Mockingjay Part 1 on Blu-ray: the VFX featurettes

March 19, 2015

A preview of the VFX materials on the Blu-Ray for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay: Part 1. Unlike many DVDs the ‘extras’ actually contain good content on this leading vfx franchise.

Read the Article
quicktakes

NVIDIA unwraps Quadro M6000, VCA & unleashes iRay

March 19, 2015

No waiting for the Quadro: NVIDIA announced their new flagship M6000 as well as revealed the news that iRay 2015 is coming to more apps, including Maya.

Read the Article
quicktakes

NVIDIA GPU Tech Conference 2015: Day 1 Report

March 18, 2015

Coverage from day one includes the keynote with CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, the Titan X, OTOY’s OctaneRender 3, V-Ray and the GPU, plus a look at the Redshift GPU renderer.

Read the Article
quicktakes

VFX in TVCs: Just horsing around

March 15, 2015

We take a look at three fun commercials with VFX breakdowns from Time Based Arts, Gramercy Park Studios and MPC.

Read the Article
quicktakes

Shotgun – now with RV – becomes way more affordable

March 2, 2015

Shotgun has announced a huge price reduction as well as revealed that they will be bundling RV with no additional charge for all customers starting in April.

Read the Article
quicktakes

Go go Power/Rangers: VFX breakdown

February 27, 2015

An EXCLUSIVE look behind the visual effects of Joseph Kahn’s powerhouse short film ‘Power/Rangers’, including a VFX breakdown video.

Read the Article
quicktakes

So what was Ian Hunter doing behind Paul Franklin at the Oscars?

February 23, 2015

When Paul started to speak at the Oscars…we could not help but notice Ian doing something behind him…but what was so important??

Read the Article
quicktakes

ARRI goes compact: the ALEXA Mini

February 23, 2015

Is this a RED-killer? The new ARRI ALEXA Mini, a camera our Jason Wingrove called “the most important camera for Arri since the original Alexa”.

Read the Article
quicktakes

Predictinator wrong (!!!): Interstellar wins – Congrats!

February 22, 2015

Interstellar has won the visual effects Oscar.

Read the Article
quicktakes

Strange worlds: Method’s Jupiter Ascending effects

February 19, 2015

Behind Method Studio’s worlds and characters for Jupiter Ascending, including a VFX breakdown video of their work.

Read the Article
quicktakes

Lucas Martell’s The Taking Tree

February 18, 2015

Watch the final version of director, Lucas Martell’s (Pigeon Impossible) new short film – from his fxphd courses.

Read the Article
quicktakes

Breaking down Agent Carter’s VFX

February 17, 2015

Watch VFX breakdowns from Marvel’s Agent Carter in this WIRED making-of video.

Read the Article
quicktakes

Weather wild things

February 16, 2015

See how MPC crafted a host of wondrous weird & wicked weather creatures in a spot for Nissan CUV.

Read the Article
quicktakes

Science! Interstellar filmmakers publish paper on black holes

February 13, 2015

A new paper from the VFX team behind Interstellar sheds light on gravitational lensing and rendering of the film’s black hole.

Read the Article
quicktakes

Mikros and Matthijs are back…with unicorns

February 10, 2015

The team behind Canal+ spots The Bear and The Closet are back with a tale about the sad fate of the unicorn.

Read the Article
quicktakes

All the VES Award winners – right here

February 5, 2015

The full list of winners from the 13th annual VES Awards.

Read the Article
quicktakes

Altering time with Project Almanac

January 28, 2015

Method Studios breaks down its time altering visual effects for the found-footage film, Project Almanac.

Read the Article
quicktakes

Houdini 14 gives you more crowds, and sand

January 15, 2015

New sand and crowd tools inside Side Effects Software’s Houdini 14.

Read the Article
quicktakes

87th Oscars – nominations

January 15, 2015

And then there were five… Oscar nominations have been announced.

Read the Article
quicktakes

Latest Sci-Tech Oscar Winners Announced!

January 13, 2015

Find out the latest recipients winners of the Sci-tech awards, to be presented in February 2015.

Read the Article
quicktakes

13th Annual VES Award Nominees

January 13, 2015

The Visual Effects Society (VES) announced the nominees for the 13th Annual VES Awards…

Read the Article
quicktakes

BAFTA Nominations

January 9, 2015

Nominations have been announced for the EE British Academy Film Awards in 2015.

Read the Article
quicktakes

Exploring Black Sea

December 18, 2014

Breaking down the effects in the Kevin Macdonald submarine film Black Sea.

Read the Article
quicktakes

Commercial break(down)

December 17, 2014

With special making of breakdown videos, we take a look at visual effects work in TVCs with alt.vfx, Method Studios and Mirada.

Read the Article
quicktakes

MARI and MODO for everyone

December 11, 2014

The Foundry is releasing ‘indie’ versions of MARI and MODO today on Steam.

Read the Article
quicktakes

Shotgun at Autodesk: the state of play

December 8, 2014

It’s been almost six months since Autodesk acquired Shotgun – so how have things gone so far?

Read the Article
quicktakes

87th Oscars – the ten VFX contenders

December 5, 2014

Find out which 10 films are in contention for the visual effects Oscar.

Read the Article
quicktakes

Digital Vision purchased by management team

December 4, 2014

Color grading, restoration and film scanning product provider Digital Vision has been bought out by its management team.

Read the Article
quicktakes

The top 10 effects of 2014

November 25, 2014

Our latest Design FX video with our media partners WIRED – breaking down the top 10 vfx moments for 2014.

Read the Article
quicktakes

SIGGRAPH Asia 2014: what to see in Shenzhen

November 24, 2014

SIGGRAPH Asia in Shenzhen starts next week and fxguide will be there – here’s a look at some of the key sessions.

Read the Article
quicktakes
>