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.
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.
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.
BAFTA Film Awards Nominations
Nominees have been announced for the Orange British Academy Film Awards. We have the list for Special Visual Effects and Cinematography.
Digital storytelling: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Blur, Method and Digital Domain explain their titles and VFX work on David Fincher’s ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’.
Godfrey Pye R.I.P.
Godfrey Pye passsed away in LA at 68. He was a giant in our industry. Speaking for myself, even in Australia, as I worked hard in TVC post and VFX in the 80s and 90s, Godfrey was a legend in the industry worldwide, – but for my business partner Jeff Heusser – he was a […]
MutantLand: from the mind of Phil Tippett
Visual effects supervisor and director Phil Tippett, and his team, talk to fxguide about their short film ‘MutantLand’.
Driving the projection mapping revolution
We talk to Drive Productions CEO Ben Fender about their London Millbank Tower building projections for Nokia Lumia.
the vfx show #140: Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol
Mike Seymour, Matt Leonard and Jason Diamond discuss the story and visual effects of Brad Bird’s live-action feature film directorial debut, Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol.
For Example: Vue and Whiskytree
Whiskytree discuss how they use Vue in their pipeline for digital environments, as part of our ‘For Example’ series.
the rc #105: The winner is
On our first podcast of the year we cover the D4, a look at When You Find Me, and we kick off our coverage of the Sci-Tech Oscar winners with a look at Pictorvision’s Eclipse. We also do some of our own…’and the winner is’.
Kodak: innovative restructuring
We take a quick look at Kodak’s restructuring in light of rumors of a possible Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. UPDATED: Kodak has now filed for bankruptcy protection.
Lightroom 4 reads and (sort of) grades EPIC r3d clips
Adobe today released Lightroom 4 as a public beta, and we stumbled upon it opening (and sort of grading) EPIC r3d files.
BAFTA longlist – VFX and animated films
Here’s the longlist of BAFTA nominations for the visual effects and animated film categories.
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 […]
fxpodcast: Giant Studios
We talk with Matt Madden, Vice President of Production & Development and performance capture supervisor at Giant Studios about motion capture.
The Mill makes Audi hum
We talk to The Mill’s visual effects team about their VES-nominated Audi A6 Avant ‘Hummingbird’ spot.
