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A new preview of VIEW: women in VFX and animation
For Cartoon Brew, I previewed some of the talks happening soon at VIEW that are led by women. There’s a great many in VFX and animation – and one the coolest things is the existence of workshops at the event. Check out the preview here.
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Beautybots and robot dogs: just another day in the life of Sony Pictures Imageworks
Sony Pictures Imageworks is behind a whole range of shots in Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman: The Golden Circle, from robot dogs, to the beautybot (inspired by Claudia Schiffer), the surrounds of Poppy’s diner environment, a robotic arm, the destruction of the Kingsman mansion and that crazy one-shot fight scene at the end. Visual effects supervisor Mark Breakspear tells…
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Learn the (VFX) secrets of ‘mother!’ with visual effects supervisor Dan Schrecker
When I was interviewing visual effects supervisor Dan Schrecker about the VFX of Darren Aronofsky’s mother!, I was still getting my head around the movie. I knew I loved it, but I wasn’t clear on everything that had happened (I don’t think you’re meant to be, by the way). The result, though, from talking to…
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*That* cable car scene in ‘The Golden Circle’
I think even I got motion sickness watching this, but the physical and digital effects teams on Kingsman: The Golden Circle did a killer job. I wrote about it for Den of Geek!
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The super-small miniatures of ‘Blade Runner’
I asked Mark Stetson, chief model-maker on the original Blade Runner, about the super tiniest miniatures made for the film. Here’s what he said, at SYFY WIRE.
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“That gives you goosebumps” – the VFX perspective on THU with Rise FX’s Florian Gellinger
It can be hard sometimes to nail down exactly what Trojan Horse was a Unicorn is. Of course, that’s its appeal – it’s an ‘experience,’ as co-founder André Lourenço describes it, for all kinds of creatives in digital illustration, design, concept art, 3D, CG, games, animation…and visual effects. To that end, visual effects supervisor and…
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When you get to go to the beach for work
Animal Logic has done some killer stuff on The LEGO Ninjago Movie. A lot of the original look for the film came from referencing natural elements, like sand, water, smoke and fire. The studio’s FX team even went to Bondi Beach in Sydney and dunked LEGO minifigs in the breaking waves to see what that…
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Dan Curry on the practical and digital revolutions made in ‘Star Trek’ TV VFX
Visual effects producer and supervisor Dan Curry is synonymous with the Star Trek television series from the 1980s through the mid-2000s. It was a time in which VFX progressed from practical builds, miniatures and optical effects through to all things digital (although practical solutions certainly remained a key part of the way the show’s effects…
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Looking back at old-school Trek TV
For SYFY WIRE, I got to interview Star Trek visual effects supervisor Dan Curry about his work on the 80s/90s/00s TV series. Was fun to consider how much was done in miniatures and the move to digital.
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I rarely post just a trailer on vfxblog, but this is just too good
It’s Isle of Dogs from Wes Anderson. Wow.
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