DigiPro 2015 – a great start to SIGGRAPH

June 15, 2015

Our preview of the great presentations and talks at DigiPro 2015 which takes place just before SIGGRAPH in LA this year.

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Mad Max: Fury Road’s day for nights and practical VFX

June 2, 2015

Behind the scenes of the day for night shots and practical guitar flying and steering wheel crash in Mad Max: Fury Road.

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fxinsider bonus interviews: Avengers: Age of Ultron

June 1, 2015

As a thank you to our fxinsider members, we have two full-length interviews on ILM’s visual effects for Avengers: Age of Ultron.

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Auckland Face Simulator

May 27, 2015

The researcher behind BabyX, Mark Sagar, and the new Auckland Face Simulator.

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The Foundry sold – but not to Adobe

May 20, 2015

The Foundry sells, and we speak directly with Bill Collis.

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Business models for VFX

May 13, 2015

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.

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Day 3 at FMX 2015 – Realtime Star Wars, Interstellar & light fields

May 8, 2015

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.

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Day 2 at FMX 2015 – VR, AR or MR and 20 years since Toy Story

May 8, 2015

All the latest from FMX in Stuttgart – our day 2 coverage discusses VR and the incredible 20th anniversary celebration of Pixar’s Toy Story.

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Day 1 at FMX 2015 – rendering and 20 years of Weta Digital

May 6, 2015

A breakdown of all the great rendering talks from day 1 of FMX 2015, plus 20 years of Weta Digital.

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GoPro announces acquisition of VR software maker Kolor

April 28, 2015

GoPro has announced that they are acquiring Kolor, developers of software which helps create and display spherical VR content.

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Cool camera kit at NAB

April 13, 2015

A round up of new camera tech and tools announced at NAB in Las Vegas – with more to come from fxguide.

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ftrack 3.2 revealed at NAB

April 12, 2015

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.

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MODO 901: exclusive tech sneak peek

April 7, 2015

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!)

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Frame.io – a new tool for video collaboration

March 31, 2015

The Frame.io team talk to fxguide about their new video review and collaboration tool.

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Looking back: 1995’s Outbreak

March 24, 2015

VFX supe Jim Rygiel shares with us his archived Boss Film Studios miniatures pics from Outbreak, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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??

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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”.

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

February 22, 2015

Interstellar has won the visual effects Oscar.

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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.

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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.

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Breaking down Agent Carter’s VFX

February 17, 2015

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

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Weather wild things

February 16, 2015

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

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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.

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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.

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