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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the vfx show #137: Anonymous
Mike Seymour, Matt Leonard and Mark Christiansen discuss the visual effects and cinematic experience of Rolland Emmerich’s new film, Anonymous.
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For Example: The Mill LA’s Tim Davies and Flame
In the first of our new ‘For Example’ series, lead 2D artist Tim Davies from The Mill LA talks about how he uses Autodesk’s Flame and what tools he uses, for example, in his daily work.
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How to crash a train: Super 8
In this video from our media partners at The Daily, ILM VFX supe Dennis Muren and animation supe Paul Kavanagh break down Super 8’s amazing train crash.
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the rc #101: The Alexa Ep: It’s all about story
This week we focus on story, shot design and focus on the Arri Alexa. In this special episode we have two Red Room interviews: Anna Foerster DOP of Anonymous and Gareth Neame about Downton Abbey.
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Killer visuals: Tippett’s God speed fx for Immortals
We go in-depth with Tippett Studio on their Gods vs Titans vfx for Immortals.
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Immortals: Q&A with VFX sup. Raymond Gieringer
Immortals VFX supervisor Raymond Gieringer discusses the planning, on-set InterSense and live-viz systems for the visual effects in Tarsem Singh’s film.
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View from the penthouse: Tower Heist
Effects supes from Method, Phosphene and Gravity discuss their visual effects work on ‘Tower Heist’.
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IATSE… One Year Later
One year ago the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees announced their intention to organize visual effects artists. What is the status of this effort, what has happened in the past year?
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the vfx show #136: In Time/Gattaca
Mike Seymour, Matt Wallin and TyRuben Ellingson discuss two of Andrew Niccol’s films, In TIme and Gattaca and the value of lower budget VFX films.
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SIGGRAPH Asia speaker preview: Bill Buxton
We chat to SIGGRAPH Asia featured speaker Bill Buxton, one of the key people behind Maya and Sketchbook Pro, about human-computer interaction and computer graphics.
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Breaking down MOTOR’s Rockland spots
We look at MOTOR VFX’s breakdowns for its Rockland TVCs.
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