Bonus interview – Double Negative’s Paul Franklin
In this bonus interview for fxinsider members, Mike Seymour talks to Double Negative vfx supervisor Paul Franklin. Paul discusses technology at DNeg and how it was used on films such as the BAFTA nominated: The Dark Knight Rises.
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the rc #123: ‘The year of 4K’ & Cooke’s SciTech win
This week, Jason & Mike discuss the RED Dragon sensor, The Hobbit & 48fps, new cameras, fan plates and more. And in the RED Room we have Cooke Optics Chairman Les Zellan to discuss Cooke’s SciTech award.
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How to make a cinema ad 15 million will watch – every month
Behind the scenes of this fully-CG ‘evolution of flight’ Cineplex spot by Dashing Collective. Includes video breakdowns.
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fxpodcast #240: VES Award nominee Eran Dinur
Visual effects supervisor Eran Dinur, from Brainstorm Digital, is part of the team nominated for a VES Award for Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Broadcast Program for Men Who Built America.
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Making a musical: Les Miserables
How director Tom Hooper overcame the challenges of bringing Les Miserables and its magical reality to the big screen.
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fxpodcast #239: KATANA SciTech Oscar, Steve LaVietes
A conversation about the development of KATANA with Steve LaVietes, back end pipeline architect from Sony Pictures Imageworks. The developers of KATANA will receive a Scientific and Technical Technical Achievement Award from the Academy this year.
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the vfx show #161: Life of Pi
Mike Seymour, TyRuben Ellingson and Matt Wallin discuss the story and visual effects in the Academy Award nominated masterpiece film by Ang Lee, Life of Pi.
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House of Moves: in-house transmedia production
House of Moves has developed a powerful game engine pipeline that is now being used internally on TV spots. This expansion by HOM is both extremely flexible with directors seeing their final imagery much earlier, but assets can move across almost all media, from games to print.
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Oscar Nominees 2013
This morning The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for the 85th Academy Awards®. The nominees are…
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BAFTA Nominees 2013
Nominations were announced for the EE British Academy Film Awards which will take place on Sunday 10 February at London’s Royal Opera House.
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VES Announces Nominees for 11th Annual VES Awards
The Visual Effects Society (VES) is pleased to announce the nominees for the 11th Annual VES Awards, which recognize outstanding visual effects artistry in 24 categories
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Making The Impossible
A befores and afters breakdown of scenes from The Impossible, which tells the story of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami.
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Video chat omegle
Video chat omegle! Meet new people, with omegle. Our site can video chat, omegle can chat with other users. Omegle, as distinct from, and the quality of our website audience have enhanced chat features. Our site is enhanced security, without members chat, chat with random users, an environment level, with features such as unlimited and free chat […]
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VES to Honor Ang Lee with Visionary Award
The Visual Effects Society announced today that it will honor Academy Award® winning filmmaker Ang Lee with the VES Visionary Award at the 11th Annual VES Awards
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10 films face-off at VFX bake-off
The annual Oscar VFX bake-off has just been held to whittle 10 films down to the final 5. Here’s our guest post from Michael Scott who attended the event.
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Scientific and Technical Oscars announced
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that nine scientific and technical achievements represented by 25 individual award recipients will be honored at its annual Scientific and Technical Awards Presentation.
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17th Annual Art Directors Guild awards
The nominees for the 17th annual Art Directors Guild awards have been announced, and with the cross-over now between production design and visual effects we list the films, shows and TVCs under consideration.
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Grimm: creature case studies
How the talented artists at Hive FX & Bent Image Lab create the morphing effects in the TV series Grimm.
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