Massive Mummy Clay Armies
Mummy 3 : Tomb of the Dragon Empero recently opened in secondary markets such as Australia. Digital Domain did some outstanding Massive work to bring the Armies of Mummy 3 to life, as well being responsible for the development and creation of the CG Emperor Mummy villain. We spoke to the DD team about their Massive experience and their procedural pipeline which is heavily reliant on Houdini.
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It’s Raining White Papers: The Foundry’s Ocula Plugins
Contrats to the Foundry. Their Ocula stereo plugins received a ‘Best of IBC’ Award for Post Production by the IBC Daily/TVB Europe team. fxguidetv episode #037 contains an interview with Simon Robinson about the new plugins. The Foundry has published a ocula stereo whitepaper which provides more in-depth details about the technology behind the product.
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Scarlet’s design pulled!
Well, RED said their specs were subject to change and not a week after saying RED would also be going into the DSLR camera market with their own video, stills hybrid, the company pulled photos of the Scarlet $3,000, 3K camera off its web site and said the camera is being fully rethought and redesigned. […]
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Autodesk Releases Stereoscopic Filmmaking Whitepaper
Autodesk released a Stereoscopic Filmmaking Whitepaper delivering a comprehensive understanding of the state of the industry and its current barriers. The whitepaper provides valuable knowledge for anyone curious about the future of Stereo 3D (S3D) and highlights current industry challenges from technical production complexities to studio considerations and theatrical acceptance. While the industry faces numerous […]
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fxguidetv #37 – IBC, a look at Ocula and Eyeon’s latest
In our second fxguidetv episode from Amsterdam and IBC 2008 we get a look at the soon to be released Ocula plug-in from The Foundry for problem solving Stereoscopic images. Also a preview of what’s new in Fusion 6 and Generation from Eyeon. To be notified automatically and have the episodes downloaded in iTunes, subscribe […]
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the vfx show #53: John Adams
Mike Seymour and John Flowers discuss the visual effects in the Emmy-winning TV Miniseries John Adams.
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Cooke Optics /i Technology goes live on the RED ONE Camera
Cooke Optics Ltd., a premier manufacturer of precision lenses for the motion picture industry, has announced that its i/ Technology will be available on all RED ONE cameras that ship from 12 September 2008. Jarred Land, Fire Chief at RED, announced on the RED website on Friday 12 September that all new RED ONE cameras […]
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Autodesk Signs RED SDK License Agreement at IBC 2008
Autodesk Inc. has agreed to terms with the RED Digital Cinema Camera Company and has signed the RED R3D Software Developer’s Kit License Agreement. RED provides a high-performance digital cine camera with the quality of 35mm film and the convenience of pure digital. Autodesk is a world leader in entertainment and design software. Read more […]
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red centre #015
The guys discuss anamorphic lenses on set with DOP Tom Gleeson, follow a RED into a war zone, plus all the news from IBC.
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Thomson Sells Thomson Grass Valley To Private Investors
Thomson announced that it is selling the Thomson Grass Valley equipment business to private investors led by PARTER Capital Group, a German private equity advisory firm. The sale includes the Spirit film scanning family, together with the Bones digital intermediate workflow tools and LUTher, a colour space management product. Financial terms of the sale are […]
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John Adams
We talk to Jeff Goldman, a vfx supervisor at CafeFX about their emmy nominated work on John Adams
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Emmys: John Adams
The series John Adams received 23 Emmy Award nominations, the most of any program this year. Among those was the nomination for Outstanding SVE for a Mini-series. This week we speak to Jeff Goldman, at CafeFX about their Emmy-nominated work. As second President of the United States, and one of the most influential Founding Fathers of the USA, the story spans decades of Adams’ life UPDATED: EMMY WINNER
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fxguidetv #36 – The Road to IBC
On the way to Amsterdam John Montgomery stopped in Montreal to get an exclusive and in depth look at the latest releases for Flame and Smoke. Philippe Soeiro from Autodesk takes us through some of the exciting new features including 3D Particle presets, the transition to floating point workflow, real time deliverables and more. To […]
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ILM to make full animated feature
After many years of rumor and possible projects, ILM is going to make a full animated feature film called Rango for director Gore Verbinski Variety is reporting. ILM of course worked with Verbinski on Pirates of the Caribbean and like that film the new animated film will star the voice and capture motion of Johnny […]
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the vfx show #52: Fight Club
Mike Seymour, Mark Christiansen and John Flowers discuss the visual effects in Fight Club.
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fxguidetv #34 – New Deal Studios, PFTrack 5.0
During Siggraph we decided to break from the show floor and visit New Deal Studios to talk with Ian Hunter and Matthew Gratzner about their fantastic work on The Dark Knight. We also talk with Richard Spohrer from The Pixel Farm about the next version of PFTrack. To be notified automatically and have the episodes […]
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Red Centre #14 : Scratch that
The new Red Centre #14 is out. This week we discuss the RED DLSR and start a series looking at Red Post gear – starting with Assimilate Scratch. Visit our red centre page to listen or subscribe via RSS or iTunes. As always we’d love to hear from you please email us at Red at […]
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red centre #014
Happy birthday RED One as it’s one year since the first cams rolled out the door. We discuss RED’s DSLR killer, talk Infrared sensors and Assimilate’s Scratch
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