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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Scientific and Technical Oscar – 2012 consideration list announced
Award season kicks off with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announcing the list of seven achievements under consideration for the 2012 Scientific and Technical Awards at the Oscars.
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the vfx show #153: Total Recall (2012)
Mike Seymour, Matt Wallin and Jason Diamond discuss the visual effects in the new 2012 version of Total Recall.
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The making of Cookie Monster’s ‘Share It Maybe’
Cookie Monster’s ‘Share Me Maybe’ has had more than 8 million views on YouTube. We look at how The Diamond Brothers directed the video and how the new DaVinci Resolve 9 was used for finishing.
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Death of Naiad. Horse’s head in the bed or vast opportunity?
Autodesk effectively bought the heart and soul of Exotic Matter (EM) but not the company. It purchased the rights to the technology, leaving the product Naiad completely dead. It will not be developed, supported or individually developed past the current version.
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More from SIGGRAPH 2012
In our end of week update from SIGGRAPH, we cover news from Side Effects, the RenderMan user group, NVIDIA, Massive, Open Source, Dreamworks, and the Weta Virtual Production session.
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fxpodcast #225: Dneg’s new lighting pipeline
Philippe Leprince, Head of Lighting & Rendering at Double Negative, talks to Mike Seymour about Dneg’s new lighting and rendering pipeline, which came into play for Total Recall.
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