iZotope Inc. Win Pro Tools Expert Brand of the Yea

January 11, 2016, 09:36 AM

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The Pro Tools Expert Brand of the Year Award honors and celebrates the contribution one brand has made to the audio and music production world in 2016. We are very pleased to announce that the winner of the Pro Tools Expert Brand Of The Year 2016 is iZotope. During November we asked the Pro Tools ...

Simplifying and improving the color matching proce

January 11, 2016, 09:35 AM

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Ant-Man Vfx Breakdown by Luma Pictures

January 11, 2016, 09:34 AM

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Ant-Man Vfx Breakdown by Luma Pictures. Luma’s work on the film includes extensive fully CG environments, CG Ant-Man, CG ants, creating set extensions inside Pymtech, and building composting a San Fransisco skyline set extension into exterior Pymtech shots.

Monster of Nix - Vfx Breakdown

January 11, 2016, 09:34 AM

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A breakdown of the “Monster of Nix”, an animated short by Rosto A.D. The Monster of Nix is a 30 minute long animated musical which tells the story of Willy, a troubled boy who fights the destructive force of an all-devouring monster in the village of Nix.

Editors Explain the Timing of a Key Kylo Ren Scene

January 11, 2016, 08:43 AM

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When American Cinema Editors unveiled the nominees for its annual Eddies Awards on Monday, two of J.J. Abrams’ longtime collaborators, editors Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey, received a nod for their work on Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The pair’s storytelling prowess helped Abrams and the team hit a home run — the film has grossed $1.54 billion worldwide and continues to climb.

Open secrets of classical storytelling: Narrative

January 11, 2016, 05:40 AM

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Premium Rush (David Koepp, 2012). DB here: After nine years, over 700 entries, and many essays and other stuff, this contraption of a website has started to intimidate us. If we’re intimated, you might be flabbergasted. Although a set of categories sits on the right to guide your exploration of this tangled databank, those too loom large […]

PANO : Foley Synthesizer by Noise Makers

January 11, 2016, 05:40 AM

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Sound effect synthesis is finally coming back into vogu […]

ILM VFX Supervisor Roger Guyett on Star Wars: TFA

January 11, 2016, 05:39 AM

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Roger Guyett should have been stressed and exhausted, but he showed no signs of it when we met at Industrial Light & Magic in San Francisco shortly before Star Wars: The Force Awakens was released. As we walked down the hall toward the dining room, one person after another called out to him and, with a kind “excuse me just a minute,” he was unfailingly lovely to each.

CG Garage Podcast #55 | Daniel Lay aka VFXSoldier

January 11, 2016, 05:38 AM

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Daniel Lay, also known as VFX Soldier, stopped by the CG Garage to talk to his old friends, Christopher Nichols and Stephen Parker, about what is going in his life. We talked about his career, what happened when he was VFX Soldier, why he left the industry, and what he is doing now.

BAFTA VFX Nominees

January 11, 2016, 05:38 AM

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Here are the nominees for Special Visual Effects for the BAFTA 2016...