Check out this hilarious short from Funny or Die about the future of CGI and the talent that is required to play an inanimate object. Good Stuff.
Videos
Jan 13, 2012 VFX Breakdown – FOX NFL 2011
Jan 13, 2012 VFX Shots of Boardwalk Empire Season 2 – A Breakdown
Brainstorm Digital, the creators of these amazing effects for HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire” put together this amazing reel of FX shots from season 2 of the show, check it out below.
Jan 12, 2012 Fotoshop by Adobé (Photoshop by Adobe)
Make yourself beautiful with Fotoshop by Adobé. Great Stuff. If you want to look beautiful, or make your girlfriend/wife look beautiful, get yourself a jar of Photoshop
Jan 6, 2012 Blur Studios & David Fincher = Amazing
Motion Media client Blur Studios did some amazing work on the opening credits of “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” and were recently featured in a Wired Magazine Article. You can see the opening sequence and a short behind the scenes look at how they made the amazing oily fluid using RealFlow 2012, 3ds Max & Softimage. What are your thoughts? Is Blur the best VFX house in the business?
Jan 6, 2012 Make your Video Look Like Film with Cinematic Glow
Check out this video from Boris FX on how to use the Boris Continuum Complete software to make your video look like film.
Dec 16, 2011 V-Ray 2.0 Update with Hair & Fur Capabilities
An update to V-Ray 2.0 is now available!
Chaos Group is pleased to announce an update to V-Ray 2.0, delivering outstanding new features and improvements, including enhanced GPU functionality using V-RayRT and new Hair and Fur capabilities.
New Hair and Fur Capabilities
• Render hair and fur with unprecedented quality, control, and speed using the new VRayHairMtl shader and VRayHairInfoTex map.
• Seamlessly render hair created using Ephere’s Ornatrix plug-in with the new modifier – VRayOrnatrixMod.
V-Ray 2.0 Hair and Fur Shader Tutorial
by Dimitar Krastev-Jimmy, Chaos Group
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Dec 15, 2011 New VFX Heavy Trailer – MS1 Maximum Security
Check out this new trailer for MS1 Maximum Security starring Guy Pearce. The logline sounds a bit cheesy, but if you can get past that, it looks like a pretty solid flick. Logline: a man who’s wrongfully convicted of espionage against the US is offered his freedom if he can save the president’s daughter from an attack on a supermax prison in outer space
Dec 10, 2011 Spotlight: Shade VFX Uses Nuke on The Muppets
Motion Media client Shade VFX recently did some work on The Muppets using Nuke from The Foundry. Check it out.
Shade teamed up with Walt Disney Pictures and Producer/Supervisor Janet Muswell Hamilton to create 82 visual effects shots; ranging from matte paintings, to CG fx and Muppet enhancements. Shade is extremely proud to have contributed to such a heartwarming show, and to have been a small part of the Henson and Muppets legacy.
Watch a breakdown of a couple VFX Shots Here - http://vimeo.com/32932720
