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Posts Tagged ‘vfx’

links for 2007-10-27 through 2007-11-02

Image Is Everything - Jettison Canopy compares Mac Image Editors Acorn, DrawIt and Pixelmator.
iChat multi-track recording tip - each participant in the chat gets their own track
Effects Corner: Budgeting VFX - pretty good overview of budgeting for vfx in features

links for 2007-04-26

Adhemas Batista
Very beautiful color work.
(tags: designer color graphic artist)

MakingOf - Behind the scenes of work at The Mill
Any insight into The Mill’s process is a gift.
(tags: vfx cg 3d compositing)

links for 2007-03-18

Pixel Magic 300 - before and after stills
(tags: vfx compositing 300 film)

Michael McDonough’s Top Ten Things They Never Taught Me in Design School
(tags: design school lesson)

Moleskine City Notebook
(tags: wishlist moleskine guide)

links for 2007-03-15

R2-D2 Mailboxes
why doesn’t this surprise me?
(tags: star-wars r2-d2 usps nerd)

steampunk star wars
Eric Poulton - art nerd, re-visualizes star wars.
(tags: star-wars art concept)

Studio Daily | Stylizing Sparta in 300
VFX Art Director Grant Freckelton on Creating the Look
(tags: 300 frank-miller graphic-novel film visual-effects)

XSI Base - Interview with Joseph Kasparian
Textures & Lighting Lead on 300 at Hyride
(tags: 300 […]

graphic links

http://www.shynola.com/
nakd
http://www.brickyardvfx.com/
http://www.lobo.cx/
http://www.luma-pictures.com/

the story on how an fx house died

wow, it’s been a while since an an interesting post popped up at AICN. i really am sypathetic to this article for i too am a victim of the vfx industry, twisting in the wind.
i’m a big fan of dreamquest images’ work since “the abyss”, to be specific i’m a big fan of Hoyt Yeatman. […]

attention vfx/cgi artists

i’m currently updating my database of cg artists, texture painters and compositors. i’m starting to get more calls from people looking for artists and if i have your current info, it’ll help me find the best person for the job.
please email a resume/credit list to me (pdf is preferable but ms word is ok) don’t […]

new vfx software stuff

from down under, animal logic announce ‘MayaMan’, the maya to renderman pipeline tool.
from london, uk, IS distribution releases ‘mokey’. described as resolution independent software that enables you to separate a foreground element from a video or film clip. it is available as a standalone product and as a plug-in for avid AVX, discreet sparks, […]

artists links

artist eric feng aka feric is a compositor at squareusa. check out his site.
some other artists sites: doug chiang | feng zhu | craig mullins | eric hanson | eric chauvin | ken matheson | sylvain despretz | stephan martiniere | ben procter | peter baustaedter | travis price | erik tiemens | miles […]