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Digital Domain Moves into the Middle East with Abu Dhabi Deal
The Digital Domain Media Group (DDMG) said it is collaborating with Twofour54, a production complex backed by the government of Abu Dhabi, to establish a VFX and animation studio and school there.DDMG said it plans to hire staff locally and …
Review: HP Z1 All-in-One Workstation
There are three constants in life—death, taxes, and oversized workstations. Why are workstations so large? They need breathing space for their powerful components, which could overheat if they aren’t cooled properly. As a result, no one had successfully designed an …
VFX Snapshot: The Senate’s Spooky Dark Shadows Manor
London's The Senate VFX finished 186 shots for Dark Shadows, Tim Burton's highly art-directed revival of the 1960s TV series. The Senate's visual-effects supervisor, Anton Yri, was on set for first-unit production as well as model photography, as elements were …
Plug-Ins Update: The Latest for FCPX, CS6 and More
The plug-in ecoverse has certainly expanded in the past several months with two major NLE upgrades from Adobe and Apple. According to Adobe, most of your existing CS5 and 5.5 plug-ins will work inside CS6 because not much was changed …
Five Questions: Aardman Director Rich Webber
Although Aardman Animation has branched out into CG, Flash and other forms of mixed media production, Aardman director Rich Webber still uses molded plasticine and stop-motion animation for all of his projects. Webber is the creator of the series Purple …
Cinesite Eyes Global Expansion Under New Ownership
London VFX facility Cinesite plans to expand operations internationally and diversify into content creation following its purchase by UK private-equity firm Endless LLP. Endless acquired the business from Kodak, which is currently in Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and has announced …
How ILM Built a Blasted-Out NYC
All the heroes for The Avengers don’t appear onscreen. With a film this dependent on visual effects, you’d have to consider work by the crews at all the studios who completed the highly-praised shots on a tight schedule as heroic. …
How Weta Digital Made Gods Grapple in The Avengers
“It’s gods fighting each other,” says Weta Digital visual effects supervisor Guy Williams, describing a fight between Iron Man and Thor in The Avengers, one of many for which the studio supplied digital doubles and a CG Iron Man. For …
Previs, Techvis, and Postvis on The Avengers
Something amazing happens when reality exceeds expectations. For comic-book fans, seeing all six Marvel superheroes on screen fighting evil in a film together was a long-anticipated and often-promised event. And, when writer/director Joss Whedon took it up a notch with …
Noise Industries Releases FxFactory 3.0.3
Noise Industries has just updated its FxPlug-based suite FxFactory with a new interface that more fluidly manages effects running in Final Cut Pro X. In addition to Ripple Training's new Callouts (read more about it on our blog here), the …