spherevfx is delighted to have trained artist from Windmill Lane Pictures, Irelands largest and longest established integrated film and television post production company.

The course covered all aspects of NukeX including its unique multi layer/channel workflow, keying, masks, tracking, colour correction, 3D, camera matchmoving, lens distortion, gizmo creation and much more.

For more information about Windmill Lane, click here...

NukeX Introduction Course for Skillset

spherevfx is delighted to have run a Nuke Introduction course for Skillset Academy Plus.

The course was is designed for those artist would had no previous Nuke experience.

Intermedia and Advances courses to follow soon. See the Skillset Academy Plus website for more details.

Flame to NukeX Course

spherevfx is delighted to have trained a senior Autodesk Flame artist in NukeX.

Eduardo “Alvin” Cruz has worked at some of the top digital production studio in the UK, USA and Spain including: Golden Square (Soho), Pure (New York), MacGuff (Los Angeles) and Serena Digital (Madrid).

The week long course covered many aspects of NukeX and focused on the different tools and techniques found between Flame and Nuke.

For more information on Eduardo, click here...

New Stereoscopic Course

spherevfx is pleased to announce our new 'Introduction to Stereoscopic Post Production' course.

The course looks to introduce existing artists working in 3D and Compositing into the world of stereo and covers everything from concepts & theory to hands-on exercises.

The 3D software being taught is Autodesk's Maya but with the Compositing side of the course you can choose either The Foundry's Nuke or eyeon's Fusion. A fourth section covers the use of The Foundry's Ocula.

For prices and full course information, click here...

July 2010

The Foundry, a leading developer of visual effects software is delighted to announce that Double Negative and Framestore have made a significant investment in it’s newest product – MARI.

MARI is a brand new creative 3D texture painting product originally developed at Weta Digital to handle the exceedingly detailed look development and texture work demanded by Avatar, MARI copes easily with an obsessive level of detail - literally tens of thousands of textures - quickly and elegantly.

MARI has been enthusiastically received across a variety of texture painting communities. This decision by Double Negative and Framestore to invest while the product is still in beta and set MARI to work on live projects is testament to quality of the product and hunger for development in this area of work.

To read the full press release, click here...

July 2010

Walt Disney Animation Studios has licensed Nuke, the Sci-Tech Award®-winning compositing technology from leading visual effects software developer, The Foundry, and will utilize it in the production of its feature projects, it was announced today by Bill Collis, CEO, The Foundry. Disney will use The Foundry’s tools to help re-envision the way departments and workflow come together in creating animated films.

To read the full press release, click here...

July 2010

fxphd have released details on the new July 2010 term. 30 courses are being repeated, 20 are in "The Vault", and 13 courses are new. These include:

• AFX212 After Effects Project - The Open, Part 2
• BKD217 Background Fundamentals July10
• NUK303 Nuke Stereoscopic Master Class
• C4D205 Cinema 4D and Design III
• PRM201 Intermediate Premiere Pro CS5
• RFL202 Real Flow 5 Project Workshop
• DOP203 Tools of the DOP
• RGT201 Red Giant for FCP
• DOP211 DSLR Cinematography: Nature
• LST201 Intermediate Lustre
• SMK204 Intermediate Smoke/Flame III
• VUE201 A Comprehensive Guide to Vue

For full details, click here...

July 2010

The Foundry has a new web site. It was launched today as a public beta. You can visit it at beta.thefoundry.co.uk.

There are lots of changes both in how it looks and how it works. The Foundry hope you like it. If you spot any missing links or have any comments, please email Andy Ballingall.

Development will continue over the next few weeks and months.

June 2010

eyeon Software announced today the release of their latest version of Fusion’s new Supercomputing compositing software for Linux and Windows. Some of the new features include: • OpenCL GPU Supercomputing • RenderMan® support • Python scripting • RED® camera MYSTERIUM X™ support • Particle system and geometry enhancements • Particle caching • Relighting enhancements • Full importing of scenes with matched animation curves • Importing of stereo cameras • FBX multi level materials support from all major 3D applications • Film Grain tool • Hue Curves and colour suppression tool • Local file caching options • Increased metadata support • Coordinate transfer modifier enhancements

To read the press release, click here...

14th July 2010

14th July 2010

Red news, in the Red room the guys speak to Kyle Ruddick from the One Day On Earth project & Stu Maschwitz joins them to say why fetishists should relax!

13th July 2010

Mike Seymour, Ron Brinkmann and Ian Failes revisit Ian’s favorite film of all time, “Speed.”

13th July 2010

A technical chat about Pixar film production along with some history dating back to the MIT Media Lab and Thinking Machines.

26th June 2010

Cinematographer Peter Biagi talks with AC’s John Pavlus about shooting the feature Under New Management. Biagi discusses maintaining a career in the Chicago area, shooting on location in New York and working as a camera operator for Robert Altman on his last two features.