red centre #027
This week we revisit downconverters, discuss the perils of DIY Red, and speak to photographer turned filmmaker Vincent Laforet.
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The Foundry: Looking for Showreel Material
It’s that time of year again, when manufacturers are looking for material to add to their tradeshow reels. The Foundry is prepping their reel for NAB and looking for cool stuff that features work done in their products: Nuke, Furnace, Keylight, Ocula, Tinder, and Tinderbox. If you have work that you’d like to have featured […]
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And the BAFTA Award goes to…
Starting the award season the British Academy of Film and Television Arts held the BAFTA Awards tonight. The winner for the category Special Visual Effects is: The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button Eric Barba, Craig Barron, Nathan McGuinness, Edson Williams Full list of BAFTA winners can be found here. The VES Awards are next on […]
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the vfx show #67: Valkyrie
https://media.fxguide.com/vfxshow/vfxs_067_valkyrie_64kbps.m4a Play in new window Download Mike Seymour, John Flowers and Mark Christiansen discuss the visual effects in the feature “Valkyrie”. Download vfxs067 here. Get the vfx show every week! Free iTunes Store subscription. Show Notes: Valkyrie Bryan Singer Christopher McQuarrie Fourth of July Minority Report Titanic The Warrior The Hunt for Red October 24 […]
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The Orphanage suspends operations
Late yesterday we got word that The Orphanage in San Francisco was suspending operations. The confirmation came quickly on Orphanage co-founder Stu Maschwitz’s ProLost blog. The company was founded in 1999 by Stu and co-founders Scott Stewart and Jonathan Rothbart and according to The Orphanage website had a staff of more than 160 artists with […]
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Imagineer Announces Plans for 2009
We haven’t heard much from the folks at Imagineer since some big changes at the company in the second half of last year. Today they announced that the first half of the year will see significant upgrades to their mocha and mocha for After Effects tracking products. They also plan to announce details on upgrades […]
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The Foundry’s 2009 Nuke Roadmap
The first ever Nuke master class in London was held in Soho today and over 200 artists from all around Europe attended the event. The session was definitely geared towards artist-types and started with the Foundry’s Jon Waddleton covering python scripting for artists. There were also a ton of cool tips and tricks shown by […]
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fxguidetv – Episode #51 is on the Air
A new episode of fxguidetv is available for your viewing pleasure. It features an interview with vfx supervisor Eric Durst, who chats with Mike Seymour about the craft of turning elements of a script into visual effects which help tell the story. Also, we have a look at a fun Levi’s 501 spec spot helmed by […]
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All is Forgiven: Sale Ends
The Foundry and Autodesk have rebuilt the arrangement we reported on earlier this month and the Foundry will once again fully develop Sparks for the Autodesk Systems products. We had reported earlier in the month on the complex issues leading to the Foundry slashing prices to just 10% of their normal price, and the loss […]
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the vfx show #66: Pushing Daisies – Season 2, Episode 1
https://media.fxguide.com/vfxshow/vfxs_066_pushing_daisies_64kbps.m4a Play in new window Download Mike Seymour, John Flowers and Lori Apthorp discuss the visual effects in the TV series “Pushing Daisies” Season 2, Episode 1: “Bzzzzzzzzz!”. Download vfxs066 here. Show Notes: For Art’s Sake podcast Pushing Daisies True Blood John Adams Californication Mad Men Moulin Rouge Pillow Talk Stepford Wives Ugly Betty Wonderfalls […]
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Nominees announced for 2008 Oscars
The three films nominated for the Visual Effects category for the 2008 Academy Awards are: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton and Craig Barron The Dark Knight Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Tim Webber and Paul Franklin Iron Man John Nelson, Ben Snow, Dan Sudick and Shane Mahan The Academy […]
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red centre #026
Canon 5D MkII vs RED (if you speak Norwegian). We discuss large format photography with the Epic 617 and speak to panoramic photographer Ken Duncan who can’t wait for his.
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GenArts buys SpeedSix
Today GenArts made good on recent talk of expansion and announced the acquisition of SpeedSix. We speak to Steve Bannerman, Chief Marketing Officer of GenArts about the new expansion. He talks exclusively with fxguide and discusses the possible move to market custom plugins.
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Valkyrie: Serious Drama from SPI
SPI has produced some spectacularly seamless visual effects for the period drama of Valkyrie from director Bryan Singer (Usual Suspects, Superman Returns) and staring a serious dramatic performance from Tom Cruise (War of the Worlds. Rich Hoover, vfx supervisor on Valkyrie spoke to us about the complexity of doing such a powerful historical film.
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VES Announces Nominees
The Visual Effects Society (VES) today announced the nominees for the 7th Annual VES Awards ceremony recognizing outstanding visual effects in over a dozen categories of film, animation, television, commercials and video games. Nominees were chosen Saturday, January 17, 2009, by numerous panels of VES members who viewed submissions at the FotoKem screening facilities in […]
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A list ups and downs
Autodesk: cuts 750 jobs We spoke to Autodesk overnight. They confirmed that 10% of jobs across the board had gone. Some friends from M&E division have gone, from offices around the world not just in Montreal. All of the final people have not even been decided, in some cases areas they have been told there […]
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the vfx show #65: The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
https://media.fxguide.com/vfxshow/vfxs065_dtess_64kbps.m4a Play in new window Download Mike Seymour, David Stripinis and John Flowers discuss the visual effects in the feature film “The Day the Earth Stood Still” (2008). Download vfxs065 here. Get the vfx show every week! Free iTunes Store subscription.
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