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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Sinbad: The Mill’s effects voyage
VFX supe David Houghton from The Mill tells us about the elemental visual effects in the new TV series Sinbad.
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fxpodcast #224: Jim Blinn – the full interview
Here is the audio interview with Jim Blinn (see also our fxguide story for images and more background).
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Founders Series: industry legend Jim Blinn
Ivan Sutherland once commented: “There are about a dozen great computer graphics people, and Jim Blinn is six of them.” We are proud to interview the man who invented bump maps, did the JPL flybys and taught us so much.
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Blackmagic Design Acquires Assets of Cintel International
Blackmagic Design has acquired the intellectual property and all aspects of Cintel’s entire portfolio of film scanning products. This includes all of the IP, name and brand ownership and product development rights…
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the vfx show #152: The Dark Knight Rises
Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond and TyRuben Ellingson discuss the visual effects in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises.
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DMM: FEA for VFX
A look back at the success of Pixelux’s finite element analysis tool DMM – from LucasArts’ The Force Unleashed to MPC’s Prometheus ship destructions. And a peek into a new pre-made VFX online store using DMM tech.
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