IBEW Local 40 Informational Meeting for Visual Effects Industry
This Saturday evening, October 16th, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 40 is holding an informational meeting pertaining to the visual effects industry. Everyone is invited. Details on location and contact info is after the jump.
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CVMP Early Discount ends October 17th
We’re in the last few days of an early-bird discount of £100 off the registration fee to this year’s Conference on Visual Media and Production. The event, taking place in London on November 17th and 18th, provides an outlet for production and post personnel to discuss the latest technology and research impacting the field. If […]
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Mini Milan
For ‘Flow’, a spot promoting the 2011 MINI Countryman, SWAY Studio created hundreds of vehicles magically splitting, reforming and driving with precision through the streets of Milan. We talk to visual effects supervisor Aaron Powell about the use of SWAY’s Drive-a-Tron driving simulation tool for the commercial.
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Drench Cubehead
Matthew Unwin joins us to talk about a spot for Drench, he was on set and did the flame work on the spot that features a Rubik’s Cube like treatment on a human head
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red centre #073
We talk to the guys who actually shot the RED Barn and Vegas HDRx shots, plus the Red Bull Stratos in the RedRoom, the Teradek Cube Ninja’s and much more
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VES: The 1099 Dilemma
The Visual Effects Society (VES) recently held an event in Los Angeles titled “The 1099 Dilemma” to examine labor issues facing companies and artists. Who decides if you are an Independent Contractor or an Employee? Can a proper Independent Contractor relationship be established? What are the Insurance issues? Is there such a thing as a “Day Rate”?
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MPC’s Head Turner : Drench
Ulf Johansson has directed Drench ‘Cubehead’ The spot features a puzzled man trying to solve his own Rubik’s style puzzle head. The commercial was produced by Kate Bailey at CHI&Partners and Philippa Smith at Smith & Jones. MPC created the puzzle head combining live action elements. In this week’s fxpodcast we speak to MPC vfx […]
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Hiring around the world
There has been a growth in vfx houses broadening to encompass new offices around the world. Rhythm & Hues, SPI, Digital Domain, have all expanded to having multiple offices around the world. Right now ILM is also expanding and staffing up its Singapore offices. The vfx workplace is now global. As part of our fxphd.com training we have been speaking to recruiters from around the world.
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Mopping up after the Apprentice
For The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,visual effects supervisor John Nelson oversaw more than 1200 shots featuring plasma ball fights, a Chinese dragon, car chases, magical creatures and the re-creation of the famous Disney Fantasia sequence. We take a look at some of the key work by the two lead facilities, Asylum and Double Negative. (Sorcerer’s Apprentice on DVD Nov 30th)
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Even more Predators…
For the 2010 film Predators, director Nimrod Antal and producer Robert Rodriguez set out to maintain the appeal of the 1987 original film by employing similar designs and relying on both practical and digital effects. We take a look at the visual effects work by Troublemaker Digital and Hybride.
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the vfx show #109: Apollo 13
https://media.fxguide.com/vfxshow/The_VFX_Show_109-_Apollo_13.mp3 Play in new window Download Mike Seymour, Matt Wallin and Jason Wingrove discuss the visual effects of the 1995 feature film ‘Apollo 13’ and collaboration in film making. Download The VFX Show #109 here Get every vfx show episode automatically delivered! Free iTunes Store subscription Producers: Mat Graham and Todd Scholton Show Notes: Director: […]
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Not the Best Day: Server Problems at fxguide
Thanks for your patience for the last 29 hours…and thanks to those of you who let us know the site was down and you missed it. Jeff, Mike and I really appreciate it. Over the years, we’ve been fortunate at fxguide to avoid major server problems. In fact, until Wednesday, we didn’t have more than […]
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fxguidetv: Cinema 4D R12 and Nuke 6.2 Tech Preview
fxguidetv epsiode #93 is now available and contains a look at two software packages. At IBC we caught up with Jon Wadleton, Nuke Product Manager for The Foundry, who gave us an overview of what they have planned for Nuke version 6.2. This includes a new image modeler, projection solver, external 3D rendering, dope sheet, […]
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red centre #072
Loads of news this week – an Epic Red Centre. Acronyms by the truckload with RED SSD’s, HDRx & Alexa+ at IBC & DOP Time Palmer Shoots DSLR’s for the BBC.
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NVIDIA GPU Conference: 3ds Max Adds iRay Rendering Support
The 2010 NVIDIA GTC conference kicked off yesterday in San Jose and in its second year is more than double in size from last year. What’s the conference all about and why do we care? Consider it something of a SIGGRAPH-style gathering, but focusing on GPU technology. The speed curve in GPU technology is quickly […]
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Mercenary Effects: The Expendables
In The Expendables, director Sylvester Stallone harks back to the gritty and explosion-filled action films of days gone by to follow a team of mercenaries helping to overthrow a South American dictator. We talk to visual effects supervisor Wes Caefer about the practical and digital effects work in the film.
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fxguidetv from IBC: Storm
Our second fxguidetv from IBC 2010 in Amsterdam is a look at Storm, the Foundry’s upcoming R3D editing and workflow tool. The product was first shown publicly at NAB earlier this year and has undergone a vast amount of improvement since then. The episode of fxguidetv includes interviews with The Foundry’s Richard Shackleton and RED’s […]
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