iPhone Color Correction App from The Mill
Yes, you read that correctly, The Mill has released a free iPhone application that allows the user to apply looks or emulate primary color grading tools found in a grading suite. The app has preset looks like “golden” and “bleached” as well as controls for lift, gain, gamma and saturation that can be applied across […]
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VES Announces Health Care for Members
When we interviewed Jeffrey Okun from the Visual Effects Society at the end of May for a podcast he broke the news that the VES was working on getting health care options for VES members. He mentioned that this has been a top request from members. Today members were emailed with information about that plan […]
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Siggraph 2009 Technical Papers Preview Video
This August the fxguide crew will be in full force to cover Siggraph 2009 in New Orleans. Siggraph is always a great place to network, see what is coming in future technology or update your skills. The last time the show was in New Orleans it was an amazing combination of work and play. If […]
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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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