fxpodcast: VFX Oscar supervisor special
Our VFX supervisor Oscar special talking to nominees from all five VFX-nominated films for this Sunday night’s Academy Awards – proudly sponsored by Side Effects Software.
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fxguidetv #136: John Knoll on Stereo
In this week’s episode we are at ILM talking to John Knoll about stereo. John supervised the conversion of Star Wars – Episode One: The Phantom Menace, and Mike sits down with him to discuss this and stereo 3D in general.
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fxguidetv #135: Sci-Tech Oscars 2012
In this week’s episode we are at the 2012 Scientific and Technical Oscars in Hollywood. We have an in-depth discussion with industry veteran Douglas Trumbull about the technical possibilities of future cinema, and catch up with ARRI to talk Master Primes and the new Alexa Studio and Alexa M cameras.
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the vfx show #142: Oscar Preview
Mike Seymour, Jeff Heusser and Todd Vaziri speak live from Los Angeles to preview the VFX Oscar nominated films of 2011.
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fxguidetv #134: 10th Annual VES Awards
We report from the 10th Annual VES Awards hosted by Patton Oswalt this week in Los Angeles and speak to many of the award winners, plus Rob Legato, Stan Lee and Douglas Trumbull.
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fxguidetv #133: Pixar’s La Luna
We talk to Pixar director Enrico Casarosa and producer Kevin Reher about their Oscar-nominated animated short La Luna.
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the vfx show #141: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Mike Seymour, Ian Failes and Jason Diamond discuss the visual effects of the feature film Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.
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fxpodcast: The Lowry Process
We talk to Kimball Thurston from Reliance MediaWorks about Lowry Digital’s Sci-Tech Oscar – and we pay tribute to film restoration pioneer John D. Lowry who sadly passed away this week.
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the rc #106 : Kodak, Oscars and Arri Master Primes
This week the guys discuss the Oscars, Kodak and are joined in the RED Room by ARRI’s Stephan Ukas-Bradley to discuss the ARRI Master Primes.
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fxguidetv #132: Red Tails
Mike Seymour sits down with Animation Supervisor Paul Kavanagh to talk about ILM’s work on Red Tails.
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fxpodcast: Rhythm & Hues’ polar bears
We talk to Rhythm & Hues about their pioneering work on the popular Coca-Cola polar bears TVCs that began airing in the 90s.
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the vfx show #140: Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol
Mike Seymour, Matt Leonard and Jason Diamond discuss the story and visual effects of Brad Bird’s live-action feature film directorial debut, Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol.
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the rc #105: The winner is
On our first podcast of the year we cover the D4, a look at When You Find Me, and we kick off our coverage of the Sci-Tech Oscar winners with a look at Pictorvision’s Eclipse. We also do some of our own…’and the winner is’.
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fxguidetv #131: MI4 Ghost Protocol
In this killer episode, we speak to MI4 director Brad Bird and ILM vfx supervisors John Knoll and Mohen Leo. We discuss risking Tom Cruise, blowing up Moscow without any cast, and wrecking one-off BMW concept cars. Plus, we preview the January term at fxphd.com.
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fxpodcast: Giant Studios
We talk with Matt Madden, Vice President of Production & Development and performance capture supervisor at Giant Studios about motion capture.
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