Tag: Imageworks
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How Imageworks helped make a massive Megalodon
My chat with Imageworks vfx supe Sue Rowe on The Meg, at VFX Voice.
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Kraken good animation
I talked to Imageworks vfx supe Mike Ford about the Kraken in Hotel Transylvania 3, and broke down the technical challenges, for VFX Voice.
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Three character challenges from Hotel T 3
A look at animating three of the characters from Hotel Transylvania 3 with animation supervisor Alan Hawkins, at Cartoon Brew.
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How the beach scene in ‘Contact’ went down to the wire
Yesterday I posted an interview with Contact’s visual effects supervisor Ken Ralston about his work on the film, which is now 20 years old. This included the incredible mirror shot, and for that high speed compositing supervisor Sheena Duggal also weighed-in on how that shot was made at Imageworks. Well, Sheena has now also provided…
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The famous mirror shot in ‘Contact’ was almost something else entirely
Visual effects artists and aficionados are often asked which movie or shot was their biggest influence, a question that regularly evokes a response about films like Star Wars, Blade Runner or Jurassic Park. Those films, of course, are all milestones in the VFX world. But in recent years, if that kind of question has come up…