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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Open Beta for HIERO begins
The Foundry has moved it’s new workflow/conform tool HIERO to it’s next phase, announcing an open beta. Release date and pricing was also announced.
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