I’ve got a great award winning short film for you all today called “Nuit Blanche”. It comes to us by way of Spy Films, and was directed by Arev Manoukian. After seeing the video below, I doubt you’ll be surprised to find out that Spy Films is the directing troupe that Neill Blomkamp calls home [...]

Check out this amazing piece of software coming out of Cambridge, that turns your little old web cam into a surprisingly accurate 3D scanner. It’s called ProFORMA for short, or Probabilistic Feature-based On-line Rapid Model Acquisition for long, and it works by generating a point cloud through a Delaunay tetrahedralization process. Which means it uses 2D XY [...]

You’ve probably never heard of Houston native Steve Johnson, but I know you’ve heard of his work. Predator, The Abyss, Ghostbusters, Spider-Man 2, Where the Wild Things Are, and so on and so on. The point is that he’s had a very long and successful career in practical make-up fx. Now he’s nearing retirement but instead of [...]

For those of you who couldn’t make it to this years Siggraph Computer Animation Festival, I’ve got some good news for you. Lucas Martell’s animated film, “Pigeon: Impossible”, has finally been released for all to see on YouTube!
It’s a really charming short, expertly done, and is honestly just as good as anything Pixar has to [...]

OMG…never before seen Ghostbusters II Behind the Scenes footage!

Zoic Studios, one of my favorite VFX studios in the bizzzzzz, has recently launched a new blog called “I Design Your Eyes“! Where a couple days ago they profiled their work on ABC’s newest series “V”. And as always, the work Andrew Kramer and Co., have done on the show is absolutely amazing. Read more about [...]

Motherboard.tv went to London to sit down with director, Spike Jonze, and talk about how they brought the monster-beings of “Where the Wild Things Are” to life. There’s also some great studio footage they took at MPC where they spoke to some of their artists. My favorite part though is when the host asks, in a [...]

This is wonderful news for fellow Compositors out there.
The Foundry has officially acquired Sony Pictures Imageworks’ in-house lighting/compositing system, Katana! Why is this so big? Well not only will Nuke in the very near future feature a complete 3D lighting package, completely bypassing traditional pipelines of 3D software lighting and giving control straight over to [...]

A brief post for today, because tonight Jess and I are going to Universal Studio’s “Halloween Horror Nights”! We got into Orlando late last night and have spent most of today running around Universal, conditioning ourselves for the awesomeness that is going to be come once the sun goes down.
LINK: Halloween Horror Nights
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So is the new “Avatar” trailer less “Ferngully” and more “Terminator 2″? Is all the hype surrounding this film actually based on something real and exciting? I’m starting to get the feeling that it actually is. But decide for yourself and watch the official full trailer below for James (Don’t Call Me Jimmy) Cameron’s newest [...]