15 selected as semifinalists for VFX Oscar
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 15 films have been selected as semifinalists for Achievement in Visual Effects for the 83rd Academy Awards®. In early January, the members of the Academy’s Visual Effects Branch Executive Committee, who selected the semifinalists, will narrow the list to seven. Those seven will go […]
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Mirada – Purveyors of Handmade Storytelling
After a string of bad industry news it is great to be able to bring news of a new venture. Mirada is a new production studio that will develop and produce television programming, video games, commercials and films. Designed for storytellers, the studio is a collaboration between director Guillermo del Toro, Motion Theory principals Mathew […]
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RV now integrates with Nuke
Tweak Software announces today that their image sequence viewer product RV is now integrated seamlessly within Nuke. This integration makes the player much more integrated to Nuke than just a flipbook, RV communicates with Nuke over a live connection. To be clear RV is still a separate product, requiring purchase from Tweak Software, there is […]
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Airgrade from Pixel Farm
Ok we would not normally post about a free ap in the itunes Ap store, but this one is just so much fun and indicative of how in the last few years we have moved from multi-million dollar grading suites to free iphone aps. Our friends at Pixel Farm have posted Airgrade. Now unlike most […]
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Several visual effects shops contributed to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 under overall vfx supe Tim Burke. In this article we continue our coverage of the film by focussing on the signature shots by MPC and Cinesite and the work of Double Negative, Framestore, Rising Sun Pictures and Baseblack.
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Harry Potter 7 : Double Negative
We speak with Visual Effects Supervisor David Vickery about Double Negative’s role in making the actual magic in HP7 and sims in general.
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Assimilate (Scratch): What’s the story?
On twitter this week we posted that Assimilate had settled with Autodesk over the long running law suit. We also heard that Lucas Wilson – for many the public face of Assimilate – had moved on to 3alitydigital. Luckily, we also discovered that an old friend of fxguide – Steve Bannerman had left GenArts to […]
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Spiderman 4 starts shooting Epic Stereo
RED announced today that Spider-Man 4, to be directed by Marc Webb, will be shot in Stereo on the EPIC, with filming beginning today. EPIC is RED’s successor to the 4K RED ONE. It offers 60% more resolution by relying on a 5K sensor and can shoot at frame rates up to 120 fps. A […]
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Black Swan takes wings
For Black Swan, director Darren Aronofsky turned to Look Effects to help bring his dark New York ballerina story to life. Look’s visual effects supervisor Dan Schrecker oversaw 220 shots for the film, from full CG swan wings to prosthetic augmentation, face replacements and other enhancements.
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IBEW, IATSE activity roundup
There has been a lot of activity lately in the effort to organize visual effects. IATSE is holding small meetings around Los Angeles on a regular basis with different groups of artists to present their case why artists should want to be represented by them. IBEW has scheduled another public meeting in Culver City for […]
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The Foundry’s STORM Beta + Future Plans
The Foundry released their first public beta of STORM earlier this week and the initial feedback from the community has been positive. In the first 24 hours it was available, over 2000 users registered the software…that’s actual registrations, not downloads. The software will be free for use until the 1st of March, at which point […]
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Red Centre Epic-M and Arri RAW +Codex
This week Jason and Mike discuss the situation with the Epic-M and the recent fxphd Arri -Alexa stereo shoot shooting Arri-RAW to the Codex digital recorder. (Director was Richard Gibson (Luscious International) – in conjunction with the Aust. VES and ACS ) Visit the red centre page for direct downloads and RSS feed links. To […]
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red centre #077
This week talking about Epic-M and Arri Stereo Raw Recording with the Codex plus news and gear.
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Harry Potter 7 Dobby and Kreacher Animation podcast
In this episode we speak to Framestores’ vfx supervisor Christian Manz about the amazing character animation of Dobby and Kreacher in the new Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1. Framestore did an outstanding job with the character animation of these characters in HP7 and did it entirely as keyframe animation. Watch out for […]
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Harry Potter 7 : Framestore
We speak to Framestores’s Christian Manz about the amazing character animation of Dobby and Kreacher.
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the vfx show #112: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1
https://media.fxguide.com/vfxshow/The_VFX_Show_112-HP7.mp3 Play in new window Download Mike Seymour, Matt Wallin and Kanen Flowers take a ride on the proverbial broom stick with the latest part of the Harry Potter franchise – ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’. Download The VFX Show #112 here Get every vfx show episode automatically delivered! Free iTunes Store subscription Producers: […]
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Avatar/Weta Interview: The extra bits…
James Cameron’s Avatar is now available as an Extended Collector’s Edition DVD and Blu-ray release. We take a look at the Blu-ray featurettes and talk to Weta Digital visual effects supervisor Wayne Stables, who was responsible for the incredible Tree of Souls sequence in the film.
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fxpodcast Krakatoa’s Chris Bond
This week on the fxpodcast we speak to Chris Bond of Thinkbox software about their production proven volumetric particle rendering, manipulation and management software. Krakatoa has been used on umpteen feature films and commercials. It provides a great pipeline for acquiring, caching, transforming, modifying, deforming, culling, shading and rendering vast quantities of particles at unprecedented […]
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