ILM Purchases Nuke Site Licence
Hot on the heels of its management buyout, The Foundry has completed a major deal with Industrial Light & Magic, Lucasfilm Ltd’s multiple Academy Award-winning visual effects studio. ILM has purchased a site licence for Nuke. ILM’s visionary work has earned thirty-seven Academy Award® nominations for Best Visual Effects. Lucasfilm’s chief technical officer, Richard Kerris, […]
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Another Dark Day for the Industry
We are hearing that one of the oldest companies in our business Pacific Title & Art Studio, formed in 1919, is heading to receivership. We share what we know so far and ask “what is the future of our industry?”.
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GenArts Signs Deal with Lucasfilm
Today GenArts signed an agreement with Lucasfilm covering Industrial Light & Magic, Lucasfilm Animation, and Lucasfilm Animation Singapore to have GenArts software as standard across all their compositing packages and to work together moving forward.
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the vfx show #79: Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
https://media.fxguide.com/vfxshow/vfxshow_079_NATM2_64kbps.m4a Play in new window Download Mike Seymour, Matt Graham and Jason Wingrove discuss the visual effects in the feature film “Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian”. Download vfxs079 here Get the vfx show every week! Free iTunes Store subscription Show Notes Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian Rhythm and Hues […]
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Terminator Salvation
This week we look at digital and practical effects on Terminator Salvation with ILM and Kerner Optical
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fxpodcast: Terminator Salvation -ILM & Kerner Optical
In this week’s fxpodcast we have an amazing show – we speak in depth to both Ben Snow of ILM and Brain Gernand of Kerner Optical about Terminator Salvation. Ben discusses things such as a whole new lighting “energy conserving” renderman system at ILM and Brian discusses both miniatures and pryo – and the complex […]
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New red centre Podcast
Our Digital cinematography & production podcast red centre episode #41 is live and ready for download. This week’s podcast we talk his week, the guys talk about RED Rocket, films on RED, Scarlet, and more as Mike prepares for a SMPTE panel by interviewing Jason about his opinions on Scarlet, 5D Mk II and full […]
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The Foundry Announces Management Buyout
Since NAB, we’ve heard rumors from around the world that The Foundry was no longer going to exist as a company due to financial problems at Digital Domain. However, to steal a quote from Mark Twain, the reports of The Foundry’s death are greatly exaggerated. Thankfully for artists and those who wish for a diverse software market, The Foundry has announced that they are independent once again….
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Illusion Arts Sadly Closes
After 26 years Illusion Arts is closing, another victim of the global financial crisis and the severe pressure on effects houses. The loss of Illusion Arts is particularly upsetting given the history of the company; it is one of the oldest and most respected specialist facilities in the industry. Variety is reporting that co-founder Syd […]
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1984 – Pool Balls 25 Years Later
With the release of the critically acclaimed film UP by Pixar, we acknowledge that 2009 marks 25 years since the famous Pool Ball shot 1984. In this week’s fxpodcast we talk to Rob Cook of Pixar about the some of the history surrounding that landmark shot, his own career and the industry today. We took a bash at redoing the shot to see just how much easier things are today.
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Pixar’s Rob Cook
An interview with Rob Cook, co-architect and primary author of Pixar’s RenderMan
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Friday Fun: Viral Industry Funnies
Two online videos with appeal to our industry made waves in the social networking worlds like Twitter and Facebook this week. The first one, by editor Joy Moeller, is a list of 21 things that a client should and shouldn’t do in an edit session to keep peace with your editor. The second one places […]
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Another Night at the Museum
Rhythm & Hues visual effects supervisor Raymond Chen discusses his studio’s vast visual effects work for Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (outside the USA: Night at the Museum 2), with fxguide’s Ian Failes.
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Philips 21:9 fxguidetv is Back up Again
We were required to remove the now infamous episode #57 of fxguidetv, – for reasons nothing to do with fxguide. Well we are happy to report it is back. Last month the buzz on visual effects forums, Facebook and Twitter has been “have you seen that Philips frozen moment?”. This web promo for a wider […]
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NBA: the barest of all possible great moments
The new “Where amazing happens” spots feature famous NBA playoff moments starring Larry Bird, Kobe Bryant, Dr. J, Magic Johnson and Shaquille O’Neal. Empty stadiums are gradually filled (and emptied) with players and spectators as the iconic moments play out, Ian Failes speaks to Brickyard VFX about the task of working with such iconic clips.
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Unpaid Artists update
We did a podcast in July of 2008 with Dave Rand about a group of artists that were left unpaid for work they did for the film Journey to the Center of the Earth. Dave posted an update today over on CGTalk that the Discovery Channel has offered them back wages of 45% without overtime […]
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red centre #035
We wrap up our workflow roundup, go low tech with digital Super 8 and hit the edit room with a 7 camera RED shoot
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