Did you ever wonder how the magic of films like Harry Potter, the sci-fi superhero-ness of Ra.One, or even Elizabethan England in 2012 like in The King’s Speech is created? How are all those visual special effects added and layered to make it look so real? One of the companies that provides the software that is integral in making those scenes, whether it is Shah Rukh Khan in Ra.One able to throw cars and land from the top of the building or the telephone poles disappear in a period pieces or the robots to fighting to save the world, look totally realistic is The Foundry, in Soho in London. Bill Collis, the CEO of the company, sat down to talk with us about their incredible tool sets, including the compositor tool set Nuke, which makes us believe that instead of being filmed in front of a green screen with the...
- 7/23/2012
- by Stacey Yount
- Bollyspice
We love cool, new technology, as much as the next guy. But when the technology comes from Lucasfilm, where so much movie magic has been conjured up since 1977, it caught our attention. This press release just arrived:
Vancouver, B.C. – August 9, 2011 – Alembic 1.0, the open source project jointly developed by Sony Pictures Imageworks and Lucasfilm Ltd. was released to the public today, it was announced at Acm Siggraph conference in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Alembic is the computer graphics interchange format developed by the two entertainment giants last year and focused on efficiently storing and sharing animation and visual effects scenes across multiple software applications. It was designed to handle massive animation data sets often required in high-end visual effects and animation, which are routinely developed and produced by companies such as Lucasfilm’s Industrial Light & Magic and Lucasfilm Animation Ltd and Sony Pictures Imageworks. The studios each saw the need for a tool like Alembic,...
Vancouver, B.C. – August 9, 2011 – Alembic 1.0, the open source project jointly developed by Sony Pictures Imageworks and Lucasfilm Ltd. was released to the public today, it was announced at Acm Siggraph conference in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Alembic is the computer graphics interchange format developed by the two entertainment giants last year and focused on efficiently storing and sharing animation and visual effects scenes across multiple software applications. It was designed to handle massive animation data sets often required in high-end visual effects and animation, which are routinely developed and produced by companies such as Lucasfilm’s Industrial Light & Magic and Lucasfilm Animation Ltd and Sony Pictures Imageworks. The studios each saw the need for a tool like Alembic,...
- 8/9/2011
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
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