DigiPro 2015 – a great start to SIGGRAPH
Our preview of the great presentations and talks at DigiPro 2015 which takes place just before SIGGRAPH in LA this year.
Mad Max: Fury Road’s day for nights and practical VFX
Behind the scenes of the day for night shots and practical guitar flying and steering wheel crash in Mad Max: Fury Road.
fxinsider bonus interviews: Avengers: Age of Ultron
As a thank you to our fxinsider members, we have two full-length interviews on ILM’s visual effects for Avengers: Age of Ultron.
Auckland Face Simulator
The researcher behind BabyX, Mark Sagar, and the new Auckland Face Simulator.
The Foundry sold – but not to Adobe
The Foundry sells, and we speak directly with Bill Collis.
Business models for VFX
Continuing the discussion about new business models for the VFX industry – FMX hosted an illuminating look at how studios see vfx and how VFX should look at animation companies.
Day 3 at FMX 2015 – Realtime Star Wars, Interstellar & light fields
ILM’s realtime Star Wars iPad controlled demo, 40 years of ILM, DNeg’s Interstellar, and light field research from Paul Debevec and OTOY. It’s day 3 at FMX.
Day 2 at FMX 2015 – VR, AR or MR and 20 years since Toy Story
All the latest from FMX in Stuttgart – our day 2 coverage discusses VR and the incredible 20th anniversary celebration of Pixar’s Toy Story.
Day 1 at FMX 2015 – rendering and 20 years of Weta Digital
A breakdown of all the great rendering talks from day 1 of FMX 2015, plus 20 years of Weta Digital.
GoPro announces acquisition of VR software maker Kolor
GoPro has announced that they are acquiring Kolor, developers of software which helps create and display spherical VR content.
Cool camera kit at NAB
A round up of new camera tech and tools announced at NAB in Las Vegas – with more to come from fxguide.
ftrack 3.2 revealed at NAB
ftrack has announced that they will be releasing version 3.2 of its software this summer. New features include Nuke Studio integration, Actions, chat features, and release of their updated API.
MODO 901: exclusive tech sneak peek
MODO 901 will be released in a few months but fxguide visited The Foundry yesterday in LA for an exclusive sneak peek of new Render Tech (*this is on top of The Foundry’s own feature leaks today!)
Frame.io – a new tool for video collaboration
The Frame.io team talk to fxguide about their new video review and collaboration tool.
Looking back: 1995’s Outbreak
VFX supe Jim Rygiel shares with us his archived Boss Film Studios miniatures pics from Outbreak, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.
Mockingjay Part 1 on Blu-ray: the VFX featurettes
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.
NVIDIA unwraps Quadro M6000, VCA & unleashes iRay
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.
NVIDIA GPU Tech Conference 2015: Day 1 Report
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.
VFX in TVCs: Just horsing around
We take a look at three fun commercials with VFX breakdowns from Time Based Arts, Gramercy Park Studios and MPC.
Shotgun – now with RV – becomes way more affordable
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.
Go go Power/Rangers: VFX breakdown
An EXCLUSIVE look behind the visual effects of Joseph Kahn’s powerhouse short film ‘Power/Rangers’, including a VFX breakdown video.
So what was Ian Hunter doing behind Paul Franklin at the Oscars?
When Paul started to speak at the Oscars…we could not help but notice Ian doing something behind him…but what was so important??
ARRI goes compact: the ALEXA Mini
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”.
Predictinator wrong (!!!): Interstellar wins – Congrats!
Interstellar has won the visual effects Oscar.
Strange worlds: Method’s Jupiter Ascending effects
Behind Method Studio’s worlds and characters for Jupiter Ascending, including a VFX breakdown video of their work.
Lucas Martell’s The Taking Tree
Watch the final version of director, Lucas Martell’s (Pigeon Impossible) new short film – from his fxphd courses.
Breaking down Agent Carter’s VFX
Watch VFX breakdowns from Marvel’s Agent Carter in this WIRED making-of video.
Weather wild things
See how MPC crafted a host of wondrous weird & wicked weather creatures in a spot for Nissan CUV.
Science! Interstellar filmmakers publish paper on black holes
A new paper from the VFX team behind Interstellar sheds light on gravitational lensing and rendering of the film’s black hole.
Mikros and Matthijs are back…with unicorns
The team behind Canal+ spots The Bear and The Closet are back with a tale about the sad fate of the unicorn.
