18th. The event provides an outlet for production and post personnel to discuss the latest technology and research impacting the field. If you like geeking out about the tech side of things with research impacting the […]
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Resolve on Mac gets closer
Blackmagic Design has announced their support for RED Rocket in both Mac and Linux configurations. Stereo .R3D playback will be supported with dual Rockets. In both MAC and Lunix installation is aimed to be plug and play. If you do not have Rockets installed, r3d clips are decoded and debayered as per user configurable settings […]
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Going Green
This week Jason and Mike are joined in the Red Room by Doug Purver to discuss is cool Running Spot. Also the guys geek out on SLR sensors and the way Canon builds .CR2 RAW files for the Canon 5D and 7D. Visit the red centre page for direct downloads and RSS feed links. To […]
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New AE Camera Tracker and Kronos from The Foundry
The Foundry have announced two new plugins for Adobe After Effects CS5, a 3D camera tracker based upon the tracking technology from Nuke, and an extremely fast version of their Kronos plugin. It’s a good sign to see some of the Foundry’s research and technology make it’s way to the affordable desktop platform. The Kronos […]
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fxguidetv : Pixar Director Teddy Newton
Before Toy Story 3 was the incredibly successful short film Day and Night. The film is not only creatively entertaining but one of the best uses of stereoscopic animation ever done. This week we speak to Director Teddy Newton. Also from SIGGRAPH, we have a brief look at the SIGGRAPH Job Fair, one of the […]
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Mari Release Event in London
For our readers in London, The Foundry is holding a release event on August 12th for their recently released Mari software. To be held at the VUE in Leicester, the event will be showcase the product from an artist and technical perspective as well as laying out the product roadmap. Click here to register and […]
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SIGGRAPH fxguidetv: PFMatchit and ‘The VES Handbook’
fxguidetv episode #88 takes a look at PFMatchit, the new node-based camera tracking software from The Pixel Farm. The company has completely re-architectured tracking workflow in their new product to build for the future (see the press released posted here last week). Mike Seymour also speaks with Scott Squires, one of the co-editors on The […]
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SIGGRAPH fxguidetv: NVIDIA + Mental Ray
Episode #87: In our first episode from Siggraph 2010 in Los Angeles we catch up with and Mental Images. Check back later for more Siggraph coverage including Pixar’s Teddy Newton: Director of Day and Night, VFX supervisor Scott Squires and more… Visit the fxguidetv page for direct fxguidetv downloads and RSS feed links. To be […]
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Pixel Farm to Unveil Radical New Tracking Solution at Siggraph
We were already looking forward to Siggraph and here we are in the week before getting releases that make us even more excited to be covering the show. Pixel Farm is using words in the press release that follows that get our full attention “brand new architecture”, “node-based flowgraph architecture” plus they include a quote […]
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The Foundry and Disney launch Groundbreaking Agreement
Advance news from Siggraph is already starting to roll in and here is some big news from The Foundry. The press release and some images are after the jump, but in a nutshell The Foundry is incorporating elements of Disney’s internally developed Paint 3D technology into Mari and Walt Disney Animation Studios’ technology group will […]
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fxpodcast: we nominate Scott Ross
When we talked with Scott Ross about six months ago you let us know by the number of downloads, emails and personal comments that it was one of our most popular podcasts. We check back in with Scott with an unusual proposal, for the duration of the podcast we put him in charge of the […]
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Red Centre 66 with Stu Maschwitz
This week Jason and Mike are joined by Stu Maschwitz, filmmaker and accidental technologist. The guys discuss a recent ProLost post on the issues around SLR digital cinematography as well as the week’s news and an amazing video documentary project Jason is involved with. Please send us your comments red (at) fxguide.com Visit the red […]
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fxguidetv: ILM and Transformers 2
Episode #86 features Industrial Light & Magic’s Jason Billington, going over work done on Transformers 2. The segment, recorded earlier this year at NAB, shows how they used Nuke’s 3D environment to layer footage of explosions and dust over cgi renders. Visit the fxguidetv page for direct fxguidetv downloads and RSS feed links. To be […]
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fxpodcast: Pixar’s Michael Johnson
Dr Michael Johnson discusses the Moving Pictures Group at Pixar and how technology has worked with the Artists over time. Michael has personally worked on every single Pixar film since joining the company in 1995. Before Pixar, Michael was with the Computer Graphics and Animation Group at the MIT, he also worked at Thinking Machines […]
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Academy to Celebrate Petro Vlahos
If you are in Los Angeles on Thursday July 29th, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is holding a tribute to Petro Vlahos. Many of you may know the name from his pioneering work with Ultimatte but he holds many other patents and has been a great innovator in our business. There will […]
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Walt Disney Animation Adopts Nuke + Mari Preview
Another facility officially joins the Nuke family with Walt Disney Animation Studios licensing Nuke for their feature productions workflow. This continues the list of major studios adding Nuke this year, including Framestore, Cinesite, MPC, and Soho VFX. Also, the Foundry have posted a YouTube sneak peek at their new Mari offering. For more information about […]
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Oscar VFX category officially expanded to 5 nominees
The Academy has approved new rules expanding the Visual Effects category from three nominees to five as is the the case is most other categories. Press release with details after the Read More…
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2010 Emmy Nominations announced
Early this morning Sofia Vergara (Modern Family) and Joel McHale (Community) along with Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Chairman-CEO John Shaffner announced the nominees for the 2010 Emmy Awards. After the jump you will find the visual effects, commercial and title design nominees and a link to the complete list.
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Foundry GeekFest at SIGGRAPH Announced
Times have changed when attending a geek fest is cool. Or maybe that’s just me. But you won’t want to miss The Foundry GeekFest taking place on Monday the 26th of July at SIGGRAPH this year. With their acquisitions of Mari and Katana, a 6.1 version of Nuke in sight on their roadmap, a 3D […]
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Academy invites new Members
Each year The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences invites a group of individuals to join their roster as voting members. This year eight animators and twelve visual effects artists are in the group including Eric Barba and Paul Debevec. Congratulations to all those selected, the complete list can be found after the read […]
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New fxpodcast: Science of Storytelling
Most of us live in a world where the most important aspect of our work is that it looks good, tells the story and provides entertainment,… most but not all. There is a small but highly competitive group of artists who’s work needs to be engaging, tell a story but most importantly be completely accurate. […]
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Birth of a Spartan
‘Birth of a Spartan’, an Xbox 360 Halo: Reach trailer directed by Noam Murro for agencytwofifteen, features visual effects by Animal Logic. The trailer follows Carter-259, the future leader of Noble Team, as he undergoes the medical augmentation procedures to become a Spartan III super soldier. Ian Failes takes a look at the work with […]
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