Category: vfxblog
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I’m pretty sure you can’t pack much more into this crazy weekend of visual effects in Vancouver
Did you see Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and want to know how it was made? Did you see Mary Poppins Returns and wonder how they combined 2D animation and live action? Did you see Roma and not realise there were any visual effects in it at all? All those projects – and a lot more…
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New stunning ‘First Man’ VFX featurette
Just in time for the VFX bake-off, Universal has released a First Man VFX reel featuring the practical, miniature and digital effects work for the film. Check it out below: If you’d like to go further into the work, I talked earlier to visual effects supervisor Paul Lambert from DNEG and miniatures effects supervisor Ian…
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5 things that rocked at SIGGRAPH Asia Tokyo
SIGGRAPH Asia Tokyo 2018 has just wrapped up, and it was a fantastic week. The attendance was up near 10,000 and you could feel the buzz at the conference centre. Here’s my run-down of 5 of the coolest things I was able to see there. 1. Behind the scenes of Pixar’s Bao If you haven’t…
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‘The Prince of Egypt’: Henry LaBounta reflects on parting the Red Sea
These days, Henry LaBounta is Studio Art Director at EA Ghost Games. But before his career in games, LaBounta was at the forefront of effects simulation at Industrial Light & Magic, where he helped generate the tornadoes in Twister. Later he worked on The Prince of Egypt at DreamWorks Animation, in particular, on the parting…
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Compulsory viewing: the Computer Animation Festival at SIGGRAPH Asia Tokyo 2018
Here at vfxblog we’ve already previewed some of the VFX-related talks and dived into the Technical Papers process for SIGGRAPH Asia Tokyo this year. Now we look at the other conference highlight: the Computer Animation Festival. The ‘CAF’ takes in the Animation and Electronic Theater, and the VR Theater, plus a selection of panels and…
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Ten things we learned about Framestore’s CG stuffed animals for ‘Christopher Robin’
Marc Forster’s Christopher Robin is easily one of the most delightful films of 2018, and also contains some of the finest fully-CG animated characters you’ll see this year. That work was led by Framestore, which had, of course, sharpened its expertise in integrating CG animated ‘stuffed toy’ characters with live action in the Paddington movies.…
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Tech papers: the secret to SIGGRAPH Asia success
The Technical Papers section of SIGGRAPH Asia 2018 in Tokyo is shaping up, as always, to be a key part of the conference. But how do authors get their tech papers into a SIGGRAPH or SIGGRAPH Asia conference? And what happens once they do? To find out, vfxblog asked Hao Li, who is a co-author…
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Going back to ‘Pleasantville’: when doing a DI wasn’t so easy
In 1998, Gary Ross’ Pleasantville became the first major Hollywood feature to go through what’s now known as the digital intermediate, or DI, process. The film needed that process because its characters, stuck in a 1950s black and white existence, would slowly start to escape their repressive world as they begin experiencing colour. Getting there…
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ILM’s Hal Hickel on the symbiotic relationship between actor and animator
At the recent Trojan Horse was a Unicorn event in Malta, I had the opportunity to sit down with ILM animation supervisor Hal Hickel for a THU TV interview. We talked about the wealth of CG characters Hickel has overseen which began with live action and motion captured performances, including Davy Jones from the Pirates…
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SIGGRAPH Asia in Tokyo: a sneak peek at the VFX talks
It’s not long now until SIGGRAPH Asia hits Tokyo. The computer graphics event begins December 4th, and runs at the Tokyo International Forum until December 7th. SIGGRAPH Asia will have some fantastic talks, papers, displays and experiences for attendees. vfxblog will be there, and I highly recommend signing up now. You can find out more…
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