Visual Effects Society Winners of 10th Annual VES Awards
The Visual Effects Society (VES) announced the winners of its 10th Annual VES Awards tonight at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. Complete list and photos follow.
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Red Tails: Pixomondo wrecks planes and trains
Pixomondo VFX supe Bjørn Mayer breaks down his studio’s key shots for Red Tails.
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Breaking down the Super Bowl spots – Part 1
Our Super Bowl XLVI coverage starts with a post-apocalyptic Chevy spot and CG cheetah work for Hyundai.
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Luma transforms Underworld: Awakening
How Luma Pictures used mo-cap, Light Stage and Arnold to bring the Underworld: Awakening Lycans to life.
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New source for 3D displacement textures
Surface Mimic makes 3D scanned depth maps for digital sculpting, allowing artists to brush high-res details onto models with industry software such as ZBrush, Mudbox, Mari and 3D-Coat. We speak to founder Paul Callender.
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Behind the scenes with the animated Oscar noms
fxguide takes a look at the animated features and animated shorts nominated for the 84th Academy Awards.
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Award submissions made easy
With only one day to go until on-line voting closes for the 10th Annual VES Awards, we thought we’d take a look at one of the companies who helped make the awards possible on a global scale – Sohonet.
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the vfx show #141: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Mike Seymour, Ian Failes and Jason Diamond discuss the visual effects of the feature film Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.
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Alive and animated: how DD created ‘Robotarm’
We talk to DD VFX sup. Aladino Debert about the challenges of completing a Cisco spot in a tight four week schedule.
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fxpodcast: The Lowry Process
We talk to Kimball Thurston from Reliance MediaWorks about Lowry Digital’s Sci-Tech Oscar – and we pay tribute to film restoration pioneer John D. Lowry who sadly passed away this week.
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the rc #106 : Kodak, Oscars and Arri Master Primes
This week the guys discuss the Oscars, Kodak and are joined in the RED Room by ARRI’s Stephan Ukas-Bradley to discuss the ARRI Master Primes.
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A Game of Shadows: more to the mystery
We explore the key visual effects shots from Framestore and MPC in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.
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Hugo garners 11 Oscar noms – here’s why
Martin Scorsese’s Hugo received the lion’s share of Oscar nominations this year – we check out Pixomondo’s breakdowns of their VFX work.
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Oscar Nominations Announced
This morning The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for the 84th Academy Awards®. In the category Achievement in Visual Effects, the nominees are…
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Now you can RenderMan on Demand
Pixar has now formally announced RenderMan on Demand, a new cloud based rendering service that was developed in collaboration with GreenButton.
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Brainstorming more VFX on Boardwalk Empire
Brainstorm Digital tells us about their VES Awards-nominated work for the second series of Boardwalk Empire.
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32Ten Studios – mixing it up
We talk to Scott Smith about the advent of the new practical and digital FX studio 32Ten created by former ILM and Kerner Optical employees.
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fxpodcast: Rhythm & Hues’ polar bears
We talk to Rhythm & Hues about their pioneering work on the popular Coca-Cola polar bears TVCs that began airing in the 90s.
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