Oct
11
The New World Trade Center
Posted in: 1Piranha wrote, produced, art directed, filmed, and finished all vfx for this inspiring piece marking the 10 year anniversary of 9/…
Oct
11
Easily add crowds to 3ds Max scenes
Posted in: 1Autodesk Project Geppetto is an early-stage research project that explores making it easy, fast, and fun to add crowds to 3ds Max …
Oct
11
Basic Light Settings in 3ds Max
Posted in: 1Tutorial of the Florence Design Academy, the best design school in Europe – Basic light settings in 3ds Max. This tutorial is made…
Oct
11
Photoshop Will End Blurry Pics Forever
Posted in: 1A blurred image is the worst. And no matter how steady you think your hand is, it can be easy to ruin a shot. Luckily, Adobe\’s co…
Oct
10
Basic Light Settings
Posted in: 1Tutorial of the Florence Design Academy, the best design school in Europe – Basic light settings in 3ds Max. This tutorial is made…
Oct
10
Making of Sanlik
Posted in: 1They live in an aquatic planet, where the cities are floating on water. I always wanted to make characters that fit in some story
Oct
10
The Art of Roto: 2011
Posted in: 1The Art of Roto: 2011
Rotoscoping is the process of manually altering film or video footage one frame at a time. The frames can be painted on arbitrarily to create custom animated effects like lightning or lightsabres, or traced to create realistic traditional style animation or to produce hold-out mattes for compositing elements in a scene and, more recently, to produce depth maps for stereo conversion. fxguide updates an earlier article with new tools and a history of roto.
Oct
09
Bunraku: digital origami
Posted in: 1Bunraku: digital origami
For Guy Moshe’s film, Bunraku, a revenge story set in strange post-apocalyptic world, Origami Digital produced over 1000 visual effects shots, marked by constantly folding and unfolding paper-like buildings and skies. The film was shot mostly on stages in Romania and had a lengthy post-production process to fill the greenscreen frames with stylistic imagery. fxguide talks to visual effects supervisor Oliver Hotz and vfx producer Matt Rubin.
Oct
09
fxguide’s 200th podcast – London round-up
Posted in: 1fxguide’s 200th podcast – London round-up
For fxguide’s 200th fxpodcast episode, Mike Seymour explores the success and future of the four biggest effects houses in London, with the founders and key artists from Double Negative, Cinesite, Framestore and MPC. You can listen to it here or on iTunes.
Oct
06
Looking Inside NYU Game Center
Posted in: 1As more & more schools around the globe offer game-design degrees, wannabe game makers have a variety of programs to choose from
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