The Barbershop at Weta: Sci-Tech Winner Explained

January 30, 2015, 05:13 AM

http://www.fxguide.com/featured/barbershop-at-weta...

Some of the most stunning recent digital hair and fur work on film - think Caesar, Maurice and hundreds of apes in the new Planet of the Apes films, Middle-earth creatures from the Hobbit trilogy, Snowy in Tintin - has come out of Weta Digital, owing in part to the studio’s Barbershop hair groom system. The toolset is receiving a Sci-tech Award, and fxguide spoke to the award recipients about how Barbershop is used and was developed at Weta Digital.

I Screen, You Screen, We All Screen for Green Scre

January 29, 2015, 05:38 PM

http://www.handheldhollywood.com/latest-news/i-scr...

What did you do last week? I mercilessly tore my living room apart and temporarily transformed it into a green screen (a.k.a. “chroma key”) studio in which I directed a short comedy called 2084. For as long as I can remember, my friends and I have joked about shooting 2084 on a massive soundstage with high-end gear and a huge crew — total overkill for this very silly, 3-minute short. Well, after ten years of that not happening, we finally decided to shoot 2084 with a tiny crew (four of us)...

VFX Breakdowns of Norges Grillmester by Drazen Zel

January 29, 2015, 10:39 AM

http://cgvilla.com/2015/01/29/vfx-breakdowns-of-no...

Check out this awesome VFX breakdown showing shots used in the intro for a Norwegian show Norges Grillmester, made for Animaskin studio. The shots were composited using Eyeon Fusion by Drazen Zeljkovic, and Aleksandar Faraguna did the 3D tracking, and basic scene preps, also some fire and smoke simulations that were combined with stock footage in final comp.

Marco Polo | Spin VFX - Breakdowns

January 29, 2015, 05:51 AM

http://www.spinvfx.com/work/marco-polo/

VFX Supervisor Kyle Menzies and Emmy nominated VFX Producer J.P. Giamos led the team to create digital environments to set the scene for the Venetian merchant’s travels, including the village of Karakorum, crowd duplication for Kublai Kahn’s troops, as well as 3D props and Wire/Rig removals to assist Kung-Fu stunts.

CGI VFX Breakdowns HD:

January 29, 2015, 05:49 AM

https://www.aotg.com/cgi-vfx-breakdowns-hd-9/

Check out another inspiring breakdown of a concept art piece for a personal project "At World's End", by the talented artist Marco Iozzi! For more informatio...

After Effects Quick Tip: Scribble Dissolve

January 28, 2015, 01:44 PM

https://www.aotg.com/after-effects-quick-tip-scribble-dissolve/

Make a scribble dissolve with the paint brush tool and track mattes, its pretty simple, and easy to make. Plus its not a very long video, so check it out. 3 ...

The Visual Effects of Black Sea

January 28, 2015, 09:50 AM

http://cinefex.com/blog/black-sea/

The submarine movie is a staple of cinema. You might even say it’s a classic sub-genre, with films like Run Silent, Run Deep, The Hunt for Red October, The Enemy Below and Das Boot ensuring its continuing appeal over the years.

Artemple-Hollywood marks one-year; creates VFX for

January 28, 2015, 09:49 AM

http://www.postmagazine.com/Press-Center/Daily-New...

Crafting the VFX of Unbroken

January 28, 2015, 05:49 AM

http://www.fxguide.com/featured/crafting-the-story...

For ILM visual effects supervisor Bill George, Angelina’s Jolie’s Unbroken proved to be chance to implement cutting-edge effects work in a story-driven tale. The film required complex plane battles, crashes, environments, crowd extensions and even sharks to help tell the story of bombadier Louis ‘Louie’ Zamperini imprisonment in a Japanese POW camp after his B-24 Liberator crew crash in the South Pacific.

IF YOU BUILD IT, WILL THE AUDIENCE COME?

January 27, 2015, 08:44 PM

http://videoandfilmmaker.com/wp/index.php/features...

The use of practical effects is a somewhat lost art in traditional filmmaking these days. Computer rendered effects are often far cheaper to source and don’t require set or crew time. But does the technological advancement in visual effects and its prolific use in cinema, come with a cost to the magic of movies?