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Every web-nerd’s favorite comic strip xkcd just wrapped up a 5 part series called “The Race” featuring stick figure likenesses of Nathan Fillion, Summer Glau and chock full’o inside…

Smashing Magazine has posted a list of Best Tutorials For Cinematic Visual Effects. The post links to 62 techniques ranging from the 007 Intro to Meteor Crashes. So this one post…

Filmmaker Kris Wong has put together Command+Z, a nifty little short that has tons of energy and a lot of VFX moxie. According to Kris’ website

Our main influences came from action…

If you laughed at the title of this post you will defiantly be jealous of my VFX geek-tastic Birthday Cake. A handcrafted, custom baked and iced, full scale replica of the Millennium…

Nowadays aspiring your visual effects artists have a lot a resources that weren’t available in the old days (like 1990-2000) Fancy modeling,animation and rendering tools had yet to hit the…

Ever get sick of being referred to as a “3d Guy”? Well if you have you may enjoy an open letter rant posted on cgpov.com. It’s got some gems including.

Please do not ever again refer to…

The folks over at Sci Fi Scoop were nice enough to interview me about the effects work I’ve had the pleasure of working of for J.J. Abrams’ series Fringe. Not only did they…

1. Japanese Spider-man fights giant half-dinosaur-half-robots from space
2. Japanese Spider-man’s “Eyes sparkle with a flash of anger” (according to the theme song)
3. Japanese…

You know that Visual Effects has truly come into it’s own as a cultural phenom when there’s a story about it in The Onion. It’s like being a musician and having your song cover by “Weird”…

That “guy” is Bruce Branit, one of the creators of 405:The Movie and film he made is called World Builder. It was shot fully on greenscreen in 1 day and then spent about two…

The results are in from CGenie’s user survey on 3d artists satisfaction with the software they use. Above is a graph of the overall satisfaction scores for each software. It’s interesting…

Seems that the Golden State has finally wised up and started offering some of the same tax credits other states and countries have given up to movies and tv shows for years. The deal is that…

The most common question I’ve been getting around the VFX world lately is “How the hell do I shot and HDR?”. For those of you still doing visual effects on a Commodore 64, that stands for…

Q: What’s better than slaving away on VFX jobs in downtown Detroit? A: Doing it all in an abandoned casino!

Seems like the tax breaks the great lakes state is offering have drawn some…