fxphdlive Inferno/Smoke Master Class in Tokyo
On December 2nd and 3rd, there will be four fxphdlive master classes in Tokyo covering Flame, Smoke, and even a bit of Lustre. Each session will be covering the same material, but we wanted to have a variety of times to allow artists a chance to actually escape their suites. fxphd co-founder John Montgomery and […]
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Holographic Correspondents on CNN
As the polls close, at fxguide we have been reviewing the tech of the coverage. As we write this, it is still early in the nightly coverage, but one of the more unusual technologies is the CCN’s Holographic correspondents. By having guests in remote studios standing in front of greenscreen and in front of 35 […]
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fxguidetv: Scott Squires and XSI Tip
This week’s fxguidetv continues our “Masters of the Craft” series with a conversation with vfx legend Scott Squires. He sits down with Mike Seymour and chats about how he got started in the industry, starting on Close Encounters, and rising to a senior visual effects supervisor at ILM. Now freelance, Scott discuss both his career […]
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Some People Really Really Like Snowboarding
Anonymous Content’s Justin Reardon via SF-based Cutwater directs this wild :60 for video game developer Ubisoft. The spot shines light on true devotion to the sport for the new game Shaun White Snowboarding. In the spot, ordinary people become snow boarding fans and rush to catch a snow boarding chopper flight.
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Boss films : Who ya going to call ?
Next on vfxshow we are going to tackle Ghostbusters, but from the point of view of examining the end of the era of optical effects – ” pre-digital” films. If you were to map a timeline of when digital arrived in film making it falls right between Ghostbusters 1 and 2. The company at the […]
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the vfx show #58: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
https://media.fxguide.com/vfxshow/vfxs_058_close_encounters_64kbps.m4a Play in new window Download Mike Seymour and Matt Graham discuss the visual effects in the feature “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” (1977). Download vfxs058 here Get the vfxshow every week! Free iTunes Store subscription Happy Halloween from the vfx show crew!!
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Schedule and plan moving forward
https://media.fxguide.com/vfxshow/vfxshow-020-64Kbps.m4a Play in new window Download We have just recorded Close Encounters of the Third Kind – it was a fun show. As we look forward we will be balancing new shows covering epics such as the Bond film, The Day the Earth Stood Still and Australia – with older films like Ghostbusters and others… […]
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And Another One Bites the Dust: Dalsa Sold to Arri
Dalsa is selling its camera division to Arri. Under the terms of the deal released to the stock exchange, Dalsa will sell its camera division, help develop future sensor chips for Arri, and seek to also sell its rental division separately. Faced with continuing losses in their high end camera sector, compared with modest profits […]
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Vote
If you are in the USA – VOTE. We don’t care care who for, ok we may care, but don’t listen to us.. exercise your democracy.
Clearly we are aren’t the only ones saying this, New Deal Studios teamed with Leonardo DiCaprio, Will.I.Am, Tobey Maguire and Forest Whitaker to make these viral historical PSA spots.
Seriously cool as they are – the message is the thing… V o t e
New fxguidetv, red centre and XSI fxpodcast
Well it has been a busy couple of days at fxguide. We have a new Episode of fxguidetv focused on RealFlow, with our 7 fave dumb FCP tips ! There is also a new fxpodcast looking at XSI version 7 with Bill Roberts, and finally Mike and Jason discuss grips and loads more on the […]
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SOFTIMAGE|XSI 7
A conversation with Bill Roberts from Softimage about version 7 of XSI, which was released earlier this year.
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red centre #019
Plenty of RED News this episode. REDsupport with Nucoda, OConnor kicks off our tripod roundup and we get a grip on grips.
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Assimilate Responds to Autodesk Lawsuit
When we first learned of Autodesk filing a lawsuit against Assimilate in early October, we asked both companies to comment on the litigation. ASSIMILATE CEO Jeff Edson promised the company would provide fxguide with a statement regarding the suit, and now they have. (note: Autodesk declined to comment regarding pending litigation) It probably comes as […]
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the vfx show #57: Night Watch
https://media.fxguide.com/vfxshow/vfxs_057_nightwatch_64kbps2.m4a Play in new window Download Mike Seymour, Matt Graham and John Flowers discuss the visual effects in “Night Watch”. Download here. Get the vfx show each week! Free iTunes Store subscription.
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Interviews: Autodesk’s Purchase of Softimage
In 1998 Avid bought Softimage from Microsoft for $285 million. Today, Softimage has been sold to Autodesk for $35M. Admittedly back then the deal included DS, but has Autodesk just done the deal of the year? To find out more about how this deal came about and what it means to the 3D visual effects community we spoke to Marc Stevens, GM of Softimage and Marc Petit, Sr. VP, Autodesk Media & Entertainment.
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Autodesk to Buy Softimage for $35M
It started with a press release from AVID stating they were looking to restructure and cut staff, including the news that they intended to sell Softimage. “Plans to” sell Softimage was all they said. Moments ago an email was sent to Softimage customers saying that Softimage had in fact been sold to Autodesk. Click through for the various press releases and the letter sent to Softimage customers.
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fxguidetv #41 – John Dykstra
This week’s fxguidetv continues our “Masters of the Craft” series with a conversation with vfx legend John Dkystra. He sits down with Mike Seymour and chats about how he got started in the industry, the building of motion control systems, working on the first Star Wars movie, and how the digital age compares to the […]
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the vfx show #56: Heroes – The Second Coming
https://media.fxguide.com/vfxshow/vfxs_056_heroes_64kbps.m4a Play in new window Download Mike Seymour, John Flowers and Kristin Martin discuss the visual effects in Heroes Season 3 opener, “The Second Coming”. Download here. If you’d like to follow along, get the Heroes episode, “The Second Coming” from iTunes.
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