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The surprising costume VFX in ‘Thor: Ragnarok’
Marvel has always done a great job of augmenting character suits or costumes in its movies. But one of the most seamless recently was for Hela in Thor: Ragnarok – check out the story at VFX Voice.
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Behind the scenes of ‘Valerian’s’ Big Market
When Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets was released, I got the opportunity to talk to both overall VFX supe Scott Stokdyk and ILM supervisor Philippe Rebours about the Big Market sequence. Now with the film set for home entertainment release, there’s a snippet of one of the featurettes available on the Big Market…
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Early VFX Oscar predictions
For Cartoon Brew, I weighed on what I thought were the early contenders for the VFX Oscar. What are your thoughts?
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Lytro’s volume tracer
Director Rodrigo Blaas and Lytro vfx super John Berton Jr told me about Lytro’s new volume tracer and the short they made to demo it. Check it out at Cartoon Brew.
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SIGGRAPH Asia tech papers preview: 3D avatars from a single photo
Over the past few years, I’ve had the pleasure of reading about and watching the results of digital human and faces research led by Hao Li. He is, simultaneously, CEO & Co-Founder of Pinscreen, Inc., Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California, and Director of the Vision and Graphics Lab at…
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‘Thor: Ragnarok’s’ Sakaar chase scene was also a courtship dance
Stuck on Sakaar but looking to get back to Asgard, Thor, Valkeryie and Banner steal one of the Grandmaster’s ships, the Commodore. In a high octane chase scene through the city, they escape Sakaar fighters and exit through a wormhole. Digital Domain crafted visual effects for the Thor: Ragnarok sequence, overseen by overall visual effects…
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Korg. That is all.
I couldn’t get enough of Korg in Thor: Ragnarok. Here’s my story at Cartoon Brew about how the character was made.
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What went into those cool title and UI designs in ‘Thor: Ragnarok’?
The explosion in visual effects work in comic book films is perhaps only matched by the explosion in design work also seen in those movies – everything from logo reveals, to main-on-end titles, screen UIs and other designs. One of the studios behind much of this work is Perception, based in New York. It recently…
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Behind the scenes of that super-cool Bifrost scene in ‘Thor: Ragnarok’
One of the scenes, as brief as it is, that really caught my eye in Thor: Ragnarok, was the Bifrost journey taken by Thor, Loki and an uninvited Hela. A mid-journey fight ensues, which ultimately sends Thor and Loki to the planet Sakaar. We’ve seen the Bifrost before, but this time visual effects supervisor Jake…
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3D Artist cover
3D Artist’s latest cover story is a piece I wrote on Blender’s Agent 327, an awesome short designed to showcase the 3D tool and collaborative workflow.
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