Apr 9, 2013

Now Streaming from NAB 2013 What would a major broadcasting convention be without streaming video? Here’s a short list of live streams available to people who were unable to attend this year’s show. FXGuide.com is streaming from the Foundry Booth. The Foundry is, of course, the new home of Modo, so you might be able to catch some Modo demos on...

Jan 28, 2013

Yup, it’s official. If you scroll down you will find the listing for Iron Sky. http://www.aacta.org/the-awards/2nd-aacta-awards/first-winners-announced.aspx While this next link is old, it covers some behind the scenes footage from Visual VFX at Energia Productions in Tampere,...

May 24, 2012

A while ago Jeremy Hughes did a series of tutorials on working with Cineform. These are freely available to all who may need a hint or a tip or few on working with this powerful tool set in various applications, specifically AfterEffects. For the videos (there are several) check...

Jan 15, 2012

Two great things have happened in 2011 and continue on into 2012. First of all, NewTek announced LightWave 11 in LA back in November and we expect to see it released very shortly. The second was the completion of the VFX work for the Finnish Feature Film Sci/Fi Dark Comedy – Iron Sky. These two events are deeply linked together because LightWave was a...

Nov 25, 2011

We are almost at the 200 day mark here for Iron Sky and our time on it (well, Luke and I that is).  Right now Luke is taking a break shooting people in the head and being shot dead in some video game that he’s playing while I am going through the paces of finding the sweet spot for a render with a dozen or so HV fire, smoke and other pyrotechnics stuff...