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Special Effects News - 8 January 2007
Night At The Museum: Bringing History to LifeAlain Bielik visits with the vfx wizards who have brought life to the very interactive natural history museum in Night at the Museum. Includes QuickTime clips!
Children of Men - Hard Core Seamless Visual Effects
Director Alfonso Cuaron directs the new gritty drama Children of Men, and in the finest tradition of Blade Runner the future is a bleak and depressing place. For the visual effects team it is also a place filmed in long, complex, traveling single take shots with little or no 'set' lighting. The shots often required massive 3d tracking and compositing.
Children of Men: Invisible VFX for a Future in Decay
Alain Bielik talks with the visual effects wizards given the task of transporting audiences into a believable, bleak near future in Children of Men.
A Better Vue
Vue 6 was introduced at Siggraph and began shipping during the last part of 2006. The software is used for creating, animating and rendering natural 3D environments and the release brought numerous enhancements.
Intelligent Creatures
Intelligent Creatures is a Canadian effects house, part of the Candian Cartel. The company was formed by artists Raymond Gieringer, Michael Hatton, Lon Molnar and Wendy Lanning. The founders talk about some of their latest work on films such as Babel, Stranger Than Fiction and The Fountain.
The Deaths of Ian
Visual effects supervisor Dennis Michelson, a veteran of countless productions both behind the camera and behind the computer, talks from the set in London on how the production tackled many of the issues of combining physical and digital effects.
Blackmagic Design Announces Availability of Intensity HDMI Card
Blackmagic Design Inc. today announced Intensity is now available to customers worldwide. An ultra low cost HDMI capture and playback card, Intensity users can now capture high quality uncompressed video direct from the HDMI connection on HDV cameras.
Oscar Visual Effects Bake-off films announced
Seven films selected, three will be nominated.
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