Foundry 2015 →

The Foundry:

It's that time of the year again! We have the pleasure of showcasing some of the incredible work our clients have created over the past year. As always, we would like to say a huge thanks to them all for making us look good. Enjoy. All the projects featured were made with the use of one or more pieces of our software: NUKE, MARI, MODO, HIERO, KATANA and OCULA.

The Foundry makes Nuke the software I spend 99% of my day in. Good work everyone.

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Visual Effects, Oscars and the Box Office in 2014 →

Vfx Rant:

The five nominees for this year's visual effects earned a total global box office gross of over $3.6B. All of this year's films were huge hits, unlike other years which usually include at least one monster hit, and a few sub-$200M earners. Unlike the three previous years, no single 2014 visual effects nominee grossed over $1B.

Visual effects is the biggest line item these days. But the visual effects heavy movies are also making the most money at the box office. So what gives. If we(Visual Effects Artists) continue to have to fix lighting, costumes and makeup and biuld whole worlds for every movie not just vfx heavy movies visual effects will continue to be the biggest line item. Studios just don't get it. If I have to sculpt light to make a greenscreen work because a gaffer couldn't light his way out of a paper bag shouldn't the money to pay for that shot(s) come out of the lighting budget?

Enjoy the Oscars tonight, remember that even thou there aren't huge shinny robots and huge space ships that doesn't mean visual effects artists didn't help make the shot work.

Good work this year everyone.

Vfx Bakeoff

Tonight is the visual effects bakeoff. The bakeoff is a event that the VES holds every year to deciede who gets the Oscar nominations.

Here are the movies that are on the short list.

"Captain America: The Winter Soldier"

"Dawn of the Planet of the Apes"

"Godzilla"

"Guardians of the Galaxy"

"The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies"

"Interstellar"

"Maleficent"

"Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb"

"Transformers: Age of Extinction"

"X-Men: Days of Future Past"

Nice work everyone. Remember that visual effects around the world create most of what you see. We create sets and do lighting, we do makeup and hair.

Some how I get to call this work. We will see Sunday, February 22, 2015.

Enjoy.