The Foundry Announces HIERO
The Foundry announced HIERO, a new conform and vfx workflow tool designed to work with NUKE, but flexible to work with any product. Utilizing tech from the now end-of-life STORM, the product fills a timeline-based gap in the shot-based NUKE workflow. Click through for the press release and be sure to check out fxguidetv #119 for an exclusive look at HIERO.
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The move to 48 frames per sec
RED Digital Cinema company has been very active in pushing a cinema quality experience. We speak to RED founder Jim Jannard about what drives him and we share a video piece we produced interviewing Ted Schilowitz discussing the move to Stereo 48 fps filmmaking, which we made for our partners at The Daily (News Corp).
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Red EPIC Canon mount test drive review
We road test the new Canon mount for the Epic Camera with 120 fps 5K wild animals – and HDR fisheyes – all in a wild day of swinging and eating out, with monkeys, gorillas, lions and tigers.
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Fright Night – Q&A with VFX supe Joe Bauer
Fright Night VFX supe Joe Bauer gives us the details on this stereo feature, from the opening shot through to the dramatic vampire transformations.
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fxpodcast: Computational photography
Mike Seymour talks to Dr Kari Pulli at NVIDIA about the area of computational photography, what we have learnt from mobile device cameras and what we might expect if DSLRs embrace this new area of cutting edge research.
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The Storm is over – Foundry kill product
BREAKING NEWS: In light of the advances that RED has engineered with their free professional REDCINE-X PRO, The Foundry has decided to bow out and leave them to it. We can report that The Foundry has decided to discontinue development of their Storm product with STORM 1.0v4 (the current release – being the last version). […]
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It’s Raining Marquise Technologies
In the lead up to IBC this weekend, Marquise Technologies have been making a splash with their RAIN, OCEAN and MIST products.
RAIN is a workflow and grading station, with the smaller MIST being an on set version and the bigger OCEAN being a full telecine controller (essentially sold through Cintel, DFT, etc). There is also a software only version, SoftRAIN.
Iloura vfx isn’t Afraid of the Dark
Iloura delves into its creature work for the Guillermo del Toro film, Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark. Includes two vfx breakdowns.
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the rc #96: On location – Red Ships X
The guys are on location discussing mainly Red news: Epic X shipping, new deals and discovering gems in Red Cine X Pro
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Kerner Optical closing its doors
Cinefex is reporting that Kerner Optical is closing its doors. In recent years the studio had been moving into 3D stereo and other areas, but it would appear this icon of quality visual and special effects is shutting up ‘the shop’. Kerner is a company that stood for quality and an innovative love of filmmaking. […]
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the vfx show #131: Captain America: The First Avenger
Mike Seymour, Matt Wallin and Jason Diamond discuss the visual effects of the new Marvel Studios and Joe Johnston film release, Captain America: The First Avenger
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Pan Am: retro green screen world
Go behind the scenes of Stargate Studios’ vfx for the ‘Pan Am’ pilot, with a gallery of before and after pics of their virtual set work.
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How The Mill gave Audi its oomph
The Mill’s head of 3D Tom Bussell walks us through his work on ‘Oomph’, a fast-paced monochrome spot for the Audi A1.
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the rc #95: UnderBelly, Jobs, ET, & learning to blow stuff up
The guys discuss the weeks news and look at NZ UnderBelly series in the Red Room
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Get the Smurf out of here!
Sony Pictures Imageworks and Tippett Studio discuss their work on the surprisingly successful new release: The Smurfs.
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fxpodcast: Final Destination 5
We discuss the bridge collapse sequence in Final Destination 5, with vfx by Prime Focus. Recorded in Vancouver, we talk first with VFX supervisor Chad Wiebe and then CG supervisor Todd Perry.
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Apple post-Steve
Steve Jobs leaves Apple, and thus ends an era. Apple, and therefore Steve Jobs, have had a huge influence on the film and television industry, especially in the area of post-production.
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The art of digital color
As part of our ‘Art of’ series we present our latest article. Color management and color workflows have evolved over many years. In this article we will trace from Cineon to the scene referred linear OpenEXR format.
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