VFX Wages
VFXWages is a global database of hourly monetary rates of people in the film and television visual effects, animation, motion graphics, and gaming industry. It allows you to see where you rate among the rest of the artists in your experience, occupation and location. Have you ever wondered if you’re earning too little? Pondering what [...]
Douglas Trumbull – FXGuideTV Interview
Right now we got a lot of movies that are out of control. That the directors really don’t understand digital effects. They just assume that someone is going to be able to fix it in post, No matter how many mistakes they make. FXGuideTV has put out another one of their great interview with one [...]
Brainstorm Digital | NYC Visual Effects (VFX) Co.
Brainstorm Digital is a New York-based VFX studio that specializes in photo-realistic backgrounds and digital effects. Currently they are working on, among other things,HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire”. Other Links :: Brainstorm Digital Twitter [+] :: Brainstorm Digital Tumblr Feed [+] :: Brainstorm Digital Facebook Page [+] :: Brainstorm Digital Linked In Page [+] Found through: Alba’s [...]
Making of AT-AT day afternoon
Remember Patrick Boivin’s short film AT-AT day afternoon? Found through: My RSS Reader.
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
F/X Master Steven Johnson
Visual effects master Steve Johnson launched a Youtube series called “Rubber Rules” few months back. There he intends to showcase 30 years vorth of experience in the visual effects buisness. His videos are short and give amazing insight into the history of practical and visual effects. Steven is now also on Twitter and you can [...]
The making of “Star Trek” – The Drilling Platform
What You See Isn’t Always What You Get
The many uses of ‘Green Screen’ also known as ‘ChromaKey.’ Found through: Browsing Youtube
VFX of 2012 – CGSociety
Almost everything was rendered through RenderMan, and since the scenes were during the day, with straight forward HDRI lighting. Each shot had thirty, forty or even more render passes. Nuke was used to composite. “We made extensive use of depth channels,” said Poe “and they also carried the world space and camera space coordinates of [...]
