fxguidetv #038

September 25, 2008

IBC wrap-up. Coverage of finds from the show floor: Barco, Sonnet, Assimilate, Flow, and more.

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fxguidetv #037

September 21, 2008

Coverage of IBC2008 continues with a look at the Foundry’s Ocula plugins as well as a sneak preview of eyeon’s Fusion 6 and an update on the soon to ship Generation.

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the vfx show #53: John Adams

September 20, 2008

Mike Seymour and John Flowers discuss the visual effects in the Emmy-winning TV Miniseries John Adams.

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red centre #015

September 17, 2008

The guys discuss anamorphic lenses on set with DOP Tom Gleeson, follow a RED into a war zone, plus all the news from IBC.

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John Adams

September 14, 2008

We talk to Jeff Goldman, a vfx supervisor at CafeFX about their emmy nominated work on John Adams

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fxguidetv #036

September 14, 2008

The Road to IBC, an exclusive look at the new releases for Flame and Smoke from Autodesk.

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fxguidetv #035

September 12, 2008

We talk to Ben Grossmann from The Syndicate about The Stones, Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese, Champagne and Radiohead !

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the vfx show #52: Fight Club

September 12, 2008

Mike Seymour, Mark Christiansen and John Flowers discuss the visual effects in Fight Club.

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fxguidetv #034

September 8, 2008

Ian Hunter and Matthew Gratzner of New Deal Studios discuss their work on The Dark Knight. Also the scoop on PFTrack 5.0 from Siggraph.

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red centre #014

September 7, 2008

Happy birthday RED One as it’s one year since the first cams rolled out the door. We discuss RED’s DSLR killer, talk Infrared sensors and Assimilate’s Scratch

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the vfx show #51: Tropic Thunder

September 5, 2008

Mike Seymour, David Stripinis and John Flowers discuss the visual effects in the film Tropic Thunder.

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Tropic Thunder

September 3, 2008

In this week’s fxpodcast, Mark Breakspear of CIS (formerly Rainmaker) discusses how Blades of Glory showed his company how fundamentally different the pipeline needs to be for visual effects in comedies. We follow up with more details and background in our online story.

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fxguidetv #033

August 30, 2008

A look at Pixar’s Renderman as it turns 20, interview with Gamma and Density’s Bob Currier, and the Australian premiere of WALL-E.

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Labor Series Part Two: The Animation Guild

August 27, 2008

In this fxpodcast we speak with Steve Hulett, Business Representative for the The Animation Guild Local 839 IATSE. This is part of an ongoing series discussing the issues involved in labor laws, treatment of workers and general respect for visual effects in the industry.

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red centre #013

August 25, 2008

Tonnes of RED News, from iPhone apps to iPins. Shooting documentaries around the world with our Canadian REDroom victim.

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