VES Annual Meeting
This past Saturday the Visual Effects Society held their annual meeting in Hollywood. Scott Squires has written up a nice summary of the meeting on his blog. I know the words “Annual Meeting” tend to make one think of a boring affair but I think you will find the speakers brought up many of the […]
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YouTube find: The Flame
Making the rounds on YouTube today is a video featuring the flame user interface as a music video. To view the video click the read more…
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linear workflow discussion
In this week’s fxpodcast we discuss linear workflow. We geek out with 3D guru Master Zap of Mental Images about linear compositing workflow: separating fact from fiction, and discuss just how viable it is to set up a correct linear pipeline. Why is linear compositing valuable? Feature film compositing is nearly always ‘linear’ ironically – […]
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Compositing in Linear
We geek out with 3D guru Master Zap about linear compositing workflow, separating fact from fiction.
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fxguidetv: IBC 2009 Recap
Our latest fxguidetv covers news and items from IBC in Amsterdam earlier this month. We speak with the folks at Blackmagic about the daVinci acquisition, check out a tech demo of realtime Nvidia GPU processing of filters in Adobe Premiere, drop by The Foundry booth to see an interesting application of their upcoming tech in […]
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Winning over Tiger Beer
For three ‘Winning over’ Tiger Beer spots, Oktobor created fully CG architectural icons of London, New York and Paris as a single drop of beer gives rise to the cities that eventually form into the Tiger bottle shape. Oktobor General Manager Patrick McAteer and director Damon Duncan tell fxguide how the spots were accomplished.
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Unpaid Journey Artists Update: Partially Paid
Over the last year, we have been following the story of the group of visual effects artists who worked on the film Journey to the Center of the Earth for Meteor Studios (see here and here). These artists were not paid for their months of work when Meteor Studios folded. Over the last year, the […]
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fxpodcast: Posting Your Work Online
Posting work online has become such a common and crucial part of workflow and we often take it for granted. In this fxpodcast we talk with Andreas Wacker of INTERDUBS, a company that provides hosting of clips for review and approval for over eighty post production and production companies. This large client base gives Andreas […]
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Posting Your Work Online
Jeff Heusser talks with Andreas Wacker, founder of INTERDUBS, a clip hosting company for post houses and production facilities.
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Aliens in the Attic – Rhythm & Hues
For Aliens in the Attic, director John Schultz called on Rhythm & Hues to create an array of cute-but-scary aliens who take on an unlikely band of vacationing kids. Visual effects supervisor Doug Smith and co-visual effects supervisor Mike O’Neal break down Rhythm’s alien animation work for fxguide.
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red centre #045
Big show this week, RED’s IBC news, new ARRI cams, the BSC’s huge Film & Digital Evaluation, argue over optical finders & more from Running Rig
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Back 2 back fxguidetv: Spanish & English
We have new episodes of fxguidetv English and Spanish. In fxguidetv #67, Angie and the team talk to Chris Bond and Chris Harvey of Prime Focus about GI Joe and workflow. (also see our feature written story this week) Visit the fxguidetv page for direct fxguidetv downloads and RSS feed links. To be notified automatically and […]
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the vfx show #88: UP
https://media.fxguide.com/vfxshow/vfxs_088_up_64kbps.m4a Play in new window Download Mike Seymour, David Stripinis and Matt Graham discuss the feature film, “UP” Download vfxs088 here Get the vfx show every week! Free iTunes Store subscription vfxs088 credits: Producer/Audio Postproduction: Mike Seymour Research: Lori Apthorp Review and Show notes: Todd Scholton Show Notes: UP David’s Top 10 films of 2009 […]
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61st Primetime Creative Arts Emmy
Today the Primetime Creative Arts Awards were presented at a ceremony at the NOKIA Theatre in downtown Los Angeles. The show, hosted by Kathy Griffin, will be televised on September 18th at 1:00 p.m (ET/PT) on E! Entertainment Television. A list of the winners for selected categories follows the read more:
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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
With G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, director Stephen Sommers delved into the world of the popular Hasbro action-figure toy line. Bringing the characters and vehicles to life was partly the role of overall visual effects supervisors Boyd Shermis and Greg McMurry and a host of effects vendors. fxguide profiles some of the key effects shots by Digital Domain, CIS Hollywood and CIS Vancouver, Prime Focus VFX, The Moving Picture Company, CafeFX and Framestore.
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fxpodcast: Taking Woodstock Acid Trip
In this week’s fxpodcast we trip out with Mr X – and their visual effects for Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock. This comedy required the visual effects team to visualize an acid trip, make the world become a rolling ocean and show the centre of the universe. In a fun and technical discussion Mike Seymour talks […]
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Taking Woodstock
We talk about creating an acid trip with VFX supervisor Brendan Taylor from Mr. X
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fxguidetv: new flame/smoke 2010×1 releases
ibc begins on Friday in Amsterdam and we’ll be covering the conference via fxguidetv as we have for the last several years. To start out the show, our first episode covers the new extension releases from Autodesk for flame and smoke. We traveled up to Montreal before this week to get the scoop on the […]
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