Month: August 2017
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A shot from ‘Event Horizon’ is still Sue Rowe’s toughest VFX task ever
“Ask any VFX artist about their worst shot and I bet they can tell you the shot name. On Event Horizon, M255 was that shot for me.” – Sue Rowe Now a visual effects supervisor at Sony Pictures Imageworks, Sue Rowe was back in 1997 a sequence supervisor at Cinesite (Europe) on Paul W.S. Anderson’s…
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7 highlights from SIGGRAPH
For DigitalArts, I highlighted 7 of the coolest things I saw at SIGGRAPH. What a conference!
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Here’s one of the best interviews I’ve heard Christopher Nolan give about his thoughts on film, digital and VFX
I recently listened to this interview on BBC’s The Film Programme between host Francine Stock and Christopher Nolan on the director’s latest project, Dunkirk. It’s a great interview, in which Nolan discusses how he constructed the time-bending narrative in the film, how he used sound and score, and his thoughts on – and this is what…
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My SIGGRAPH round-up
Digital Arts asked me to round-up the recent events at SIGGRAPH 2017 – you can read that here. Also coming is a look at some specific super-cool things I saw there. It was truly an awesome event, so much more to say than there is time in the world!
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Quickshots: Attack of the Megaptor
ILM and VFX partner Hybride collaborated to produce a high-energy bus chase scene in Luc Besson’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. Here, Valerian and Laureline race to board a bus that is then attacked by a menacing Megaptor creature. ILM visual effects supervisor Philippe Rebours runs down the work involved. On-set shoot:…
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How that ATM scene in ‘Homecoming’ was made
Luma Pictures handled the Spider-Man: Homecoming ATM sequence, and I found out for VFX Voice how they made it happen.
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Weta Digital’s ‘Valerian’ Pearls
Stunningly realistic, the alien Pearl characters in Valerian were crafted by Weta Digital. In this new piece for VFX Voice, I had vfx supe Martin Hill run down how they were made.
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Breaking down the ferry scene in ‘Homecoming’
At Cartoon Brew, I wrote about DD and The Third Floor’s work on Spider-Man: Homecoming on the ferry sequence, one of the coolest from the film.
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Quickshots: Making ‘Valerian’s’ Doghan Daguis talk together as one
The Doghan Daguis are a trio of comical characters appearing in Luc Besson’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. They were created in CG by Weta Digital. On set, full-sized maquettes were filmed and then scanned to help craft the digital versions. Three performers also acted out the roles in performance capture marker…
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