REALVIZ was a unique company, one of the first to solve and commercialize a range of outstanding visual effects tools ranging from panoramic Stitching to 3D Tracking. The fxguide founders actually visited REALVIZ about 2 years ago in its location just outside of Cannes, France. This visit cemented our opinion about the quality of the […]

The Visual Effects Society (VES) has published the first ever set of VES guidelines for titles in the visual effects industry. The list has been vetted by VES members and ratified by the VES Board of Directors. Major studios have reviewed the list as well and are encouraged to utilize it. “Through these collective efforts, […]

We’ve got one of the new Autodesk HP xw8600 systems fired up at the fxphd loft in Chicago. The new systems started shipping last month and we got it quickly up and running and paying the bills. But before we shut down our old IBM6217 system, we took the time to run our fxguide suite […]

A new redcenter podcast is now live on the site. If you haven’t already, subscribe to the RSS feed or iTunes podcast on our redcenter page.  We also now have downloadable shownotes in pdf format available on the redcentre page.  It’s a big show this week as the guys look at the RED’s new Nikon mount, […]

So in the field of Post – just how viable is online videos, webcasts, vblogs and iTV? Anyone can be famous on the internet (starwars kid, Mentos guys, Free hug guy, etc) but a completely different issue to make money on the net. Just who is making money, how much and exactly how? And – […]

The new Red Centre #5 is out. In this podcast Jason and Mike discuss offline editing and RED. A key aspect of the RED offline workflow currently is the use of Crimson and the guys talk this week to Crimson founder Ian Bloom about his software and his approach to just solving problems. There is […]

We never expected we would be posting about keynote here on fxguide.com but one of the surprising things at the Autodesk User group was the amazingly cool graphic design presentation that the team used. Normally we would run a mile than sit through a Powerpoint presentation but with the new Keynote 2, the product has […]

After the award-winning success of Gnarls Barkely’s “Crazy”, HSI director Robert Hales and BL:ND creative director Vanessa Marzaroli teamed up again to create Justin Timberlake’s “Lovestoned.” Blind won awards in the 29th Annual Telly Awards. “Lovestoned,” won two Bronze Telly statuettes: one in the Music Video category, and another in the Use of Animation category […]

SAN RAFAEL, Calif., May 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) today announced that it has completed the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of REALVIZ S.A., the privately held developer of image-based content creation software. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. REALVIZ was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Sophia Antipolis, […]

Quantel’s regional office in Burbank was broken into last week, and the company’s brand new Neo control panel for its Pablo color correction system was taken. Quantel introduced Neo at NAB in Las Vegas. The stolen Neo was one of only a few in existence, and was slated for use in a series of upcoming […]

fxguidetv #26 is on the air! This episode comes to you from NAB in Las Vegas and features an exclusive interview with Ted Schilowitz from RED, a look a what the wizards at the Foundry are working on to improve stereoscopic workflow and we’ll also explain why Angie suddenly has many tattoos.

Our first podcast from NAB is up, covering the 2008 Autodesk User Group meeting on Sunday afternoon. The ep was recorded before the start of the show on Sunday evening, so we continued our annual tradition of covering the big meetup. Tomorrow’s podcast will be a roundtable with our industry friends and fxphd postgrads who […]

Ep 2 of Red Centre is out, with hosts Jason Wingrove and Mike Seymour This week on the show: the guys get ready for NAB and discuss the Nikon mount, the new Red Lenses and more.. Note: Red Centre will be coming from Vegas NEXT MONDAY with all the news from the show floor on […]

As we gear up for NAB the press releases having started rolling in. Here are a few items that caught our interest: Prime Focus Purchases 1000 Seats Of Fusion® That is not a typo… 1000 seats. One thousand seats! Apple ships Final Cut Server! Cine-tal Systems to acquire cineSpace product line from Rising Sun Research. […]

We had such a good reaction to our fxguidetv eps on the red camera that we have decided to do a RED podcast every 2 weeks. Join Jason Wingrove and Mike Seymour as they look at a summary of what’s happening in and around the RED Camera. We’ll cover updates – news of third party […]

MPC plans to open a Santa Monica-based visual effects facility in late 2008. MPC LA will initially focus on the U.S. commercials VFX market, and it will also provide a front-end presence to MPC’s Los Angeles-based studios features VFX business. MPC LA is to be headed by VFX executive producer Mark Tobin. Tobin was most […]

Imagineer Systems is getting out ahead of the NAB PR rush by announcing that they will be talking with customers at NAB about their new compositing system “Mogul”, described as “a new vision for the visual effects industry: a new approach, a new workflow, a new architecture.” John Montgomery takes you direct to the source […]

A new episode of fxguidetv is available for download. It is part two of our special look at using RED footage in post production. We’ve been shooting a ton of RED footage since receiving our camera last year, working through the various ways to efficiently get from R3D to other formats which can be used […]

Sapphire Sparks have long been a favorite on flame and smoke systems and over the years have grown in popularity on other platforms such as After Effects and Avid. The plugins have now made the leap to Apple products such as Final Cut Pro and Motion which support the FxPlug architecture. Click through to read […]

We’re big fans of the Cineon/DPX tools here at fxguide and are looking forward to the improvements in the new version, set to be released at NAB 2008 in April. The new version will include Cineon and DPX Sequence Presets along with a full Cineon or DPX Codec. The combination of these two features now […]

The Golden Compass….Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris and Trevor Wood Congratulations to the winners of the Best Achievement in Visual Effects Oscar this year. The crew also won the Special Visual Effects category at the BAFTA awards earlier this month. “(The) four people standing up here represent over a thousand artists so, it’s kind […]

The Foundry announced that the much-anticipated Nuke 5.0 was released today. The version is a major release featuring a new user interface, 3D stereoscopic workflow, Python scripting, and a number of additional features and enhancements. Nuke 5.0v1 is available to all customers with current support contracts and anyone with a valid evaluation license. You will […]

Autodesk announced today that developers of its Autodesk Maya Fluid Effects System have been awarded Technical Achievement Awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The Maya Fluid Effects System allows digital artists to create realistic animation of liquids and gases, using novel simulation techniques for accuracy and speed, as well as a […]