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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fxpodcast: Steven Poster ASC
We talk with Steven Poster, National President of the International Cinematographers Guild, about the cinematographers relationship with visual effects, color correction, digital cinema, unions and more.
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The VFX Tourist
Visual effects supervisor Ted Rae oversaw nearly 400 shots for The Tourist, a romantic Venetian comedy thriller starring Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie and directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. We take a look at how Rae simulated a critical train journey and re-arranged the rooftops of Venice for the film.
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Enter the Void made by fx
Director Gaspar Noé’s Enter the Void follows drug dealing teen Oscar who, after being killed in Tokyo, watches over his sister from the otherworld. Images of Oscar’s subjective POV, many based on hallucinations and near death experiences, were created and augmented by Paris studio BUF. Vfx sup. Geoffrey Niquet talks to us about the unique nature of the film.
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the vfx show #114: Tron: Legacy
https://media.fxguide.com/vfxshow/The_VFX_Show_114-_Tron_Legacy.mp3 Play in new window Download Mike Seymour, Matt Wallin and Ian Failes discuss head replacements and light cycles in Tron: Legacy. Download The VFX Show #114 here Get every vfx show episode automatically delivered! Free iTunes Store subscription Producers: Mat Graham and Todd Scholton fxguide.com story related to ‘Tron: Legacy’ Legacy, Face off Show […]
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Yet Another Facility Closes: CafeFX
We received an email today from Jeff Barnes and David Ebner, announcing that CafeFX/ComputerCafe have decided to shut down. This comes after a downsizing earlier this year. It saddens us here at fxguide to hear the news of their closing and wish everyone the best. The outstanding company has worked on a number of visual […]
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red centre #079
Mark L Pederson in the Red Room from Off Hollywood discussing Storm and the delivery of the first Epic – serial number 00006. We also test the Nikon D7000 in Germany.
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Toy Story 3 technical podcast : Siggraph Asia
fxguide attended Siggraph Asia and caught up with Brian Green of Pixar (California). Brian has the unique distinction of being the character supervisor of the “most successful animated movie of all time” twice. The Academy Award-winning feature “Finding Nemo” broke all box office records in 2003, and “Toy Story 3” broke box office records in […]
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