fxguidetv: Flame/Smoke 2011 Releases
Our first fxguidetv episode from NAB covers the new Flame and Smoke 2011 releases from Autodesk. This is one of the biggest releases in years, adding stereoscopic support, an entirely new rendering engine in Action, and an improved footage import workflow that includes “import history”. We have over an hour of interviews that cover the […]
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Exclusive: Foundry Storm revealed
As The Foundry booth was being built around us, the fxguide crew managed to get the world’s first Storm demo. Storm is a workflow tool, initially aimed at working with RED files, highly focused and leveraged off a wealth of GPU R&D and years of GUI development. Storm will not be released for several months but in this exclusive look we profile the product, uncover its projected cost and discover a few surprises.
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Nuke on Episodic TV @ Fusefx
When Burbank-based visual effects studio FuseFX began working on the new season of Showtime’s “United States of Tara,” it turned to Nuke, The Foundry’s powerful compositing application, which is normally thought of as primarily a feature film compositing tool, or for CG/3D multi-pass TVC workflow. As the series requires extensive green screen effects, given the […]
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the vfx show #98: Moon
https://media.fxguide.com/vfxshow/The_VFX_Show_98__Moon.mp3 Play in new window Download Mike Seymour, Mark Christiansen, Jason Diamond and Jason Wingrove discuss the visual effects of the 2009 feature film “Moon” and the validity of ‘old school’ visual effects in a ‘new school’ world. Download vfxs098 here Get every vfx show episode automatically delivered! Free iTunes Store subscription vfxs098 Production Credits: […]
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fxpodcast with Tom Walsh, President of the Art Directors Guild
As part of our continuing labor series we sit down with Tom Walsh, President of the Art Directors Guild to discuss the role of the Guild. We talk about job categories represented by the Guild, the global business, how the Guild relates to the visual effects business and much more. Tom is also a working […]
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Tom Walsh, President of the Art Directors Guild
We continue our labor series talking with Tom Walsh, president of the Art Directors Guild.
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New fxguidetv Mari @ the foundry
In the new fxguidetv episode we have an exclusive first look at the texturing and paint software Mari with The Foundry’s Bill Collis and Jack Greasley. Mari was developed at Weta as the in house tool, and is now moving to the Foundry. Mari is a remarkable paint and texturing tool able to handle very […]
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The tech behind the tools of Avatar part 2: Naiad
Avatar won Best single visual effect of the year at the VES for the Neytiri “leaf drinking shot” – central to that was the new Naiad fluid tool. Exotic Matter’s Naiad is an extremely powerful fluid tool that is about to go into Beta following extensive development from its use on Avatar.
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red centre #059
Last show before NAB & another biggie as Phantom kicks off our workflow roundup, Plus DSLR native ISO, shootouts & PL mounts & RED Ultimate Guide author Noah Kadner.
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New Version of Silhouette Released
Silhouette has always been an incredibly strong tool, in large part due to its dedication to a specific task: roto. This week, version 4 was released which contains major enhancements and additions to the application. The first is what is called “Power Matte”, which uses inner-outer shape algorithms to determine the edges of the object. […]
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VFX Town Hall #1 Audio File
If you missed the first VFX Town Hall meeting we are helping with bandwidth by hosting the mp3 of the audio recording of the event. You can listen by using this link.
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VFX Town Hall – Community Links
One of the things we have been impressed with since the town hall was announced is the grass roots growth we have seen in the community. People have been taking full advantage of tools on the internet like wiki’s and google documents to share information and help develop guidelines. After the jump you will find […]
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Digital Domain: The Lightning Thief
For Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, director Chris Columbus and visual effects supervisor Kevin Mack looked to Digital Domain to create some of the key creatures and effects in the film. We talk to DD’s visual effects supervisor Kelly Port and animation supervisor Erik Gamache about their work for the Hydra beast, the six-winged Fury character and the film’s final New York face-off.
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VFX Town Hall – how did it go, what did it mean?
Last night the first in a series of online town hall meetings was held – organized by Lee Stranahan, the panelists were Chris deFaria -Vice President, Warner Bros. Pictures, Jefferey A. Okun – Visual Effects Society Chair and visual effects supervisor and Scott Ross – Co-Founder of Digital Domain & former CEO of Industrial, Light […]
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The Foundry: New “Blink” Tech for Plugins
Bruno Nicoletti, co-founder of the Foundry, on the tech behind their program of accelerating plugins for GPUs.
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Exclusive: Foundry NAB Preview
In this sneak peak we outline the new products from the foundry to be shown for the first time at NAB 2010 in Las Vegas. New products include the acquisition of Weta’s Paint and texturing program Mari, a new optical flow tool for AE and new Nuke versions.
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Reminder – VFX Online Townhall Meeting
Monday, March 29th at 7pm (Pacific) there will be “an open discussion of a visual effects industry in transition”. This free online townhall meeting has been put together by Lee Stranahan, a former visual effects artist and writer for The Huffington Post whose Open Letter To James Cameron: Fairness For VIsual Effects Artists sparked a […]
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Leap Year – Cinesite
Cinesite visual effects supervisor Matt Johnson takes us through the invisible effects of Anand Tucker’s Leap Year, a film in which Amy Adams plans to propose to her boyfriend in Dublin on leap day – Feburary 29th.
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