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Visual Disruptors: Matt Workman In the latest podcast in our Visual Disruptors series, Mike Seymour talks to Matt Workman. Â Listen on Apple itunes here Matt Workman Matt is part cinematographer, part game developer, part previs expert. After getting started working on music videos, he honed his camera craft in New York City,...
 Space in Real-time Is there anything in history that is more admired by the VFX community than the Apollo missions? In tribute to the Moon landing, two projects caught our attention as wonderful tributes: NVIDIA’s recreation of the lunar landing as a real-time RTX project. The ‘live’ broadcast of the mission,...
 Epic Games has published a guide for virtual production (VP): The Virtual Production Field Guide. It is a downloadable PDF intended as a foundational information document for anyone either interested in VP or already leveraging these techniques in production.  Virtual production is a broad term for a wide range of computer-aided...
 SIGGRAPH 2019 SIGGRAPH starts this week in Los Angeles and we will be reporting all week. We will also be posting a stack of images on our social media feeds such as our Instagram feed. DigiPro On the Saturday before SIGGRAPH each year there is the DigiPro conference. fxguide has been to...
At SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles today, Maxon announced details about their new Cinema 4D Release 21 as well as new, less expensive subscription pricing model and a vastly simplified product line. Say goodbye to Body Paint as well as the Prime, Broadcast, Visualize, and Studio versions; there is now simply one version...
The Heretic / Siggraph Exclusive Unity’s award-winning Demo team and the creators of Adam and Book of the Dead, presented a short film The Heretic at SIGGRAPH 2019 as part of Real-Time Live. The real-time cinematic runs at 30 fps at 1440p on a consumer-class desktop PC. The Heretic shows the use of advanced...
For many years fxguide has enjoyed the insane and wonderful demos and presentations at SIGGRAPH’s Emerging Technologies. This year, the booth that most ‘caught our eye’ was NVIDIA’s AR Research. At SIGGRAPH’s Emerging Technologies area in Los Angeles last week NVIDIA had a pair of experimental wearable augmented reality displays technologies or...
Chernobyl has been nominated in the category of Outstanding Special Visual Effect in a Supporting Role Category. The Chernobyl mini-series visual effects were supervised by VFX Supervisor Max Dennison, based at DNEG London. Dennison, with over 20 years experience, achieved critical acclaim through his work on Academy award-winning films such as Peter...
 The Mill’s Mascot program using iPhone face tracking to power a real-time creature including Fur with secondary animation. At fxguide we tend to focus mainly on visual effects, but the tools of animation, simulation, and real-time engines are allowing companies and artists to expand into areas not traditionally that of an...
The Mill LA in collaborated with Norwegian musician Cashmere Cat and renowned Director Jake Schreier on the groundbreaking music video ‘Emotions’. The result is an advanced application of real-time technology that pushes the boundaries of creativity and innovation and allows for a ‘one take, real-time clip’, that is the first of its...
 Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Endgame, is the climactic conclusion to an unprecedented, 11-year cinematic journey in which the Avengers take their final stand against Thanos. It also delivered the biggest opening weekend in history and the film is now the highest-grossing film of all time. Avengers: Endgame featured a surprise twist at...
 The Lion King is the Disney computer-animated musical film directed and produced by Jon Favreau, and written by Jeff Nathanson. The film is a photorealistic computer animated remake of Disney’s traditionally animated 1994 film of the same name. The film stars the voices of Donald Glover, Seth Rogen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Alfre...