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.

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13th Annual VES Award Nominees

January 13, 2015

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

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BAFTA Nominations

January 9, 2015

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

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Exploring Black Sea

December 18, 2014

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

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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.

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MARI and MODO for everyone

December 11, 2014

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

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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?

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87th Oscars – the ten VFX contenders

December 5, 2014

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Blackmagic ‘relaunches’ Fusion

November 10, 2014

It wasn’t a question of “if?”, but “when?” In move reminicent of Resolve, Blackmagic has released a free Windows version of Fusion and dropped the price of a more feature-rich version to $995.

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Apes, Game of Thrones take major HPA vfx awards

November 9, 2014

The 9th annual HPA Awards have been announced – see the full list of winners here.

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Xsens’ new clothes

November 4, 2014

The story behind Xsens new MVN suits and software/hardware upgrades.

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It is your Destiny

October 26, 2014

Prologue details how they made the opening cinematic for Destiny.

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Techno Image’s Trojan trip

October 23, 2014

Find out how Techo Image made the Trojan Horse was a Unicorn ident.

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A look at new tracking features in Flame 2015 Ext 2

October 21, 2014

Lead product designer Philippe Soeiro walks us through tew tracking capabilities coming in the new Flame Premium 2015 Extension 2.

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fxinsider: full audio interview with Richard Edlund

October 14, 2014

For our valued fxinsider members we have a special full-length interview with Richard Edlund, who discusses Star Wars, Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones, Multiplicity and his current role at The Academy.

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thinkingParticles v6 is released with new pricing

October 14, 2014

We talk to cebas CEO Edwin Braun about the release of thinkingParticles 6 and the new tech inside it.

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Inside The Knick: Phosphene’s facial feature fx

October 13, 2014

Behind Phosphene’s nasal cavity visual effects for an episode of Steven Soderbergh’s The Knick.

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Cinesite enters animated features arena

September 23, 2014

Cinesite has announced a new division and a new partnership to make and produce animated feature films.

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Putting the maze in Maze Runner: an fxguide/WIRED exclusive

September 19, 2014

See how Method Studios created the vast maze and relentless mechanical creatures called Grievers for the upcoming feature film Maze Runner.

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eyeon Software acquired by Blackmagic Design

September 12, 2014

In somewhat of a shake-up to the compositing world, Blackmagic Design has announced that it is acquiring eyeon Software.

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RC IBC news: Sony new 4K FS7

September 12, 2014

As rumoured on the last RC podcast, here is the new Sony FS7 camera just announced at IBC, more than just an XDCAM this camera here is a first look…

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COLORWAY now available for C4D

September 8, 2014

The Foundry has launched a COLORWAY kit for MAXON Cinema 4D.

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OpenSubdiv 3.0 coming (Alpha update)

September 3, 2014

What’s new and all the news about the open source OpenSubdiv project.

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NUKE 9, NUKEX and NUKE STUDIO Beta now available

September 3, 2014

The Foundry has made betas of NUKE 9 and NUKE STUDIO available to existing customers.

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Into the Storm: a trio of tornadoes

August 18, 2014

How real reference served to inform the visual effects artists for three of the devastating tornado sequences in Into the Storm.

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SIGGRAPH 2014 – wrap-up

August 17, 2014

A final look at SIGGRAPH 2014 from Vancouver and what to expect in fxguide SIGGRAPH coverage coming soon.

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Congrats to the Creative Emmy winners

August 16, 2014

Congrats to all the winners at this Saturday’s Creative Emmy Awards!

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