Framestore have just released this VFX Breakdown about their work on KING ARTHUR – LEGEND OF THE SWORD: WANT TO KNOW MORE? Framestore: Dedicated page about KING ARTHUR – LEGEND OF THE SWORD on Framestore website. Christian Kaestner & Stuart Penn:…
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Here is the trailer for MOLLY’S GAME, the first movie by Aaron Sorkin: The VFX are made by: Mr. X (VFX Supervisor: Aaron Weintraub) Director: Aaron Sorkin Release Date: 22 November 2017 (USA) © Vincent Frei – The Art of VFX – 2017The post MOL…
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Rudy Grossmann has nearly 20 years of experience in the visual effects. He has worked in many studios such as Industrial Light & Magic, The Orphanage, Weta Digital or Digital Domain before joining Atomic Fiction in 2014. At Atomic Fiction, he has wor…
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Here is a featurette about MARVEL’S THE DEFENDERS: The VFX are made by: Zoic Studios Shade VFX Release Date: August 18, 2017 (Netlfix) © Vincent Frei – The Art of VFX – 2017The post MARVEL’S THE DEFENDERS appeared first on The Art of VFX.
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Last year, François Dumoulin explained to us about the work of Rodeo FX on THE LEGEND OF TARZAN. He speaks to us today about his new collaboration with Luc Besson and the challenges encountered on VALERIAN.The post VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSA…
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Storm Studios presents their VFX work on this OneCall commercial: © Vincent Frei – The Art of VFX – 2017The post OneCall Dekning: VFX Breakdown by Storm Studios appeared first on The Art of VFX.
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Netflix have released the teaser trailer for the Season 2 of THE CROWN: The VFX are made by: One of Us Release Date: December 8, 2017 (Netflix) © Vincent Frei – The Art of VFX – 2017The post THE CROWN – Season 2 appeared first on The Art of V…
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In 2015, Jessica Norman explained to us about the work of MPC on EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS. She then worked on A MONSTER CALLS and today she talks about her work on WONDER WOMAN.The post WONDER WOMAN: Jessica Norman – VFX Supervisor – MPC appeared…
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Nice work made by Stargate Studios Malta on the first season of MEDICI – MASTERS OF FLORENCE: © Vincent Frei – The Art of VFX – 2017The post MEDICI – MASTERS OF FLORENCE – Season 1: VFX Breakdown by Stargate Studios Malta appeared first o…
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New TV spot for KINGSMAN – THE GOLDEN CIRCLE: The VFX are made by: Sony Pictures Imageworks (VFX Supervisor: Mark Breakspear) Framestore (VFX Supervisor: Chris Lawrence) BUF (VFX Supervisors: Pierre Buffin and Geoffrey Niquet) MPC Milk VFX (VFX Sup…
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Adobe crosses faces with Content Aware Fill, their Character animator project and some new genius research for one of the best papers at this year's SIGGRAPH.
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Visual Effects Society Names Acclaimed Writer-Producer-Director Jon Favreau Recipient of VES Lifetime Achievement Award
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that 11 distinct scientific and technical investigations have been launched for the 2017 Oscars®.
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Virtual Graffiti at SIGGRAPH 2017
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MEETMIKE explores the future of Actors, Avatars and Agents. See what is creating the buzz here in LA (video)
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A summary of MPC's SIGGRAPH talks.
- 19 days ago29 Jul 17, 2:01am -

We deep dive on the new PIXAR SSS models and explain the link to new Nuclear Physics research. Plus a list of every Pixar talk at SIGGRAPH.
- 19 days ago28 Jul 17, 2:42pm -

ARkit at SIGGRAPH and at Wingnut AR in New Zealand.
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Halon presents the PreVis and PostVis for War for the Planet of the Apes, done in UE4.
- 26 days ago21 Jul 17, 7:56pm -

The insider's guide to SIGGRAPH 2017 with Conference Chair Jerome Solomon.
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Exclusive Siggraph Preview: Strange things are afoot at the DurrrBurger, ...we talk to Directors and the team about their Fortnite UE4 short film. And do a deep dive in the Cool Tech of a real time rendering, animated short film.
- 28 days ago19 Jul 17, 4:52pm -

Each day at SIGGRAPH Mike will meet industry legends from Pixar, Weta Digital, Magnopus, Disney Research, Epic Games and leading researchers from around the world in VR using new Digital Human Avatar technology.
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“Ask any VFX artist about their worst shot and I bet they can tell you the shot name. On Event Horizon, M255 was that shot for me.” – Sue Rowe Now a visual effects supervisor at Sony Pictures Imageworks, Sue Rowe was back in 1997 a sequence sup…
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For DigitalArts, I highlighted 7 of the coolest things I saw at SIGGRAPH. What a conference!
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I recently listened to this interview on BBC’s The Film Programme between host Francine Stock and Christopher Nolan on the director’s latest project, Dunkirk. It’s a great interview, in which Nolan discusses how he constructed the time-bending…
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Digital Arts asked me to round-up the recent events at SIGGRAPH 2017 – you can read that here. Also coming is a look at some specific super-cool things I saw there. It was truly an awesome event, so much more to say than there is time in the world!
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ILM and VFX partner Hybride collaborated to produce a high-energy bus chase scene in Luc Besson’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. Here, Valerian and Laureline race to board a bus that is then attacked by a menacing Megaptor creature. I…
- 12 days ago5 Aug 17, 2:48am -

Luma Pictures handled the Spider-Man: Homecoming ATM sequence, and I found out for VFX Voice how they made it happen.
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Stunningly realistic, the alien Pearl characters in Valerian were crafted by Weta Digital. In this new piece for VFX Voice, I had vfx supe Martin Hill run down how they were made.
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At Cartoon Brew, I wrote about DD and The Third Floor’s work on Spider-Man: Homecoming on the ferry sequence, one of the coolest from the film.
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The Doghan Daguis are a trio of comical characters appearing in Luc Besson’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. They were created in CG by Weta Digital. On set, full-sized maquettes were filmed and then scanned to help craft the digital v…
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“Bob had said to Meryl Streep: ‘Whatever Ken asks you to do, no matter how silly, just go with it. You can trust him.’ Because she must have been thinking, ‘What am I? What is this stupid thing?’ – Death Becomes Her visual effects supervi…
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In our “VR-first future,” the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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Former CEO of localization company SDI Media Group is tapped to oversee delivery, localization and digital cinema operations; Robert Julian appointed company CFO.
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Made entirely using Red Giant’s Trapcode Suite, the popular Adobe After Effects plugins for motion graphics and custom AE scripting, ‘L’oiseau qui danse’ is an homage to the abstract animation style of Visual Music.
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Hughes has been an integral part of Framestore’s production department since 2010, leading a growing team of producers across Framestore’s core VFX artistry.
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Animated sequel following the 2014 independent animated hit produced by ToonBox Entertainment and Redrover earns worst debut ever for a film opening in more than 4,000 locations.
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Loynes brings 20 years of insight to the Jellyfish development team from her previous posts at Seed Animation, Amp London, MPC, UNIT 9 and Aardman.
- 2 days ago14 Aug 17, 3:38pm -

Tribeca selects Withoutabox to be the exclusive third-party film submission service for the 2018 Festival as part of a new, multi-year agreement.
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With an awards ceremony and dinner, the partnership will see AMD, Foundry and HP collaborate in celebrating outstanding achievement in the virtual reality industry on the new date of 9th October 2017.
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The event will be broadcast in 180 theaters in the U.S. and Canada and feature live appearances by David Hasselhoff, Morgan Spurlock, Michael Rooker, Pom Klementieff, Tom Bergeron, Todd McFarlane, and Lou Ferrigno to pay homage to the legendary creat…
- 2 days ago14 Aug 17, 2:55pm -

‘Katherine,’ a moving new campaign by Vhi Healthcare, Publicis Dublin, and Piranha Bar sheds a reassuring light on people’s experience of medical treatment, bringing their subscribers’ testimonials to life.
- 5 days ago12 Aug 17, 12:48am -

Epic Games showcases advancements in virtual, augmented and mixed reality as well as the impact of the Cloud, AI and machine learning on production pipelines, at is first-ever User Group meetup at SIGGRAPH 2017.
- 5 days ago12 Aug 17, 12:23am -

On August 29, 'Wonder Woman' will be available to own for streaming and download to watch anywhere in high definition and standard definition on favorite devices from select digital retailers, and on September 19, 'Wonder Woman' will be made availa…
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Brilliant picture books with art by famous illustrators that your children will love – and which you'll appreciate too.
- 6 hours ago16 Aug 17, 3:11pm -

This year’s nominees are a pretty good reflection of what happened over 2016 – Pokemon Go, Kanye West clothing and the Olympic Refugee Flag.
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Eran Mendel tells about his hugely popular weekly project turning Game of Thrones iconic moments into funny vector-based animated GIF – plus see all the GIFs.
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Following the success of her Waterstones Book of the Year children’s book, Coralie tells us about The Worm and the Bird, a beautiful yet ironic story about different perspectives.
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See ukulele illustrations by Dave McKean, Charles Williams, Mick Rooney and more which will be auctioned to aid The Hepatitis C Trust.
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Disney Animations visual development artist Woonyoung Jung on illustrating female athletes, dinosaurs and cats in comical situations.
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VR and AR experiences, animations, realtime rendered events and new tech from the recent event in Los Angeles.
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Founder of 360° video content creators Blend Media, Damian Collier, on why virtual reality is yet to be fully adopted by the mainstream.
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See how VFX artist Jean-Marie Marbach uses Red Giant’s popular set of After Effects plugins, Trapcode Suite, and specific After Effects scripting.
- 8 days ago8 Aug 17, 10:48am -

The broadcaster has already rolled out Reith on its BBC Sport website and app, and soon it will be used by all programmes and websites.
- 9 days ago8 Aug 17, 9:17am -

Wenyi Geng was born in Japan, grew up in China and now studies at NYC’s School of Visual Arts. She explains how this influences her work.
- 12 days ago4 Aug 17, 11:20am -

The exhibition, now at Somerset House in London, is showcasing 50 projects from the awards shortlist, including overall winners Marco Palena and Dutch artist Aart-Jan Venema.
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Daily MailIncredible images reveal the stunning visual effect of 'crown shyness' where tree tops avoid touching and create the ...Daily MailBeautiful cracks in the canopy cover of forests and woodlands have been captured in a series of stunning image…
- 10 hours ago16 Aug 17, 11:42am -

Obituary: James Lee Kreitzburg | Murrysville visual effects artist ...Pittsburgh Post-GazetteIn hindsight, James Lee Kreitzburg and his partners picked perhaps the worst time to launch Animal Inc., a visual effects and production studio. “We signed…
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GizmodoIt Turns Out That Visual Effects Actually Did a Lot to De-Age Kurt ...GizmodoGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2's Kurt Russell wowed audiences when he revealed that the younger look he sported in flashback scenes was largely thanks to ...and more…
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GoldderbyEmmy Awards: Best Visual Effects will have new winner with 'Game of Thrones' not eligibleGoldderbyAfter losing the series award for Best Visual Effects in 2011 to “Boardwalk Empire,” “Game of Thrones” has had a stranglehold on it for…
- 5 days ago11 Aug 17, 5:08pm -

2018 Oscar Predictions: Best Visual EffectsGoldderbyThe Oscar for Best Visual Effects is particularly tough to predict early on because of the complicated system by which the nominees are determined in three stages. First, the members of the executiv…
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IGNMarvel's Inhumans Producers, Stars Defend Visual Effects BacklashIGNBy Jonathon Dornbush Marvel's Inhumans, and particularly the show's visuals, continued to be a topic of discussion at the Television Critics Association press tour. ABC provided t…
- 9 days ago7 Aug 17, 8:17pm -

Business InsiderHere's how Sunday's giant 'Game of Thrones' battle looked without visual effectsBusiness InsiderSunday's "Game of Thrones" Loot Train Attack showed the Dothraki slaughter the Lannister army with the help of Dany and her dragon, Drogon…
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Hollywood ReporterJon Favreau To Receive Visual Effects Society Lifetime ...Hollywood ReporterThe 'Jungle Book' helmer will be honored at the 16th annual VES Awards on Feb. 13.Jon Favreau To Be Honored With VES Lifetime Achievement Award ...Deadlinea…
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VRFocusVisual Effects Software Fusion Introduces VR SupportVRFocus“Fusion is an incredibly rich and powerful tool that Hollywood's top visual effects and motion graphics artists have been using for years,” said Grant Petty, Blackmagic Design CEO.…
- 14 days ago2 Aug 17, 11:12am -

Wall Street Journal (subscription)Visual-Effects Company Sues Another Two Movie StudiosWall Street Journal (subscription)A visual-effects company has filed suit against two Hollywood studios and a videogame company, alleging unauthorized use of its t…
- 23 days ago24 Jul 17, 10:53pm -

Filming is continuing on the young “Han Solo” film at Disney and Lucasfilm with director Ron Howard using Twitter to reveal another photo from the set – this one a nod of the hat to the baddies with the tag ‘The Empire Looms Large’ What’s…
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Several release dates have just been announced, and surprisingly all of them are sequels. First up, Bloody Disgusting confirms that “Jeepers Creepers 3” is set to score a limited release next month. Clocking in at 100 minutes, the film will hit S…
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Christopher McQuarrie, the director of the sixth “Mission: Impossible,” has spoken with Empire today about the film’s production delay and the stunt that led to its star Tom Cruise getting injured. McQuarrie says Cruise falling short of the bui…
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Whatever happens with Ben Affleck’s future as Batman, we’re getting him in the role at least one more time in this November’s “Justice League”. Speaking with EW this week, he says his version of the Caped Crusader is going to be a lot less…
- 2 hours ago16 Aug 17, 7:31pm -

Following rumors yesterday, it is now confirmed that production on the sixth “Mission: Impossible” film is being halted to give Tom Cruise time to recover from an on-set injury. The actor hurt himself doing stunt work on rooftops for the film las…
- 2 hours ago16 Aug 17, 7:22pm -

The unaired sixth episode of the seventh season of HBO’s fantasy drama “Game of Thrones” has been leaked online, but it wasn’t at the hands of the hackers that have been trolling the network – it was the network itself. The episode, “Deat…
- 2 hours ago16 Aug 17, 7:21pm -

Following its screening at Cannes and other festivals, the new trailer has arrived for “The Lobster” and “Dogtooth” director Yorgos Lanthimos’ new and decidedly darker effort “The Killing of a Sacred Deer”. Colin Farrell plays a charism…
- 2 hours ago16 Aug 17, 7:17pm -

USA Network and Universal Cable Productions have confirmed that the seventh season finale of “Suits” will serve as the backdoor pilot for a potential spin-off that would center around Gina Torres’ lawyer character Jessica Pearson. The episode,…
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Apple has reportedly targeted $1 billion in spending for original television series and films over the next year according to The Wall Street Journal. The move sees the company trying to establish itself as a buyer of premium entertainment The announ…
- 9 hours ago16 Aug 17, 12:10pm -

When Ben Affleck dropped out as director of the upcoming “The Batman” solo outing and was replaced by Matt Reeves, it quickly led to speculation that the actor may be giving up his stint as the Caped Crusader after he wraps work in “Justice Lea…
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Despite a report yesterday indicating the film has been indefinitely delayed, Deadline reports that production on the “Deadpool” sequel will reportedly resume this morning. That’s just two days after the tragic motorcycle accident in which stun…
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Update: You can donate to Eric here: https://www.gofundme.com/s5hw7-send-eric-to-dc Huge thanks to all of you who helped contribute to comments on NAFTA renegotiations. VFX professional Eric Rosenthal left a comment in the previous post that he might…
- 50 days ago28 Jun 17, 8:15am -

Statement from Daniel Lay, Co-Founder of the Association of Digital Artists, Professionals, and Technicians In 2013 Daniel Lay, the writer behind the industry blog VFX Soldier started ADAPT to help fund and direct a trade effort to curtail the use of…
- 75 days ago3 Jun 17, 2:34am -

Hollywood Reporter: Ron Thornton, an Emmy-winning visual effects designer, supervisor and producer who worked on such shows as Babylon 5 and Star Trek: Voyager, has died. He was 59. Variety: Thornton is best known for bringing computer-generated imag…
- 23 Nov 16, 7:29pm -

Today is my last day in the visual effects industry. It’s an industry that I’ve spent nine years of my life completely dedicated to, so it’s a bitter sweet kind of day. My love for animation and film began at 4 years old, when I saw the Lion Ki…
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I came across a post on Facebook by one of Ron Thornton’s friends that the veteran VFX supervisor has been hospitalized. While I don’t have all the information a gofundme page has been set up to help pay for medical expenses. If you can please he…
- 16 Sep 16, 4:42am -

Tonight a majority UK voters chose to leave the European Union which as of this writing is leading to a meltdown in financial markets and wild drops in foreign currencies agains the US dollar. There’s been a bit of chatter amongst many in VFX as to…
- 24 Jun 16, 6:43am -

Are people still reading this thing? Well, It’s been a year since I’ve posted on this blog and after the end of the ADAPT effort I took a long hiatus. As disappointed as I was, the post-VFX life has been great. New opportunities, I got a home, a…
- 2 May 16, 5:43am -

From the press release: https://wikileaks.org/sony/press/ Today, 16 April 2015, WikiLeaks publishes an analysis and search system for The Sony Archives: 30,287 documents from Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) and 173,132 emails, to and from more than…
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The other day I got an email from the VES asking members to suggest nominees for title of VES Fellow: The Visual Effects Society is asking for your suggestions for nominees for title of VES Fellow, which is a member who has maintained an outstanding…
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I haven’t posted much on this blog but some recent news caught my eye: Last week’s Godbout Commission report sent shivers up the spines of Quebec’s film and television production industry. The Quebec Taxation Review Committee, chaired by econom…
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