Artist in Action: Digital Dimension with DF
The job of breathing “life” into the endless “death” of Final Destination II was awarded to long time Digital Fusion users, Digital Dimension. The visual effects studio completed 85 shots, all of which traveled through DF. Everything from the 4000 frame premonition sequences that aided our star, Miss Rivers, in evading numerous pitfalls, to the action packed log disaster scene, a precursor to the theme of “frightening consequences”.
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Is Photoshop’s dominance to be challenged?
Feature films produced using Linux include Star Wars Attack of the Clones, Lord of the Rings 2, Star Trek Nemesis, Harry Potter, Scooby-Doo and many more. Every major studio has converted to Linux or has a Linux conversion underway. Linux has become the most popular operating system for feature film production. But with no Adobe Linux version of Photoshop, – the most popular open source Linux application in the post industry is now Film GIMP (or it was …
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Latest VFX casualty – Cinesite Los Angeles
There have been rumours for weeks about the possibility of Kodak closing Cinesite…
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1st Annual VES Awards Winners
The winners of the 1st Annual Visual Effects Society Awards…
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New Version 5/8 QuickTime Tutorial Available
Our first version 5/8 tutorial is now available online. It is an overview of getting around the new and improved batch.
Click here to view the tutorial
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Announcing nucoda Data Conform
nucoda Announces World’s First PC-Based Full-Resolution Pre-vis Tool for Film Incorporating Truelight Colour Cube Technology and Timeline Editing
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Visual Effects Oscar Nominees
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced the nominees for the 75th Academy Awards®. The nominees in the Visual Effects category are…
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Max-T’s Sledgehammer NAS and HD!O
Sledgehammer is a new network attached storage (NAS) system that provides a very fast shared storage resource for any facility. Clients simply mount the Sledgehammer and access its contents over an ethernet network. The newest release, Sledgehammer HD!O also incorporates SD/HD video I/O and playback capabilities.
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Announcement: fxguide 5/8 event at NAB 2003
As part of NAB 2003, fxguide will host a live advanced user session – specifically focused on last month’s breakthrough releases of Inferno 5.0 and Flame/Flint 8.0. The event is scheduled prior to the Discreet 2003 User Group on the Sunday at NAB, allowing users to go the FXG event in the afternoon before the User Group. Special thanks to our sponsors Discreet and sgi, who were kind enough to help make this event possible. More details…
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XStoner Software Focus
Xstoner is a product for Discreet advanced effects and editing systems from Light, Inc., designed to make networking, transfer and conversion of images to/from PCs and Discreet Stone systems much faster and simplified. A PC version is currently in release, with a Mac version expected in Q1 2003. We asked the developers to provide us with an overview of the software…their story follows.
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Discreet Releases 5.0/8.0 Effects Software
Discreet has announced it is releasing its new version of software (inferno 5 and flame/flint version 8. The software contains lots of great new features and fxguide will be focusing on tips and tricks in the new software. We’ve also started up a special section in the Forums area for discussing the new software. All of us have been running the software for the last several months and will be glad to share any help or information we can. Read on for the Di
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Visual Effects Society Awards 2002 Nominees
The Visual Effects Society will hold the 1st Annual VES Awards in February, nominees were announced today….
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New Combustion Training Book Now Shipping
The FIRST “third-party” Discreet Combustion v2 Training Book is shipping and has already received excellent reviews. The book was authored by Jack Pfeiffer, newly appointed fxguide editor and moderator for Combustion. He works in Denmark for MCI Videotronic as a Demo Artist, Trainer, and Systems Engineer and was the founder of the Danish Discreet User Group.
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Discreet and Colorfront alliance for Digital Grading.
Discreet has entered into a strategic alliance with ColorFront, a privately-held software company based in Hungary, to jointly develop, market and sell a powerful new generation of digital color correction systems.
FXGuide has an exclusive interview with Maurice Patel, Discreet Systems Product Marketing Manager, and Product Manger Bill Roberts of Discreet about what this means to the visual effects and color grading communities.
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Combustion 2.1 launch at Macworld
Fxguide caught up with Discreet’s Peter Moxom and John Worthington to discuss the new directions for Combustion.
John Worthington is at MacWorld this week launching version 2.1 of Combustion. This version is not only a new release, but is now being dramatically reduced in price.
UPDATED Jan. 9, 2003
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Visual Effects Oscar 2002 – 7 considered films announced
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced the seven films being considered for Achievement in Visual Effects for the 75th Academy Awards®…
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Centropolis FX closes and Matrix work moves shop
Centropolis FX based in Los Angeles closed its doors on Tuesday, December 17th 2002, according to CGChannel.
Centropolis FX was working on the Matrix Reloaded (Scheduled for release May 15), it is understood that this work has moved to Sony ImageWorks.
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A look at Ultimatte – AdvantEdge
Ultimatte has always pulled one of the best blue/green screen keys, hands down. If there was a complaint it was never quality, it was likely the learning curve and number of controls that required tweaking. AdvantEdge answers that by offering a new user interface that helps produce the expected great results with less struggle, while maintaining the full controls for fine adjustments. We took a look under the hood at this great new advance in plug-in keyer
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