Behind the scenes on Prometheus With the release of Ridley Scott’s epic Prometheus a plethora of visual effects breakdown articles have popped up. Here are some of the best around: FXGuide TV...
Category - Visual Effects
What do Visual FX editors do?
A VFX editors job…. The Editors Guild has a decent write up of two seminars given by Scott Anderson VFX editor on Gladiator and many other big hollywood features, where he shared his insights...
Avengers Assemble Visual Effects
Avengers Assemble Visual Effects Design Cargo Collective has some great images from the design team that created the displays and user interfaces in The Avengers Assemble. You can view them all here...
Editing in Stereoscopic 3D
How to edit stereoscopic 3D Gordon Burkell from AOTG.com has a fantastic article introducing some key concepts to be understood when editing in stereoscopic 3D over on masteringfilm.com. Cutting in...
Free lens flares
Gorilla Grain has morphed its way into flashbangfx.com and has a brand new range of 24 different camera lens flares to add to your footage. There are some free 720p Pro Res ‘Insta-flares’...
Smoke 2013 – Demos & Tutorials
There are plenty of Smoke 2013 product demonstrations and video tutorials available showcasing all the new editorial features and post workflows possible in the new version of Autodesk Smoke. Here...
Compositing Visual Effects – The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Visual Effects Compositing Walkthrough Eric Bever talks through some of the visual effects compositing that Digital Domain created for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo at NAB 2012. FX Guide has...
Batman The Dark Knight Post Production
Editing Batman The Dark Knight I’m a big fan of Christopher Nolan’s movies, I can’t think of one I haven’t enjoyed both from an entertainment perspective and a craft or...
Compositing Technique – Hitchcock’s Rear Window
Rear Window Compositing Breakdown Really interesting compositing work by Jeff Desom with footage taken from Alfred Hitchcock’s 1964 Rear Window.
Andrew Stanton on editing John Carter – Pixar’s latest film
The Making of John Carter from Mars Andrew Stanton talks through the post-production challenges involved in creating John Carter which is Pixar’s latest film and their first live action...
Colour grading a TV commercial using Assimilate Scratch
Freelance colorist Andreas Brueckl has some great tutorials for colour grading using Assimilate Scratch. This whirlwind tutorial reveals the process he used for a TV commercial which involved a lot...
Sherlock Holmes 2 Visual Effects Breakdown
Sherlock Homes 2 – VFX Breakdown FXguide.com has a very thorough breakdown of some of the key special effects shots for Guy Richie’s Sherlock Holmes 2: A Game of Shadows. There are some...
Learning high end finishing tools…
There seems to be more and more talk floating around the web about ‘regular editors’ using high end finishing tools like Smoke, Nuke or Scratch (which also does a whole load of production...
Free stock footage and After Effects tutorials
If you need some free stock footage for your effects work and you’ve not yet checked out videocopilot.net then you’ve been missing out on a tremendous wealth of free goodies and amazing...
Girl With The Dragon Tattoo – Visual Effects Breakdown
Girl With The Dragon Tattoo – VFX Fxguide.com (probably the best place to go for insider sfx info on the net) has an interesting visual effects breakdown on the digital effects behind David...