VFXWorld on the stylized world of 300.
“Oscar-winning vfx supervisor Rob Legato (Titanic), currently spearheading the virtual cinematography system and pipeline on James Cameron’s all-CG/3-D Avatar, says the film expands the palette of filmmaking. “It’s not photoreal or cartoon or CG totally; it’s sort of a hybrid in between so it becomes a stylization that might [...]
Glances
300 expands filmmaking palette
Oddly angled short
Odd from Every Angle is a refreshing student work from Russell Etheridge featuring varied and smooth integration of a range of animated effects. Carves out it’s own world quickly - doesn’t appear to slavishly follow animated fashions.
Last.fm moving into music video
ReadWriteWeb reports: Last.fm Launches Video - Aims To Be The MTV Of Web 2.0 Age Last.fm have a great history of supporting interesting and alternate music. MTV shared this quirkiness from their anarchic beginnings (current MTV is a different beast - it’s idiotic to compare). If the Last.fm can convert that sensibility by aggregating the [...]
Satoshi Kon adds spice
Paprika, by animé master, Satoshi Kon. Adventuring into people’s dreams. Oneiric Japanese animation.
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Adding up to 300
Getting the look of 300 CG article on VFXWorld: Tara DiLullo Bennett goes behind the scenes of the CG-intensive 300 with director Zack Snyder, vfx supervisor Chris Watts and others to find out how they pulled off the painterly Frank Miller look.
Optronica 2007 starts
OPTRONICA 2007 starts today - Wednesday until Sunday, Central London locations inc. BFI IMAX, Southbank and ICA.
Trevor Jackson, Deakin & Franglen, Semiconductor, Fennesz & Charles Atlas, Addictive TV and Peter Greenaway. Optronica transforms the IMAX cinema into a cornucopia of audiovisual delights, optimising the largest screen in the UK and channelling music throughout the [...]
Fincher’s Zodiac Nightmare
VFX article on David Fincher’s true-serial killer thriller, Zodiac.
All digital blood to simulate the crimes exactly: “One of the unique aspects of the murders shoot was that Fincher didn’t want to use practical effects, such as squibs or fake blood. These techniques didn’t allow him to obtain an exact match of the actual event. In [...]
transmediale running unfinished!
transmediale.07: Festival for art and digital culture 2007 has a great program on the idea of everything being unfinished in the digital age. Inc. intriguing Unbuilding Spaces video programme.
“unfinish! demands the re-opening of processes that are deemed closed”
The 20th transmediale festival continues to explore the outer reaches of experimental moving image and digital culture.
Submit to ARS Electronica PRIX 07
The preeminent awards for digital art, the Prix Ars Electronica is open for 2007 submissions. To get your hands on a Golden Nica you first need to submit your project in one of the competition categories: Computer Animation / Film / VFX, Interactive Art, Digital Musics, Hybrid Art, Digital Communities, u19 – freestyle computing, [the [...]
Netmage 07 Electronic Arts of Italy
Netmage 07 (Creative and Innovative images on art, media, communication. International festival). Seventh edition of this increasingly solid Italian event features Eyerophany, a project by Emiliano Montanari (I) performed by David Lynch, Angelo Badalamenti, Enrico Ghezzi, Asja Bettin, Trentemøller feat. dj T.O.M, and shortcircuits with Thomas Pynchon, Paul Virilio, Hideo Kojima and others. Also: [...]
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