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http://www.luma-pictures.comIn the most ambitious project in its 4-year history, Luma Pictures served as lead visual effects house for the new Lakeshore Entertainment blockbuster: UNDERWORLD: EVOLUTION, now screening worldwide. The studio created approximately 200 visual effects shots for the...

28566David Yates has directed Harry Potter’s latest outing, the first part of the seventh installment ‘The Deathly Hallows’ produced by Warner Bros. MPC completed over 180 shots bringing Nagini to life, creating digi-doubles for the polyjuice transformation sequence and carrying out extensive...

<a href="http://www.vfxtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6820" target="_self"><img src="http://www.vfxtalk.com/newsimages/harry_potter_4_thumb.jpg" align=left border=0 width="160" height="90"></a>You have been very patient VFXTalkers, but your wait if finally over. Here are the answers to your...

http://www.framestore-cfc.comIn this VFXTalk.com feature Spotlight, Framestore CFC talks about their work on Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and one of the biggest challenges they had - the underwater sequence! ...

14540 In January of 2008, Fox aired the pilot episode of their new series, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, nabbing some of the highest ratings ever seen by the network. VFXtalk is pleased to announce a exclusive video interview with the artists at ZOIC Studios who worked on the stunning...

11438 Spiderman 3 is coming hot out of the theaters and VFXTalk is pleased to announce this awesome interview with the Visual Effects Wizards at CafeFx who helped to make the amazing visual effects a reality! CafeFX created the vertigo-inducing crane disaster sequence for SPIDER-MAN™ 3, setting the...

20523WARNING! This animation short is not for the feint hearted! buckle your seatbelt before viewing! Creative studio Nathan Love recently completed “Blood Trail,” a three-minute animated trailer that promotes writer Matt Cochran’s screenplay of the same name. Perspective Studios, the production...

9772VFXTalk is pleased to present you with a exclusive interview with Wayne England, VFX Supervisor at SWAY Studios - one of the top visual effects shops in North America! Wayne's work at SWAY includes a large array of high-end photo-realistic commercials and projects, really cool car commercials,...

<a href="http://www.vfxtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5816" target="_self"><img src="http://www.vfxtalk.com/feature/poseidon/vfxtalk_poseidon_thumb.jpg" align=left border=0 width="160" height="90"></a>You asked the questions…We got you the answers. VFXTalk interviews the masters behind the...

15824The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian is the second of C.S. Lewis's classic Narnia sequence of fantasy novels to be filmed. A Walt Disney Studios release, presented with Walden Media, the film was directed by Andrew Adamson with cinematography by Karl Walter Lindenlaub. It was produced by...

10384 VFXTalk is pleased to present you with a exclusive interview with the VFX team at Luma Pictures covering their recent work on The Covenant! This film was a VFX extravaganza and Luma handled nearly 80 shots including some of the most complicated fx sequences. Their work included everything...

9094In this great interview, eyeon speaks with Screaming Death Monkey's Jeremy Hunt and talks about his work on '300'. Screaming Death Monkey is a full service post production facility specializing in visual effects for film, television, commercials and music videos. In addition to visual effects...

<a href="http://www.vfxtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6077" target="_self"><img src="http://www.vfxtalk.com/newsimages/davinci_interview_thumb.jpg" align=left border=0 width="160" height="90"></a>Here is the latest in our VFX Masters Series. You came up with the questions and we took them down to...

Jim McVay Firstly, I would like to thank you for your time and willingness to share your thoughts with all of us here at VFXTalk.com It's my pleasure. Could you please start off by introducing yourselves and giving us a little background information pertaining to your current job/role, and...

<a href="http://www.vfxtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6983" target="_self"><img src="http://www.vfxtalk.com/newsimages/theguardian_thumb.jpg" align=left border=0 width="160" height="90"></a>The VFX Master Series has brought us some answers from some of the industrys' finest, the top of the league...

8897 Luxology® LLC, an independent technology company developing next-generation 3D content creation software, today announced that the industry’s leading developers of pre-built 3D content, including DAZ 3D, Dosch Design and Digital Juice are relying on modo to build a wide array of high-quality...

10665 VFXTalk is pleased to share with you this awesome interview with Josh Saeta, the Lead Compositing TD at Rhythm & Hues! In this interview the VFXTalk community asked Josh questions about Rhythm & Hues, his recent work on Ben Stiller’s Night at the Museum, the next-generation technology he was...

<a href="http://www.vfxtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6571" target="_self"><img src="http://www.vfxtalk.com/newsimages/superman_returns_newthumb.jpg" align=left border=0 width="160" height="90"></a>We thought we would throw in a little suprise for you! One of the most celebrated shots of Summer...

<a href="http://www.vfxtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6355" target="_self"><img src="http://www.vfxtalk.com/feature/xmen3/xmen3_angel.jpg" align=left border=0 width="160" height="90"></a>We asked you to give us questions for Craig Lyn, VFX Supervisor representing Framestore CFC’s work on, ”X-Men...

<a href="http://www.vfxtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6241" target="_self"><img src="http://www.vfxtalk.com/newsimages/autodesk_pirates2_thumb.jpg" align=left border=0 width="160" height="90"></a>From computer-generated sea creatures to entire virtual cities, digital artists relied on Autodesk,...

http://www.vfxtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=5665We are pleased to say that we were able to sit down with Alistair Connelly, Senior Director and Producer of MTV Movies! Alistair has been behind the scenes of over 200 movies! We asked him some questions about the VFX industry and its place...

http://www.framestore-cfc.comThe Bridge Sequence contains the most complex visual effects in an effects-heavy picture. It features a huge array of elements – CG, digital backgrounds, miniatures, full-size sets with digital extensions, night-shot material that had to be matched with day-shots –...

http://www.vfxtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=5183VFXTalk reveals a host of stunning visuals from the Universal Pictures blockbuster Doom and the secrets to how they were created in a new, in-depth interview with the film's visual effects team. Visual effects supervisor Jon Farhat joins...

VFXTalk: Can you give us a brief run-down on what you did on Constantine and what previous experience you've had? http://www.vfxtalk.com/feature/images/feature_0305_tippett/dan_cayer.jpg Dan Cayer: I supervised the compositing of a number of sequences for Tippett Studio on...