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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SIGGRAPH Tuesday
Tuesday and we were not disappointed from 8 minutes of the new 3D Tron film to Jim Morris’s keynote – the Siggraph event was delivering on its promise of production relevant sessions.
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SIGGRAPH 2010 Monday
Siggraph starts fully today Monday in LA. Avatar dominates the production sessions, but Siggraph delivered as usual with a stunning array of technical papers and creative sessions. In addition to the Avatar highlights, the Computational Photography session provided a timely insight into the cutting edge of photography. The parties also hit with the huge Foundry User party, the Mental Images User group, and will continue into the night.
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the vfx show #105: Back to the Future
https://media.fxguide.com/vfxshow/The_VFX_Show_105__Back_To_The_Future.mp3 Play in new window DownloadMike Seymour, Mark Christiansen and Todd Vaziri revisit the 1985 classic film “Back to the Future.” Download vfxs105 here Production Credits: Producers: Mat Graham and Todd Scholton Show Notes: Director: Robert Zemeckis Eric Stoltz Family Ties Alex P. Keaton Porky’s Still shot of flames and Marty and Doc Wes Takahashi […]
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Pixel Farm to Unveil Radical New Tracking Solution at Siggraph
We were already looking forward to Siggraph and here we are in the week before getting releases that make us even more excited to be covering the show. Pixel Farm is using words in the press release that follows that get our full attention “brand new architecture”, “node-based flowgraph architecture” plus they include a quote […]
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The Foundry and Disney launch Groundbreaking Agreement
Advance news from Siggraph is already starting to roll in and here is some big news from The Foundry. The press release and some images are after the jump, but in a nutshell The Foundry is incorporating elements of Disney’s internally developed Paint 3D technology into Mari and Walt Disney Animation Studios’ technology group will […]
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fxpodcast: we nominate Scott Ross
When we talked with Scott Ross about six months ago you let us know by the number of downloads, emails and personal comments that it was one of our most popular podcasts. We check back in with Scott with an unusual proposal, for the duration of the podcast we put him in charge of the […]
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Checking in with Scott Ross
We revisit Scott Ross and put him in charge of the global Visual Effects Industry, at least for the duration of the podcast.
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Red Centre 66 with Stu Maschwitz
This week Jason and Mike are joined by Stu Maschwitz, filmmaker and accidental technologist. The guys discuss a recent ProLost post on the issues around SLR digital cinematography as well as the week’s news and an amazing video documentary project Jason is involved with. Please send us your comments red (at) fxguide.com Visit the red […]
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fxguidetv: ILM and Transformers 2
Episode #86 features Industrial Light & Magic’s Jason Billington, going over work done on Transformers 2. The segment, recorded earlier this year at NAB, shows how they used Nuke’s 3D environment to layer footage of explosions and dust over cgi renders. Visit the fxguidetv page for direct fxguidetv downloads and RSS feed links. To be […]
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red centre #066
Red news, in the Red room we speak to Kyle Ruddick from the One Day On Earth project & Stu Maschwitz joins us to say why fetishists should relax!
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fxpodcast: Pixar’s Michael Johnson
Dr Michael Johnson discusses the Moving Pictures Group at Pixar and how technology has worked with the Artists over time. Michael has personally worked on every single Pixar film since joining the company in 1995. Before Pixar, Michael was with the Computer Graphics and Animation Group at the MIT, he also worked at Thinking Machines […]
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Pixar Moving Pictures Group – Michael Johnson
A technical chat about Pixar film production along with some history dating back to the MIT Media Lab and Thinking Machines.
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Academy to Celebrate Petro Vlahos
If you are in Los Angeles on Thursday July 29th, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is holding a tribute to Petro Vlahos. Many of you may know the name from his pioneering work with Ultimatte but he holds many other patents and has been a great innovator in our business. There will […]
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the vfx show #104: Speed
https://media.fxguide.com/vfxshow/speed.mp3 Play in new window Download Mike Seymour, Ron Brinkmann and Ian Failes revisit Ian’s favorite film of all time, “Speed.” Download vfxs104 here Production Credits: Producers: Mat Graham and Todd Scholton Show Notes: Director: Jan de Bont Dennis Hopper Joss Weedon Keanu Reeves Sandra Bullock Die Hard Hunt for Red October Black Rain Twister […]
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ILM’s Elements for The Last Airbender
For The Last Airbender, director M. Night Shyamalan turned to Industrial Light & Magic to create dynamic fighting scenes featuring elemental manipulation, as well as complex creatures and environments for the film. VFX supe Pablo Helman and associate VFX supervisor Craig Hammack take us through some of ILM’s main technical challenges.
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Walt Disney Animation Adopts Nuke + Mari Preview
Another facility officially joins the Nuke family with Walt Disney Animation Studios licensing Nuke for their feature productions workflow. This continues the list of major studios adding Nuke this year, including Framestore, Cinesite, MPC, and Soho VFX. Also, the Foundry have posted a YouTube sneak peek at their new Mari offering. For more information about […]
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Oscar VFX category officially expanded to 5 nominees
The Academy has approved new rules expanding the Visual Effects category from three nominees to five as is the the case is most other categories. Press release with details after the Read More…
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