Framestore was the sole provider of digital visual effects for Steven Spielberg’s War Horse, delivering over 200 shots to the movie. [...]
Continue reading War Horse : VFX on the Front Line
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 “Tintin” leads with most feature nominations; “Boardwalk Empire” for broadcast [...] Continue reading VES announces nominees for 10th Annual Awards  Opening today, the Assimilate Store offers Assimilate software, third-party software, third-party hardware accessories and Assimilate merchandise. [...] Continue reading Assimilate opens online ‘trading post’  Digital Domain has created an all-CG spot, ‘Dust to Dust’, for Gears of War 3. The digital production studio in collaboration with twofifteenmccann, Epic Games, and director Adam Berg, put the 60- second spot together using an innovative virtual production technique [...] Continue reading Dust to Dust  Autodesk has released Motion FX, a free movement-based video effects app available exclusively for Mac OS X Lion [...] Continue reading Autodesk releases free Motion FX vfx app  Dublin-based post facility Screen Scene has revealed how it graded the first series of HBO’s successful television fantasy drama Game of Thrones [...] Continue reading Adding a finish to Game of Thrones  Framestore has created a cute, but not so cuddly CG koala for a Specsavers TV ad. [...] Continue reading Marsupial menace  Fuel VFX delivered 120 shots in six sequences for the latest Marvel blockbuster Captain America: The First Avenger, subjecting the superhero to a battery of elements [...] Continue reading Neither snow nor fire nor water nor Hydra stays Captain America… Mothership has named ex-Motion Theory veteran Scott Gemmell as Head of Production. [...] Continue reading Scott Gemmell boards Mothership |   
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Recently I reviewed the new version of the venerable DTP software and set out some key tips for using it in a Masterclass feature for Macworld [...]
In this feature, commissioned by Macworld, I track the last ten years of Mac OS X. It ends with a preview of Mac OS X 7- Codenamed Lion, which is due this summer. [...]
What is the secret of convincing portraiture, whether done digitally or in traditional media or a mixture of the two? Find out in this feature [...]