A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
The film Solo: A Star Wars Story has been Oscar nominated in the category of Best Visual Effects. Visual Effects Supervisor Julian Foddy from ILM spoke to Al Moloney about making the film. Highly interesting part on how they made the mountain from the train heist scene explode. Turns out not all is computer generated …
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I really enjoyed Apple’s “Welcome Home” ad for the HomePod, directed by Spike Jonze: Over at AdWeek there’s a behind the scenes video available showing how they made it: In particular, we get immersed in the choreography and the production design. But we also see how other elements came together, like the lighting, music and …
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A taste of the Oscar Nominated Visual Effects work behind the destruction of Jedha and the battle on the beaches of Scarif in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Hope to see a longer cut of this in the future, as it’s rather short. Spectacular nonetheless. UPDATE 2017.03.02 The BBC has a bit more backstory …
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World War II From Space is a 90 minute documentary visualising key events from World War II from the vantage point of space. This was a huge task as there were 300 animations (most between 20/30 secs) and 79 VFX shots completed in 8 months. This is a montage of some of these sequences. You …