Archive for June, 2009
Sin City Opening Scene Green Screen
This is the original version of the opening scene of sin city without the special effects and grading.
Being loud without words – Pantomime Sequential Narrative
If executed well, this pantomime storytelling has the possibility of reaching a worldwide audience, giving every reader, regardless of language skills, the possibility of absorbing the story and its message. This is a perfect example of the medium’s power. Found through: Alba’s Twitter feed
Oceansize – 3D Short
Oceansize is a short 3D sci-fi/horror movie made by 4 students of Supinfocom Arles in 2008, Romain Jouandeau, Adrien Chartie, Gilles Mazières and Fabien Thareau. The movie is set on an oil rig in the future and tells the story of a catastrophic destruction of the rig by a giant sea monster. The movies official [...]
‘The Nightshift’- Reveille buys format rights to Icelandic comedy
The show has a smart, ironic point of view, which we know will translate well in the U.S. Finally good news from Iceland and boy do we need them. Hollywoodreporter.com has reported that Reveille has bought the format rights to Næturvaktin (Nightshift) Icelands most successfull tv series to date. It’s great news for Icelandic filmmaking [...]
My Playlist: FXGuide Podcast
Fxguide, trademarked as fxguide, is a visual effects and post production community website founded by three award winning visual effects artists. Jeff Heusser, John Montgomery and Mike Seymour. Wikipedia Most exellent podcast and solid staple in my podcast listening. If you are into VFX and filmmaking this podcast should be the first one you subscribe [...]
Terminator Salvation VFX supervisor Charlie Gibson
… I see three different directions for VFX. There’s the super high def end, you know, certain directors like Jim Cameron and David Fincher and Gore Verbinski… … then you have the second tier, and I think that, as computing power becomes less expensive and more people are trained in the art of visual effects, [...]
The Mill History Reel
The Mill is an UK VFX company and they opened for business 1990, making them year shy of 20 years mark. They have offices in London, New York and Los Angeles. The Mill work on both movies and tv shows (Gladiator, Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures, as well as Merlin and Demons) [...]
Getting Started with Silo
I’m seriously thinking about making Silo my first software for 3D related projects. Seems to be relatively inexpensive and has a broad range of capabilities (Modeling, sculpting, UV mapping). Silo 3D – 3d For The Rest of us Part 2
The Truth About 2K, 4K and The Future of Pixels
“Pixel” is an unfortunate term, because it has been hijacked. John Galt Excellent article attempting to de-mystifying the pixel and examining the range of digital formats available today. I have already printed it out and added to the “Crappy Literature Collection”. Found through: Ron Brinkmann’s Twitter feed
MetaSL Material Library
Have fun Found through: Master Zaps Twitter feed
