From effects sims to car flipping – Academy unveils Sci-Tech achievements
Sci-Tech awards include recognition of effects simulation software, VFX toolkits, color workflows, practical fx systems and more.
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BAFTA Award Nominations
The EE British Academy Film Awards nominations were announced today with five films in competition for Special Visual Effects.
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Dino-bytes: the tech of Walking With Dinosaurs
For fxinsider members, take a look at the new Walking With Dinosaurs movie and the muscle and skin tech with Animal Logic.
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Beautified reality: making Walter Mitty’s world
Behind the scenes of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty with visual effects supervisor Guillaume Rocheron.
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What’s the dish on Cinesite’s Beans?
The director and producer of Cinesite’s short ‘Beans’ talk to fxguide about making the surprise-ending film.
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the vfx show #177: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Mike Seymour, Matt Wallin and Jason Diamond review and discuss the visual effects in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
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Meet Smaug
How Weta Digital created the titular dragon in ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.’
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fxpodcast #268: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Key members of Weta Digital’s visual effects team discuss the creation of Smaug, spiders, the barrel sequence and environments in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.
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In the cutting room with Catching Fire editor Alan Bell
For fxguide insider members – a special christmas gift. A detailed technical look at editing two scenes of the Hunger Games: Catching Fire with Editor Alan Bell. We look in depth at the speech scene in District 11 vs an effects heavy scene such as the hologram training center scene.
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Boom times: The Wolf of Wall Street
Visual effects supervisor Rob Legato breaks down his work for Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street.
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the rc Christmas present: Rob Legato on The Wolf of Wall Street
Bonus christmas podcast from the RC : Interview with 2 time oscar winner Rob Legato ASC, DGA, on Martin Scorsese – The Wolf of Wall Street.
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The Book Thief: crafting the visual effects
Behind the scenes of RISE FX’s invisible visual effects for The Book Thief – a great loved novel – now a new feature film. Includes before and after images from the film.
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VES camera reports – one set of notes to rule them all
In a move to help actually see camera data make it to post, the VES Technology Committee has launched a new initiative and standard that is free and open to all.
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What’s new in Maxwell?
Next Limit has released Maxwell Render V3 – check out the new features of this great renderer here.
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the vfx show #176: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Mike Seymour, Matt Wallin and Jason Diamond break down the visual effects in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
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NUKE 8 – the artists have spoken
A run-down of the newest features in The Foundry’s NUKE 8 release.
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VFX Oscar shortlist!
The list of 10 films that will go into the VFX Oscar bake-off has been announced.
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Clarisse iFX: new pricing and products
Isotropix targets Clarisse iFX to freelancers and to small studios with new low pricing options. We speak one on one with company CEO Sam Assadian.
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