Dutch Tilt – how much should you be paid?
We spoke to Jules van Den Steenhoven of the NSC about their new iPhone & iPad app that maps global salaries for production and post professionals. Some things like this have been tried in the past, none it would seem as successfully as the NSC’s app is proving to be. But what was their approach to gathering this information and how current is it? Does it take into account month to month currency fluctuation? And just why is this being done by the NSC anyway?
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The latest from Rok!t Studio
We talk to Rok!t Studio creative director Steve Viola about two recent projects – opening titles for Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family and stereo animation work for the Justin Bieber bio Never Say Never.
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Bear of a time at Cannes
Director Nash Edgerton along with producer Lauren Edwards have just completed a week at Cannes with the short film Bear.
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the vfx show #122: Source Code
Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond and Kanen Flowers decode the plot and VFX of Duncan Jones’ sophomore film Source Code.
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Digital Domain buys site license of KATANA
The Foundry announced today that Digital Domain has purchased a site license for KATANA, making them the first customer of the product. We caught up with Bill Collis for an update on this news as well as more info about open source and support of the recent deep compositing spec that’s part of OpenEXR 2.0
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Pixar’s Chris Ford on RenderMan Pro Server 16.0
We talk to RenderMan Business Director Chris Ford about some of the key features of the new RenderMan Pro Server 16.0 release.
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Mirada dreams of black for ROME
We thought we’d point you to some of the latest work from Mirada, the new studio collaboration between director Guillermo del Toro, director Mathew Cullen, cinematographer Guillermo Navarro and executive producer Javier Jimenez.
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Realms, robots & rainbow bridges: crafting Thor
We talk to Thor visual effects supervisor Wesley Sewell and some of the VFX vendors about a few key sequences from Kenneth Branagh’s film of the Marvel comic.
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the rc #89: Have Jason will travel
We discuss Jason’s massive shoot around the world (while he is temporarily in Sydney- between flights), – plus catch up on news, including a preliminary discussion about the new S-log option for the 5D.
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the vfx show #121: A. I. Artificial Intelligence
Mike Seymour, Matt Wallin and Mat Graham go retro as they enter Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg’s world of Artificial Intelligence.
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fxpodcast: Digital Domain’s ice giants from Thor
We speak with Kelly Port, Digital Domain VFX Supervisor, about their work on the ice giants in Thor
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Kessler Motion control slider : the rc bonus extra
In this bonus RC video, we speak to Eric Kessler about the new Motion Control Slider – first shown at NAB 2011.
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Cooke Panchros: the rc bonus extra
We caught up with Les Zellan from Cooke Lens. Cooke recently we introduced the Panchros (or Mini-S4s as Les jokes). We talk to Les and test drove the lens.
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FMX 2011 – Day Four
The final day of FMX 2011 included a Harry Potter VFX tribute and presentations on animated films and games. We also talk to Proof’s Ron Frankel about the concept of stereo previs.
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FMX 2011 – Day Three
More impressive talks punctuated day three at FMX 2011. We take a look at some of the highlights and sit down with ILM’s Tim Alexander and Patrick Cohen to discuss Rango.
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FMX 2011 – Day Two
Day two at FMX 2011 brought a major announcement from Weta Digital and The Foundry, along with some great presentations on virtual characters. We also speak to Molinare’s Dayne Cowan about The King’s Speech.
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MPC on track with Fast Five
MPC visual effects supervisor Guillaume Rocheron breaks down the train heist sequence from Fast Five.
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yU+co captures crime for Call of Juarez: The Cartel
We cover yU+Co’s work on the ‘Call of Juarez: The Cartel’ trailer by animation director Richard Taylor and the facial capture tech from Depth Analysis, with an exclusive insider making of video.
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