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This Friday and Saturday you can watch the replay on YouTube of the Galactic Innovations: Star Wars and Rogue One presentation by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, as part of its summer programming lineup of talks. John Knoll discussed Rogue One. The presenters assembled for the presentation were...
Mundos Digitales is the International Conference on Animation, VFX, & New Media held in Spain each year. The Mundos Digitales Animation Festival is held during the first week of July in A Coruña. Some of the most renowned professionals in the fields of animation, special effects and videogames attend each year. The...
Concept art Wes Ball is a highly successful film director of movies such as The Maze Runner films. He is also a visual effects artist and animator in his own right. Last week Ball posted a video showing the real-time UE4 sizzle reel that got the film Mouse Guard greenlit at Fox...
Woody, Buzz Lightyear and the rest of the gang embark on a road trip with Bonnie and a new toy named Forky. The journey takes an unexpected turn with Woody reunited with his long-lost friend Bo Peep. The film is the fourth in the series, but the first to use the RIS...
This is our technical look at Toy Story 4. Also, check out our podcast discussion on the VFXShow. Toy Story 4 (ST4) continues the saga, picking up from the end of TS3 where Woody and Buzz, along with their other toy friends, have found new appreciation after being given by Andy...
SIGGRAPH 2019 will be covering Facial Animation, AI, Ethics in Games, Showcase Future of Real-time Production in L.A. fxguide will be there and our own Mike Seymour is presenting. SIGGRAPH 2019 has announced details of this year’s Real-Time Live! and Games programming for the upcoming conference in L.A., which will shine a...
Faceware specializes in face tracking and solving, both hardware and software. Faceware will be at SIGGRAPH 2019 in LA with some amazing new demos but we caught up with them prior to the show to discuss the changes the company has been implementing for the last 3 months. The company has recently...
ILM, the visual effects division of Lucasfilm Ltd, will immediately start hiring as part of opening their new studio in Sydney, Australia. The studio will be the fifth major ILM studio, in addition to Singapore, Vancouver, London, and San Francisco, where the company is headquartered. fxguide sat down with Rob Bredow, Executive...
The 2019 Emmy Nominations Congrats to all the artists and all the nominees of this year’s Emmy shows. OUTSTANDING SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS – 2019 Game Of Thrones “The Bells”HBO Joe Bauer, Lead Visual Effects Supervisor Steve Kullback, Lead Visual Effects Producer Adam Chazen, Visual Effects Associate Producer Sam Conway, Special Effects...
Visual Disruptors: Matt Workman In the latest podcast in our Visual Disruptors series, Mike Seymour talks to Matt Workman. 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...