The VFX of Guardians of the Galaxy
How the VFX teams behind Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy made Rocket, Groot, huge environments, spaceship chases and an incredible final battle.
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News from SIGGRAPH: Shotgun & NVIDIA
Shotgun introduces an iPhone app and NVIDIA rounds out its Kepler product line at SIGGRAPH 2014.
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SIGGRAPH 2014 – day 2
How day 2 of SIGGRAPH 2014 shaped up with tech sessions and insights into the big film releases this year.
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SIGGRAPH 2014 – DigiPro and day 1
A look back at the opening sessions of DigiPro and SIGGRAPH 2014 from Vancouver.
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Foundry At Siggraph with V-Ray + Speed tests
We look at the news from The Foundry and Chaos Group with V-Ray – plus we leak some stats about NUKE 9.
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Big positive: Double Negative to adopt Clarisse
VFX powerhouse Double Negative is to adopt Isotropix’s lookdev, lighting and rendering tool Clarisse iFX.
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Beam rendering extended at SIGGRAPH 2014
We look at the Siggraph technical paper: Unifying Points, Beams, and Paths in Volumetric Light Transport Simulation
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Into the abyss: James Cameron’s Deepsea Challenge 3D
John Bruno talks to fxguide about co-directing the documentary film charting James Cameron’s dive to the deepest point on Earth.
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ftrack debuts V3 at SIGGRAPH
ftrack will be revealing version 3 of their software at SIGGRAPH next week and we have a sneak peek at the new features. We also take a look a the history of ftrack as well as check in with some of their users.
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the vfx show #187: Lucy
Mike Seymour, Mark Christiansen and Jason Diamond discuss Lucy, and also delve into the VFX of other recent Scarlett Johansson films Under the Skin and Her.
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Manuka: Weta Digital’s new renderer
In this exclusive report, we investigate the new Manuka renderer developed at Weta Digital.
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Voodoo magic
We go behind the scenes of Rhythm & Hues’ Sci-Tech winning animation framework – Voodoo – with exclusive new demo videos.
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Wights, the Wall and wildlings: bringing more character to Game of Thrones
The Wall attack, dragons and the skeletal wights from season 4 of Game of Thrones.
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fxpodcast #280: SIGGRAPH 2014 – the experts on the experts
We talk to DD’s Doug Roble, MPC’s Rob Pieké & Side Effects’ Mark Elendt on what they’re looking forward to at SIGGRAPH 2014.
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Legend or truth: the VFX of Hercules
From fantastical creatures to sprawling battles – fxguide looks at the visual effects of Hercules.
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Inside RealFlow 2014
A run-down of RealFlow 2014 with Lumiere Studios’ technical director Duncan Lees.
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Designing Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
A look at the previs efforts from Cinedev, MPC and Halon for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.
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the vfx show #186: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Mike Seymour, Matt Wallin and Jason Diamond discuss the film and visual effects in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.
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