RC special – what’s in Jason Wingrove’s Epic kit?
After several emails and comments in fxphd’s forums, we offer this update of the typical state of the art gear in an independent Epic film package. We asked the RC’s Jason’s Wingrove to open his camera bags and show us his typical kit.
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World-building: making the TV series Defiance
Behind the scenes of the VFX in Syfy’s new TV series Defiance, with befores and afters imagery and a bonus gallery.
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fxpodcast #247: NAB 2013 roadtrip recap
It’s the annual post-NAB recap with Jeff, John, and Mike…recorded on the way back to LA from Vegas.
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OpenEXR 2.0 goes deep
Now out of public beta, an update of the open source high dynamic range file format OpenEXR to include several new features, including deep data support, has been released with version 2.0.
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NAB 2013: Blackmagic and Moore’s Law
The buzz especially in the South Hall and Central Halls of the NAB 2013 which cater to production and post-production was the power of Moore’s Law as represented by a tiny ‘point and film’ camera that perhaps was the biggest news.
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HDRs for an animated film? Behind the scenes of The Croods
How DreamWorks Animation employed Point-Based Global-Illumination on The Croods, relied on HDRs to inform lighting and developed a new cross-over between effects and animation.
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Broadcast and ident design highlights
Here’s a couple of broadcast design and idents projects that have caught our eye recently – from NASCAR to MTV and the BBC – featuring work by The Mill, Polynoid and Engine Room.
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Welcome (back) to Jurassic Park
How ILM’s VFX art director literally put his body on the line to help make Jurassic Park, and what the hardest thing in the film was to convert for its 3D release – you’ll be surprised.
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Adobe’s new pro video tools: NAB sneak peek
Adobe has revealed its next versions of Premiere Pro, After Effects, SpeedGrade, Audition, Prelude, Media Encoder and Story.
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The Iron Man science project
Behind the scenes of an Iron Man-themed Verizon TV spot, with visual effects by The Embassy.
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fxguide’s guide to FMX 2013
The definitive guide to the effects, animation, games and transmedia presentations planned for FMX 2013 in Stuttgart, Germany from 23 to 26 April.
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The best tech demos from GDC2013
Some of the best game engine and tech demos from this year’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
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Creature features: VFX in TVCs
Dinosaurs to dragons, Easter bunnies and…avalanches. We look at characters and creatures in recent TVCs.
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G.I. Joe: Retaliation – kick-ass action
Find out how the biggest effects shots in G.I. Joe: Retaliation were created by ILM, Digital Domain and Method Studios. Featuring exclusive Digital Domain making of VFX clips.
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Rhythm & Hues auction won by Prana Studios (UPDATED x2)
Rhythm and Hues has been sold at auction following bankruptcy to Prana Studios. Final hearing scheduled for Friday at 10:00 am.
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the rc #127: NAB preview
This week Mike and Jason preview the NAB 2013 conference taking place in Las Vegas, where on Tuesday 9th April fxguide will be broadcasting LIVE from the conference floor.
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What’s new from Autodesk
See the new announcements from Autodesk for Maya, 3ds Max, MotionBuilder, Mudbox, Softimage and Sketchbook Designer.
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More notes from the NVIDIA GPU Tech Conference
In the second of our reports from GTC, we cover HFR with Douglas Trumbull, ZOIC’s ZEUS pipeline, Rhythm & Hues Crom VFX platform, as well as a few more details about Octane’s cloud solution and the GRID VCA.
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