the vfx show #155: Falling Skies
Mike Seymour, Matt Wallin and Ian Failes discuss episodic television visual effects in the sci-fi series, Falling Skies.
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fxpodcast #227 – Effects DOP Marty Rosenberg
This week, a special re-broadcast of an interview with renowned Effects DOP Marty Rosenberg. This ep coincides with the announcement of our fxphd live practical fx & digital integration workshop at 32TEN Studios in California. (Recorded just after Kerner had become separate from ILM).
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fxguidetv #155: 20 years of Sony VFX and animation
This week we celebrate 20 years of Sony Pictures Imageworks, and 10 years of Sony Pictures Animation. Mike Seymour talks to SPI visual effects supervisors Ken Ralston and Jay Redd, and CTO Rob Bredow, about some of their key projects over the past two decades.
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fxpodcast #226: A single-shot light probe
This week we talk to Paul Debevec from the USC ICT about a SIGGRAPH paper on a single-shot light probe – a new light probe with both diffuse and specular materials that can capture the full dynamic range of complex lighting conditions in one standard digital photograph.
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the rc #117: Nurses, Judo and BMC
Jason and Mike rat hole about the week, new cameras and talk to DOP Jim Geduldick about Blind Judoka, a ‘TakePart TV’ YouTube show which tells the story of blind athlete Jordan Mouton and how she has qualified in Team USA for the Paralympics.
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the vfx show #154: The Bourne Legacy
Mike Seymour, Matt Wallin and Mark Christensen discuss the visual effects in The Bourne Legacy.
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fxguidetv #154: SIGGRAPH 2012 – Part 2
In part 2 of our SIGGRAPH LA 2012 coverage, we look at a hands-on robotic emerging tech shown at the conference, iKinema’s LiveAction real-time software and we get a sneak-peek at the next release of The Foundry’s NUKE.
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the vfx show #153: Total Recall (2012)
Mike Seymour, Matt Wallin and Jason Diamond discuss the visual effects in the new 2012 version of Total Recall.
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fxpodcast #225: Dneg’s new lighting pipeline
Philippe Leprince, Head of Lighting & Rendering at Double Negative, talks to Mike Seymour about Dneg’s new lighting and rendering pipeline, which came into play for Total Recall.
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fxguidetv #153: SIGGRAPH 2012 – Part 1
John and Mike are in LA for SIGGRAPH 2012, and in this episode they take a look at what’s on at the computer graphics conference, and talk to Thinkbox Software and Shotgun Software about their recent releases.
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fxguidetv #152: The design of SSX
This week we chat to Electronic Arts development director TJ Galda about the design behind the latest incarnation of winter sport game SSX.
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the rc #116: Canon M, optical viewfinders
This week Tom sits in for Jason who is returning from filming a doco in the USA. Tom and Mike discuss the New Canon M, old school film processing, the new OLED BOMB from RED, the need for optical viewfinders and much more.
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fxpodcast #224: Jim Blinn – the full interview
Here is the audio interview with Jim Blinn (see also our fxguide story for images and more background).
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the vfx show #152: The Dark Knight Rises
Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond and TyRuben Ellingson discuss the visual effects in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises.
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fxguidetv #151: Emmy-Nominated Game of Thrones
This week we chat to Pixomondo VFX supe Juri Stannosek about the Emmy nominated effects in Game of Thrones – Season Two. And we look at a killer reel from The Marmalade with their high-speed robotic motion control slo-mo camera rig called SPIKE.
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