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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fxphd live: practical effects & digital integration
Practical 3-day workshop on fx, pyro, greenscreen and digital techniques from Oscar-nominated VFX experts.
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From Speed to Spidey: 20 years of VFX and animation
A timeline of films and tech innovations over 20 years from Sony Pictures Imageworks and Sony Pictures Animation.
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Tandent Lightbrush: engineering an image
Tandent’s Lightbrush tool allows artists to manipulate surface colors and shading separately in a still image.
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fxpodcast #226: A single-shot light probe
This week we talk to Paul Debevec from the USC ICT about a SIGGRAPH paper on a single-shot light probe – a new light probe with both diffuse and specular materials that can capture the full dynamic range of complex lighting conditions in one standard digital photograph.
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End of an era: Matte World Digital and Fuel
In two sad developments, Matte World Digital today announced it has closed its doors while Fuel VFX has gone into voluntary administration.
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the rc #117: Nurses, Judo and BMC
Jason and Mike rat hole about the week, new cameras and talk to DOP Jim Geduldick about Blind Judoka, a ‘TakePart TV’ YouTube show which tells the story of blind athlete Jordan Mouton and how she has qualified in Team USA for the Paralympics.
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How James Bond met the Queen, and other Olympics effects
Visual effects helped shaped the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony – we look at some Olympics and Paralympics VFX notables.
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the vfx show #154: The Bourne Legacy
Mike Seymour, Matt Wallin and Mark Christensen discuss the visual effects in The Bourne Legacy.
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Cinesite’s fresh start
Recently sold to private backers, Cinesite has moved sans-Kodak into a difficult visual effects climate. So where is the company at the moment, and what does the future hold? We sat down with Cinesite VFX supe Simon Stanley-Clamp to find out.
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Method lends a hand
Behind the scenes of three documentary promos for SBS by Method Studios. Includes a making of clip.
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The tech behind ParaNorman
A quick look at the tech behind LAIKA’s latest 3D stop-motion animated film ParaNorman and a timelapse video of the animators at work.
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Back for more mayhem: The Expendables 2
VFX supe Ajoy Mani on WorldwideFX’s work for The Expendables 2, with two breakdown reels.
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