the vfx show #116: Green Hornet
Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond and Jason Wingrove discuss the visual effects of the new feature film The Green Hornet.
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The VFX 2011 Oscar nominees reactions
fxguide would like to congratulate all of the VFX artists who worked on the 2010 Oscar-nominated films, and especially the nominees themselves. We spoke to a few of the nominees today to get their first reactions, but we will also be continuing our series of Tech behind the major facilities, so keep an eye out […]
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the rc #81
Jason and Mike discuss stereo floating windows, the new Phantom camera and are joined by James Neihouse in the Red Room to discuss stereo NASA IMAX projects.
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2010 Visual Effects Oscar Nominees announced
This morning The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for the 83rd Academy Awards®. Getting the nod were Alice in Wonderland, Harry Potter, Hereafter, Inception and Iron Man 2. In a bit of a surprise, Tron: Legacy was not nominated.
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HP EliteBook Mobile Workstation Giveaway
To celebrate the new site we are giving away an HP EliteBook 8740w worth about US$6,000 thanks to our friends at HP and NVIDIA. This is not a laptop or a tablet PC. This is a serious mobile workhorse.
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fxpodcast: ILM Lighting Tools
Continuing the technical tools behind the big companies series that we started last week, we talk to Ben Snow of ILM about his career and the development of the energy conservation lighting model – as most recently used on Iron Man 2.
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Ben Snow: the evolution of ILM’s lighting tools
In this written version of the fxpodcast: we continue our series of stories on the technical tools behind the big effects companies, we talk to Ben Snow of ILM about his career & the development of the energy conservation lighting, as recently used on Iron Man 2.
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Gondry-fying The Green Hornet
Michel Gondry’s signature filmmaking touches are ever-abundant in The Green Hornet, the director’s take on the masked vigilante made famous in radio serials and comics. VFX supervisor Jamie Dixon guides us through some of the the film’s key 650 effects shots.
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Bending time with The Green Hornet
Some of the stand-out shots in Michel Gondry’s The Green Hornet occur in the time bending fight sequence effects, seen as the character Kato utilizes his martial arts skills to dispatch the bad guys. We take an in-depth look at how these shots were created by CIS Hollywood.
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Life with the HP EliteBook 8740w, Part 1
We’ve got a new HP EliteBook Mobile Workstation in house at fxguide and will be posting over the next month about our experiences with the notebook. With high-end features such as a DreamColor display and Quadro 5000M Fermi graphics, it seems built for our industry. In this post, we have our first overview of the hardware.
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Re-Award me! guest columnist Liz Foster looks at awards
Recognition in any profession is something we all crave. And there’s nothing better than getting recognition from your peers. The advertising industry is no exception. Guest Columnist and Brand Manager Liz Foster looks at Advertising Awards.
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British Academy Film Awards nominees announced
The 2011 Film Awards Nominees for the Orange British Academy Film Awards were announced today. In the Special Visual Effects category three of five nominated films are the same as will appear in this week’s bake-off for the Oscars, however BAFTA adds Black Swan and Toy Story 3. We believe this is the first time […]
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Alembic update with Rob Bredow: What happened to it?
Last Siggraph (2010 LA), a news conference was called to announce a new interchange format. SPI and ILM took to the stage to launch a modeling format that wasn’t FBX, wasn’t OBJ and wasn’t yet released. Now some 6 months later we speak to Rob Bredow, CTO of SPI, to find out what happened to it.
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Atomic Fiction
Atomic Fiction is a new visual effects company formed by three former ImageMovers Digital employees.
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VFX fighting hard to look invisible: The Fighter
For The Fighter, director David O. Russell called on Comen VFX to provide major invisible effects for the boxing film, including processing video for key boxing scenes, crowd replications, other enhancements and even a shot involving a phone number and a bar napkin.
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the rc #80
It’s Jason’s birthday and we talk to Chad Andrews about the Stereo RED MX workflow of sixteen19, and Fritz Gabriel Bauer AAC introduces the Moviecam EasyFocus. Plus, news on stolen cameras, tigers, Sony NEX-E mounts and more.
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the vfx show #115: Gulliver’s Travels
Mike Seymour, Ian Failes and Mat Graham find out what the big deal is with Gulliver’s Travels.
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New server report: day one
We’ve made it through 24 hours with the new server and web site here at fxguide.com and wanted to update our readers with some notes about some of the changes, what isn’t working, and how to report bugs to us.
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