Understanding Magic Bullet(s): a personal quest
The 7 things you need to know about Red Giants Magic Bullet Range, – for those lost but wanting to check out these great tools.
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fxpodcast #237: Carl Rosendahl, from PDI to the future of VFX
Mike speaks to Carl Rosendahl, founder of PDI, venture capitalist & industry titan, about his history and a key VES speech he made mapping out the issues for our industry looking forward. It is a compelling & unapologieticly frank examination.
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Rise of the effects
How DreamWorks Animation used Houdini, cellular automata and other effects techniques on Rise of the Guardians.
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VES Understanding Unions Panel report
From Hollywood, our in depth report from the recent VES panel discussion “Understanding Unions”. Why are visual effects artists not represented by a union? Should they be? How would that work? Why is there no trade association? How do these issues affect the entire industry?
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VFX Oscar Shortlist announced
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 10 films remain in the running in the Visual Effects category for the 85th Academy Awards®.
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Good evening, tonight we have a case of on-set workflow: Hitchcock
We look at the RED camera use and DIT work on Hitchcock using Light Iron’s OUTPOST on set workflow.
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Life of Pi: a tiger’s tale
Bringing to life digital oceans and characters for Ang Lee’s Life of Pi. Includes several making of breakdown videos.
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Twilight’s final battle
Tippet Studio discusses the visual effects behind the final wolf and vampire battle in Breaking Dawn – Part 2.
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fxpodcast #236: Adam Howard VFX Supervisor
This week we speak to Adam Howard, vfx supervisor. We discuss his amazing career and touch on his latest film supervising on the last Twilight Film.
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EA – Medal of Honor – DD’s virtual production pipeline
We talk to Digital Domain’s Gary Roberts and Richard Morton about their virtual production pipeline for an EA Medal of Honor cinematic spot.
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The Man with the Iron Fists: Making Brass Body
We talk to Gradient Effects about the challenges of creating metal armour for a character in ‘The Man with the Iron Fists’. Includes vfx breakdown.
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Bond’s boldest adventure yet: Skyfall
The practical and digital visual effects behind Skyfall, the latest Bond film from director Sam Mendes.
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fxpodcast #235: Skyfall vfx supe Steve Begg
This week we talk to Steve Begg, the overall visual effects supervisor for the latest James Bond film, Skyfall. Begg discusses working with miniatures, practical effects and CG work.
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Bryce Bayer RIP (Bayer Filter/sensor Kodak scientist)
Bryce Bayer, the Eastman Kodak scientist who invented a now pivotal color filter for digital photography that bears his name, has passed away. Bayer, 83, died on November 13th in Bath, Maine.
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the rc #121: First world problems
This week in our digital cinematography podcast, Jason and Mike discuss some 4K projectors – Red pricing, getting involved and some ‘first world problems’ …
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the vfx show #158: Skyfall
Mike Seymour, Matt D. Leonard and Ed Moore discuss the visual effects in the latest James Bond film, Skyfall.
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Academy’s Tech Council Adds Eight New Members
Doug Cooper, Paul Debevec, Ray Feeney, Josh Pines, David Stump, Steve Sullivan, Bill Taylor and Beverly Wood have accepted invitations to join the Science and Technology Council of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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SIGGRAPH Asia in Singapore – just 2 weeks away
Now only two weeks away, we take a final look at what’s in store for SIGGRAPH Asia 2012 in Singapore.
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