PUSS TAKES THE SPOTLIGHT

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Head of Lighting for ‘Puss in Boots’, Mark Fattibene describes his team’s work on the movie, and shares insights into DreamWorks’ research on lighting stereo 3D projects and recent changes to their lighting pi...

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The Cup - AGAINST THE ODDS

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In 2002, Damien Oliver lost his brother in a tragic racing accident. Only one week later he overcame his loss and won the Melbourne Cup horse race in one of this event’s most celebrated victories. John Francis at Surreal World took on 'The Cup' as a one-man VFX team, helping to bring t...

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THE THREE MUSKETEERS

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Mr X met a formidable visual FX challenge in ‘The Three Musketeers’, building assets with millions of polygons, full CG shots in stereo 3D and perfecting light and textures on water and digital doubles. Digital FX Supervisor Eric Robinson and Lighting Supervisor Trey Harrell explain the de...

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ANONYMOUS

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Director Roland Emmerich’s decision to accurately reveal London as it was at Shakespeare’s time in his film ‘Anonymous’ became an opportunity to use new visual effects techniques to rebuild the city from the ground up in vivid detail. VFX supervisors Marc Weigert and Volker Engel talk about the approaches and ch...

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MONSTER OF NIX - BRAVE NEW WORLD

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The people and creatures of ‘The Monster of Nix’ inhabit a world governed by its own laws of physics, from the enchanted forest to stormy skies to the cluttered village. During the project’s six year development, character animation evolved from stop motion, to 3D CG to its final combined live action-CG an...

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UNDERBELLY - COLOUR OF CRIME

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VFX Supervisor Soren Jensen and Colourist Dwaine Hyde from Digital Pictures joined forces with DP Mark Wareham to give ‘Underbelly: Razor’ its period looks, de-constructing the Sydney Harbour Bridge and creating the underworld of 1920s Sy...

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CAPTAIN AMERICA JOINS UP

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Thirteen visual effects teams and VFX Supervisor Chris Townsend were recruited for ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’. Chris and three of these teams - Fuel VFX, The Senate and Method Studios - talk here about creating photorealistic environments with 2D and CG effects that are seamless, accurate and th...

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GREEN LANTERN - HEROES UNDER THE SKIN

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Several characters in ‘Green Lantern’ have been created from mixture of CG and live action elements, animated by preserving as much of the actor’s on screen performance as possible. The result is a truly hybrid super he...

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HARRY POTTER AND THE Deathly Hallows Part 2

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Through to this final film, the world of Harry Potter has been a magic place for VFX artists to test their talents and achieve some of their best work. Cinesite and Double Negative discuss dragons, wand duels and infinite staircases for 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt 2'...

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AEAF Awards 2012 Call For Entries

Entries are now being invited for AEAF Awards, an international competition and screening, now in its 16th year with entries from around the world. AEAF Awards Entry Form

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LEADER OF THE PACK

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Tippett studio’s shots in ‘Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1’ were at the heart of two of major sequences featuring members of the film’s werewolf tribe, all of whom were digitally designed, built and animated at Tippett.

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INANIMATE ALICE GROWS UP

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Set in the early 21st century and told through text, sound, images, music and games, ‘Inanimate Alice’
is an interactive digital novel, the story of Alice and her imaginary digital friend Brad.

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GoPro CineForm Studio Software Improves for Post Workflows
GoPro has updated its 2D and 3D production software GoPro CineForm Studio Premium and GoPro Gopro-CineForm-Studio
CineForm Studio Professional, improving and extending stereo and image correction tools.
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Digistor's Autodesk 'Suite Deal' Ends Today
Orders need to be placed by close of business 25 January to qualify for 15% or more off 3ds Max or Autodesk-digistor-offer-mudbox
Maya Entertainment Creation Suites.
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Noise FxFactory 3 Includes Yanobox Moods for Colour Control

Noise Industries FxFactory version 3 now includes seven new products for Final Cut Pro X editors, plus Noise-yannobox-moods1
support for recent versions of FCP, Motion, Final Cut Express and Adobe After Effects.

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RØDE VideoMic HD Supports Digital Shooting
RØDE VideoMic HD is a high-fidelity, precision RF bias shotgun microphone with integrated digital Rode-VideoMicHD
recording, designed for use with DSLR and large-sensor video cameras.
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Sony Offers Bonus Gear with the NEX-FS100PK
During January , February and March, Sony are offering bonus accessories with the NEX-FS100PK Sony_nexfs100u
Super 35mm camcorder.
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Indie Documentary Reveals Controversy in Australian Cinema
An independent documentary is in production investigating the current state of the Australian film Advance-CDawson
industry. Filmmaker Courtney Dawson asks why interest in Australian films is in decline.
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ToonBoom Brings Harmony to Animated TV Series
LuxAnimation uses Toon Boom Harmony for their 2D animation pipeline to monitor and maintain the ToonBoom-LePetitSpirou-2
quality level of ‘The Little Spirou’, a 78-episode series they are producing with two other studios.
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Qube Cinema XP-I Streams 4K 3D from a Single Server
Qube Cinema delivered a high bit-rate 4K stereoscopic DCP through two Barco projectors on an 80’ Qube_XP-I_4K3D3
by 60’ Giant Screen to a live audience at the Moody Gardens Digital Cinema Symposium in Texas
earlier this month.
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Motion Theory Welcomes Directorial Team Mårlind & Stein
Production company Motion Theory has added two Swedish directors Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein to Motion-theory-bjorn-stein-mans-marlind
their roster of directors. The pair has worked together for 10 years on commercials, TV and films, most
recently ‘Underworld Awakening’.
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Red Giant Adds Avid Support to Magic Bullet Looks 2
Looks 2 colour treatment tools inside the new Magic Bullet Suite version 11.2 from Red Giant now Red-giant-Magic-Bullet-Suite-11_2
support Avid Media Composer 5.5 and 6, and all users can now choose individual products from the
suite to install.
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ARRI and Fraunhofer Engineers to Receive Academy Award of Merit
The ARRILASER film recorder will receive an Academy Award of Merit honouring the engineers whose Arrilaser-academy-award1
innovation helped develop digital production for complete films and large-scale digital intermediate
processing.
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Double Negative’s David Vickery Nominated for SVFX BAFTA
VFX Supervisor at Double Negative David Vickery has been nominated for the Special Visual Effects Double-negative-bafta-hp72c
BAFTA award this year for ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2’.
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Blackmagic HyperDeck Shuttle 2 Now Supports Avid DNxHD
Blackmagic Design has released a new version of the HyperDeck Shuttle Solid State Disk recorder
Blackmagic-hyperdeck_shuttle_2-2adding Avid DNxHD format, 10-bit recording and playback.
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Artistic Image Creates Interactive Animations with Projection Mapping
Artistic Image has created a series of 3D and 2D animations using interactive projection mapping, Artistic-image-hunter2
integrating the neo-classic facade of the Hunter Museum of American Art, for the RiverRocks
Festival at Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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Cinedeck RX Delivers Solid-State Recording for Broadcast
The Cinedeck RX is a new rack-mountable, solid-state recording, monitoring and playback system
designed for tapeless post-production and broadcast workflows in 2D and stereo 3D formats.
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Grass Valley Brings Japanese Broadcaster Up to HD Speed
Asahi Broadcasting Aomori in Japan is upgrading its entire digital news production operation to a HDGrass-valley-asahi-aomori-1
file-based system from Grass Valley, configured as a SAN to help staff collaborate and create more
varied content.
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Screen NSW Announces $60m Investment for NSW

Almost $60million will be invested in the State’s economy with 14 new screen productions, including

major feature films and television series, to be made in NSW.

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zweiB Returns to DVS CLIPSTER to Expand DI Facility
Event, cinema and media producer zweiB GmbH in Munich is expanding its system architecture with a DVS-CLIPSTER_2012
second DVS CLIPSTER DI workstation and a SpycerBox.
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ANONYMOUS

Director Roland Emmerich’s decision to accurately reveal London as it was at Shakespeare’s time in his film ‘Anonymous’ became an opportunity to use new visual effects techniques to rebuild the city from the ground up in vivid detail. VFX supervisors Marc Weigert and Volker Engel talk about the approaches and challenges.

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The ASC Nominates Features for 26th Achievement Awards
The American Society of Cinematographers has announced nominations of their Outstanding ASC-nominations-Tinker_Tailor
Achievement Awards, to include Hoyte van Hoytema FSF, NSC, Emmanuel Lubezki ASC, AMC,
Jeff Cronenweth ASC in the Feature Film category.
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Skyline Post’s Artists Gain Skills on the Smoke Scene
South Carolina’s Skyline Post has been using Autodesk Smoke to cover more varied and creative Skyline-post-autodesk-smoke4
types of editing and finishing tasks for the facility’s commercial projects.
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Blur Studio Plunges into RealFlow 2012 for ‘Dragon Tattoo’
For its recent work for the title sequence of ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ Blur Studios, worked with RealFlow-Blur-dragon-tatoo1
RealFlow from Next Limit to develop the sequence’s oily, fluid looks.
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Pictorvision Eclipse Designers to Receive Scientific & Engineering Academy Award
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will honour designers of the Pictorvision Eclipse Pictorvision-Eclipse-academy-technical-award
with a Scientific and Engineering Academy Award at the 84th Annual Academy Awards for
Technical Achievement.
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