VFXWages.com launches
Back in August we did a podcast and article with Steve Hulett from The Animation Guild where he made the comment “How many visual effects houses do you know say to their top guys “uh, keep it to yourself what you’re making”… it’s against the law.” He went to talk about his feelings that not […]
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the vfx show #72: Knowing
https://media.fxguide.com/vfxshow/vfxs_072_knowing_64kbps.m4a Play in new window Download Mike Seymour, David Stripinis and John Flowers discuss the visual effects in the feature film “Knowing”. Download vfxs072 here Show Notes: Knowing website Donnie Darko Dark City The Crow Rotten Tomatoes Armageddon Deep Impact Red camera Animal Logic WETA BUF Happy Feet Lost Park Road Post Fantastic Four Helvetica […]
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da Vinci Announces Native .R3D Support
With NAB a month away, add another manufacturer to the list of those natively supporting the .R3D format. Today, da Vinci announced add-ons to their Resolve grading systems which allow varying levels of speed for decoding RED files. The three new products range from a software-only solution which is available for all Resolve systems to […]
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red centre #028
We discuss Red and Avid news, Scarlet in the flesh, ratholes and revisit Jason’s post issues.
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the vfx show #71: Watchmen
https://media.fxguide.com/vfxshow/vfxs_071_watchmen_64kbps.m4a Play in new window Download John Flowers and Jason Wingrove discuss the visual effects in the feature film “Watchmen”. Download vfxs071 here Show Notes: The Watchmen official website Alan Moore Zack Snyder yU+co Bob Dylan Simon and Garfunkel Billy Crudup 300 Chris Gilman Dave Gibbons Beowulf Intelligent Creatures Des Jardin <a href="http://www.globaleffects.com/Global Effects George […]
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New fxpodcast – Showing Film Some Love
We tend to chase the latest technology here at fxguide, but we starting thinking that film is still the dominant media for motion picture photography and projection. So we went to one of the major sources, Kodak, to find out what they have been working on. As you’ll hear when we talked with Gary Einhaus, […]
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Kodak ‘State of the Union’
A conversation with Gary Einhaus, CTO and General Manager of Kodak Digital Cinema, about new technology and research at Kodak.
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the vfx show #70: Coraline
https://media.fxguide.com/vfxshow/vfxs_070_coraline_64kbps.m4a Play in new window Download Mark Christiansen and John Flowers discuss the 3D stop-motion feature film “Coraline”. Download vfxs070 here Show Notes: Coraline website Neil Gaiman Neal Stephenson William Gibson Jason X Henry Selick The Nightmare Before Christmas Ray Harryhausen Clash of the Titans Monkeybone Ian McShane Redlake MegaPlus camera Journey to the Center […]
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HD Expo (and Continuing the Image Quality Discussion)
HD Expo has been around since 2001 and holds conferences in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York as well as internationally. Kristin Petrovich, President of HD Expo explained that they are in the process of transitioning the name to “creatasphere”. On March 5th the HD Expo was held at the Hilton at Universal City, featuring […]
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VES and ASC Team up for Image Quality
The Visual Effects Society (VES) Technology Committee & American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) held a session this past Tuesday in Hollywood called Image Quality Considerations for Cinematography and Visual Effects. This was a standing room only event at the Academy’s Linwood Dunn Theater, Eric Roth (head of the VES) said in his opening remarks that […]
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Autodesk Introduces Softimage 7.5 Software
Autodesk today released an update to SOFTIMAGE|XSI, which it acquired from Avid back in November, and the update renames the product to Autodesk Softimage. Read the press release after the jump
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Ed Ulbrich: How Benjamin Button got his face
A talk from the 2009 TED Conference has been posted featuring Ed Ulbrich, from Digital Domain, explaining the Oscar-winning technology that allowed his team to digitally create younger and older versions of Brad Pitt’s face for “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.” Watch the clip here
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VES Awards – Report and Photo Gallery
It was a good night for Digital Domain at the 7th Annual Visual Effects Society Awards as “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” took home four awards and a commercial for Bacardi made it five. The HBO series “John Adams”, “The Changeling”, “WALL E”, and “The Dark Knight” all took home multiple awards and New […]
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VES Awards – The Winners List
The 7th Annual Visual Effects Society Awards were held tonight at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles. In addition to the award categories a VES Lifetime Achievement award was presented to Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall and the George Méliès Award for Pioneering was presented to Phil Tippett. The winners in individual categories […]
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HPA Technology Retreat 2009
The Hollywood Post Alliance describes their 15th annual technology retreat on their web site with the heading “Now more than ever! Arm your Brain”. In these challenging economic times it is important to be thinking in new directions and looking for all opportunities. We take a trip to the desert for some inspiration and to see what the HPA Technology Retreat has to offer.
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the vfx show #69: The Fifth Element
https://media.fxguide.com/vfxshow/vfxs_069_5th_element_64kbps.m4a Play in new window Download Mike Seymour, Mark Christiansen and Kristin Martin discuss the visual effects in the 1997 classic feature film “The Fifth Element”. Download vfxs069 here Show notes: The Fifth Element Luc Besson (director) Eric Serra (composer) The Big Blue Golden Eye
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Gridiron Flow Beta for Mac Released
One of the more interesting products in development over the last year has been Gridiron Software’s Flow — an asset, versioning, and time tracking package for artists. It works behind the scenes to track what you’re working on and what files were used to create the end result. Just drag a render to the Flow […]
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the vfx show #68: Academy Awards Preview
https://media.fxguide.com/vfxshow/vfxs_068_oscars_64kbps.m4a Play in new window Download Mike Seymour, John Flowers and Mark Christiansen discuss the nominees for the Academy Award in Visual Effects, along with some of the films that didn’t make it to the final round. Download vfxs068 here. Show Notes Academy Awards 2009 Australia Chronicles of Narnia : Prince Caspian Cloverfield *Curious Case […]
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