By Jeff Heusser
BEVERLY HILLS, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that nine scientific and technical achievements represented by 25 individual award recipients will be honored at its annual Scientific and Technical Awards Presentation at The Beverly Hills Hotel on Saturday, February 9, 2013
This should be part of the main Oscar Show, It will never happen but it should. No movie can be made without These guys. Period!
By Ian Failes
On Thursday night in LA, the 10 contenders for the visual effects Oscar were presented at the signature ‘bake-off’ event at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
This is always a fun event. One problem, who gets off early enough to make it by 7:00pm. Many are just eatting at this time.
VFX Soldier:
On of the first items is documenting the nuts and bolts of how subsidies work in the VFX industry. I’ll be working with contacts to get them this information but I’d also like to invite readers who have personal knowledge in this issue. If you feel you might be of help on this email me:vfxsoldier@gmail.com
I don't have high hope for this, prove me wrong. Please. The studios are not just going to let go of the this way of doing things. This is happening in production as well. Not just VFX. It's now ingrained in Hollywood. It's going to be hard for them to go back to paying full price for things.
Online there have been reports the whole 95 min final film cost only $2 million. This is not correct. “That is a myth I’d like to dispel,” says visual effects supervisor Gary Hutzel. “Originally when it first came out as a concept yeah someone said we’d like to do this for $2 million, but after a few weeks of talking about it that simply wasn’t enough to put together a proper crew. For that it would have to literally be shot in someone’s backyard,” he jokes. “That figure may have been where the studio started out but that was quickly not seen as an adequate budget.”
A good read. Its in 2 parts
Kon-Tiki tells the true story of explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his crew who crossed the Pacific Ocean on a balsa wood raft in 1947. Directed by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg, the film was a Norwegian production with water sim and creature effects crafted by five Scandinavian VFX studios: Fido, Gimpville, Important Looking Pirates, Storm Studios and Blink Studios.
The origin story is a critical part of any hero's development. Downing is no different. "I got into a rut, I wasn't drawing enough and a friend told me I was over-thinking things," says Downing. "I just needed to do something I was really into that wouldn't require too much thinking. I started thinking about designing superheroes and the more I thought about it, the more I wanted to do it. I threw the gauntlet down and decided to draw a super every day."
Ming Thein
Here’s a primer for beginning photographers on the concepts of aspect ratios and compositional theories.
Just saying.
I'm no expert on tax incentives but here's the information I've gathered.
An oldie but a goodie.
Die Hard 2… the last frame is an old, old school matte painting. and oddly animated even. relic from the time…