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Terminator Salvation - May 2009 Release Leave a comment Read more »

Terminator Salvation – May 2009 Release

Posted on May 20, 2009 by Moo2u
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“Terminator Salvation” is set in post-apocalyptic 2018, where John Connor is the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators. But the future that Connor was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright, a stranger whose last memory is of being on death row. Connor must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past. As Skynet prepares its final onslaught, Connor and Marcus both embark on an odyssey that takes them into the heart of Skynet’s operations, where they uncover the terrible secret behind the possible annihilation of mankind.

Pixar's "Up" Will Lift The Down at Heart Leave a comment Read more »

Pixar’s “Up” Will Lift The Down at Heart

Posted on May 2, 2009 by Moo2u
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‘Up’ is the tenth featured film from the Pixar stable and is set to hit cinemas in May 2009. ‘Up’ is the story of a 78 year old widower called Carl Fredricksen who longs to fulfil his wife Ellie’s childhood dreams. Ellie and Carl met and grew up in a small American mid western town where Ellie had often dreamed of exploring the globe and climbing mountains. When threatened by developers that he must leave his house for an assisted retirement home, Carl decides to fulfil his promise to Ellie to see the world. Carl teams up with an unlikely accomplice in the form of Russell, an eight year old enthusiastic explorer. Together the odd couple contend with unfamiliar lands, unpleasant villains and unfriendly creatures.

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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

Posted on April 30, 2009 by Moo2u
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G.I. Joe will be a modern telling of the “G.I. Joe vs. Cobra” storyline and its compelling characters that Hasbro created 25 years ago. The premise of this fantasy is the story of the G.I. Joe team, led by Duke, and their “fight for freedom wherever there is trouble” against the evil Cobra Commander and his Cobra force. This storyline was an instant hit with kids in the early 1980s, spawning a highly popular 3-3/4-inch action figure line, comic book collection and animated series. The G.I. Joe team will not be based in Brussels. Instead, they will be based out of the “Pit” as they were throughout the 1980s comic book series. And

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The Visual FX of Sin City

Posted on April 30, 2009 by Moo2u
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After the actors filmed in front of blank backgrounds, the SIN CITY effects team painstakingly brewed up the worlds they inhabit taken straight from Miller’s books. It began with Robert Rodriguez morphing Frank Miller’s books – frame by frame, entirely as is — into animatic storyboards. He than started developing the film’s look in the early experimental footage – a look he would continue to adjust throughout production. The idea was always to blend the photo-realistic with the graphic, but the trick was in finding the balance. By finessing the lighting and photography, Rodriguez played with variations on silhouette

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Sin City Greenscreen Clip

Posted on April 30, 2009 by Moo2u
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Green Screen footage with final footage from the Blu-ray edition Sin City DVD. “Sin City” is four stories inter-weaved telling tales of corruption in Basin City. The first story (The Customer is always right) is short, and is based on the depression of women that they need to pay a man to feel loved when they commit suicide. The next story is Part 1 of “That Yellow Bastard” about a cop who needs to save a young girl from being raped. The third story…

Pumping up the Wattage with Crank: High Voltage Leave a comment Read more »

Pumping up the Wattage with Crank: High Voltage

Posted on April 24, 2009 by Moo2u
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Alain Bielik gets amped up with Crank: High Voltage VFX Supervisor James McQuaide to talk about the work Duran Duboi and LOOK Effects contributed to the film. At the end of Crank (2006), professional assassin Chev Chelios took a deadly fall from a helicopter hovering…

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yU+co. Creates Titles for Disney’s Race To Witch Mountain

Posted on April 19, 2009 by Moo2u
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How do you distill the world’s collective understanding and evidence of UFOs into three-and-a-half minutes? That was the challenge facing visual design and motion graphics studio yU+co., led by Creative Director Garson Yu, for the main title sequence to Disney’s Race To Witch Mountain, opening in theatres on March 13.

Race to Witch Mountain is a sci-fi adventure about two alien visitors and their search for their lost spacecraft. For the main title sequence, yU+co.’s concept was to tell the story of UFO’s from early sightings in the U.S. to present day, using archival newspaper headlines, film footage, photos and eyewitness accounts of UFO sightings. Set to a pulsating orchestral score, the tension-filled sequence immediately pulls viewers into this mysterious world with fast-paced editing of astonishing UFO imagery coupled with a subtle, yet powerful type design that animates on and off as if emanating from an extraterrestrial transmission signal.

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The Mill Scores With The Damned United

Posted on March 31, 2009 by Moo2u
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The Mill, working with BBC Films has recently completed work on the critically acclaimed ‘The Damned United’. Based on the bestselling novel of the same name by David Pearce and adapted for screen by Peter Morgan, (The Queen and Frost/Nixon) the film was directed by the award winning Tom Hooper (Longford and John Adams).

The Damned United plays out the humorously dark story of Brian Clough’s doomed 44 day tenure as the manager of the reigning champions of English football in the 70’s, Leeds United.

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Monster Debut for Animated Movie

Posted on March 30, 2009 by Moo2u
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Animated adventure Monsters vs. Aliens has scored the biggest US box office debut of the year so far with takings of $58.2m (£41m). The Dreamworks film, which sees classic movie monsters pitted against beings from outer space, beat ghost story The Haunting In Connecticut into second…

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’s Head

Posted on March 25, 2009 by Moo2u
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“…The first “digital head” shot is the one we did for the test, where there’s a long dolly and pan until the audience sees Benjamin sitting at the table banging his spoon. That’s the first body actor for Ben in his 80s, as he grows younger we have another body actor take over for him in his 70s, when he goes out on the tugboat with Cap’n Mike and goes to the bar.”

“The bulk of our work is the “Ben 70″ character, and “Ben 60″ when he leaves home. One of our last shots is when he is reading the letter from Daisy on the back of the tugboat. The line where he tells the Captain, “Well you do drink a lot”, that’s where the real Brad takes over. “

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Who Created The Watchmen? MPC Contribute VFX

Posted on March 16, 2009 by Moo2u
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Zack Snyder has directed ‘Watchmen’ the DC Comics graphic novel inspired release for Warner Bros Studios. With VFX Supervised by John ‘DJ’ Desjardins, MPC completed 250 shots on key sequences in their Vancouver studio. The work includes the full range of digital VFX including 3D…

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‘Terminator Salvation’

Posted on March 11, 2009 by Moo2u
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‘Terminator Salvation’, the fourth in the Terminator film series, is being touted as a science fiction post-aolcalypitc war film, and is the creation of American director McG. ‘The Terminator’, released in 1984 and directed by James Cameron, was followed by two film sequels and a…

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New Deal Create Minature Effects For Watchmen

Posted on March 10, 2009 by Moo2u
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The much-anticipated release of Watchmen features high-tech mechanical and pyrotechnic effects created by New Deal Studios (NDS). The award-winning effects team at New Deal engineered a water tower to collapse onto a burning miniature tenement rooftop, spilling water onto the fire and allowing a split second window for the superheroes to save the day. A team of 60 artists from design, fabrication, effects photography, and digital combined their artistry to orchestrate the thrilling fire effects and bring the whole sequence to life.

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