How to Paint a Digital Car
Cars are the backbone of the advertising industry and car finishes are equally important in films. Just this month, new releases Iron Man and Speed Racer needed to produce photorealistic car finishes. In this special technical report, we explore how the best facilities in the world go about creating car finishes that are beyond ‘photoreal’ and are now ‘damn near perfect’.
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red centre episode #006 posted
A new redcenter podcast is now live on the site. If you haven’t already, subscribe to the RSS feed or iTunes podcast on our redcenter page.  We also now have downloadable shownotes in pdf format available on the redcentre page.  It’s a big show this week as the guys look at the RED’s new Nikon mount, […]
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red centre #006
The guys look at the RED’s new Nikon mount, Mike chats to Steve Sherrick about his modified Nikon lenses, and Jason speaks to Silverado Systems about their ‘OpenCut’ editing competition.
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Weezer new amazing YouTube video
Released today and already with almost a million downloads the new Weezer Pork and Beans video features actual internet ‘celebrities’ in recreations of some of the net’s most famous moments from History of Dance, Britney guy, Mentos guys, Ryan vs Dorkman, Numa Numa Kid, Afroninja, Will it Blend, the list goes on and on. In […]
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Ben Snow ILM fxpodcast
In this week’s podcast we have part 2 of our Iron Man coverage, discussing the suit itself. Building on the strong basis of Transformers and digital rigid body ‘car like finishes’ we talk to Ben Snow about ILM’s magnificent near faultless work on the film. As you will hear Mike And Ben Snow get very technical […]
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ILM’s Fierce Ironman Suit
A conversation with ILM visual effects supervisor Ben Snow about the work behind creating Ironman’s suit.
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Money, webcasts, podcasts: A few facts and a few thoughts
So in the field of Post – just how viable is online videos, webcasts, vblogs and iTV? Anyone can be famous on the internet (starwars kid, Mentos guys, Free hug guy, etc) but a completely different issue to make money on the net. Just who is making money, how much and exactly how? And – […]
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the vfx show #40: Iron Man
Mike Seymour and David Stripinis discuss the visual effects in Iron Man.
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Behind the HUD of Ironman
We speak with Dav Rauch from The Orphanage. Rauch is a director, designer and visual effects supervisor who led the team that conceptualized and designed Ironman’s Heads Up Display.
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Iron Man – Rock Solid
Iron Man is a blockbuster hit due to a focus on acting, great action sequences and seamless big budget visual effects by lead facility Industrial Light and Magic, steered by visual effects supervisor John Nelson. Alongside ILM was The Orphanage and we drill down on just one aspect of the film – the Heads Up Display – in this week’s fxpodcast with designer Dav Rauch.
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Red Centre #5
The new Red Centre #5 is out. In this podcast Jason and Mike discuss offline editing and RED. A key aspect of the RED offline workflow currently is the use of Crimson and the guys talk this week to Crimson founder Ian Bloom about his software and his approach to just solving problems. There is […]
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red centre #005
The guys discuss offline editing with the RED and talk to the creator of crimson, Ian Bloom.
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Keynote Comes of Age
We never expected we would be posting about keynote here on fxguide.com but one of the surprising things at the Autodesk User group was the amazingly cool graphic design presentation that the team used. Normally we would run a mile than sit through a Powerpoint presentation but with the new Keynote 2, the product has […]
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Blind wins 2 Telly Awards for Justin Timberlake’s “Lovestoned”
After the award-winning success of Gnarls Barkely’s “Crazyâ€, HSI director Robert Hales and BL:ND creative director Vanessa Marzaroli teamed up again to create Justin Timberlake’s “Lovestoned.” Blind won awards in the 29th Annual Telly Awards. “Lovestoned,†won two Bronze Telly statuettes: one in the Music Video category, and another in the Use of Animation category […]
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Autodesk Acquires Assets of REALVIZ
SAN RAFAEL, Calif., May 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) today announced that it has completed the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of REALVIZ S.A., the privately held developer of image-based content creation software. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. REALVIZ was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Sophia Antipolis, […]
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neo stolen
Quantel’s regional office in Burbank was broken into last week, and the company’s brand new Neo control panel for its Pablo color correction system was taken. Quantel introduced Neo at NAB in Las Vegas. The stolen Neo was one of only a few in existence, and was slated for use in a series of upcoming […]
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Red Centre # 4
Our latest podcast looks at the RED announcements and includes an in depth technical interview with Graeme Natress CTO of RED. (Yes, it gets very technical) Mike Seymour and Jason Wingrove also discuss the Red Ray, Land Sea and Air Camera options, and more. See the podcast block on the right side of this page […]
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