Mr. X Scares up Effects for Silent Hill
A conversation with Evan Jacobs about the visual effects done by Mr. X for the feature filme Silent Hill.
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Always Smashing Work from SOL designfx
Smashing cars is always fun in Visual effects, in the recent Allstate “Girls Day Out II”. Chris Kreynus talks us through how SOL designfx achieved the spot and the pipeline they used with Flame and Silhouette Roto.
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Wipe out: ‘Poseidon’ Fluid Simulations
The luxury cruise ship Poseidon, with a little help from ILM, gets hit with a 150 foot freak wave in one of the most complex and visually stunning fluid simulations yet accomplished. We talk to ILM’s Mohen Leo and discuss in depth the approaches they used and the algorthim issues they had to deal with.
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‘Poseidon’ Fluid Simulations and ILM Visual Effects
A look at some of the visual effects behind the blockbuster ‘Poseidon’ movie.
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Red Camera : A Peak Behind the Curtain
Following up from last week’s very successful podcasts is the rest of the interview with Red Camera’s Ted Schilowitz – so called Leader of the Rebellion.
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Red Camera : A Peak Behind the Curtain
Following up from last week’s very successful podcasts is the rest of the interview with Red Camera’s Ted Schilowitz – so called Leader of the Rebellion.
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NAB Podcast: Roundtable
In our final podcast from NAB, we explore some of the less obvious gems of the show and discuss the relevance of NAB as an event. If you haven’t listened to the podcasts, be sure to take a listen — we’ve got a ton of positive comments from listeners. You can listen to the audio in your web browser directly (you don’t need an iPod). url(http://www.fxguide.com/fxpodcast-listen-fxg-042406-nab1.html,Day1 is a good place to start), which covers the Autodesk
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NAB2006 Report – Wednesday April 26
In our final podcast from NAB, we explore some of the less obvious gems of the show and discuss the relevance of NAB as an event.
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NAB Podcast: Red Dawn at NAB 2006
Today’s podcast covers the first day on the show floor at NAB 2006. We combine a roundtable discussion with guests Wally Rodriguez from Upstairs, Miami and Fred Ruckel from Stitch, NY with interviews recorded on the show floor. Topics include: The Red Camera, Apple, Film Scanning, Dust busting, Plug-Ins, Mokey, storage, fxphd… and much more in a wide range of topics in a freeform discussion.
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NAB2006 Report – Tuesday April 25
Roundtable and interviews covering: The Red Camera, Apple developments and SDK DVD produced by fxphd, Plug-ins, Filmlight, Gum…
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NAB Podcast: fxphd and Autodesk User Group
The first in our reports from NAB 2006. In this podcast we discuss the announcement of fxphd.com, our new training site, and get you up to date on what was shown at the Autodesk User Group.
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NAB2006 Report – Monday April 24
Coverage of the annual Autodesk user group meeting and information about our new sister site, fxphd.
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Effects Stock Footage
This week we test drive visual effects stock footage and explain what to expect and examine how useful it really can be.
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Adjusting Aperture
Apple has just released version 1.1 of Aperture. Some would say this is not only in direct response to initial criticism to the quality of the RAW tools in version 1.0.1 but also in response to Adobe’s ‘beta’ release of Lightroom. Aperture is now available as a Universal – running up to 4 times faster and Apple have slashed the price. We compare Aperture 1.1 to Adobe Lightroom, and suggest how you can best use them in a visual effects environment.
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Unusual Options for Indie Features
Warren Lynch has graded on huge hollywood films such as Lord of the Rings, but with his new company he has also engineered interesting approaches to indie feature digital grading. In this week’s podcast we discuss diamonds in vodka, 2 perf, bleach by-pass, and more
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Digital Intermediate Colour Grading
Mike Seymour covers the ins and outs of digital grading with colourist Warren Lynch.
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Autodesk Announces Toxik 2007
Autodesk has announced a new version of Toxik – Toxik 2007. The release, expected to ship this summer, includes a new HDRI paint module, wiretap support, improved AMD optimizations, and more. We’ve got some exclusive images from the UI in addition to the Autodesk press release.
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Now That’s Flame Work!
You think you’re hot ? Well check out the flame work on this Sprite spot where the talent is literally on fire. Its all thanks to some cool — you guessed it — flame work by vfx supervisor and artist Rohit Misra.
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