Circus is Ringleader for Grenelle Spot
An environmentally friendly approach to urban development is the subject of this spot for Grenelle, a French neighbourhood near Paris. Circus, co-founded by Jérôme Bacquet and Julien Villanueva, worked with director NoBrain to transform industrial landscapes into greener areas for the spot. Bacquet tells fxguide about his studio’s work. Interview by Ian Failes View QuickTime […]
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red centre #050
This week (our 50th Episode) the guys discuss Gyros, Top Gear and Build 21. The Red Room interview is with war zone film maker Danfung Dennis.
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Asylum turns the world upside down
Floating people, couches and fruit are all part of World Upside Down, an Ad Council spot with visual effects by Asylum. Directed by Derin Seale for agency Cramer-Krasselt, the :60 spot is aimed at raising awareness for disaster preparation. Asylum Lead VFX/Inferno Artist Rob Trent takes fxguide through the compositing work.
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fxguidetv: Smoke on Mac
At the Inter BEE 2009 conference in Tokyo Autodesk showed a technology demo and announced Smoke on the Macintosh platform with a price of $14,995 (U.S. suggested retail price). We take an exclusive first look at Smoke on the Mac and talk with the product managers and developers to answer all the questions you may […]
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2012: Disaster Porn
To bring general world-ending mayhem to his latest disaster film, 2012, director Roland Emmerich relied on a contigent of effects vendors under the supervision of Volker Engel and Marc Weigert. In this article, we focus on the work of two of those vendors: Digital Domain and Sony Pictures Imageworks. In this week’s fxpodcast, we discuss Double Negative’s work on the film.
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fxguidetv: Another Killer Nuke Segment
Right on the heels on the incredibly popular segment in our last fxguidetv, we have another feature from IBC featuring work in Nuke. In episode #71 Shervin Shoghian, compositing supervisor at Image Engine, shows off some insane 3D tricks from work they did on District 9. This is another great example of how to use […]
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smoke on mac: yes, it’s for real
We haven’t been able to say anything up until now as we strongly respect our Non-Disclosure agreements as beta testers, but the rumors are true: there is definitely smoke for mac in Autodesk’s future. According to Autodesk, they will be “showing a technology preview of its industry leading Autodesk Smoke editorial finishing software running on […]
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Tsnumai in South Korea thanks to Polygon, CA.
For Haeundae, South Korea’s first large scale disaster film, Polygon Entertainment assembled a team of filmmaking and visual effects specialists to realise massive tsnumai waves and daring water rescues. Polygon founder and CEO Hans Uhlig and visual effects producer Jeff Olson talk to fxguide about the challenges of setting up a new studio that offers an entire filmmaking experience.
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The Proposal
In its first feature film project, Brickyard VFX was called upon to create more than 300 invisible effects shots for Anne Fletcher’s The Proposal. Brickyard visual effects supervisor Sean Devereaux talks to fxguide about adding mountains, roto-ing hair and puppeteering an eagle.
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red centre #049
We revisit the facts behind RED’s Oct 30 announcements, Les Zellan from Cooke Optics takes us through their new 5i & Panchro lenses plus take to the air with the SoulCam
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fxpodcast: AICP Digital
In July we posted a press release from the Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP) announcing their digital initiative. We wanted to learn more about this so we sat down with Ed Ulbrich (Digital Domain) who is heading up AICP Digital. The AICP has been around since 1972, this new initiative is designed to tackle […]
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AICP Digital
We talk with Ed Ulbrich (Digital Domain) about the newly formed Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP) Digital and what it means for artists and companies.
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fxguidetv: rise | fx Nuke Presentation from IBC
This year’s Foundry booth at IBC had several fantastic presentations by artists who use Nuke at their facilities and our next two fxguidetv episodes have two of those killer presentations. Episode #70 features the work of rise | fx, the biggest vendor for vfx in Berlin. vfx supervisor Florian Gellinger shows off the work they […]
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Wondertouch bought by GenArts
In a key strategic move, GenArts have bought Wondertouch, makers of the particleIllusion software. Not only does this perfectly balance with GenArts current product line with almost no overlap, but Wondertouch is about to release particleIllusion for After Effects, the result of several years of work by founder and Wondertouch cornerstone, Alan Lorence. We spoke to both Wondertouch and GenArts about what this means to their over 10,000 users.
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Bridgestone by RedCartel
‘Hotel’, a Bridgestone Australia spot created by Sydney collaborative outfit RedCartel, features a recurring Gecko character realized entirely using the open source Blender 3D software. click below to read our interview with RedCartel producer James Neale, as he explains how Blender made the spot possible. RedCartel started in May 2008 as a collaborative effort between […]
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Foundry acquires Katana from SPI for Nuke
The Foundry have acquired the technology of Sony Pictures Imagework’s (SPI) Katana 3D lighting & compositing package. Katana’s hardcore lighting node based technology will be integrated into an upcoming version of the Foundry’s Nuke 2D package. We spoke to both companies about why SPI would part with such a great in house tool and why the Foundry needs another compositing lighting system, in this online exclusive.
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Extensive Interview: Red and the Epic-X Tattoo
Our Digital cinematography & production podcast red centre episode #48 is live and ready for download. This week’s podcast we talk to Ted Schilowitz about the scheduled roll out the Epic cameras. We examine and explain all four options and discuss some of the cool tech of the new Epic -X Tattoo camera. Also check […]
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