Weta has undoubtedly moved up the ranks in the VFX world have a look at this article and see what you think? Do you agree? has Weta really taken the lead? What is your thoughts on Weta's latest release Rise of the Apes?
What do you do if you're a famous live-action director and you need to "film" animated characters in a virtual world for your next big film? For Gore Verbinski, the answer was obvious: Turn to the wizards at Industrial Light & Magic. Watch the latest behind-the-scenes video of the Rango virtual set.
BlueBolt were the lead vendor on HBO’s sprawling fantasy series, completing around 300 shots with photo-real CG environments and CG dragons. There are some spoilers in there if you haven't already watched the first season!
We speak to Kouji Tajima, an internship winner in the 2011 Computer Graphics Student Awards. Kouji explains his workflow, his inspirations, and how he creates his amazing works of art.
An article covering the vfx in the upcoming final installment of Harry Potter, in talking to VFX supervisor Tim Burke. Definitely looking forward to this last film.
Leading VFX studio MPC has explained how it created 300 plus shots for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. The article covers their Environments and Crowd Sims. Not sure about the movie or the VFX, have any of you seen this movie at all yet? what is your opinion? any good?
Lasseter has some great insights into the way he sees his work, and how I imagine he has tried to instill this in his team at Pixar. From my perspective it is refreshing to see a different approach, as opposed to it being all about the bottom dollar. I really would love to see this kind of vision shared with all artist. Not easy to find this kind of work environment, and very difficult to foster. But one I think that is sooo much more productive for creatives! Follow the link and have a read!
MPC has shared another great VFX Breakdown of their involvement with The Chronicles of Narnia - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Congratulations on the great work guys!
MPC’s main challenge was to create some of the key characters for the film. MPC’s team of animators once again performed the role of Reepicheep the mouse, voiced by Simon Pegg. Reepicheep – a courageous knight of Narnia - accompanies Caspian on his voyage in the hope of finding Aslan's Country at the end of the world. To make sure Reepicheep’s sword skills were unrivalled, MPC’s Animators took fencing classes to learn the moves and tricks of the trade. With over 200 hero shots, Reepicheep was upgraded to take the spotlight. MPC's art department designed subtle changes for a wiser and more mature Reepicheep. MPC’s Furtility was once again the grooming tool of choice.
The latest block buster to come to the movie theatres has Cinesite in London, doing VFX for the film, check out the article below;
Cinesite worked on a range of shots including a retro version of the Cerebro Room, Azazel’s fight sequences, a military parade in Red Square, and Washington DC, devastated by nuclear war
Digital Domain has just released an 8-minute behind the scenes look at how they created their epic VFX sequences. There has been a lot of chatter about how they didn't quite hit the mark with the young Jeff Bridges, but even though this might be true, I think it's just getting air play from disgruntled artists who didn't get to work on this film.
Note: Video contains spoilers. Please do not watch if you haven't seen the film.
on Tue, 16 Aug 2011in Behind the Scenes
