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Boardwalk Empire Leads Creative Arts Emmy Winners
HBO took home 15 Creative Arts Emmy Awards during this Saturday’s ceremony at the Nokia Theatre in L.A., followed closely by PBS and FOX, with 10 and 9 total wins respectively. Boardwalk Empire earned just about half of those total …
Five Questions: Paul Ghezzo, 3D-CG and VFX Supervisor, Zoic
In the past several years, thanks in large part to enticing Canadian film subsidies, Vancouver, BC, has become a kind of Hollywood North for visual effects and animation. Zoic Studios opened shop there in 2006, relocating several from its LA …
The Foundry’s NUKE 6.3 Is Live
Back in February, after I attended a NUKE Master Class in Brooklyn, I posted an article about the new planar tracker and other features coming in NUKE 6.3. Today, The Foundry started shipping the new version of its compositing software, …
The Bakery CTO Arnaud Lamorlette on the Evolution of CG Lighting
Arnauld Lamorlette, a founder of Buf in Paris, was in Los Angeles to attend the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Science’s Sci-Tech Awards ceremony. There, Lamorlette, pictured at right, along with Eric Tabellion, above, will receive a Technology Achievement …
Useful Tools for Editors: Luca Visual FX
One relatively common though quite cool visual effect you might see floating around is the filmic-style grunge, scratches, edge fog and light leaks. These looks are often used for transitions or just as a stylistic treatment over footage. It’s ironic …
Make a Cyborg Arm in After Effects
Hasn’t everyone, at some point or other, wanted to shoot cool video footage featuring a hero character who’s part-human and part-robot? Sure they have! The problem is, the actor will complain if you tear his arm open and, anyway, he …
Cool Clip from the Canon 7D, Pumped Up with Plug-ins
Powerful plug-ins aren’t exactly news — Twixtor and Trapcode Particular have been around for years. But it can be inspirational to see what kind of over-the-top visuals can be cooked up by an imaginative videographer with an inexpensive camera and …
Awards Watch: Golden Globes, Critics’ Picks, and VFX Longlist
The pre-Academy Awards landscape snapped into sharper focus over the last few days. Critics’ groups formed a bulletproof consensus around The Social Network, the Golden Globe nominations were even weirder than usual, and the Academy narrowed it down to 15 …
5 Questions: The Brothers Strause
Left to right: Scottie Thompson, Eric Balfour, Greg Strause and Colin Strause on the set of Skyline. Photo by Patrick Flannery/Rogue. Colin and Greg Strause came to Hollywood to become visual effects artists. They did that — they've contributed VFX …