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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The tale of the wolf: Red Riding Hood
In Red Riding Hood, a terrifying werewolf haunts the inhabitants of a medieval village. Rhythm & Hues tells us how they brought the wolf to life for this modern re-telling of the classic fairytale.
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fxpodcast: Sucker Punch
A young girl is institutionalized by her abusive stepfather. Retreating to an alternative reality as a coping strategy, she envisions a plan which will help her escape from the mental facility. Each of these ‘retreats’ was pretty much handled by a different effects house. We speak to Animal Logic about their role.
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Fractal zooms and other side effects in Limitless
The best part about vfx is when someone comes up with a cool new original look or shot, we talk to Look Effects and Comen VFX about creating the amazing fractal zooms and out-of-body moments in Limitless, designed as an inside glimpse to the power of a new fictitious wonder drug.
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the rc #85: EPIC Sea Pool
We discuss the EPIC camera – as Jason takes it poolside, the new Sony FS-100 camera, and the Alexa on the BBC drama Upstairs, Downstairs.
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Rob Legato Special Edition
We had such a wonderful time interviewing Rob Legato for fxguidetv that we filmed a lot more than we could possibly use in fxguidetv alone. So here for fxinsider members only, we have an additional “part 2” of that interview (with some real treats). Rob discusses shot design on Apollo 13, use of stereo on […]
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the vfx show #119: Forrest Gump
Mike Seymour, Jason Wingrove and Todd Vaziri discuss the visual effects in Forrest Gump done by Ken Ralston’s team at ILM, the films’ visual authenticity and historical accuracies and inaccuracies.
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Paul: Double Negative’s alien adventure
With Paul, Double Negative adds to its already impressive list of visual effects credits through a major character animation show. We talk to animation supervisor Anders Beer and visual effects producer Hal Couzens about the film.
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