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 DownloadIn 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 effects […]
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Breaking Dawn: Tippett crafts a scene
In this video from our media partners at The Daily, Tippett Studio talks about its digital wolves for the lumberyard sequence in Breaking Dawn – Part 1.
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15 Features in Line for VFX Oscar
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 15 films have been selected for consideration for Achievement in Visual Effects for the 84th Academy Awards®.
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SIGGRAPH Asia: the CAF, courses, ETech and art gallery
Before SIGGRAPH Asia begins next week in Hong Kong, we take a final look at some conference highlights.
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An ad for beer, with deer
Alt.vfx supervisor Colin Renshaw tells us about the Tooheys Extra Dry ‘Nocturnal Migration’ spot, featuring both real and mocap’d digital deer. Includes a behind the scenes making of vid.
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the vfx show #138: Hugo
Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond and Jeff Heusser discuss the visual effects of Martin Scorsese’s film, Hugo.
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Puss in Boots: color grading in stereo
Puss in Boots colorist Jeff Olm discusses working on the animated film for Dreamworks Animation, in this fxinsider podcast.
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SIGGRAPH Asia preview: extinction transmittance maps
In this audio podcast, we talk to Pascal Gautron from Technicolor Research & Innovation about a SIGGRAPH Asia technical sketch on Extinction Transmittance Maps.
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Mo-capping penguins, and krill, for Happy Feet Two
In this video from our media partners at The Daily, the motion capture supervisors discuss their work on Happy Feet Two.
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fxpodcast: Rob Legato – Hugo
VFX sup. Rob Legato joins us for a discussion of the visual effects in Martin Scorsese’s Hugo.
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Hugo: a study of modern inventive visual effects
We delve into the extraordinary stereoscopic visual effects work in Martin Scorsese’s latest film, Hugo.
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Breaking Dawn: making wolves
In this special fxinsider only podcast, we visit Tippett Studio to discuss their digital wolves for Breaking Dawn – Pt 1.
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Digital District’s UK MVA noms
We talk to French vfx studio Digital District about two music vids they worked on that were finalists at the UK music video awards.
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the rc #102: Shane Hurlbut ASC
This week the guys talk film looks, Miro and in the Red Room, DOP Shane Hurlburt ASC.
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J. Edgar’s motorcades and marching bands
Method Studios discuss their invisible virtual environment and crowd effects for Clint Eastwood’s biopic ‘J. Edgar’. Updated with before and after pics.
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The Muppets: It’s time to raise the curtain
We go behind the scenes with Look Effects VFX supe. Max Ivins on The Muppets.
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