PhysX 3.1 is ready for Download

NVIDIA has updated 3.x generation of PhysX physics engine to version 3.1. PhysX 3.1 is ready for download, introduces public binar…

Making of Bronte

In this Making Of Story of Bronte scene, Alfa Smyrna will try to explain you the basic steps of his pipeline from reference to fin…

Interview with David Moratilla

Artist from spain, paid the special attention to the small details that\’s why his portfolio contains highly realistic portraits

Captain America: Charlie Noble – VFX

The work was divided between London and our Singapore studio with the bulk staying in London. It was also good to work with Joe Jo…

Adobe announces 6 new tablet apps

Adobe announced a series of new tablet apps for the iPad and Android platforms. Apps will be professionally designed and available…

Rough Wood Planks

Some steps on how you can create a rough wood texture using ZBrush, 3ds Max and Photoshop. This can be interesting if you want to …

3 Little Pix Showreel 2011

Belgium-based company have just release their new VFX showreel 2011. They provides a total in-house service from conceptual design…

Topogun 2.0 Beta Review

Topogun\’s purpose is to make retopologization and resurfacing easy, and to enable users to bake normal and other maps from high r…

RealFlow 2012 Learning Edition

The Learning Edition now offers unlimited access to all the features of the commercial version of the software, bar XML export and…

Rhythm and crowds: Moneyball

Rhythm and crowds: Moneyball

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Crowd replication is a staple of the invisible effects category, for almost obvious reasons that the shots are designed to be in the background but still give life to scenes in the film. More than 120 crowd shots feature in Moneyball, which tells the story of baseball club the Oakland A’s, and how its general manager Bill Beane (played by Brad Pitt) turned the team around. Rhythm & Hues devised a procedural technique with real extras and a Houdini pipeline to fill out the Oakland A’s stadium. Here’s the story at fxguide.