fxpodcast #237: Carl Rosendahl, from PDI to the future of VFX
Mike speaks to Carl Rosendahl, founder of PDI, venture capitalist & industry titan, about his history and a key VES speech he made mapping out the issues for our industry looking forward. It is a compelling & unapologieticly frank examination.
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fxguidetv #161: CBS Digital & Star Trek TNG
We visit CBS Digital in Los Angeles to check out their restoration work on the “Star Trek: The Next Generation” TV series, all completed on Flame, Flare, Smoke, Lustre, and Inferno.
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fxpodcast #236: Adam Howard VFX Supervisor
This week we speak to Adam Howard, vfx supervisor. We discuss his amazing career and touch on his latest film supervising on the last Twilight Film.
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fxpodcast #235: Skyfall vfx supe Steve Begg
This week we talk to Steve Begg, the overall visual effects supervisor for the latest James Bond film, Skyfall. Begg discusses working with miniatures, practical effects and CG work.
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the rc #121: First world problems
This week in our digital cinematography podcast, Jason and Mike discuss some 4K projectors – Red pricing, getting involved and some ‘first world problems’ …
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the vfx show #158: Skyfall
Mike Seymour, Matt D. Leonard and Ed Moore discuss the visual effects in the latest James Bond film, Skyfall.
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fxpodcast #234: Andy Beach on digital video
This week Jeff Heusser talks to Andy Beach, a specialist in digital video, streaming media and video compression who has worked at companies such as Microsoft, Apple and Adobe.
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fxguidetv #160: Flight
This week on fxguidetv we’re at Atomic Fiction to discuss Robert Zemeckis’ Flight with vfx sup. Kevin Baillie. The film’s dramatic crash sequence relied on live action backgrounds captured with a three-RED EPIC rig, multiple cockpit + fuselage gimbals and a CG airplane !
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fxpodcast #233: Flame 20th Edition
We speak with Autodesk lead product designer Philippe Soeiro about the brand new 20th Anniversary Edition release of Flame.
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fxpodcast #232: Cloud Atlas and Rise FX
This week we talk to Rise FX visual effects supervisor Florian Gellinger about his studio’s work for Cloud Atlas, including the Lidar scanning services provided by sister company pointcloud9
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the rc #120: Sony Week
This week, Jason and Mike discuss some new Sony cameras – the A99, the F5 and F55 – plus Sony monitors. In the Red Room, we talk to Jerome Thelia and David Mclain about their short ‘The Calling’ shot with the A99.
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the vfx show #157: Looper
Mike Seymour, Matt Leonard and Jason Diamond discuss the visual effects in the feature film Looper.
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the rc #119: New GoPros, shooting on film, light meters & more
This week, Jason and Mike discuss the new GoPro announcements – the Hero3, CineForm, Protune, WiFi – shooting on film, light meters, Duclos lenses, the Leica M, Canon EOS 6D, and more.
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fxpodcast #231: PDI co-founder Richard Chuang
This week we talk to Richard Chuang, one of the co-founders of pioneering graphics, VFX and animation studio PDI. Chuang is now a founder of media collaboration company Cloudpic Global. He’ll also presenting on the rise of computer graphics in Asia at SIGGRAPH Asia 2012 in Singapore.
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fxguidetv #159: 32TEN Studios
This week we go behind the scenes of our fx2012 practical and digital effects workshop at 32TEN Studios in San Rafael, and we preview the October 2012 vfx training courses available at fxphd.
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