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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Kim Masters on The Business
Kim Masters writes for industry standard The Hollywood Reporter and is also host of the highly respected podcast and radio show The Business on KCRW. We explore big budget effects films, trends at the Studios and what it takes to produce a top rated radio show on Business in Hollywood.
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Congratulations to Hugo, Rango & Morris Lessmore
In this special video we highlight the VFX and animation winners at the 84th Academy Awards.
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the rc #107: State of the nation in camera tech
This week the guys discuss the whole breadth of digital cinematography and talk Canon, Nikon, ARRI, RED and Sony, then RED’s Ted Schilowitz gives his thoughts on the latest in camera tech.
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fxpodcast: VFX Oscar supervisor special
Our VFX supervisor Oscar special talking to nominees from all five VFX-nominated films for this Sunday night’s Academy Awards – proudly sponsored by Side Effects Software.
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RSP’s trees, bees and birds in Mysterious Island
In this fxinsider interview, we chat to Rising Sun dfx supe Mark Wendell about the bird and bee chase in ‘Journey 2’.
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Journey 2: small is large & large is small
‘Journey 2: The Mysterious Island’ VFX supe Boyd Shermis and the major visual effects vendors discuss the film.
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Rhythm & Hues takes flight for Chronicle
We recently visited Rhythm & Hues in LA to talk to visual effects supervisor Raymond Chen about the flying scenes in Chronicle.
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the vfx show #142: Oscar Preview
Mike Seymour, Jeff Heusser and Todd Vaziri speak live from Los Angeles to preview the VFX Oscar nominated films of 2011.
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HIERO launch events in LA, Toronto & NYC
The Foundry is holding launch events for HIERO, their vfx shot management and conform tool, in LA (Feb 23rd), Toronto (Feb 28th), and NYC (Mar 1st). Click through for signup info and a link to our fxguidetv ep covering the software.
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Phantom camera, Sci-Tech winner
We talk to Vision Research’s Radu Corlan and Andy Jantzen about their Sci-Tech award for the Phantom camera.
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BAFTA Film Awards winners
The BAFTA Film Awards winners have been announced, with Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows – Part 2 winning Best Special Visual Effects.
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Stan Lee vs. fxguide
fxguide’s own Mike Seymour recently sat down at the VES Awards with Stan Lee of Marvel.
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Breaking down the Super Bowl spots – Part 2
Our Super Bowl XLVI coverage continues with a look at several more of the major VFX spots airing during the game.
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