Interstellar: inside the black art
How Double Negative used cutting edge science for the VFX & visualizations in Interstellar.
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What’s The Foundry buying? The Tech of ADF
You may not know Adaptively Distance Fields (ADF) by name, but you almost certainly use them. Mitsubishi’s (MERL) closely held tech – from fonts to games to drawing, we explain why The Foundry really wants it.
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Blackmagic ‘relaunches’ Fusion
It wasn’t a question of “if?”, but “when?” In move reminicent of Resolve, Blackmagic has released a free Windows version of Fusion and dropped the price of a more feature-rich version to $995.
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Fabricating The Flash
Find out how Encore Hollywood is using feature film techniques to bring The Flash to the small screen.
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Apes, Game of Thrones take major HPA vfx awards
The 9th annual HPA Awards have been announced – see the full list of winners here.
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The making of that live action Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare spot
Go behind the scenes of the launch trailer for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.
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the vfx show #191: Birdman
Mike Seymour, Adam Lisagor and Ian Failes discuss the invisible VFX and unique cinematography in Birdman.
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Xsens’ new clothes
The story behind Xsens new MVN suits and software/hardware upgrades.
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fxpodcast #285: Digital human league
This week we talk to Chaos Group’s Christopher Nichols about the creation of a Digital Human League with key VFX industry members aimed at further research and discussion into synthetic human faces.
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Rodeo helps Birdman soar with invisible fx
How Rodeo FX helped the Birdman filmmakers construct seamless shots and get inside the mind of Michael Keaton.
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fxpodcast #284: Wes Ball on The Maze Runner
We talk to director (and fxphd Prof) Wes Ball, about the creation of his hit film The Maze Runner. As you will hear Wes is just days away from filming the sequel.
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It is your Destiny
Prologue details how they made the opening cinematic for Destiny.
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Techno Image’s Trojan trip
Find out how Techo Image made the Trojan Horse was a Unicorn ident.
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How 3D printing glitches inspired these Doctor Who effects
How 3D printing gone wrong and sea slugs inspired the visual effects in the latest Doctor Who episode.
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A look at new tracking features in Flame 2015 Ext 2
Lead product designer Philippe Soeiro walks us through tew tracking capabilities coming in the new Flame Premium 2015 Extension 2.
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NUKE 9: fxguide asks the experts
Three NUKE experts weigh in on the new release of NUKE 9, which will feature NUKE Studio and upgrades to NUKE and NUKE X.
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God Only Knows how they did it
Go behind the scenes of the BBC’s ‘God Only Knows’ promo with befores and afters and on-set photos showcasing The Mill’s incredible and invisible visual effects.
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fxpodcast #283: SIGGRAPH Asia keynote Scott Ross
We talk to Scott Ross who will be a keynote speaker at SIGGRAPH Asia 2014, discussing ‘Can Asia become Hollywood?’.
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