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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...