Weta Digital and The Water Horse
Richard Frances-Moore on Weta Digital’s work on creating and animating the hero CGI character of “The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep”.
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“I Love Sarah Jane” coming out on itunes
fxphd.com worked on two short films that are in competition in the Sundance Film Festival. Each day for 10 days Sundance makes available one film for free and on the first day (Jan. 18th, 2008) it was “I Love Sarah Jane”. The other film, “Spider” is scheduled to be the closing film of the ten […]
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Free BCC Snow Spark for Autodesk Systems
Boris Continuum Complete’s Snow filter is an auto-animated snow generator which can composite snow over a sky color or an image layer. The filter offers extensive options for customizing the effect and allows you to create drifts or make flakes pile up along the edges of an alpha channel. Download the Free Snow Filter Boris […]
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the vfx show #31: Review of the Year
Review of the year with Alex Lindsay, Mike Seymour and Ron Brinkman.
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A quick look at the new films for 2008
What is coming in 2008 – we have roughed out a schedule of effects films for 2008., From Indy to Maxwell Smart, from Lions to Penguins and on to Robotic heroes. What we can expect and from whom.
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fxphd January08 Term Overview QuickTime
January08 term classes start next week over at our online vfx training sister site fxphd.com. We’ve got over 10 new courses with over 30 offerings in total. We’ve got some great new design based courses with Tim Clapham from hypa.tv in the UK, an Apple Motion course taught by Damien Allen, and even a Typography […]
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VES announces nominees for 6th annual VES Awards
The Visual Effects Society (VES) today announced the nominees for the 6th Annual VES Awards ceremony recognizing outstanding visual effects in over a dozen categories of film, television, commercials and video games. Nominees were chosen Saturday, January 5, 2008 by numerous panels of VES members who viewed submissions at the FotoKem screening facilities in Burbank. […]
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10 Scientific and Technical Achievements to Be Honored with Academy Awards®
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced 10 winners of Scientific and Technical Academy Awards, which will be presented at The Beverly Wilshire on Saturday, February 9, 2008. Unlike other Academy Awards, achievements receiving Scientific and Technical Awards need not have been developed and introduced during 2007. Rather, the achievements must demonstrate […]
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Seven in Running for 2007 Visual Effects Oscar
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that seven films remain in contention for Achievement in Visual Effects for the 80th Academy Awards
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Aliens vs Predator Requiem fxpodcast – incl. a Jan08 fxphd preview
Listen to the latest fxpodcast (see panel right) to hear our AVPR interview with the Directors, and also hear a preview of the new fxphd term.
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Aliens vs. Predator Requiem
Greg and Colin Strause (The Brothers Strause) discuss their feature film directorial debut, Aliens vs. Predator Requiem. Also a preview of the new fxphd term.
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How Much is a Post Facility Worth?
With the proposed sale of Rainmaker to DeLuxe for a package totaling $35 million, Digital Domain’s proposed $100M million public float, and a possible sale of Sony Pictures Animation for $500 million, we take a look at the value of an effects house. What is it worth, what should it be worth and just how much has Pixar affected the market.
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And the winner is amongst these…
Variety is reporting that The Motion Picture Academy’s Oscar will be decided from “Beowulf,†“The Bourne Ultimatum,†“Evan Almighty,†“The Golden Compass,†“Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix,†“I Am Legend,†“Live Free Or Die Hard,†“National Treasure: Book Of Secrets,†“Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End,†“Ratatouille,†“Spider-Man 3,†“Sunshine,†“300,†[…]
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SPI is Legend
In the film I Am Legend, Will Smith plays a character who might be the last man left in New York City, or at least the last one unaffected by a cure for cancer that goes horrifically wrong. Jim Berney supervised the visual effects at Sony Pictures Imageworks, and fxguide caught up with him to discuss shutting down one of the world’s busiest cities to take pictures of a stuffed toy deer.
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the vfx show #30: Hitman
Mike Seymour and Mark Christiansen discuss the visual effects in Hitman.
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Digital Domain files for IPO
Digital Domain this week filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a $100 Million Dollar Initial Public Offering. According to the filing, DD “will use our remaining net proceeds from this offering to implement our growth strategy by, among other things, expanding our technology development and licensing program and attempting to enter into the […]
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the vfx show #29: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Alex Lindsay, Mike Seymour and David Stripinis discuss the visual effects in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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NVIDIA buys Mental Images
From the press releases on NVIDIA site and Mental Images, the chip maker based in Santa Clara, CA has bought Mental Images (Berlin, Germany), makers of Mental Ray. Cash or share details of the transaction are yet to be published. NVIDIA has seen its share price swing between $25 a share to $37 and back […]
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