Reading tip of the day!
The visual effects society handbook is now released. Pick it up at Amazon.
viaEffects Corner.
29 July 2010 • 10:20 0
Little dragon | Johannes Nyholm
Back to non computerized art! Lovely puppet theater music video from swedish director Johannes Nyholm.
Music video for Little Dragon. Also acts as a pilot for upcoming short film “Dreams from the Woods”.
A shadow puppet theater featuring the little girl, the big bird and the skeleton.
Directed by Johannes Nyholm. Puppet Masters: Yukimi Nagano, Håkan Wirenstrand, Fredrik Källgren Wallin, Erik Bodin, Elias Araya, Aime Hellrand, Henrik Malmgren, Andreas Korsár and Kurt Lightner.
Filed under: Animation, Music video, Johannes Nyholm, Little Dragon
28 July 2010 • 20:32 1
31 Absolutely Spectacular VFX Breakdowns | AE tuts
Speaks for it self.
FXGuide #82 Making of Avatar in Nuke
Robin Hollander from Weta Digital talks us through their use of Nuke and Ocula on Avatar at NAB 2010.
Avatar © 2009 Fox. All rights reserved.
Heroes: Season 3 “Completing the Scene”
Stargate Studios 24 Demo Reel
FXguide #85 Making of Alice in Wonderland
FXguide #86 Layering Explosions and Dust in Transformers 2
Behind the Scenes of V – Zeus Explained
Zoic Studios June 2010 Film Reel
BTS and Breakdown of Kraft Cheddar Explosion VIP
Travelers Insurance: Snowball
Powershares: Tony Meet Your Ideas
GhostVFX – Tulip Bear Before and After
Physalia: MAD MMX Titles
Making of AT-AT day afternoon
God at the Movies VFX Breakdown
Iron Man 2 Case Study
YouTube Play Intro video: behind the scenes
Making of Musical Picture Frames
MPC Podcast Making of Toyota “Carline”
ILM – Making of Davy Jones
Prime Focus – Making of New Moon
SPIN VFX Legion Before/After
SPIN VFX Features/Series Reel
SPIN VFX Outlander Breakdown Reel
SPIN VFX Max Payne VFX Breakdown Reel
Iloura – The Bank Job Shot Breakdown
Iloura – Nightmares and Dreamscapes VFX Breakdown
Iloura – Seven Swords VFX Breakdowns
Iloura – Charlottes Web VFX Breakdowns
BTS: Percy Jackson and the Lightning Theif
Superfad: Sony “Eye Candy”
Before / After video of AutoTopsy by Capricorn 8
Filed under: 3D, CG, Commercial, Compositing, Feature film, VFX
28 July 2010 • 13:14 0
Follow the guys at Stopp at SIGGRAPH.
For all off us that aren’t at Siggraph, follow the guys from Stopp here.
Filed under: Seminar-Conference
24 July 2010 • 16:59 0
fxpodcast – Scott Ross
Really interesting interview podcast from Fxguide with Scott Ross about the VFX Industry.
We revisit Scott Ross and put him in charge of the global Visual Effects Industry, at least for the duration of the podcast.
Filed under: VFX, Scott Ross
19 July 2010 • 22:52 0
Nathan Love | Fantasy Westward Journey
I’ve been a bit silent the latest two weeks , but that’s just because I’m on a well needed vacation.
Here a small update from the big apple and Nathan love with some work done by Swedish Mats Andersson.
World-class animation studio Nathan Love is very proud to detail its collaborations with director Willis Wong, Lunar Films and Hopr in producing two broadcast/web spots for J. Walter Thompson Shanghai and their clients at NetEase. The innovative spots starring celebrity Jay Chou and promoting Fantasy Westward Journey, one of China’s most popular online games, recently debuted in high-profile broadcast and cable outlets across China.
Nathan Love on a Fantasy Westward Journey | CGnews.
Filed under: 3D, Animation, Commercial, Mats Andersson, Nathan Love
03 July 2010 • 7:44 1
Nokia N8 | Broken Doll | Swiss
A new 1 minute global launch film for Nokia N8. Designed and Directed by Brokendoll with Post and Animation by Swiss.
Broken doll is also just profiled at Promax 2010 in Los Angeles in a session called “Creative Anarchy: Design shops that you won’t be able to afford next year”.
Filed under: 3D, Animation, Commercial, Broken doll, Swiss
02 July 2010 • 7:18 2
Pedro’s new bike | Per Nyman
Lovely little short film from Per Nyman. Nice work. Keep it coming, and the rest of you out there, don’t be afraid to tip me and show your work.
In stereoscopic for you with funky glasses.
Breakdown.
Date:
Spring 2010
Software:
Autodesk Maya, Luxology Modo, The Foundry Nuke
Credits:
Per Nyman
Description:
This is an old project I made back in 2009, originally made and rendered in Maya. I decided to make a stereoscopic version of the film. All environment are made in Modo, all animation are exported from Maya to Modo with mdd deformers. The project was then rendered entirely in Modo. Compositing was done in Nuke.
Challenges:
Managing hundreds of separate mdd deformers for all animated objects in the scene.
Getting the grass to render at descent speed, my solution was to use instanced image planes with grass alpha textures mapped to them for the most of the field. Close distance road edge grass was made with fur.
01 July 2010 • 11:15 0
AT&T | Psyop
A brand new and very beautiful and inspiring tvc for AT&T from PSYOP. Sit back and enjoy.
AT&T is really leaning on animation these days. Following up on their Rethink Possible spot that featured Gene Wilder’s vocal stylings, we get an undersea adventure that hints at a Whole New World. But this isn’t The Little Mermaid’s world – it’s a darker environment that illustrates how a young fish can expand his boundaries. This CG spot was directed by Eben Mears at Psyop.
Filed under: 3D, Animation, Commercial, PSYOP
01 July 2010 • 7:14 0
Milford Film & Animation in 3D Artisan
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