fxpodcast: SIGGRAPH 2012 – Animation Physics
This week we speak to Alejandro Garcia, a professor at San Jose State University, about how an understanding of physics can help achieve believable animation.
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the rc #115: Redrock, Spider-Man, Rode audio & more
This week the guys discuss the Blackmagic Cinema Camera, the Canon Cinema EOS C500, the RED EPIC firmware update, Ikonoskop’s A-Cam dII Panchromatic and RØDE Microphones’ Rockumentary comp. Guests in the RED room are Brain Valente of Redrock Micro and Imageworks 3D VFX supe Rob Engle about The Amazing Spider-Man.
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the vfx show #151: The Amazing Spider-Man
Mike Seymour, Matt Leonard and Jason Diamond discuss the visual effects in The Amazing Spider-Man.
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fxpodcast: Alvy Ray Smith
It is a real pleasure & honor to offer you this in-depth interview with Dr Alvy Ray Smith, the man who jointly or personally: Invented Paint, Alpha, Dir. the Genesis seq., worked at XEROX PARC, NYIT, Lucasfilm, PIXAR, Microsoft and a multiple tech Ocsar winner.
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fxguidetv #150: The Amazing Spider-Man
This week on our 150th ep we’re at SPI to discuss their incredible visual effects for The Amazing Spider-Man, and we preview the July 2012 vfx training courses available at fxphd.
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the vfx show #150: Snow White and the Huntsman
Mike Seymour, Matt Wallin and Jason Diamond talk about the visual effects in the film Snow White and the Huntsman.
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the rc #114: Catch up
This week, Jason Wingrove is back (just…before heading off to film a documentary) and he and Mike Seymour chat about Canon, Apple/Dells, Smoke, Red, China’s new RAW camera, and Tom Lowe’s great Timescapes film and much, much more…
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fxpodcast: Brave Simulations
This week on the fxpodcast we speak to Pixar’s Claudia Chung, simulation supervisor on Brave. In this in-depth and engaging discussion we look at the complex ground breaking simulation work in Pixar’s newest animated feature. Warning: this podcast contains plot spoilers.
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fxguidetv #149: Prometheus visual breakdown
The last of our Prometheus coverage – and some may say the best! We visually breakdown the film with VFX sup. Richard Stammers, and VFX supes from MPC, Fuel & Weta Digital. This ep also includes exclusive VFX breakdowns of the spacecrafts, holograms, star map room and the Engineers.
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the vfx show #149: Prometheus
Mike Seymour, Matt Wallin and TyRuben Ellingson discuss the new Ridley Scott film Prometheus.
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fxpodcast: Prometheus
This week we speak to Martin Hill, Weta’s VFX Supervisor about the advances in Weta’s Sub-Surface Scattering algorithms, the development of the Engineers, the map room, and THAT med-bed scene.
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the rc #113: Cine Gear 2012
This week, Mike Seymour chats to fxguide’s John Montgomery and Jeff Heusser about the tech they saw recently at Cine Gear 2012. And we feature interviews with Robin Christian about Zacuto’s plasma lights, Dan Kanes on the Paralinx Arrow Wireless HD transmitter and Les Zellan from Cooke Optics.
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fxpodcast: colorist Aidan Farrell
Aidan Farrell, co-founder of The Farm in London, recently won a BAFTA Special Award for his long career as a colorist. This is the third in our series highlighting the World’s Greatest Colorists. Mike Seymour talks to him about 90’s music videos, cutting edge documentaries and period dramas.
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the vfx show #148: Men In Black 3
Mike Seymour, Matt Leonard and Jason Diamond review the visual effects in Men In Black 3.
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fxguidetv #148: Men In Black 3
This week we sit down with Sony Pictures Imageworks to discuss their impressive visual effects in the hit: Men In Black 3.
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