Archive for May, 2009
Visual Effects Supervisor Mark Breakspear’s career path bends him toward virtual environments
Even when I’m in my garden, I’m learning about visual effects,” he says. “The side of a ditch caves in and I think that’s good material for an avalanche. It takes a certain skill to do in-your-face visual effects, but I’m a big fan of people watching a movie and then saying to me, ‘You [...]
Autodesk Design Visualization Showreel 2009
Rome churches built in Vancouver
Visual effects supervisor Mark Breakspear headed a team of as many as 50 digital artists at CIS Vancouver, who recreated the interiors of three Rome churches, including St. Peter’s Basilica. Tom Hanks and the rest of the cast were filmed against green screens on Los Angeles soundstages, and Breakspear’s team added the ornate backgrounds digitally. [...]
Getting Lost – Mitch Suskin talks about the VFX work onLost
“It’s about paying enough attention to detail to sell the fact that he’s there. There’s really no magic or high-tech to solve this problem.” Suskin notes that, although the process is digital now, it is essentially the same as was used in the 1920s Found through: Alba’s twitter feed Website: VFXWorld.com
‘STAR TREK’ RETURNS – Post Article
Paul Kavanagh was ILM’s animation supervisor who, with his team, would often start with a black card that simply read “Enterprise enters frame and fires.” The movements in space of very large computer-generated ships needed to be carefully plotted so they maintained their sense of size and heft. “We were very careful about how fast [...]
Extreme Sheep LED Art
Found through: Vefrit Íslensku’s Tumblelog
Reinventing Star Trek’s VFX
[To match-move,] you have to understand exactly what the camera operator is doing with what type of camera,” he says. “Technocrane vs Spydercam vs dolly, pan, tilt. You have to know before you start a match move. I think that doing camera work that blends properly with real footage, going from practical to digital [and] [...]
I made old Star Trek look like new Star Trek!
Shake Sketch – Digital Compositing
Website: Digital Compositing – Ron Brinkmanns blog/website Found Through: My RSS Feeds
Chris Stoski takes command to create his own ‘Wishes and Wants’
Website: CGSociety.org Found through: My RSS feeds
