The word on the street is: see Beowulf in 3D. So F&V talked with two of the people responsible: Sony Pictures Imageworks’ 3D mavens, Buzz Hayes, senior visual effects producer, and Rob Engle, stereographer and digital fx supervisor.... »
As cable channels get more adventurous with original programming, the scope of VFX jobs for TV is expanding dramatically. For the recent six-hour Sci-Fi Channel miniseries Tin Man — a loose contemporary adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz — Vancouver VFX shop Anthem FX ramped up production to crank out no fewer than 1500 FX shots for delivery in the HDCAM SR 4:4:4 format.... »
Autodesk, Inc. has launched Autodesk
Maya 2008 Extension 1 software, which introduces Maya Muscle functionality
into the 3D modeling, animation, visual effects and rendering solution.
This comprehensive muscle and skin system, recently acquired from Comet
Digital, LLC, allows artists to create life-like skin motion through
features that let them precisely direct muscle and skin behavior.... »
Di-O-Matic, a leading developer of character animation software, is proud to unleash today the Voice-O-Matic addon to the Softimage|XSI community.... »
Boris FX plug-ins have been around almost as long as NLEs have. Since the very beginning, the company has put out high-quality, customizable 3D transitions for the most... »
If your client is asking for a 3D extruded logo animation in his video and all he has for company graphics is his business card you better dig deep into your toolbox. And you better find a copy of Boris RED 4 in it because that is what you’ll need to get this tough job done.... »
NewBlue Inc., creators of innovative audio, video and multimedia technologies, today announced the release of new and updated NewBlueFX plugin collections for the Sony Vegas software family. The new plugins are comprised of three brand new collections as well as four version 2.0 upgrade collections. ... »
Red Giant Software is pleased to
announce the availability of Trapcode Form, an organic 3D shape
generator that allows users to create a wide variety of wild animations,
from text logos that blow away like sand to surfaces that move like
rolling fire or billowing smoke. ... »
It’s easy to believe that toys in a toy store might come alive, but the store itself? That was the challenge for the visual effects crews who put the magic into writer/director Zach Helm’s fantasy comedy Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium.... »
For an animated short making the festival rounds, filmmaking team Andy and Carolyn London didn't seek out the most cutting-edge workflow, or the most efficient one. Instead, they ended up shooting Hi-8 video, loading it into Adobe Flash, and then painstakingly tracing each frame on a Wacom tablet in stark, graphic-novel-influenced strokes. The process was nothing if not tedious — but it got the job done, and the Londons now have an animated short with enough detail in the image to survive a 35mm film-out.... »
