VFXNewswire :: May 14, 2008 :: Speed Racer, fmx/08 & Maya 2008 Tutorial

[Dan Sarto]

May 14, 2008
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fmx/08: Expanding the Global Animation & VFX Connection Johannes Wolters dives into fmx/08, which this year offered an even greater number of stimulating discussions on the state of artistic and technological visual content.       Speed Racer: Go Go Go Anime Bill Desowitz revs up Speed Racer with VFX Supervisors John Gaeta and Dan Glass along with Digital Domain, BUF, CafeFX, Evil Eye, Sony Pictures Imageworks and ILM.       Maya 2008 Character Modeling and Animation: NURBS Curves In this third of six excerpts from Maya 2008 Character Modeling and Animation, author Tereza Flaxman provides an introduction to the two basic methods for creating and controlling NURBS curves in Maya.       Autodesk Discusses Realviz and Kynogon Acquisitions Autodesk's SVP Marc Petit talks to Bill Desowitz exclusively about the strategy behind his company's recent acquisitions.       From Animation World Magazine...       Animation Smorgasbord at New York Comic Con Janet Hetherington reports on juicy animation and vfx tidbits from New York Comic Con -- including X-Files 2, Hellboy 2, The Incredible Hulk, Wall•E, Prince Caspian and more.          Digital-Tutors Releases Flash And Maya Integration Training          With A Twist Pours It On For Quikrete          Disney And Bruckheimer Buy An Increment          Animation, Thriller Among Few New Shows On ABC In Fall          Hoodwinked Helmer to Direct Fraggle Rock Feature          In Review: fmx/08 In Stuttgart          Fable Works Animation Eats Up Cereal Heroes! Feature          Dr. Jones, Drawn Together, Narnia: DVD Releases For May 13, 2008          Blur Goes Disco in Latest Spot from Pringles          Sony's IPAX Program Admits Seven New Schools          SIGGRAPH Asia 2008: Still Open for Submission          3D Supervisor Paul Ghezzo Joins Zoic Studios          Hasbro Gets New Motion Pictures Head          Animazoo Launches IGS-190H Motion-Capture System          Iron Man Gets Checked Flag, Speed Racer Distant 3rd          Spielberg Thinkin' Lincoln After Tintin          Witchblade Finds Its Way to Theaters          Madagascar 2 Goes Big on IMAX          Stoltz, Toressani Enlist in Battlestar Prequel          Verbinski to Direct BioShock Feature          Nu Image/Millennium Films Acquires Buck Rogers          ABC Locates Two More Hours of Lost          AWNtv This Week - Bad Boys of Animation & Rockin' Videos AWNtv let animated girls go wild; now it introduces the bad boys... you know you love them. From Cole who needs women to a naughty door-to-door salesman to super cool Disco Cool to seven sinners to an avenging line-dancing bear to randy neutered cats to convertible-driving pigs to black-hatted cowboys -- the bad boys are talking over AWNtv! For something new -- more than snowballs get thrown in DARTS IN THE SNOW. Justice seeking acorns vs. scheming squirrels in NUTZ. Come to the dark side for LA PETITE ET LA MORT. Rock out to two cool non-English music vids -- ATRAPADOS and KO JE JAMIO JAMIO! And don't miss Louis Hudson's COUNTDOWN, Eric Wagner's SPIDER'S WALK, and Belle Mellor's SLEEP WITH THE FISHES -- the cool vids of the week. Check it all out!          Digital Musings From the Editor: SPEED RACER may not have lit up the box office in its opening weekend, but it represents a bar-raising vfx experiment by the Wachowskis and their talented collaborators that deserves to be experienced (digitally or in IMAX). In addition to our exhaustive report, which includes some terrific and exclusive making-of videos on AWNtv, we also have a profile of how they crafted the distinctive "Photo Anime" look featuring Digital Domain's Darren Poe and Jake Morrison, who spearheaded the in-house team called Exhaust. In addition, Johannes Wolters gives us an overview of fmx/08, and Joe Strike profiles Andrew Adamson and his experiences directing the two CHRONICLES OF NARNIA movies, including PRINCE CASPIAN, which opens Friday from Disney. Bill Desowitz Editor          Texturing The Ship Deck - Image Breakdown          Interview with Marc Brunet          Making of The Kitchen          Interview with Speed Racer's Michael Meyers          Ben Snow          Iron Man: Breaking all the iron clad rules    Bill Desowitz Editor - VFXWorld Jon Hofferman Interim Editor - AWN Rick DeMott Managing Editor Ron Diamond Co-founder & Publisher Dan Sarto Co-founder & Publisher Darlene Chan Associate Editor To submit news or article ideas, please contact us at: edi...@vfxworld.com 323.606.4200 View Past Newsletters Andy Strum 323.606.4218 Donna Bulford 323.606.4213 You have received this newsletter because you are a registered member of VFXWorld or have signed up to this mailing list. You are subscribed as gov...@gmail.com. To unsubscribe from this newsletter, please click here. To subscribe, please click here.

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