Hollywood
The 2nd installation of the Visual Amalgam Art Show was an enormous success, with an estimated eight hundred people attending the event at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica. The semi-annual event features the personal artwork of film industry and visual effects professionals. Show organizers and artists, Patrick Finley and Evan Jacobs, were thrilled with the […]
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He Sees Dead People: Ghost Town
In the comedy Ghost Town, Rhinofx provided visual effects, but two effects in particular made us curious here at fxguide: a non motion control timelapse helicopter shot and the principle ghost passing through effect. We figured it would be interesting to find out how these two special visual effects were achieved, so we spoke to the team at Rhinofx.
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the vfx show #55: Eagle Eye
https://media.fxguide.com/vfxshow/vfxs_055_eagle_eye_mix_64kbps.m4a Play in new window Download Mike Seymour, Matt Graham and John Flowers discuss the visual effects in Eagle Eye. There is additional coverage of Eagle Eye on fxguide.com in the article “Eagle Eye: What if HAL dated Skynet?”
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RED HYPE – RED BULL Round table
Around the Red community there was a strong reaction to an article posted about the RED and the HYPE vs the Reality of 4K, RAW and it valid use for Feature film production. To discuss the article we have recorded a round table discussion with film makers and geeks. This week’s special podcast finds Jason […]
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red centre #017
In response to recent postings on the net, the guys have a special round table discussion on RED, Genesis and the F23. Featuring Stu Maschwitz of the Orphanage, and Independent Film Maker John Flowers.
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red centre #016
We discuss the epic news about Scarlet as well as talking fish eyes and shooting cars in the RED Room with Mark Toia.
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the vfx show #54: Battlestar Galactica
Mike Seymour and John Flowers discuss the visual effects in the 2008 Emmy-winning episode of Battlestar Galactica: He That Believeth in Me.
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fxguidetv #38 – Quick Takes from IBC
One of the things about trade shows is wandering around and finding the “little things” or surprises on the floor. In this ep we take a look back at a few of our faves in Amsterdam, including a new LCD reference monitor from Barco, cool gear coming out Sonnet, a look at Gridiron’s soon-to-be-in-public-beta Flow […]
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Visual Amalgam Art Show to feature art by VFX Pros
Visual Amalgam Art Show offers the public a rare opportunity to see personal artwork created by visual effects professionals behind some of the biggest motion pictures at one of the premier art venues in the Los Angeles area. Patrick Finley, a successful painter and visual effects artist for motion pictures, conceived the first Visual Amalgam […]
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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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