Around the world in six ads
We break down six recent TVCs with VFX from Mikros, Fuel, Zoic, Glassworks, Mothership/Digital Domain and MPC.
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A world away: John Carter
Tharks, Thoates, Woola and white apes – how Double Negative brought the creatures of John Carter to life.
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Infrared tracking: ingenious innovation for WWF
How The Ambassadors used Phantom cameras and infrared tracking to complete a WWF spot.
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CVMP: Additional Sessions
As a bonus for fxinsider members, we have two full presentations from the CVMP conference. First, research by Paul Debevec’s ICT team into simplifying image-based lighting. The other is The Mill’s Jordi Bares covering new lighting techniques and pipelines.
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HIERO Ships
The Foundry announced that they have begun shipping HIERO, their shot management, conform and review tool for VFX. Click through for the press release and links to other coverage here at fxguide.
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5D | FLUX discussion series in LA
Immersive design consortium 5D | Institute is holding series of integrated workshop discussions and panel presentations, spanning three evenings in Los Angeles starting March 13, 2012. “5D | FLUX’ will consist of 120-minute interactive sessions aimed at encouraging in-depth conversations about world-building across disciplines.
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Spirit of Vengeance: a grittier Ghost Rider
We talk to the visual effects team behind Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance.
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fxpodcast: Dashing’s Hyundai spots
This week we speak to Dashing Founder and Creative Director Robert Moggach about the effects and CG environments created for a group of Hyundai spots.
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the vfx show #143: Men in Black 1 & 2
Mike Seymour, Matt Leonard and Jason Diamond go back in time and do a retro review of the visual effects in Men in Black 1 & 2.
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Jean-Luc Bouchard R.I.P.
We remember Jean-Luc Bouchard who sadly passed away recently after a long battle with cancer. Jean-Luc worked at Discreet Logic, Nothing Real and Apple.
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Electric aliens: Buf’s VFX for The Darkest Hour
Buf breaks down its visual effects for The Darkest Hour. Includes a behind the scenes making of video.
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Effect-ing the story
How VFX helped to enhance the director’s vision in War Horse, Safe House, Big Miracle and Underworld: Awakening.
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A look at Blur’s game cinematics
fxguide’s Mike Seymour recently got the chance to sit down with Blur Studio creative director and co-founder Tim Miller to discuss game cinematics, in cooperation with our media partners at The Daily.
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B&H start your cash registers…5D Mark III
The 5D Mark III is launched – here’s what we know.
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Out of the box: Houdini 12 released
New release of Houdini from Side Effects includes enhanced Pyro FX and FLIP fluids, Bullet integration, production-ready Cloth, and Alembic export.
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Challenges continue for VFX industry
Imageworks says it is leaving Albuquerque, Blizzard to lay off 600 workers, while Pixomondo will open new facility in Baton Rouge.
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Luxology releases new modo 601
We take a quick look at Luxology’s latest release of its modo software for modeling, sculpting, 3D painting, animation and rendering.
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Side Effects Software – 25 years on
To mark the 25th year of Side Effects Software we talk to co-founder Kim Davidson and to SideFX’s Sci-Tech Oscar winners about their work on micro-voxels.
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