Effects Corner
Insights to Visual Effects for Motion Pictures and Television. How it's done in Hollywood and how you can do it yourself
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VFX Schedules
More reader questions regarding schedules What is a 'Shot Timeline'...is this some sort of device used to tell the amount of time the shot should last for or what. You also made mention of some... [Summary only. Full text at site.]
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VFX management
Here are a few reader questions. As I???ve said before each company and each production is a bit different. There are no standards of operation so there will exceptions to everything below. How... [Summary only. Full text at site.]
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Close Encounters Book
There's a new book on Close Encounters of the Third Kind. This was the first film I worked on and the author covers the behind the scenes, including the visual effects. I still have to get around... [Summary only. Full text at site.]
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VFX Supervisor article in Variety
Click on the post title to go to an article in Variety about visual effects supervisors. Some productions are catching on. Here's the link if you have... [Summary only. Full text at site.]
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Visual Effects in India
NPR did a story on vfx animation in India last week. Click on the Post Title above to go to the article or use the link only. Full text at site.]
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Audio Reminder
This is just a reminder for those who subscribe to the audio feed to check out the latest articles posted here. http://www.effectscorner.com is the base address that links to this blog. I have a... [Summary only. Full text at site.]
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Comparisons
When you go to an eye doctor he asks you to compare two different lens choices. ???Is this better or this better???? Step by step he refines the specific lenses that you need. The visual effects... [Summary only. Full text at site.]
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LA Shows - Matte Painting, Illustrations
The Academy is having a couple of events in the next 2 or 3 weeks of interest. Motion Picture Illustrators exhibit in their gallery until Dec 16. Matte Painting show by Craig Barron Dec 10 at the... [Summary only. Full text at site.]
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Mac Widget for Effects Corner
Click the link of the title and download a Widget for the Mac to display the highlights of the last 10 postings here. Click on the article title in the widget and it takes you to the page. [Summary only. Full text at site.]
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Photo Real and Realism in Visual Effects
At the start of most projects every director requests their shots be photo real What does Photo Real mean? Are realistic vfx shots a lot more difficult than fantasy shots? Photo Real means to... [Summary only. Full text at site.]
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Visual Effects Society
Just a reminder to check out the Visual Effects Society (VES) sometime. If you're a professional with 5 years or more experience then you can qualify for membership. They have member inductions twice a year. There are now additional sections in London, Vancouver and San Francisco area. Student …
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Budgeting VFX
Budgeting VFXI covered some of the basics of this in the post/podcast Bidding and Preproduction I???ll be going into more detail in this posting.As previously discussed budgeting visual effects can be very difficult. You have the possible issues of developing new looks and techniques. How long wil …
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Naming conventions and workflow
Naming conventions and workflow.Since this question has come up a few times I???ll try to address it here. Note that if a company is already up and running chances are they have a workflow in place along with naming conventions. I???ll describe some of the more typical approaches but there are no …
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Filming the Fantastic
I recieved this email the other day from Mark Sawicki along with a notice from the Visual Effects Society. Unfortunately I haven't seen the book yet (looks good on Amazon) and probably won't be able to attend the screening.----From Mark Sawicki:Another reason I'm writing is to let you know of a new …
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More on VFX Time Crunch
fxguide has a follow up to the Variety article on the crushing post-production schedules for visual effects. This was touched on in my Wasting Time post.The problem here is the studios are making very expensive movies and want to reduce the amount of time they???re paying interest on what is essen …
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Visual Effects Schools
For those with questions about possible schools for visual effects I've had no direct experience with visual effects classes but thought I'd list a few here.I know there are quite a few others world-wide so don't look at this list as the only available source of training.(Note that I'm not making an …
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Time's a wasting
Click on the Post title above to go to the Variety article on the time the studios allow for VFX on feature films.Some film producers like to brag how little time they have and how close they came to finishing right before the release of the last movie. Personally I look at that as a sign of poor p …
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Visual Effects Festival
If you're in the LA area the Visual Effects Society Festival starts Thursday night and runs through Sunday.Click on the Post Title to go to their info page.
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Spring cleaning
I'm doing a bit of adjustments to the blog as time permits to make it more useful.On the left I've included permanent links to the main effects postings to make them easier to find.I've put key tags to all (most?) so you can click on the tags at the bottom of a post and it will display related posti …
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Update
Hoping to get the next podcast uploaded tomorrow.I've started listing this site on various podcast directories. iTunes kicked it back for some reason and their system seems to be broken so I've been unable to resubmit it. Those of you with iTunes will have to manually add the feed for now. Sorry. …
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