Cool trailer with a great cast for CHILD 44: The VFX are made by: Image Engine (VFX Supervisor : Chris Harvey) Director: Daniel Espinosa Release Date: 17 April 2015 (USA) © Vincent Frei – The Art of VFX – 2015
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Excellent making of by Platige Image about their work on HISZPANKA, one of the biggest VFX movie in Poland (click on the picture below to watch it): CREDITS PLATIGE IMAGE Film Coproducers: Jaroslaw Sawko, Piotr Sikora Visual Effects Supervisor: Jakub…
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THE CURSE OF THE SAD MUMMY is a beautiful CG animation for LEAGUE OF LEGENDS Music directed by Shy the Sun: © Vincent Frei – The Art of VFX – 2015
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After a beautiful title for the 1st season of BLACK SAILS, Imaginary Forces have created this new one for the second season: CREDITS Designed & Produced by: Imaginary Forces (IF) Inspired By: Kris Kuksi Creative Director: Alan Williams Executive Prod…
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In 2013, Bill George had explained to us the work of ILM on G.I. JOE: RETALIATION. He talks to us today about its collaboration with Angelina Jolie for UNBROKEN.
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Nice and dark trailer for the reboot of THE FANTASTIC FOUR: The VFX are made by: MPC (VFX Supervisor : Peter Nofz) Weta Digital (VFX Supervisor : Guy Williams) The Production VFX Supervisor is Kevin Mack. Director: Josh Trank Release Date: 7 August 2…
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Excellent making of by Unit Image about their beautiful work on the launch trailer of THE CREW: THE CREW Launch trailer © Vincent Frei – The Art of VFX – 2015
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Territory Studio have released a video and many pictures about their UI and Schematics work on EX MACHINA: Here is a selection of their work: Click here to see the dedicated page about EX MACHINA on Territory Studio website. CREDITS Production Credit…
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Realtime UK have released a nice showreel of their latest CG work: © Vincent Frei – The Art of VFX – 2015
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Here is a nice making of by Mirada Studios about their work on this commercial for AMAZON KINDLE VOYAGE: © Vincent Frei – The Art of VFX – 2015
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Method Studios breaks down its time altering visual effects for the found-footage film, Project Almanac.
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Behind the story-driven visual effects of Angelina Jolie's Unbroken with vfx sup. Bill George from ILM.
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Mike Seymour, Matt Wallin and Todd Vaziri (Oscar Predictinator) discuss the nominees for the 87th Academy Award for achievement in visual effects.
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We talk to long-time Cinefex publisher Don Shay, who has announced he has retired from the renowned VFX industry magazine.
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Mike Seymour, Jason Diamond and Ian Failes discuss the visual effects in Peter Jackson's final film from middle-earth, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies.
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New sand and crowd tools inside Side Effects Software's Houdini 14.
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New rendering software, an army tool and incredible sims - find out Weta Digital's newest techniques that made The Battle of the Five Armies possible.
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And then there were five... Oscar nominations have been announced.
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Our 200th episode of fxguidetv celebrates animation with interviews from Animal Logic and Weta Digital. Plus the new January 2015 term at fxphd.com.
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Find out the latest recipients winners of the Sci-tech awards, to be presented in February 2015.
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The Visual Effects Society (VES) announced the nominees for the 13th Annual VES Awards...
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Behind the scenes of the beautiful short film Wanderers - with original inspirational imagery and behind the scenes pics.
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Activist and entrepreneur explores how radical new approaches to science and technology can transform society in substantial and positive ways.
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Visual effects festival, conference and job fair to include presentations on the invisible effects of ‘Birdman,’ ILM’s work on ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier,’ the making of ‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,’ the miniature effects…
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Award-winning executive producer has worked with prominent directors including Traktor, Nicolai Fuglsig, Jake Scott, Stacy Wall, Dante Ariola and Harold Einstein on campaigns for leading brands such as Nike, Budweiser, Adidas, Target and Coca-Cola.
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Oscar winner Daniel Junge and Johnny Knoxville’s feature, ‘Being Evel,’ was shot using Blackmagic Design cameras, while more than 20 films at this year’s festival were color graded using DaVinci Resolve.
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Santa Monica-based visual effects studio provides invisible effects for Carl's Jr. “Au Naturel” ad.
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‘Harry Potter’ star to play Belle in the live-action remake to be directed by Bill Condon.
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U.K. feature ‘Paddington’ remains the family offering of choice, coming in third place with $12.4 million, while the George Lucas-produced ‘Strange Magic’ debuts in seventh place with $5.5 million.
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Follow up to the holiday-themed Times Square digital experience is a musical romp featuring Brand New School’s trademark playful style.
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Media & Entertainment Track at GTC 2015 to highlight breakthroughs in GPU technology across broadcast, video, and filmmaking
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Advertising agency MRY takes home Best B2C Video Campaign for its campaign for Adobe Creative Cloud.
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Visual Effects Society affirms noted character company’s successful digital makeup effects techniques.
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New appointment reflects Framestore’s expansion into virtual reality and other immersive content.
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Shutterstock's Gerd Mittman discusses the findings of its Creative Trends 2015 report, which analysed searches on the stock media company's site.
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A massive web-based drawing experiment which created a snapshot of the internet is now being released in full colour
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You (or your kids) can sketch out levels in specially marked, printable grids, and then scan it into the game using your device's camera.
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Float 'em or fling 'em - take a look at two new ruggedised hard drives from G-Tech
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Nobrow Comics App for iPad includes Luke Pearson's Hildafolk, Ben Newman's Ouroboros, Jon McNaught's Obsolete and the Artist Mini Bundle for free.
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Brand New School's biscuit ad is colourful CG spot with a commissioned pop song by Yelle.
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Working with Amaze, The Neighbourhood gives The Saucy Fish Co. a colourful, illustrative visual design for 2015 campaign.
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Brand New School's biscuit ad is colourful CG spot with a commissioned pop song by Yelle.
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See some of the beautifully painted illustrations for Lawrence Zeegan's new book – and visit the now-open exhibition at the De La Warr pavilion that accompanies it.
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What happened when Artfelt, The Children’s Hospital Charity’s arts programme, called on creatives to donate their model painting talents
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What happened when Artfelt, The Children’s Hospital Charity’s arts programme, called on creatives to donate their model-painting talents.
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The team at WMAS discuss the trials and tribulations of building its first self-funded app – a project that was born out of a shared passion for the slopes.
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USA TODAYOscar's visual-effects nominees make their own realityUSA TODAYThere are no 12-year experiments like Boyhood in this year's Oscar category for best visual effects, yet innovation drives the five nominees. USA TODAY's Brian Truitt surveys the…
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GamasutraMPC, the visual effects division of Technicolor, has kicked off the year in ...Canada NewsWire (press release)And the Visual Effects Society (VES) has nominated them both in the "Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Photorea…
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New York Times (blog)Below the Line: Visual Effects of 'Guardians of the Galaxy'New York Times (blog)“The main focus was to get Rocket and Groot to be as real as possible,” said Stephane Ceretti, one of the Oscar-nominated visual effects supervis…
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The ProvinceSparking a change in Hollywood: Annual visual effects festival focuses on ...The ProvinceDirector Christopher Nolan's film Interstellar is a multiple Academy Award-nominee at this year's Oscars and a very likely winner in the Best Visual…
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Cartoon Brew'Guardians of the Galaxy' Will Win Visual Effects Oscar, According to VFX ...Cartoon BrewA few years ago, visual effects industry artist Todd Vaziri developed a formula with his wife that uses quantifiable data to predict the winner of th…
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Animation World NetworkMike Chambers Named Chair of Visual Effects Society BoardHollywood ReporterMike Chambers was elected chair of the Visual Effects Society board of directors, succeeding VFX supervisor Jeff Okun. Recommended. 'Dawn of the Planet…
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VarietyVisual Effects Artists Drop Effort to Challenge Film SubsidiesVarietyA group of visual effects artists has dropped their effort to challenge film subsidies in countries like Canada and Great Britain, citing a lack of money to pursue a legal st…
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Comicbook.comHong Kong visual effects firm behind X-Men nominated for an OscarSouth China Morning Post (subscription)Digital Domain, a digital production firm, was nominated in Los Angeles on Thursday for “Best Visual Effects” at the 87th Academy…
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And the Oscar for best visual effects goes to…Autodesk's MayaVentureBeatIndeed, the visual effects and animation teams on all 10 films considered for this year's Oscar nomination, and all five that received nominations this morning, used Maya, a po…
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Co.CreateFrom Groot To Godzilla, Visual Effects Oscar Hopefuls Reveal Their CG SecretsCo.CreateThe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Visual Effects Branch puts on the three-hour event at the Academy's Beverly Hills headquarters for its 340…
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Summit Entertainment has released the final theatrical poster for the upcoming "The Divergent Series: Insurgent," the second instalment in their young adult sci-fi action thriller franchise. The film will also score a pre-game trailer with a sneak p…
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Christine Taylor has confirmed that she is reprising her role as journalist Matilda Jeffries from the 2001 comedy "Zoolander'" in that film's upcoming sequel.Taylor tells EW: "I can tell you that I'm involved, but that's all I can say. I can tell y…
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Frank Grillo was just announced as the male lead, and now actresses Anna Torv ("Fringe") and Shree Crooks ("Extant") are set to join him in Akiva Goldsman‘s horror-thriller "Stephanie" at Universal Pictures, Blumhouse and Chapter One.Ben Collins…
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Super Bowl XLIX takes place this weekend, and the studios have begun releasing their commercials which are scheduled to air during the big game. First off the rack is Universal who has posted their 30-second, Big Game-themed TV spot for their "Despi…
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Matthew McConaughey has become attached to star in a film adaptation of Christopher McDougall's 2009 novel "Born to Run" at Di Bonaventura Pictures, Outlaw Productions and LD Entertainment. The story centers on an award-winning journalist who teams…
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Brad Pitt is in talks to star in his wife Angelina Jolie's next directorial effort "Africa" at Skydance Productions. The pair just worked together on "By the Sea," Jolie's third film as director following "In the Land of Blood and Honey" and last y…
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The small screen Suicide Squad is set to return to The CW's "Arrow" with word today that the current season's seventeenth episode "Suicidal Tendencies" will sport a slightly different incarnation of the group.Amanda Waller (Cynthia Addai-Robinson)…
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Kevin Spacey has signed on to star in Barry Sonnenfeld's "Nine Lives" at EuropaCorp and Relativity Media.Daniel Antoniazzi and Ben Shiffrin wrote the screenplay in which Spacey will play a workaholic businessman who suffers a horrific accident that…
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Penelope Cruz and Diane Kruger are in final talks to star in Isabel Coixet's "This Man, This Woman" at Fortitude International.Frederic Raphael ("Eyes Wide Shut") penned the script about an estranged man, Matt Heller, and a woman, Martha Parks (Cru…
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Paramount Pictures has shaken up its release date schedule with a couple of key date changes in the wake of its "Mission Impossible 5" move up.Most notable is the studio's "Friday the 13th" reboot has been pushed back six months. Originally slated…
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One of the biggest news stories of this week was the news that Paramount Pictures has moved up its fifth "Mission: Impossible" film by a full five months, moving out of a planned Christmas Day release to one on July 31st.The Wrap claims a big reaso…
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Kristen Stewart's Snow White won't be the only person not returning for Universal's upcoming prequel follow-up about Chris Hemsworth's The Huntsman character.Deadline reports that only two of the seven dwarves from the first film will be back, thou…
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Feline body swap comedy alert!While he’s no stranger to the odd comedy role – your Horrible Bosses films etc. – it’s not often we report on something with Kevin Spacey that sounds for all the world like it’s more associated with Adam Sandle…
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But what will Matilda be up to? Zoolander fans have waited years for the sequel to finally start picking up some traction, after hints, rumours, whispers and talk of multiple script drafts. It’s still a little bit up in the air, but Ben Stiller has…
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Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig and more aboardThough you might be forgiven for thinking that prequel Netflix series Wet Hot American Summer: First Day Of Camp already had enough talent attached with the return of almost the entire film’s cast, there’s…
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He's in negotiations for Angelina Jolie's poaching filmSome people have to wait months to even try to get a script to Brad Pitt, who is offered most of the high profile projects. And then there’s Angelina Jolie, who happens to be married to him and…
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Multi-film deal ahoy!It is perhaps not entirely shocking that, given the ever-expanding nature of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the company would take advantage of finally getting Paul Bettany out of the voice-over booth and in front of cameras as T…
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And he's also struck GoldIn a continued attempt to find interesting, less predictable work post-Oscar, Matthew McConaughey has his eye on another interesting film. He’s now attached to star in an adaptation of Christopher Dougall’s best-selling b…
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Tris channels Trinity for a fresh imageWe might be resisting the pressure to always write Insurgent’s title as The Divergent Series: Insurgent (we’ll meet you at TDS: Insurgent, final offer), but the Divergent sequel is headed our way regardless.…
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He's making his directorial debut with a vampire action filmHe’s been a go-to guy for the likes of Matthew Vaughn and Guy Ritchie for years, a character actor you can depend on for memorable performances. Now, though, Jason Flemyng has decided to f…
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Grin and bare itMove over Paddington, politeness has had its day. The rootsier end of the bear spectrum, Ted, is back with a new poster for Ted 2 in which he’s executing what can best be described, pre-watershed, as “the one pawed shuffle”. Cli…
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Snow White sequel dispenses with the diminutive It sounds like a George RR Martin title, but a dearth of dwarves is apparently the situation in The Huntsman, the follow-up to Snow White And The Huntsman. There's no Snow White this time, but there's a…
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Playing Jamaica's Florence Nightingale in biopicShe's won an Oscar for The Help and now Octavia Spencer is heading back in time for another story of pioneering women in tumultuous times by signing up for 19th century biopic Seacole. According to The…
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Screenwriter Neil Druckmann checks inIt's a good few months since we heard anything about The Last Of Us, the adaptation of the much-lauded videogame which Sam Raimi is producing for Screen Gems. Buried in a story about the development process of Unc…
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In the same week that ADAPT announced an end to its legal effort, DreamWorks Animation announced the closure of PDI and the shedding of 500 jobs. Sad news and you could cut the irony with a knife. ADAPT’s legal effort to mitigate the use of subsidi…
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For the past year, Scott Ross and I (Daniel Lay), as well as others that cannot be named, have been lobbying the Visual Effects industry along with others to support the formation of ADAPT, a trade organization as well as a legal case that would pena…
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I was contacted by some in the media. The reporter admitted they lack the technical abilities which many of you VFX pros have to actually find out what’s out there in the Sony hack. This made me realize something: VFX pros are the only ones in the…
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Yesterday 25GB of data in the sony hack was made available for download. The data unfortunately contains extremely sensitive and personal information. If you worked at Sony it’s pretty safe to say your private information including your ssn have b…
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Just arrived back to the US after a trip to Australia and as many of you know, there was quite a big story concerning a data security breach at Sony Pictures. A text file was released containing a huge list of names of file the hackers claimed to…
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Technicolor, owner of London VFX house MPC, is celebrating it’s 100th anniversary. Variety has come out with a series of puff pieces to showcase the company and one piece was on how MPC values it’s artists: Moving Picture Co. Finds Valuing Artist…
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Marvel’s Vice President of Post Production Victoria Alonso was a speaker at this week’s VES Summit where she asked “where are the girls?” and called for more women to work in VFX. In Variety’s report, she spoke about how lowering the gende…
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VFX Artist Michael Scott has been very vocal about VFX issues on twitter. Michael was seriously injured after he was hit by a car: During a break from work, Michael Scott was walking to get dinner when a car jumped the curb and pinned him to a concre…
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If you work at Stereo D, Method Studios, Encore Hollywood, or Iloura (list updated per comments below) you may have been aware about some recent news concerning parent company Deluxe Entertainment’s credit rating being downgraded by Standard & Poor…
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This sunday I’ll be at the VFX BBQ by the VFX Progress Group. Later in the week on Tuesday I’ll be at OTIS college to attend a LA Siggraph panel on the state of the VFX Industry: When: Tuesday September 9th 2014 7:30-10pm Location: Otis College…
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