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| 03|01|2007 |
Tim Bird, VFX artist at A52, steps up to answer Five Questions and his most recent work on the Bud Light spot "Snowed In" via DDB Chicago. ... »
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| 02|23|2007 |
By Bryant FrazerThe opening titles for director Joel Schumacher's new film, a paranoid-numerology thriller called The Number 23, required an approach that mixed elements from the film's narrative with visual continuity with the movie itself.... »
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| 02|08|2007 |
By Bryant FrazerWhen New York's Nailgun* took on a 15-second cinema spot for Mercury, it had no way of knowing that the project would lead to a whole new way of working. ... »
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| 02|08|2007 |
By Bryant Frazer24 is well-loved for its general atmosphere of mayhem, but showing a mushroom cloud over an American city was new terrain, even for Jack Bauer.... »
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| 02|01|2007 |
David LeathersFilm Effects 2.5 from Nattress Productions is a rich set of filters for Apple Final Cut Pro designed to make material that originated in video formats appear as though it were actually shot in film.... »
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| 02|01|2007 |
By Linda RomanelloThe new FX series Dirt, which focuses on the world of Hollywood celebrities and the tabloids rags that alternately honor and vilify them, features recurring scenes that every filmmaker loves to create: those depicting an altered mental state, in this case that of one of the main characters Don Kinney (played by Ian Hart) who is the tabloids' schizophrenic photographer. ... »
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| 01|18|2007 |
Matt ArmstrongAnimator/vfx artist Darren Price of Nexus Productions talks about his first step into the realm of directing, as well as techniques used to get a cel-animation look from CG, with his short film Potapych: The Bear Who Loved Vodka and the animation workflow for the Motorola short in which a bunny travels through the history of cinema. ... »
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| 01|11|2007 |
By Bryant FrazerWhen the Pittsburgh Zoo wanted to promote a new polar-bear exhibit, it turned to local VFX studio Animal and director Michael Killen for a spot that used seamless VFX to plant a surprise in the Ohio River — a real polar bear that has local swimmers scrambling for the shore.... »
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| 01|10|2007 |
Press ReleaseThe 5th Annual VES Awards Gala will be held on Sunday, February 11, 2007 at the Kodak Grand Ballroom at Hollywood and Highland. The following are the nominees: ... »
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| 01|05|2007 |
Colin Hodges, senior product specialist, Softimage Special Projects, demonstrates the new games export pipeline in FACE|ROBOT 1.5.... »
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| 01|01|2007 |
Erik HolsingerGreen screen talent is often lit very flat, which makes it difficult to properly blend the talent in the background plate. One handy tool for dealing with this is the CC Light Sweep, a former Cycore plug-in that now comes standard in After Effects. ... »
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| 01|01|2007 |
By Ed HeedeThe words "easy" and "3D" don’t often come together. Hence, tools promising a better path for 3D tend to get plenty of attention. For its part, the Luxology team behind Modo is essentially the same one that brought Lightwave to the masses.... »
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| 01|01|2007 |
How do you maintain a PG rating when Janet Jackson’s clothes disappear in a flash? Good question, and one that the producers of the 2005 Super Bowl halftime show would have certainly liked to have known the answer to (or maybe not).... »
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