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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the vfx show #51: Tropic Thunder
Mike Seymour, David Stripinis and John Flowers discuss the visual effects in the film Tropic Thunder.
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Tropic Thunder
In this week’s fxpodcast, Mark Breakspear of CIS (formerly Rainmaker) discusses how Blades of Glory showed his company how fundamentally different the pipeline needs to be for visual effects in comedies. We follow up with more details and background in our online story.
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Tropic Thunder
In this week’s fxpodcast, Mark Breakspear of CIS (formerly Rainmaker) discusses how Blades of Glory showed his company how fundamentally different the pipeline needs to be for visual effects in comedies. We follow up with more details and background in our online story.
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GenArts releases Sapphire Plug-ins for OFX
GenArts is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Sapphire Plug-ins for OFX products. Our entire collection of more than 200 Sapphire effects can now be easily applied by users of The Foundry’s Nuke, Autodesk Toxik, Eyeon Fusion, FilmLight Baselight, Digital Vision Film Master, and Assimilate Scratch. Click through for more details and the rest […]
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Fox Sports HD is ripped
When Fox Sports On-Air team decided to unveil a new HD Identity they wanted to create something that would feel entirely new, unique and special. Their new ID needed to showcase the featured sports Fox broadcasts (the NFL, MLB, and NASCAR) and do so in a way that would illustrate the power of watching sports […]
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Demystifying Motion Capture Technique
The VES recently held a Motion Capture event where a range of motion capture experts presented a snap shot of the state of the art in the industry, David Stripinis reports a personal perspective, from someone who works with it daily.
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Labor Series Part Two: The Animation Guild
In this fxpodcast we speak with Steve Hulett, Business Representative for the The Animation Guild Local 839 IATSE. This is part of an ongoing series discussing the issues involved in labor laws, treatment of workers and general respect for visual effects in the industry.
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Labor Series Part Two: The Animation Guild
In this fxpodcast we speak with Steve Hulett, Business Representative for the The Animation Guild Local 839 IATSE. This is part of an ongoing series discussing the issues involved in labor laws, treatment of workers and general respect for visual effects in the industry.
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Brideshead: Houdini & Troubled Waters
Brideshead Revisited,” Miramax Films’ recently released feature adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s novel, is peppered with seamless invisible visual effects created by CIS London. Working closely with the film’s director, Julian Jarrold, visual effects supervisor Adam Gascoyne oversaw the challenging subtleties that were essential in bringing Jarrold’s version of the classic story to life. fxguide spoke […]
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red centre #013
Tonnes of RED News, from iPhone apps to iPins. Shooting documentaries around the world with our Canadian REDroom victim.
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fxguidetv #32 from SIGGRAPH
A new episode of fxguidetv is up today, with more from last week’s SIGGRAPH conference in Los Angeles. Motion capture seemed to take center stage on the exhibition floor this year, and we cover it from two angles. First, Jeff Heusser visits House of Moves in Los Angeles to see real-world applications of motion tracking […]
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the vfx show #50: Wall-E
Mike Seymour and Matt Graham discuss the animated feature Wall-E.
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fxguidetv #31 from SIGGRAPH
In this episode we continue our Siggraph 2008 coverage from Los Angeles. We look at what Autodesk is doing with Stereoscopic, get the scoop on the latest developments in Fusion, and have some fun in the New Technology area.
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Siggraph Day Four and Five
We visit the job fair, catch up with Eyeon, Pixel Farm, check out some new fast hardware from Sony and Texas Memory Systems and discuss the FJORG! winning entry.
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