Archive for March, 2010
Music Video // Heart of Stone
The video, set in a fantastic illustrated world, portrays the epic journey of a heartbroken man rambling across a unique and beautifullly stylized landscape – a subtle blend of Pop Surrealism and Victorian/Steampunk aesthetic. Artist: Ravonettes Studio: Blind Director: Chris Do. Client: Vice Records/The Orchard. Weapons of choice: Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects, Maya, 3DS Max, [...]
HDRI applications – a comparison of acuisition techniques(pdf)
Found through: #VFX search on Twitter (via. @maximd2)
VES Announces 2010 Winners of the VES Awards
Los Angeles, February 28, 2010 – The Visual Effects Society announced the winners of the 8th Annual VES Awards tonight at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, California. The annual event recognizes outstanding visual effects in more than twenty categories of film, animation, television, commercials and video games. Found through: RSS
Behind the Wild Things
Director Spike Jonze reveals the secrets behind bringing his giant monsters to life. Found through: Alba’s Twitter Feed
In praise of the sci-fi corridor
Corridors make science-fiction believable, because they’re so utilitarian by nature – really they’re just a conduit to get from one (often overblown) set to another. So if any thought or love is put into one, if the production designer is smart enough to realise that corridors are the foundation on which larger sets are ‘sold’ [...]
