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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the rc #104: The year in review
Our final podcast for 2011: The year in review (plus anti-aliasing reviews, gear and scandals).
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fxpodcast: SIGGRAPH Asia rendering and rigging
This week we are at SIGGRAPH Asia. In part one, we examine renderers and renderfarm management including V-Ray 2.0, MI, RenderMan, Maxwell and 3delight in Nuke. In the second half of the show we focus on rigging with Seema Gopalakrishnan who was the rigging & pipeline lead on Clone Wars at Lucasfilm Animation Singapore.
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the vfx show #139: Tree of Life/Melancholia
Mike Seymour, TyRuben Ellingson and Matt Wallin discuss the visual effects in two films this week, Tree of Life and Melancholia.
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fxguidetv #130: SIGGRAPH Asia 2011 – Pt 2
In our second fxguidetv ep from SIGGRAPH Asia in Hong Kong, we talk to vfx artists from ILM and Lucasfilm Singapore, explore video face replacement tech and check out the emerging technologies exhibit.
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fxguidetv #129: SIGGRAPH Asia 2011
From SIGGRAPH Asia 2011, we look at rendering CG objects into legacy photos and get a demo of a panoramic ball camera.
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the rc #103: Ultimate Arm and The Muppets
It’s the Muppets in 4K with our very special guest stars Light Iron’s Michael Ciono plus The Ultimate Arm and the usual inspirational celebrational rat holes.
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fxguidetv #128: Hugo and New Deal Studios
New Deal Studios discuss their miniature train crash effects for Martin Scorsese’s latest film ‘Hugo’.
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