Blur Studio and Chaos enable the live-action director to bring his signature low-light look to the CG medium for a Love, Death + Robots episode. “I love any story where the entire cast dies. We’re going to get to feed them all to a giant crab.” With a quote like that from the filmmaker, you know this is not a Disney film. Award-winning director David Fincher is known … [Read more...] about David Fincher directs his first all-animated short film
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Digital Domain is part of a big Hollywood Secret
The studio uses digital magic to create crowds and new Ministry HQ for The Secrets of Dumbledore. Professor Albus Dumbledore knows that the powerful dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald is moving to seize control of the wizarding world. Unable to stop him alone, he entrusts Magizoologist Newt Scamander to lead an intrepid team of wizards, witches, and one brave Muggle baker on … [Read more...] about Digital Domain is part of a big Hollywood Secret
A new GPU architecture proposed
If SIMD is good, MIMD will be great. The traditional 3D graphics pipeline is now 60 years old—is it time to reimagine how 3D graphics should be processed and displayed? In pursuit of greater display acuity, pixel densities are increasing in spatial resolution and color depth. In pursuit of greater realism, triangles, the basis for 3D models, are increasing in density and … [Read more...] about A new GPU architecture proposed
CG experts behind Game of Thrones and Rogue One highlight Siggraph Production Sessions
The annual Production Sessions give Siggraph attendees a chance to learn from the best in the business. This year’s Production Sessions at Siggraph 2017 feature the computer graphics experts behind such recent hits as “Game of Thrones” and “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.” Siggraph Production Sessions are a chance for Hollywood’s most talented computer graphics experts to … [Read more...] about CG experts behind Game of Thrones and Rogue One highlight Siggraph Production Sessions
Blockbuster films and theme parks secrets on the agenda for Siggraph Production Sessions
Discover the CG behind Deadpool's skills and take a tour into the world of Star Wars. Major film and game productions of the past year including Deadpool, Zootopia, Star Wars: The Force Awakens,Captain America: Civil War, and more will be featured in "Render the Possibilities,” the 2016 installment of the popular Siggraph Production Sessions. Siggraph production sessions … [Read more...] about Blockbuster films and theme parks secrets on the agenda for Siggraph Production Sessions
Recreating the greatest high-wire performance of modern times
Atomic Fiction recreates the famous stunt in The Walk with Faceware. On a warm summer day in 1974, French high-wire artist and stuntman extraordinaire Philippe Petit surprised morning commuters in lower Manhattan when a cable appeared connecting the two towers of the World Trade Center. Petit and his team put it there so he could do his high-wire act on it. The stunt lasted 45 … [Read more...] about Recreating the greatest high-wire performance of modern times
Siggraph releases lineup for popular production sessions
Insider conversations include Interstellar, Jurassic World, Ant-Man, and Tomorrowland. Industrial Light and Magic will celebrate 40 years with a special event. The lineup for the most popular event at Siggraph—the Production Sessions—has been announced. As usual, the world’s elite computer graphics experts will gather to share the processes and techniques used to create the … [Read more...] about Siggraph releases lineup for popular production sessions
CG artistry move the plot along in Avengers: Age of Ultron
Fictional user interface designs enhance realism and visually explain technically sophisticated story elements. In the blockbuster movie Avengers: Age of Ultron (now in theaters) there are several crucial plot points not centered on dialog or action, but on the appearance of visual elements than can only be created by computer graphics. Two studios separated by thousands of … [Read more...] about CG artistry move the plot along in Avengers: Age of Ultron
CG movie secrets revealed at Siggraph production sessions
Experts from movies including X-Men: Days of Future Past and Gravity will show how the magic happens. Teams from more than 15 major studio productions, including “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” “Gravity,” “How to Train Your Dragon 2” and “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” will lead Production Sessions as part of the 2014 Siggraph Computer Animation Festival in Vancouver August … [Read more...] about CG movie secrets revealed at Siggraph production sessions
How Whiskytree runs its “Work Smart” CG pipeline
Successful VFX for films including Elysium, Thor: The Dark World, and Captain America: The Winter Soldier are among the projects organized in Thinkbox Deadline. Since its inception in 2007, Whiskytree has grown from a talented matte painting shop into a full-service CG powerhouse known for creating complex visual effects for feature films, commercials and video games. Based in … [Read more...] about How Whiskytree runs its “Work Smart” CG pipeline