Visual Effects Blog
Here you will find some articles about modern movies and about visual effects.
300 is the latest Frank Miller graphical novel to be translated to the screen. Here we talk to Jeremy Hunt who first came to fame with the web’s first breakthrough viral short, 405. He is the founder of Screaming Death Monkey, one of the effects houses who helped those actors recreate the story of the 300 Spartans.
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Double Negative was lucky enough to have a good amount of time for pre-production on Batman Begins, as this allowed the team to develop some new innovative, inventive and robust workflow and pipeline tools. Paul Franklin from Double Negative breaks down the shots, the new tools they developed and their OpenEXR pipeline that required over a million digital stills to photographed.
The Dark Knight is a masterful film. There are brilliant performances, great direction and some magnificent visual effects. In this article lead facility Double Negative talks about their impressive IMAX batpod shots and how their work fits so seamlessly into this powerful dark masterpiece.
Double Negative delivered 761 shots and the titles for Guillermo Del Toro's (Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy) new feature "Hellboy 2 — The Golden Army". Working with VFX Supervisor Mike Wassel and VFX Producer Lucy Killick, the Double Negative team was led by Senior VFX Producer Steve Garrad and Digital Effects Supervisors Adrian De Wet, Andrew Chapman and Justin Martin and Animation Supervisor Eamonn Butler.
In the film I Am Legend, Will Smith plays a character who might be the last man left in New York City, or at least the last one unaffected by a cure for cancer that goes horrifically wrong. Jim Berney supervised the visual effects at Sony Pictures Imageworks, and here he discuss shutting down one of the world's busiest cities to take pictures of a stuffed toy deer.
Iron Man is a blockbuster hit due to a focus on acting, great action sequences and seamless big budget visual effects by lead facility Industrial Light and Magic, steered by visual effects supervisor John Nelson. Alongside ILM was The Orphanage and we drill down on just one aspect of the film - the Heads Up Display - here with designer Dav Rauch.
With a weekend opening of over $120 US million, Shrek the Third continues the box office success of the franchise. Here we speak with Larry Cutler and Matt Baer from PDI/Dreamworks including their insights into how working on a series of films changes the workflow.
Speed Racer defines a new way of imagining visual effects. Instead of setting the bar at reality, key facilities around the world set out to make something visually new, engaging and never seen before - a sort of live action Anime. In a world of increasingly standard pipelines, they broke new ground as their Racer gathered Speed.
Spider-man 3 delivers on its promise with three sensational CG villains and new side to the web-slinging superhero. We will go behind the scenes with the Sony Pictures Imageworks VFX and animation team of what is reported to be one of the most expensive movies ever made.
The huge visual effects movie Transformers racked up the biggest July 4th single-day gross in box office history, $26 million, beating the $22 million of Spider-Man 2 in 2004. By the end of the week Transformers stood at a whopping $153 million.
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