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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Keeping it real: Total Recall
Inside the hover car chase, ‘in-one-shot’ gun fight, Synths, holograms and destruction vfx for the new Total Recall.
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iPad app beta program for fxinsiders
Thanks to the amazing support of our readers during our fxinsider membership drive, we’ve begun development of our fxguide iPad application. In fact we’re happy to say that thanks to your support, we’ll soon be opening a beta program for testing the application…
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Moving Day – now a free ‘making of’ iBook
We’re proud to announce a free behind the scenes iBook on the making of fxphd’s short film Moving Day.
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SIGGRAPH 2012 opens
Our report from the opening of SIGGRAPH 2012 in Los Angeles looking at major sessions and tech announcements.
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The Foundry releases MARI 1.5
At SIGGRAPH in LA, The Foundry announced they have released MARI 1.5, with new overlapping UV support, Maya texture export, and mirroring in the paint buffer. Click through for the press release from The Foundry.
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How to destroy aliens, a cow and a Costco: The Watch
Animating aliens, blowing up a cow, destroying a Costco: Digital Domain’s effects for The Watch.
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Pixar’s encouraging performance – by giving away the good stuff
Pixar is contributing to the open source community by making their interactive friendly, high speed Open SubDiv available to all.
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The latest in music video VFX
A look at the recent MTV VMA nominations and some other killer music promos.
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DaVinci Resolve 9 public beta released
Blackmagic Design has released the public beta version of their popular color grading tool DaVinci Resolve 9, with an entirely redesigned user interface, and further camera and file type support.
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Laguna College of Art and Design
Laguna College of Art and Design (LCAD) is celebrating its 50th Anniversary. We visited the campus and spoke with Jonathan Burke, President of the University as well as with Catharin Eure, chair of Design.
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the rc #116: Canon M, optical viewfinders
This week Tom sits in for Jason who is returning from filming a doco in the USA. Tom and Mike discuss the New Canon M, old school film processing, the new OLED BOMB from RED, the need for optical viewfinders and much more.
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