the vfx show #156: King Kong
Mike Seymour, Matt Wallin and TyRuben Ellingson discuss the visual effects in Peter Jackson’s King Kong.
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Indy on blu-ray, and more
John Rhys-Davies, who played Sallah in Indiana Jones, talks to us about the Indy blu-ray release. Plus we check out some other blu-ray and DVDs with effects-heavy featurettes.
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fxpodcast #228: ICT’s Abhijeet Ghosh
This week we talk to Abhijeet Ghosh from the USC Institute for Creative Technologies about a range of issues relating to polarized light, surface normals, Brewster’s angle and the reproduction of human skin, which he spoke about recently at SIGGRAPH 2012 in LA.
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How to sell cars: dancing hamsters, singing robots
The Kia hamsters are back. We look at Method’s VFX in a new TVC, plus the work of The Embassy for a new Citroen robot spot. Updated with a Method breakdown reel.
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Creative Arts Emmy Winners
The Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards were held tonight in Los Angeles. And the winners are… Plus we have breakdowns of Pixomondo’s GOT VFX, and Brainstorm Digital’s work for Boardwalk Empire.
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the rc #118: Everyone gets a new camera
This week, Jason and Mike discuss new cameras from Sony, Canon, Red, Nikon and BlackMagic plus new camera kit from IBC trade show in Europe.
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Open letter response to David Cohen, Variety
An open letter to Variety’s David Cohen, who has suggested VFX today are boring.
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Creative strength in advertising / behavioral change
What is the future of creativity in advertising? It may well be walking away from the 30 sec ad format and starting over with a whole new approach focusing instead on behavioral change. At the forefront of this is Naked Communications. Mike spoke in Sydney to co-founder Adam Ferrier.
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Monsters, moths and MRIs: The Possession
Released on the Labor Day weekend, The Possession surprised many at the box office, taking in more than $21 million. Artifex Studios VFX supe Adam Stern outlines the spooky visual effects. Now with making-of VFX reel.
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Digital Domain shuts down Florida studio; LA/Vancouver Still Open
After defaulting on debt earlier this week, Digital Domain announced today it is closing its Port St. Lucie, Florida operations. They intend to operate California and Vancouver without interruption. Click through for the press release.
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Hiero 1.5, Hieroplayer and Nuke 7 from The Foundry
The Foundry today formally announced Hiero 1.5, Hieroplayer and Nuke 7.
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NVIDIA to launch Quadro K5000 card for Mac
NVIDIA announced today that it will be releasing a new Kepler Quadro K5000 card for Mac later this year. Running up to two times faster than the current gen Quadro 4000, it’s good to see a higher level card make it to the Mac platform.
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the vfx show #155: Falling Skies
Mike Seymour, Matt Wallin and Ian Failes discuss episodic television visual effects in the sci-fi series, Falling Skies.
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fxpodcast #227 – Effects DOP Marty Rosenberg
This week, a special re-broadcast of an interview with renowned Effects DOP Marty Rosenberg. This ep coincides with the announcement of our fxphd live practical fx & digital integration workshop at 32TEN Studios in California. (Recorded just after Kerner had become separate from ILM).
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Bonus Imageworks interviews
In this bonus video for fxinsider members we have extended interviews with Imageworks VFX supes Ken Ralston and Jay Redd, and Imageworks CTO Rob Bredow (all with new additional content). This year Imageworks is celebrating its 20th anniversary.
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New tech: Adobe Anywhere
Adobe’s Anywhere software is being announced this week at IBC, and we’ve got an early look at the collaborative editing solution.
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Pixel Farm’s PFDepth: exclusive first look
We have an exclusive preview of PFDepth, The Pixel Farm’s new tool for creating stereo images from mono footage via depth maps.
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SIGGRAPH Asia speaker profile – the father of MP3
fxguide is once again the official podcast of SIGGRAPH Asia, being held in Singapore from November 28th to December 1st. We’ll be talking to several speakers and presenters from the conference, including our first guest – Professor Karlheinz Brandenburg – the so-called ‘father of MP3.’
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