The Animation Guild
Steve Hulett of The Animation Guild joins us again to discuss visual effects and labor issues.
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red centre #055
Oscar and RED news, then Offhollywood’s Mark Pederson reports from the subway with their Mysterium-X RED One
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Oscar Nominations announced
Nominations for the 82nd Academy Awards® were announced early this morning by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. For the visual effects category this means the field is now narrowed from seven to these three nominated films: Avatar Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones District 9 Dan Kaufman, Peter […]
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the vfx show #94: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
https://media.fxguide.com/vfxshow/The_VFX_Show_94_LOTR_FOTR.mp3 Play in new window Download Mike Seymour, Mark Christiansen, and Mat Graham discuss the visual effects of the 2001 feature film “Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring” and the birth of Massive Software and crowd simulation. Download vfxs094 here Get the vfx show every week! Free iTunes Store subscription vfxs094 Production […]
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The Halo Life
The Life, a live action short directed by MJZ’s Rupert Sanders to promote the launch of Halo 3: ODST for the Xbox 360, features visual effects by Asylum as we follow Tarkov, an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper, through training and a major battle sequence. Visual effects supervisor and lead compositor Rob Moggach tells fxguide how […]
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Foundry Katana Blog Post + New Tuts
Late last year, The Foundry announced a tech sharing agreement with Sony Pictures Imageworks which included access to SPI’s Katana 3D software. Since that time, there has been some discussion (even grumbling) on the net and mailing lists about The Foundry losing focus regarding the heart of Nuke: compositing. If you’ve watched some of the […]
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Avatar: Framestore and Renderman
In part 3 of our series on Avatar we talk with Dana Batali from the Pixar Renderman team and Christian Kaestner, compositing supervisor from Framestore.
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Happy Christmas Mr. Zemeckis
In A Christmas Carol, featuring Jim Carrey as Ebenezer Scrooge and the three ghosts that haunt him, director Robert Zemeckis relied on the newly formed ImageMovers Digital to bring this performance capture adaptation of Charles Dickens’ novel to life. fxguide speaks with visual effects supervisor George Murphy and animation supervisor Jenn Emberly about making the performances possible.
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Inside Rodriguez’s ‘Shorts’
In Shorts, director Robert Rodriguez delivers his trademark colourful imagery to tell the story of a young boy’s wish-granting rock discovery. Working alongside the director were artists at Rodriguez’s own Troublemaker Studios who, with other effects studios, delivered a bevy of fun visual treats, including an impressive booger monster. Troublemaker’s Chris Olivia talks to fxguide […]
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Nuke 6/NukeX 6 Released
The Foundry has released two new versions of their Nuke compositing software, Nuke 6.0 and NukeX 6.0. Nuke 6.0 includes a completely new shape rotoscope and paint toolset and also bundles Keylight as a standard feature. NukeX 6.0 contains a new 3D camera tracker, lens distortion tools, depth generator, and Furnace Core — 12 Furnace […]
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the vfx show #93: Sherlock Holmes
https://media.fxguide.com/vfxshow/The_VFX_Show_93__Sherlock_Holmes.mp3 Play in new window Download Mike Seymour, Jason Wingrove, and Jason Diamond discuss the feature film “Sherlock Holmes” and the nature of doing visual effects in period films. Download vfxs093 here Get the vfx show every week! Free iTunes Store subscription vfxs093 Production Credits: Producers: Todd Scholton and Mat Graham Show Notes: Sherlock Holmes […]
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BAFTA Film Award Nominations
Avatar, District 9, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, The Hurt Locker and Star Trek have been nominated for British Academy Film Awards in the category Special Visual Effects. The Orange British Academy Film Awards take place on February 21st at The Royal Opera House, London. A complete list of nominees can be found at […]
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red centre #054
Lenses, lenses, lenses: a RED Day report from Jason Diamond and rat holes about rat holes.
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THR states Avatar leads VES awards
The VES nominations have been released a tad early it seems by the Hollywood Reporter, which is claiming James Cameron’s “Avatar” led the list of nominations scoring 11 nominations. The animated “Coraline,”also released in Stereo, followed with four nominations. New Zealand-based Weta Digital, which worked on “Avatar,” led the company noms with nine. For visual […]
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Avatar: ILM
John Knoll, ILM vfx supervisor, on collaborating with Weta and stereoscopic for “Avatar”.
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Sony Releases Open Source Shading Language
At last year’s SIGGRAPH in New Orleans, Sony Pictures Imageworks (SPI) announced their open source initiative in 5 areas. At the time, we spoke with Rob Bredow in fxguidetv episode #69 about this and other happenings at Sony. Today, SPI released the alpha version of the source code for their Open Shading Language (OSL) at […]
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Goats, hamsters and the military
Grant Heslov’s The Men Who Stare At Goats tells the story of a former U.S. Army member claiming to be a psychic soldier who can, among other things, stop the hearts of animals using only his mind. CIS Hollywood, under the vfx supervision of Thomas J. Smith, realised shots of this so-called power in action, as well as a number of other sequences in the film. Digital fx supervisor Joe Henke talks to fxguide about how the shots were accomplished.
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