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Midweek Motivations: The Night Manager Opening Sequence
There are so many great series on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, HBO, and other services that have incredibly beautiful opening title sequences, and it’s hard to keep up! Maybe we’re late to the party on this one, but we’re just watching The Night Manager and it’s full of intrigue.
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Inspiration: Rogue One Visual Effects #Maythe4thbewithyou
BBC Click created a very interesting episode on the VFX in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. They talk to ILM London’s Computer Graphics Supervisor Steve Ellis. They have a cool iPad contraption that drives an Imperial ship and an X-Wing.
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Midweek Motivations: Manifest Destiny: The Lewis & Clark Musical Adventure with VFX Breakdown
When I first saw this I didn’t think it was real! Not only is this cult musical comedy funny and intriguing, it contains some really nice visual effects. Director/VFX artist Anthony Parisi gives lots of great examples of his work.
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Big Screen Effects: Amazing Water and Fire Effects in Disney’s Moana
I finally got a chance to see Moana, and unfortunately, watching it on the back of a seat on an airplane doesn’t do this gorgeous film justice. Disney built their own fluid dynamics and simulation software called Splash, which can simulate billions of particles, to attain the phenomenal water effects. The fire effects and Te Ká, the volcano goddess, were also mind blowing. This article also gives you some fluid simulation options, for those who don’t work for Disney Animation Studios.
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Midweek Motivation: Virtual Reality Movies and Uses
Createive Blog has compiled a list of 5 must see VR movies and a list of 8 fantastic uses for VR that will amaze you.
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Midweek Motivations: How Maya and Arnold were used on Gravity
Here is an exclusive interview with Martin Preston, Head of R&D at Framestore, and he talks about how Arnold renderer with Maya were used on the film Gravity. The film is a few years old now, but the VFX are stellar.
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Midweek Motivations: Gorillaz – Saturnz Barz (Spirit House) with Amazing 360° Version
Gorillaz was co-founded by Blur’s Damon Albarn of Blur and comic book artist and designer Jamie Hewlett, who also directed this creepy, trippy animated video. The song features Jamaican DJ Popcaan. What they have created together is just genius… so creative and strange.
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News: RealFlow Reel 2017
Next Limit has released their RealFlow 2017 showreel, showcasing real user projects.
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Midweek Motivations: The Space Between Us VFX Breakdown by Rodeo FX
International Space Day and Midweek Motivations bring us a VFX breakdown of The Space Between Us, an interstellar teen romance. I took my daughter to see the film a couple of weeks ago and while some of the science in the film was questionable, but the visual effects were great!
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Midweek Motivations: Space Sex is Serious Business
It’s International Space Day and here’s something everyone must be curious about, sex in space! This video from Tom McCarten shows some interesting data with great motion graphics to illustrate the history and problems with sex in space.
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Midweek Motivations: Geostorm – Official Trailer
It’s international Space Day, so here’s another inspirational piece about space for the upcoming Warner Bros film Geostorm, directed by Dean Delvin. It’s a disaster film about that control the weather and have a mishap. There are lots of weather related VFX and nice satellite CG.
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Midweek Motivations: Black Holes
April 12th is International Space Day so we’ll bring you some space-based inspiration today. First up is Black Holes, directed by French artists David and Laurent Nicolas (Noodles Studio), which is a proof of concept for Sundance 2017 and it’s extremely fun.
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News/Inspiration: Andrew Kramer of Video Copilot on The Collective Podcast
Andrew Kramer talks to Ash Thorpe about the visual effects industry and what motivates him to create amazing products and incredible visual effects, and how he handles his success. Very interesting interview!
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Midweek Motivations: He Arose VFX Breakdown
Just in time for Easter, check out this interesting VFX breakdown of the “Golgotha shot” from the He Arose piece from Igniter Media. Trent Armstrong, VFX guru of Igniter Media, sent me a link to a write up he did about his process in After Effects.
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Midweek Motivation: Making of Ghost in the Shell and Behind the Scenes
See how Weta Digital helped to bring this live-action update of the iconic anime to life.