The new fxguide & fxinsider
Today we launch the new fxguide. Since 1999, a small group of artists has proudly covered the production, post, and vfx industry. With the support of the community we have published thousands of articles, podcasts, videos, tips and other content. Since our inception, we have grown and yet we love servicing this industry we care so much about more than ever.
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Lagoa Multiphysics
Thiago Costa’s Lagoa Multiphysics teaser simulation video caused somewhat of a sensation when it was released on the Internet last year. Costa talks to Mike Seymour about his physics simulation work.
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Art of stereo conversion: 2D to 3D
Stereo conversion, or dimensionalization as it is sometimes called, is the process of making stereo images from non-stereo traditional 2D images.
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2010 VES Award Nominees
The Visual Effects Society (VES) has announced the nominees for the 9th Annual VES Awards. Nominees were chosen by VES members who viewed submissions at the FotoKem screening facilities in Burbank and San Francisco as well as at other facilities in London, Sydney and Vancouver.
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Gulliver’s Travels’ titles ‘Rock it’ in stereo
Rok!t Studio was behind the innovative main titles for Gulliver’s Travels, giving a tilt-shift and time-lapse perspective of New York City. fxinsider takes an in-depth look at the work with Rok!t visual effects supervisor Lee Nelson.
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Gulliver’s travelling mattes, green screen & fluid sims
Jack Black travels back to Lilliput in director Rob Letterman’s modern take on Gulliver’s Travels. We take a look at some of the key vfx work by Weta Digital, Hydraulx, Scanline, Method and the main titles by Rok!t Studio.
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2010 Scientific and Technical Academy Award Winners announced
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced the winners of the Sci-Tech awards. Scientific and Engineering the awards go to: Dr. Mark Sagar for facial motion retargeting solutions, Mark Noel and John Frazier for NAC Servo Winch System, James Rodnunsky, Alex MacDonald and Mark Chapman for the development of the Cablecam 3-D […]
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Director: Deathly Hallows animation
One aspect of HP7 part 1 continuing to receive an incredible amount of praise is the animated ‘Tale of the Three Brothers’ sub-story directed by Ben Hibon and executed by Framestore. fxInsider talks to Hibon how he approached the sequence and making it fit into the Harry Potter universe, in the lead up to the Oscars.
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Dneg: Paul Franklin & Nathan McGuinness
Double Negative has worked on 4 of the 7 films in this year’s Oscar Bake Off. Plus is now on John Carter of Mars and Captain America. Also the Singapore office has just appointed former Asylum VFX CEO Nathan McGuinness as that office’s Creative Director. We talk to McGuinness about his new role. Plus we have an fxpodcast with Dneg vfx supe Paul Franklin about the studio’s proprietary software tools.
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Short List announced for VFX Oscar, 7 head to Bake Off
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that the “long list” of 15 films eligible for the Achievement in Visual Effects for the 83rd Academy Awards® has been whittled down to the “short list” of seven films. The members of the Academy’s Visual Effects Branch Executive Committee decided which seven films will […]
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fxpodcast : DNEG Tools
We talk with Paul Franklin, vfx supervisor from Double Negative, about the in house tools they use to enhance their pipeline.
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Foundry Formally Announces KATANA Plans
The Foundry issued a press release today formally detailing their plans for KATANA. Created in house at Sony Pictures Imageworks, KATANA is a look development tool specifically targeted towards to the demands of production: non-destructive, dealing with large amounts of data, and collaboration’ At the end of last year, fxguide traveled to SIGGRAPH Asia and […]
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Bullet open source physics engine
Several of the top visual effects studios and game developers are now adopting the Bullet open source physics engine for collision detection and rigid body dynamics work. We talk exclusively to Bullet’s main author Erwin Coumans about the current implementation of the physics engine and its future development.
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Emotion capture
A short ILM/Paramount video on Rango Emotion Capture. Download mov We wanted to post this as it is an interesting way of capturing a more animated acting performance. We have often wondered why this was not done before now – it seems like such a more friendly actor environment than just doing a straight to […]
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New Courses at fxphd.com
A new term has just been launched at fxphd.com for film and TV professionals. This term is focused on three main areas: – workflow from not only a variety of cameras & formats but with a special focus on stereo production (including RED Arri-RAW, HD-SR and more) – along side this is several courses focused […]
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Yogi Bear live action CG integration
For Yogi Bear, Rhythm & Hues mixed 3D versions of the beloved Hanna-Barbera characters with live action whilst preserving the popular elements of the 2D cartoons. We talk to visual effects supervisor Betsy Paterson and animation director Joe Ksander about getting the right performances out of a 3D Yogi and Boo Boo.
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Only EPIC camera delivered has been stolen, $100,000 reward offered
In our most recent Red Centre podcast we talked with Mark L. Pederson from OffHollywood about receiving the very first EPIC camera to be shipped to a customer by RED, serial #00006. On REDuser.net today comes word that this camera was stolen from a chalet in the alps when thieves forced entry and took the […]
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fxpodcast: Steven Poster, ASC
Steven Poster, ASC is the National President of the International Cinematographers Guild, Local 600 of I.A.T.S.E.. In this fxpodcast we discuss his background, the relationship between visual effects and cinematographers, color correction, digital cinematography and the recent efforts to organize visual effects. Visit the fxpodcast page for direct downloads and RSS feed links. To be […]
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