Nikon D4 : Nikon welcome (back) to the game
Nikon comes back to the DSLR Video race. Is the D4 the 5DMK III Canon has yet to release? Or is it too little too late to catch up to the much larger and now film-maker committed Canon? The D4 scheduled for next month (Feb Shipping) offers a lot of features that you might hope […]
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fxpodcast: Giant Studios
We talk with Matt Madden, Vice President of Production & Development and performance capture supervisor at Giant Studios about motion capture.
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The Mill makes Audi hum
We talk to The Mill’s visual effects team about their VES-nominated Audi A6 Avant ‘Hummingbird’ spot.
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10 in running for VFX Oscar
Check out the list of ten films in contention for this year’s visual effects Oscar, and how fxguide has covered them.
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2011’s Best VFX TV Spots
We take a look at the top visual effects work as seen in TVCs from 2011. (Especially as we hope be looking at more in 2012 😉
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Skywalker Sound and ‘War Horse’
Skywalker Sound’s Gary Rydstrom discusses the sound design for Steven Spielberg’s ‘War Horse’.
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VFX in 2011
Take a look back at some of the big visual effects films of 2011, courtesy of our media partners at The Daily.
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Assimilate webinar : Jan 10th
Mike Seymour will be doing another Assimilate Webinar on Scratch. Working With Scratch in a Pipeline. Webinar is 10th of January at 10:00 am PST To register for this event, please visit this link We will look at the challenges of working in a multi-suite, modern day workflow. Rather than just using Scratch to complete […]
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the rc #104: The year in review
Our final podcast for 2011: The year in review (plus anti-aliasing reviews, gear and scandals).
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fxpodcast: SIGGRAPH Asia rendering and rigging
This week we are at SIGGRAPH Asia. In part one, we examine renderers and renderfarm management including V-Ray 2.0, MI, RenderMan, Maxwell and 3delight in Nuke. In the second half of the show we focus on rigging with Seema Gopalakrishnan who was the rigging & pipeline lead on Clone Wars at Lucasfilm Animation Singapore.
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Tintin: Weta goes animated
Weta Digital vfx supe Wayne Stables tells us about the challenges of creating Steven Spielberg’s ‘Tintin’.
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the vfx show #139: Tree of Life/Melancholia
Mike Seymour, TyRuben Ellingson and Matt Wallin discuss the visual effects in two films this week, Tree of Life and Melancholia.
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Melancholia: when worlds collide, beautifully
We talk to ‘Melancholia’ VFX sup. Peter Hjorth, plus Platige Image and Pixomondo, about the visual effects for Lars von Trier’s film. Includes a video breakdown of the effects work with commentary by Hjorth.
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More incredible, invisible effects
We look at more seamless VFX work in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Breaking Dawn, Machine Gun Preacher, Jack and Jill, Young Adult and Dolphin Tale.
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Happy Feet Two: extended interviews
fxinsider members can watch extended interviews with the VFX and mocap supes behind Happy Feet Two.
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The Art of Destruction (or Art of Blowing Crap Up)
As part of our ongoing in-depth ‘Art Of’ series, we present the Art of Blowing Crap Up: destruction pipelines.
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the rc #103: Ultimate Arm and The Muppets
It’s the Muppets in 4K with our very special guest stars Light Iron’s Michael Ciono plus The Ultimate Arm and the usual inspirational celebrational rat holes.
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fxpodcast: Another chat with Tom Walsh
https://media.fxguide.com/fxpodcast/fxg-1112011-TomWalsh2.mp3 Play in new window Download In this week’s fxpodcast we talk with the President of the Art Directors Guild, Tom Walsh. The Art Directors Guild recently announced a stepped up effort to represent previs artists and that they are now seeking to represent artists doing matte paintings. This announcement raised some eyebrows among visual […]
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