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Posts Tagged ‘visual effects’

Sway Studio for Hyundai

In visual effects on 24 September 2006 tagged visual effects with Comments Off

Sway Studio animates the performance of a professionally choreographed live dance team with 362 CG robots in a Hyundai spot directed by John Allardice.
“In this case, we decided against straight motion capture as the various models of robots had different numbers of arms and legs than the dancers,” continues Allardice. “What we wanted […]

D2 grabs ILM-ers

In news, visual effects on 20 September 2006 tagged film, news, visual effects with Comments Off

Variety.com - Digital Domain nabs trio
VP of production, Mark Miller joins Digital Domain as President. Lucasfilm Ltd.’s chief technology officer, Cliff Plumer, jumps to Digital Domain with the same title. And Kim Libreri has been hired as veepee of advanced strategy.

Streaks

In asides, visual effects on 13 September 2006 tagged asides, del.icio.us, visual effects with 1 comment

Apple - iPod nano - Ads

Emmy nom

In design, news, visual effects, work on 1 September 2006 tagged artist, design, news, visual effects, work with 1 comment

I’ve been nominated for an Emmy award in the category of “Outstanding Individual Achievment In A Craft: Graphic and Artistic Design”. (say that three times fast) for my work as Visual Effects Supervisor/Post-Production Supervisor on the Documentary Mini-Series “Strange Days on Planet Earth” for National Geographic.
Ceremonies are in September, fingers are crossed, stay tuned.

Chris Howard

In asides on 24 January 2006 tagged asides, del.icio.us, people, quicklinks, visual effects with Comments Off

Chris Howard | Visual Effects Nice Reel

In asides on 3 November 2004 tagged asides, del.icio.us, visual effects with Comments Off

vCinema: sure it’s a buzzword, it’s also a blog from James Tichenor

? pics

In visual effects on 13 March 2003 tagged visual effects with Comments Off

i haven’t seen Curious Pictures’ commercials page in a while and i guess they updated. some good stuff there, i especially like ‘matrix’ for nickelodeon.

i can now sleep

In visual effects on 22 January 2003 tagged visual effects with 6 comments

just finished my last project. we sent it via satellite monday morning for mtv’s ‘making the video’ premiere.
the trl premiere. happened on tuesday. it’s getting some good feedback and people are digging the visuals.
director joseph kahn’s concept is quite different from mariah carey’s previous videos. it has wall to wall visual effects (over 100) that […]

images and textures a plenty

In visual effects on 8 October 2002 tagged design, film, visual effects with 1 comment

todd of dominey design posts a cool link on kaliber 10000.
imageafter provides a nice database of textures and images for you to download. i’m not sure if they’re usable for hi-res (film/print) work but they’re good for reference and vid-res work.
p.s. i didn’t know that ‘filipino-powered’ halfproject is back up with a redesign.

9 to 5

In meme on 23 August 2002 tagged meme, visual effects with 1 comment

friday five: ‘the career edition’
1. What is your current occupation? Is this what you chose to be doing at this point in your life? Why or why not?
post-production or visual effects supervisor. this is not what i chose to be doing at this point in my life. i fell into this industry by accident. […]