VFX

Archives

Siggraph releases lineup for popular production sessions

BY
Randall Newton

Insider conversations include Interstellar, Jurassic World, Ant-Man, and Tomorrowland. Industrial Light and Magic will celebrate 40 years with a special ...

Archives

Kung Fury rocks the 80s action movie genre with heavy CG

BY
Randall Newton

David Sandberg scooped up $630,000 on Kickstarter and put together a hilarious short film in Autodesk Maya and 3ds Max. ...

Archives

How Whiskytree runs its “Work Smart” CG pipeline

BY
Randall Newton

Successful VFX for films including Elysium, Thor: The Dark World, and Captain America: The Winter Soldier are among the projects ...

Archives

Southpaw is making money by giving away digital asset management

BY
Randall Newton

The multi-purpose open source Tactic for M&E asset management is finding its market one free download at a time. A year has ...

Archives

Fast-paced Siggraph Dailies celebrates excellence in computer graphics

BY
Randall Newton

The juried presentation is non-stop action as presenters have two minutes to show and describe their work. One of the ...

Archives

Shotgun gives VFX studio asset management systems UI overhaul

BY
Randall Newton

Now that customers are using the complete line of Shotgun products as a subscription suite, the next step was to ...

Archives

HieroPlayer adds review and clipboarding to Nuke

BY
Randall Newton

Any shot in the VFX pipeline can be exported with full contextual details intact. The Foundry has introduced HieroPlayer, new ...

Archives

Rhythm & Hues pushes GPU technology to visualize Life of Pi

BY
GfxS staff

Creating real-time stereo 3D HDRI skies that impacted scene lighting was one of many challenges the global VFX firm faced. ...

Archives

New Battlestar Galactica is completely greenscreen and CG

BY
GfxS staff

The NBC Universal production team used LightWave 3D software to create almost all sets and background for the new sci-fi ...

Archives

Autodesk Flame turns 20

BY
Randall Newton

The pioneer VFX application gets new workflow tools for its birthday. In 1992 a small company named Discreet Logic introduced ...