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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Ice Age 4: riding the new wave
Blue Sky Studios talks water sims, voxels, sky systems and characters for Ice Age: Continental Drift.
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2012 Emmy Nominations
The 64th Primetime Emmy® Award nominations were announced this morning at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in North Hollywood. The nominees for visual effects related categories are…
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Katana in production: changing the structure of the workflow
The Foundry’s look-dev and lighting tool Katana is being adopted by more and more VFX houses. We take a look at the current state of play with the software. Includes exclusive Katana screenshots from Sony Pictures Imageworks.
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fxpodcast: SIGGRAPH 2012 – Animation Physics
This week we speak to Alejandro Garcia, a professor at San Jose State University, about how an understanding of physics can help achieve believable animation.
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Going bananas: Madagascar 3
DreamWorks Animation’s Scott Peterson tells us all about banana guns and other absurd effects in Madagascar 3.
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the rc #115: Redrock, Spider-Man, Rode audio & more
This week the guys discuss the Blackmagic Cinema Camera, the Canon Cinema EOS C500, the RED EPIC firmware update, Ikonoskop’s A-Cam dII Panchromatic and RØDE Microphones’ Rockumentary comp. Guests in the RED room are Brain Valente of Redrock Micro and Imageworks 3D VFX supe Rob Engle about The Amazing Spider-Man.
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the vfx show #151: The Amazing Spider-Man
Mike Seymour, Matt Leonard and Jason Diamond discuss the visual effects in The Amazing Spider-Man.
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Greenscreen to small screen: three great ads
Behind the scenes of 3 VFX-filled ads with making of breakdowns from Method Studios, Alt.vfx and Rhythm & Hues.
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It’s Art. It’s Science. SIGGRAPH 2012 preview
We preview the key technical papers, visual effects production sessions, talks, courses and more in the upcoming SIGGRAPH 2012 conference being held from 5-9th August in LA. fxguide is a major media partner of Siggraph and will bring you heaps from the show…
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Space Nazis: the making of Iron Sky
Iron Sky vfx supe Samuli Torssonen discusses the realities of making a moon Nazi film and how he created many ambitious visual effects with a small team of artists.
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