fxphd: Orientation Week Special Just Released

October 10, 2007

We’ve just released our Background Fundamentals Orientation Week special episode over at fxphd. It provides an overview of what’s going on during the term over at our sister vfx training site….I think you’ll see why were excited about the October07 Term. We’ve got a ton of great courses and professors lined up, including RED camera […]

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Eyeon Announces Software World Tour 2007

October 10, 2007

Eyeon has announced their Software World Tour 2007, visiting the following cities in the months of October and November: San Francisco, Atlanta, Washington, Dallas, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Montreal, Sydney, Melbourne, Wagga Wagga, Paris, London, Madrid, Hamburg, Dusseldorf, Munich, London , Manchester. Click through for more details….

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fxguidetv: flame2008, Nuke Tech Preview – Shot on RED

September 13, 2007

A new episode of fxguidetv is up which has interviews with Philippe Soeiro from Autodesk who talks about the new 2008 smoke and flame releases. We also speak with Matt Plec from the Foundry about what they were showing at IBC, which is a technology preview of the upcoming Nuke — complete with a brand […]

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New Autodesk Site: myfirstflame.com

September 12, 2007

Autodesk has rolled out a new web site targeted towards flame users called myfirstflame.com. It’s a fun site with some longtime flame users such as Sheena Duggal, Jake Parker, Vico Sharabani, and more. It also has links to the past NAB tutorials, including the presentation I gave earlier this year. Fill out the survey and […]

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Emmy winners

September 10, 2007

Congrats to the winners of this year’s creative Emmys. Dexter, Battlestar Galactica and NightMares & Dreamscapes. Outstanding work once again in this years 59th Prime Time Emmy awards. Outstanding Main Title Design: Dexter (Showtime) Eric Anderson, Creative Director Josh Bodnar, Editor Lindsay Daniels, Designer Colin Davis, Main Title Producer Oustanding Special Visual Effects for a […]

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RED Podcast discussion

September 6, 2007

Jeff Heusser and Mike Seymour have an informal discussion about the new RED, their experiences on set with them and most importantly the post pipeline. You can download from the right hand side podcasting panel on our homepage or from iTunes. Coming up on fxguide . . . In addition to our audio podcasts, we […]

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The Film Industry is Broken

September 4, 2007

Stu Maschwitz over on his ProLost blog has written a must read article titled “The Film Industry is Broken” about the lack of a Universal Color Metadata format.

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PFTrack 4.1 Now Shipping

September 4, 2007

The Pixel Farm is pleased to announce PFTrack 4.1 is now shipping. Released at Siggraph this year, the additional features within PFTrack 4.1 – including the addition of Autodesk FBX and Apple Motion file format and support for Vista – further enhance the company’s well established reputation for innovation in the field of high-end digital […]

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Mr. X creates lasting images for Resident Evil Extinction

August 31, 2007

A Case Study from the FoundryWhat follows the Apocalypse? Extinction, of course. Like its predecessors, the third installment of the Resident Evil trilogy is rife with zombies, survivalists, Milla Jovovitch, villains, and… zombies. But given that this was the final chapter (so says the official word), the filmmakers wanted to send fans of the video-game-inspired […]

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GLUE TOOLS releases Cineon/DPX Pro v2.5.7

August 29, 2007

Glue Tools has released v2.5.7 of its Cineon and DPX QuickTime Components. This new release now includes direct support for 10-bit Uncompressed YUV 422 codecs in Final Cut Pro. This development greatly improves loading and playback speed for Final Cut Pro users. By performing the conversion inside the Cineon/DPX Pro QuickTime components, several internal steps […]

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fxguidetv episode 013: Doug Chiang

August 28, 2007

Our latest episode of fxguidetv is now available via iTunes. We have coverage of the release of the first RED cameras, Nuke, and an interview with vfx art director Doug Chiang. Chiang has art directed films such as ‘Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace’, ‘Forest Gump’, and ‘Terminator 2’ and we took the […]

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fxguidetv @ SIGGRAPH2007: 8 Is Not Enough

August 15, 2007

We finished our 8th Episode from Siggraph with an exclusive interview with Syd Mead. Syd was brought down to Siggraph By Softimage to talk at the XSI user group. Part of our interview with Syd can be seen in Episode 8 but we will be rolling out longer versions by request in coming weeks. And […]

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eyeon Announces Fusion ®64

August 13, 2007

In a press release, eyeon announced the first 64-bit desktop compositing application on the market, Fusion ®64. Fusion64 will be the first desktop compositor in the industry to break the current accessibility limit of 4 gigabytes (GB) of both virtual and physical memory. eyeon’s extensive developmental knowledge secures the benefits of multi-core and multi-processor systems. […]

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fxguidetv @ SIGGRAPH2007: Episode 6

August 9, 2007

It’s been a great week here at SIGGRAPH2007 covering the show and we hope you’ve been enjoying the coverage. Sony Pictures Imagework’s Rob Bredow lead a great course given by the crew at Sony Pictures Imageworks about the making of “Surf’s Up”. It was a fanastic presention to a packed room — in fact, attendess […]

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SIGGRAPH 3 fxguidetv : Paul Debevec

August 7, 2007

In this episode we look at Emerging technology here at fxguide. At SIGGRAPH each year there is a display of Emerging technologies, some are purely research projects such as robotic head sets, others have a more commercial application – such as Microsoft’s Surface table. We also interview Paul Debevec and discuss not only his ‘holographic […]

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