First day on a new gig like

January 28, 2019, 01:05 PM

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Check Out Easy Terrain’s Fledgling River & Ocean

January 28, 2019, 01:05 PM

https://lesterbanks.com/2019/01/easy-terrain-fledg...

Morteza Ahmadi teases some early work on what will become Easy Terrain’s river and ocean system. Easy Terrain is a tool that makes it easy to create terrain systems in Maya. It offers in-viewport feedback

Ready Player One VFX Breakdown

January 28, 2019, 01:05 PM

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Come have a look at the work of Digital Domain on READY PLAYER ONE...

Designing Aquaman’s dramatic deep-sea sound:

January 28, 2019, 06:59 AM

https://www.asoundeffect.com/aquaman-sound/

In this in-depth A Sound Effect interview, supervising sound editors Peter Brown and Joe Dzuban take you behind the scenes on their sound work for the film - covering everything from creatively crafting powerful water sounds, creating Trident hits, ‘laser’ guns, and gigantic deep-sea battle sounds, to the challenges of designing (intelligible) underwater vocals:

How the Mixers and editors built the sounds for Os

January 27, 2019, 05:32 PM

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The question never fails to pop up in the weeks before the Oscars, perhaps the most high-profile event at which the craftspeople are honored. So to put the matter to rest, we chatted earlier this month with the teams behind a few films that received nominations in the sound categories: “A Quiet Place,” recognized for editing; “A Star Is Born,” recognized for mixing; and “First Man,” recognized for both.

Cutting Honey Boy: Mónica Salazar on Editing The

January 27, 2019, 05:32 PM

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One of the most anticipated films at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival (according to Indiewire and MTV, among others), Honey Boy is a semi-autobiographical story penned by actor Shia LaBeouf that spans a decade in the life of a child actor. It’s also the first feature film cut by editor Mónica Salazar, a Mexican immigrant whose story starts with a VCR in Monterrey and a dream to one day land at Pixar.

Goro Fujita, PART I: Virtual Reality Movie Making

January 27, 2019, 08:25 AM

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Goro is a friend of mine and he’s an amazing artist! I’m sure you’ve heard of him. One of the things that I find inspiring about Goro is that he does his art every single day. The first time we met, he was doing a talk on a daily ritual of speed painting. I wanted to pick up a pen and start drawing myself. The more I got to know Goro, the more inspiring he’s become. He has so much insight about his art and Virtual Reality.

3 Methods for Retiming Effects in Maya

January 26, 2019, 10:25 AM

https://lesterbanks.com/2019/01/3-methods-for-reti...

Steven Roselle covers and compares three different ways of creating retiming effects in Maya. Maya has a variety of ways that will let you adjust and play with how frames playback. Some of Maya’s time

Polywink’s New Facial Animation Solution for Uni

January 26, 2019, 10:24 AM

https://lesterbanks.com/2019/01/polywinks-new-faci...

Polywink announces a new plug & play solution for live facial animation in Unity with the iPhone X. Polywink is EISKO’s online service for creating blend shapes and facial rigs on demand. Simply upload a

War of the Worlds and Spielberg's Mastery of Tensi

January 26, 2019, 10:24 AM

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If you were asked to name Steven Spielberg‘s tensest sequence, what would it be? Saving Private Ryan‘s barnstorming opening? Raptors stalking Lex and Tim through the kitchen in Jurassic Park? Or Jaws‘ thrilling climax? All, of course, are astounding works, but one that isn’t mentioned nearly enough is the masterful basement sequence that occurs towards the end of War of the Worlds.