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Focus Features’ Downton Abbey has found success on the big screen. The popular British TV show beat expectations with US$31 million when it debuted in 3,079 theaters, setting a new opening weekend record for the specialty studio. The King and Queen come to Downton Abbey The feature film Downton Abbey joins the...
The four days of talks at the 2019 edition of the VIEW Conference are packed with an incredible lineup of speakers, including Brad Bird, Rob Bredow, Rob Legato, Jill Culton, Paul Debevec, and Guy Williams. It’s a slot of speakers that is without doubt the best in Europe outside of Germany’s FMX...
Framestore’s incredible Free Solo 360, a VR experience created in partnership with National Geographic and directors Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, was awarded the Creative Arts Emmy for Outstanding Creative Achievement In Interactive Media Within An Unscripted Program this weekend. Free Solo 360 was created as a companion piece to the...
Sean ParkerDFree / Shutterstock.com Weta Digital, one of the world’s premier visual effects companies, has a new partner in entrepreneurial Sean Parker. Parker has made a significant investment in the company known for its culture of creativity and innovation. From Gollum to Caesar, Middle earth to Pandora, Weta Digital has created some...
Director Kays Al-Atrakchi created the VFX for French EMD artist Olivier Orand’s new music video, Thursday Night. Orand is best known for his 2018 Electronica album Human. The Thursday Night music video requiring more than 260 VFX shots. Orand appears only briefly in the video at the very end, the film centres...
The Academy Software Foundation, a collaborative effort to advance open source software development in the motion picture and media industries, today announced that Apple and Microsoft have joined the Foundation as Premier members. David Morin Executive Director or ASWF “Filmmakers everywhere use Apple products. We are delighted to welcome Apple as a...
Fin Design in Sydney provided the digital visual effects in concert with Weta Workshop to bring Mother to life in the Netflix film, I Am Mother, directed by Grant Sputore. The film tells the story of a post-apocalyptic mother and daughter relationship, except Mother is an incredibly advanced AI Robot. The film...
In this episode, Matt Wallin, Jason Diamond and Mike Seymour look at the visual effects in the latest Godzilla: King of Monsters. Godzilla is one of the most recognisable symbols of Japanese popular culture worldwide. In the sequel to Gareth Edwards 2014 Godzilla, the new film finds members of the crypto-zoological agency...
 Godzilla (MPC)  On set Mike Dougherty with Millie Bobby Brown. Following the global success of Godzilla by Gareth Edwards in 2014, comes the next chapter in Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Legendary Pictures’ cinematic Monsterverse: Godzilla: King of the Monsters. The film was directed by Michael Dougherty, and stars Kyle Chandler...
The process of supervising episodic television is demanding and complex, we sat down with Mark Spatny VFX Sup for Station 19 and CoSA’s compositing supervisor Mike Brumit and 3D supervisor Ron Herbst. Final: Sky replacement, CG smoke, matte painting, 2D fire, CG helicopter and CG fluid sim for the water drop. In...
Multiple Oscar Winner Rob Legato on set of Aviator 2003   Rob Legato: “Wishing fxguide the happiest of birthdays. Just think, next year when you turn 21 years old I can legally buy you a drink to celebrate your tremendous success!”  fxguide was launched twenty years ago in 1999 by...
The VFX work for Amazon/BBC’s Good Omens six-part TV adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s cult novel was done by Milk VFX in the UK. Good Omens stars Michael Sheen and David Tenant In the short series, the end of the world is coming, which means a fussy Angel and a...