fxpodcast: Saving ‘Saving Private Ryan’
We talk to Lou Levinson from Laser Pacific about Saving Private Ryan being restored via Baselight.
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Outcasts: creating the darkside of space
We talk to Darkside Animation about their work for the BBC series Outcasts and present several break down clips from the show.
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the rc #88: SLog and the F3
We talk NAB, Deliveries, look at some key EPIC third party products and discuss S-Log on the F3 with Tyler Ginter and the team at Next Level Pictures.
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Glassworks manipulates metal and builds a baby
We take a look at two recent TVC’s featuring visual effects from Glassworks – ‘Baby’ and ‘Manipulation’ – completed by artists in London and Amsterdam.
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Engine Room makes a splash with Soul Surfer
We talk to Engine Room founder and VFX supervisor Dan Schmit about creating more than 750 shots for the inspiring true story of Soul Surfer.
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Congrats to our HP EliteBook Winner
We got some great entries for our HP EliteBook giveaway, but there can only be one winner. And that winner is Chris Hocking, whose “server room shower” took top place with an inventive install to get the job done in pinch. Click through for more images as well as some impressions of running The Foundry’s Mari on the EliteBook.
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the vfx show #120: Rango
Mike Seymour, Mark Christiansen and Jason Diamond expand fxguide’s examination of Rango by discussing the film’s story, unique approach to “emotion capture” and animated visual effects.
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Busted! How The Mill helped Mythbusters blow stuff up
We go behind the scenes with The Mill for a Discovery Channel Mythbusters promo using motion control, practical elements and CG.
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fxpodast: NAB 2011 Wrap Up
A mobile version of our annual NAB podcast as Mike Seymour, Jeff Heusser and Jason Wingrove invite you into their post NAB chat.
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Your Highness: A little bit of Framestore magic
Framestore visual effects supervisor Mike McGee talks about collaborating closely with the Your Highness filmmakers.
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Mr. X’s spy effects for Hanna
We talk to Mr. X visual effects supervisor Brendan Taylor about his work for Joe Wright’s coming-of-age espionage thriller, Hanna.
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ZYNC: get your own vast renderfarm – instantly
We speak exclusively to Atomic Fiction and Zero vfx, about their use of ZYNC cloud computing.
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The Easter Bunny lives, in Hop
In Hop, teenage rabbit E.B. laments his impending crowning as the new Easter Bunny and instead makes way for Hollywood. Director Tim Hill called on Rhythm & Hues to realize E.B. and the film’s other anthropomorphized animals as CG creations.
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De-compiling the VFX of Source Code
For Source Code, director Duncan Jones looked to visual effects supervisor Louis Morin to help realize 850 shots of trains, explosions, virtual transitions and other crucial sequences in the film.
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the rc #86: Stu and EPIC
We talk to Stu Maschwitz who shot with the EPIC in NZ for a week in the lead up to the new term at fxphd.
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Q&A with Ross Shain from Imagineer
As NAB approaches, we’re starting to mark the showfloor map of products we’d like to check out. We’ve always been big fans of the tech behind Imagineer’s products over the years, so we thought we’d get a bit of an update from Imagineer’s Ross Shain. We chat about how the company started, the expanding user base, and how the development of the never-released mogul effected the company.
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Opening the door to The Adjustment Bureau
In The Adjustment Bureau, two lovers played by Matt Damon and Emily Blunt find themselves kept apart by mysterious business men in hats. Visual effects supervisor Mark Russell enabled several portal door transitions and a signature ‘Escher stairs’ sequence to reveal the Bureau’s secret world.
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