15 in Competition for 2010 Scientific and Technical Awards
The Scientific and Technical Awards Committee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has released the list of those under consideration for Sci-tech awards. Names like ILM, Rhythm & Hues, Digital Domain, Dreamworks, PipelineFX, Pixar, SPI, Disney, Rising Sun Research are included… full press release follows.
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In Memoriam: Sande Scoredos
The Visual Effects Society reports that Sande Scoredos, who served as Executive Director of Training and Artist Development At Sony Pictures Imageworks for the past 12-plus years passed away Saturday morning after a prolonged illness. More information as well as details about services can be found after the jump…
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Variety reports Montreal’s Fake Studio leaves workers unpaid
David S. Cohen reports in an article today in Variety that Montreal’s Fake Studio (part of Camera e-Motion Group) has left a handful of VFX artists unpaid since April for work done on the film Piranha 3D. The article discusses the familiar nature to the Meteor story, mentions the Visual Effects business as a Ponzi […]
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CVMP 2010 London: November 17-18th
This year’s This year’s Conference on Visual Media and Production is taking place in London on November 17th and 18th. The event provides an outlet for production and post personnel to discuss the latest technology and research impacting the field. If you like geeking out about the tech side of things with research impacting the […]
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Resolve on Mac gets closer
Blackmagic Design has announced their support for RED Rocket in both Mac and Linux configurations. Stereo .R3D playback will be supported with dual Rockets. In both MAC and Lunix installation is aimed to be plug and play. If you do not have Rockets installed, r3d clips are decoded and debayered as per user configurable settings […]
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Knight & Day
For James Mangold’s Knight & Day, vfx supervisor Eric Durst oversaw more than 700 effects shots to help tell the story of a secret agent and his unwilling partner pursued around the world. We delve into the digital Running of the Bulls work by Rhythm & Hues and the European train effects by Weta Digital.
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Going Green
This week Jason and Mike are joined in the Red Room by Doug Purver to discuss is cool Running Spot. Also the guys geek out on SLR sensors and the way Canon builds .CR2 RAW files for the Canon 5D and 7D. Visit the red centre page for direct downloads and RSS feed links. To […]
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red centre #068
This weeks Red news plus doublers, Lego powered CGI Timelapse & Audio gear.
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New AE Camera Tracker and Kronos from The Foundry
The Foundry have announced two new plugins for Adobe After Effects CS5, a 3D camera tracker based upon the tracking technology from Nuke, and an extremely fast version of their Kronos plugin. It’s a good sign to see some of the Foundry’s research and technology make it’s way to the affordable desktop platform. The Kronos […]
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Wet Disney
For a spot promoting Disney’s ‘World of Color’ show, Motion Theory orchestrated fountains of colored water and light and mixed them with renditions of well-known Disney characters. We talk to MT’s vfx supe John Fragomeni and RealFlow lead Andy Cochrane about the techniques used for the commercial.
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fxguidetv : Pixar Director Teddy Newton
Before Toy Story 3 was the incredibly successful short film Day and Night. The film is not only creatively entertaining but one of the best uses of stereoscopic animation ever done. This week we speak to Director Teddy Newton. Also from SIGGRAPH, we have a brief look at the SIGGRAPH Job Fair, one of the […]
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the vfx show #106: Inception
https://media.fxguide.com/vfxshow/The_VFX_Show_106_Inception.mp3 Play in new window Download Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond and Matt Wallin go inside ‘Inception’ Download vfxs106 here vfxs106 Production Credits: Producers: Mat Graham and Todd Scholton Show Notes: Director: Christopher Nolan Cinematographer: Wally Pfister Visual Effects Company: DNEG New Deal Studios: (Miniatures) New Deal Studios 2001: A Space Odyssey For Your Eyes Only […]
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Mari Release Event in London
For our readers in London, The Foundry is holding a release event on August 12th for their recently released Mari software. To be held at the VUE in Leicester, the event will be showcase the product from an artist and technical perspective as well as laying out the product roadmap. Click here to register and […]
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SIGGRAPH fxguidetv: PFMatchit and ‘The VES Handbook’
fxguidetv episode #88 takes a look at PFMatchit, the new node-based camera tracking software from The Pixel Farm. The company has completely re-architectured tracking workflow in their new product to build for the future (see the press released posted here last week). Mike Seymour also speaks with Scott Squires, one of the co-editors on The […]
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red centre #067
Mike is in LA for Siggraph – having just shot SLR video in Yellowstone for a week with CPT Tyler Ginter, Mat Graham and John Montgomery. In the Red room, Jason looks at the Teradek Cube HD WiFi Transmitter.
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SIGGRAPH final day
Here is our third and final report from Siggraph, but watch for fxguidetv eps and podcasts rolling out this week and next.
Today we look at Day&Night, Airbender and a summary of cool things around the show, including the mysterious Spheron HDRV camera.
SIGGRAPH fxguidetv: NVIDIA + Mental Ray
Episode #87: In our first episode from Siggraph 2010 in Los Angeles we catch up with and Mental Images. Check back later for more Siggraph coverage including Pixar’s Teddy Newton: Director of Day and Night, VFX supervisor Scott Squires and more… Visit the fxguidetv page for direct fxguidetv downloads and RSS feed links. To be […]
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Inception
Our Inception coverage is in two parts. Click through for a detailed discussion with the team at New Deal Studios by Ian Failes. And also to access our in depth podcast with Visual effects supervisor Paul Franklin of Double Negative in London. We have delayed publishing both as they contain heavy spoilers on what must be one of the year’s best films.
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