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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Green Zone – Double Negative
In Green Zone, director Paul Greengrass tells the story of rogue U.S. Army Officer Roy Miller (Matt Damon) in the search for weapons of mass destruction during the Second Iraq War. Double Negative augmented numerous locations to double as Baghdad, created CG helicopters and devised other visual effects for the film. We sat down with Dneg’s visual effects supervisor Charlie Noble and co-CG supervisors Julian Foddy and Dan Neal.
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the vfx show #97: Alice in Wonderland
https://media.fxguide.com/vfxshow/The_VFX_Show_97__Alice_in_Wonderland.mp3 Play in new window Download Mike Seymour, John Flowers and Ian Failes discuss the visual effects of the 2010 feature film “Alice in Wonderland” and 3D extraction from 2D film.” Get every vfx show episode automatically delivered! Free iTunes Store subscription vfxs097 Production Credits: Producers: Todd Scholton and Mat Graham Show Notes: Alice in […]
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I am the DJ
DJ Hero, the popular Activision console game, features a frenetic introduction created by Framestore and directed by Marco Puig. In the intro, the game’s main DJ characters are terrorised by a giant LP needle inside a vinyl planet. Visual effects supervisor Diarmid Harrison-Murray and digital producer Mike Woods tell fxguide how it came together.
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Orphan with Image Engine
For Orphan, overall visual effects supervisor Richard Yuricich called on Image Engine to realise several sequences in the film, including a burning children’s tree house set alight by a seemingly evil girl with her adopted brother still inside. Image Engine visual effects supervisor Robin Hackl and visual effects producer Steve Garrad discuss their work with fxguide.
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CafeFX “Downsizing and retooling, not closing”
All week there have been rumors that CafeFX is closing. Today Jeff Barnes responded to this chatter by way of David S. Cohen at Variety who said via Twitter (@Variety_DSCohen): Jeff Barnes of CafeFX texted me they are “downsizing and retooling, not closing.” and “Barnes of CafeFX also writes “We did NOT lay everyone off. […]
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Hurt Locker Special Effects: Physical Bombs
In Kathryn Bigelow’s Oscar winning The Hurt Locker, a U.S. Army bomb squad unit in Iraq confronts the threat of IEDs and more . Helping to bring the physicality of that threat to the film was special effects supervisor Richard Stutsman. In this Q&A we talk to Stutsman, who recently received a BAFTA nomination for Special Visual Effects, about the difficulties his team faced in creating explosions in Jordan and about keeping everything real.
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red centre #058
Hell freezes over as Canon completes the 5DMkII, plus Phantom news, MX tests, Red news & gear, iPhone apps & Blackhawks
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Ptex Open Source from Disney Animation Studios
Andy Hendrickson, Brent Burley and Dan Candela join us for a technical discussion about Ptex, a high quality, optimized texture format and filtering library that Disney has made Open Source.
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Nuke Stereo Master Class Plus 6.1 Preview
The Foundry held its second Master Class in London on Friday, playing to packed house at the Vue theatre in Leicester Square. The event was standing-room only, having given away all the seats in only 24 hours when it was announced earlier this year. The event focused on stereoscopic production and post…a timely program after […]
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