Ok we would not normally post about a free ap in the itunes Ap store, but this one is just so much fun and indicative of how in the last few years we have moved from multi-million dollar grading suites to free iphone aps. Our friends at Pixel Farm have posted Airgrade. Now unlike most […]

On twitter this week we posted that Assimilate had settled with Autodesk over the long running law suit. We also heard that Lucas Wilson – for many the public face of Assimilate – had moved on to 3alitydigital. Luckily, we also discovered that an old friend of fxguide – Steve Bannerman had left GenArts to […]

RED announced today that Spider-Man 4, to be directed by Marc Webb, will be shot in Stereo on the EPIC, with filming beginning today. EPIC is RED’s successor to the 4K RED ONE. It offers 60% more resolution by relying on a 5K sensor and can shoot at frame rates up to 120 fps. A […]

The Foundry released their first public beta of STORM earlier this week and the initial feedback from the community has been positive. In the first 24 hours it was available, over 2000 users registered the software…that’s actual registrations, not downloads. The software will be free for use until the 1st of March, at which point […]

James Cameron’s Avatar is now available as an Extended Collector’s Edition DVD and Blu-ray release. We take a look at the Blu-ray featurettes and talk to Weta Digital visual effects supervisor Wayne Stables, who was responsible for the incredible Tree of Souls sequence in the film.

This week on the fxpodcast we speak to Chris Bond of Thinkbox software about their production proven volumetric particle rendering, manipulation and management software. Krakatoa has been used on umpteen feature films and commercials. It provides a great pipeline for acquiring, caching, transforming, modifying, deforming, culling, shading and rendering vast quantities of particles at unprecedented […]

fxguide congratulates Kevin Pike on being elected as the new Special Visual Effects Governor for the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Special Effects Supervisor, Kevin Pike, an industry professional for over 36 years, started his career on “JAWS,” in 1974. For AMPAS, he serves as a member of the Visual Effects Branch Executive Committee […]

The Foundry will be having a Mari launch event in Los Angeles on December 1. Presenters include Brandon Fayette & Jake Raymor from Bad Robot Production, Scott Metzger from Method Studios, and Brad deCaussin from Digital Domain. Click through for more details, including a registration link.

In this week’s fxguide Red Centre podcast we examine the new Sony F3 camera. Jason Wingrove shot with one of only three F3 cameras in the world this week, testing this new Super35 Sensor Sony camera that will be released in Feb 2011. In the Red Room, Maarten Treurniet of Marvin goes head to head […]

We have looked at Nuke in a feature film environment here at fxguidetv, so we have shifted gears and look at Nuke in a Promo environment. This week we speak to MPC’s Nuke artist Alex Harding, who takes us through a breakdown of one of the promo films for the the US cable network Syfy, […]

This week Skyline opened in the USA. The film looks like a Hollywood Blockbuster but cost only $10million. While it opened modestly – it still grossed $4.7M on Friday alone. Whatever you think of the film – the significance of this should not be overlooked. This is a VFX house not waiting for the next […]

Chaos Group has announced that the the new V-Ray 2.0 for 3ds Max is now entering its final BETA stage. V-Ray 2.0 combines the power of the V-Ray rendering engine with the flexibility and speed of the interactive rendering system – V-Ray RT, now running on GPUs. V-Ray 2.0 for 3ds Max BETA program is […]

e-on software announced today that they are now shipping their new versions of software: Vue 9 xStream and Vue 9 Infinite. One of the big rendering enhancements is a new anti-flickering algorithm which they developed for the rendering of the kind of detailed natural environments one creates in the software. Vue 9 xStream retails for […]

The Foundry’s texture painting tool Mari is now shipping on Windows. The software is supported on Windows 7 64-bit or on Linux 64-bit (Fedora 12 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4). Our sister site fxphd.com is currently running an Introduction to Mari course this term. It’s taught by artist Gareth Jensen, who has been working […]

India’s costliest film “Endhiran The Robot” has used the Light Stage technology from USC ICT which was used in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Spiderman “Endhiran The Robot” India’s costliest film “Endhiran The Robot” has used the ICT Light Stage for photorealism. Sun Pictures’s “Endhiran The Robot” starring superstar Rajnikanth (Asia’s 2nd highest […]

Our latest fxpodcast episode is a discussion with filmmaker Gareth Edwards, director of the indie film Monsters, about the making of the movie. We last featured him several years ago in an article here at fxguide about his vfx work on the BBC’s Atilla the Hun. Like Atilla, Edwards did all of the vfx and […]