BAFTA Film Awards winners

By Jeff Heusser | February 10, 2013 | 0 Comments

…Anna Karenina had six. Django Unchained and Zero Dark Thirty were each nominated five times. Here are the winners for selected categories: Life of Pi.   Special Visual Effects Life Of Pi Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer Transcript of acceptance speech: BILL WESTENHOFER:… 5 Matches ( life: 5)

Life After Pi and Oscar march plans

By Jeff Heusser | February 21, 2014 | 3 Comments

Last year, while Life of Pi was sweeping award season, the primary company behind the visual effects was heading into bankruptcy. A protest outside the Oscars was organized that drew almost 500 people. Once the Oscar’s actually began visual effects artists were energized further by… 5 Matches ( life: 5)

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

By Mike Seymour | June 20, 2019 | Comments Off on Godzilla: King of the Monsters

…and editors Roger Barton (the Transformers films), Richard Pearson (Kong: Skull Island) and Bob Ducsay (Godzilla). MPC’s Guillaume Rocheron (Life of Pi) was the visual effects supervisor of the 1,535 shots in the film. The principle VFX houses were MPC (630 shots), DNEG, Ollin VFX… 4 Matches ( life: 4)

VFX Union UK: Sausage Party & Nitrogen – an open letter

By Jeff Heusser | August 22, 2016 | Comments Off on VFX Union UK: Sausage Party & Nitrogen – an open letter

…are becoming an embarrassingly regular occurrence in our industry. From the infamous MPC Variety article, to the Life of Pi Oscar debacle, time and again we’ve found our industry’s troubles in the spotlight. We’ve seen reports of a client saying “If I don’t put a… 4 Matches ( life: 4)

Kubo and the Two Strings: water effects

By John Montgomery | September 6, 2016 | 1 Comment

…the problem of creating digital photo-realistic water and making it feel like it belongs in Kubo’s stop motion environment. While the shuttering of Rhythm and Hues after the release of Life of Pi was truly unfortunate, it did provide an opportunity for Kubo. Emerson immediately… 4 Matches ( life: 4)

24 VFX professionals invited into the Academy

By Jeff Heusser | July 1, 2013 | 0 Comments

…De Boer – “Life of Pi,” “Night at the Museum” Donald R. Elliott – “Life of Pi,” “Seabiscuit” John Goodson – “Red Tails,” “Marvel’s The Avengers” Charley Henley – “Prometheus,” “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” John McLeod – “Django Unchained,” “The Aviator”… 4 Matches ( life: 4)

Unionizing efforts in the UK

By Jeff Heusser | December 4, 2015 | 4 Comments

Life of Pi, Rhythm and Hues who-ha… and I thought ’this is great when is everything going to start happening? And then, nothing happened”. About a year later Paul encouraged people at a meeting to start a committee and Joe joked that everyone else stepped… 3 Matches ( life: 3)

Voodoo magic

By Mike Seymour | August 5, 2014 | 10 Comments

Think back to some of the most outstanding creatures in recent films, and Rhythm & Hues will come up as one of the key visual effects studios behind that work – Richard Parker in Life of Pi or perhaps Aslan in The Lion, The Witch… 3 Matches ( life: 3)

The art of deep compositing

By Mike Seymour | February 27, 2014 | 9 Comments

…size productions and even TVCs. Films such as Life of Pi, Prometheus, Man of Steel, Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Avengers, Pacific Rim, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug all used deep data in deep compositing pipelines. Not only do major renderers and programs such… 3 Matches ( life: 3)

fxguide’s guide to FMX 2013

By Ian Failes | April 2, 2013 | 0 Comments

…FMX is its wide breadth of presentations on visual effects. Just to name a few, you’ll hear about concept design on Pacific Rim (William Cheng, Set Designer), Cloud Atlas (RISE), Life of Pi (Rhythm & Hues), Framestore’s Galaxy Audrey Hepburn spot, The Mill on their… 3 Matches ( life: 3)