the rc #114: Catch up
This week, Jason Wingrove is back (just…before heading off to film a documentary) and he and Mike Seymour chat about Canon, Apple/Dells, Smoke, Red, China’s new RAW camera, and Tom Lowe’s great Timescapes film and much, much more…
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Cannes Lions 2012 winners announced
Check out the Cannes Lions 2012 advertising winners in the Film Craft category, and read fxguide coverage of the visual effects work.
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Brave New Hair
Sim Samurais, digital curling irons and the amazing world of Pixar’s Brave simulation team.
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fxpodcast: Brave Simulations
This week on the fxpodcast we speak to Pixar’s Claudia Chung, simulation supervisor on Brave. In this in-depth and engaging discussion we look at the complex ground breaking simulation work in Pixar’s newest animated feature. Warning: this podcast contains plot spoilers.
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Prime Focus adopts Shotgun & Revolver starting with MIB3
Shotgun Software was founded in 2006 by a group of vfx professionals to build production tracking and pipeline solutions. Shotgun today has more than 350 animation, visual effects and game development clients including Digital Domain, Double Negative, Reliance, Framestore, Pixomondo, Playstation, Blizzard and Zoic Studios. The newest addition to this line up is Prime Focus.
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RenderMan – new bundles and info from Pixar
A look at Pixar’s new website for RenderMan ahead of the RPS17 release. Also, RenderMan for Maya is to be combined with RenderMan Studio.
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the vfx show #149: Prometheus
Mike Seymour, Matt Wallin and TyRuben Ellingson discuss the new Ridley Scott film Prometheus.
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Prometheus: rebuilding hallowed vfx space
fxguide explores Ridley Scott’s alien world in Prometheus, with exclusive in-depth coverage of the VFX by Weta, Fuel, MPC and other vendors.
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VES Job Fair this weekend
This weekend, Saturday, June 16, 2012, in Los Angeles, New York and London there is the second annual VES Career Fair & Tech Expo. fxguide has spoken to many of the VFX studios attending – here’s a quick guide to the Fair and Expo.
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fxpodcast: Prometheus
This week we speak to Martin Hill, Weta’s VFX Supervisor about the advances in Weta’s Sub-Surface Scattering algorithms, the development of the Engineers, the map room, and THAT med-bed scene.
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Prometheus: in-depth coverage on fxguide
fxguide will be covering Prometheus in-depth, with articles, an fxpodcast and fxguidetv all this week. To get an idea of what to expect, check out this excerpt including a breakdown of Fuel’s star map orrery sequence.
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Alien versus a 5″ gun
Image Engine worked with Battleship lead vendor ILM on crafting the alien Thugs for two on-ship sequences. We break down the work with images and videos.
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Huntsman: every trick in the fairytale book
How face replacements, shattering soldiers, CG trolls and magic metallic mirrors were made for Snow White and the Huntsman. fxinsider members can also watch an exclusive interview with Double Negative.
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TV roundup: four shows with feature effects
We break down some notable VFX shots from TV shows The River, the Titanic mini-series, Inside the Human Body and Underbelly: Razor.
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fxphd sale extended + free class from NUK217
fxguide’s sister site – VFX training provider fxphd.com – is extending its sale. Join for $199 and get two courses + extras for the April term. Plus see a sneak peak of NUK217 – NUKE and Digital Environments.
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the rc #113: Cine Gear 2012
This week, Mike Seymour chats to fxguide’s John Montgomery and Jeff Heusser about the tech they saw recently at Cine Gear 2012. And we feature interviews with Robin Christian about Zacuto’s plasma lights, Dan Kanes on the Paralinx Arrow Wireless HD transmitter and Les Zellan from Cooke Optics.
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fxpodcast: colorist Aidan Farrell
Aidan Farrell, co-founder of The Farm in London, recently won a BAFTA Special Award for his long career as a colorist. This is the third in our series highlighting the World’s Greatest Colorists. Mike Seymour talks to him about 90’s music videos, cutting edge documentaries and period dramas.
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DeepX – Underwater @ Cine Gear
We preview Achtel’s Deep X underwater RED Epic camera rig, which will be launched at this weekend’s Cine Gear Expo in LA.
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