Barbara Robertson

Animation Magazine’s Oscar Watch Part 3 of 4: Surveying the VFX Fireworks

Alternate realities, science fiction, action adventure, thrillers, children's stories, graphic novels, mysteries'this year, visual effects crews peppered films in all these genres with images...

Out of the Blue

How years of R&D, a revolutionary virtual camera system and long hours of detailed performance capture and keyframe animation gave birth to the 3-D,...

Making Mayan Mayhem

No question about it: Audiences will get their money's worth of eye-popping, end-of-the-world vfx in Roland Emmerich's disaster movie, 2012. This month's disaster-zeitgeist movie 2012...

The Giant Lobster-Heads of Summer

The Toronto-based vfx team behind Syfy's new hit series, Warehouse 13, discuss the fine art of creating a cornucopia of paranormal artifacts. Start with a...

SIGGRAPH Quick Bytes: Final Day

Balance It's odd to think of a product that won a Technical Achievement Award in 2002 from the Academy as 'new,' but ScienceD claims that...

SIGGRAPH Quick Bytes: Day Three

Visualization in the Pipeline I started my day by moderating a panel on pitchvis, previs, postvis, and it was great. Rick Sayre from Pixar, Rob...

Quick Bytes from SIGGRAPH: Day Two

SCAD Welcomes Scott Ross The Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) announced a new and powerful executive advisor to School of Film, Digital Media...

SUPINFOCOM Finds Super Success at SIGGRAPH

Each year, SIGGRAPH highlights some of the best animated films created with computer graphics at its annual festival, and each year, the students from...

Building an Island of Lost Souls

How the sharp crew at ILM helped shape the breath-taking, fiery climax for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Toward the end of Warner Bros.'...

To South America and Beyond

Up, the 10th feature from John Lasseter's unbeatable hit-making studio is described as a 'coming of old age' movie and travels to some unchartered...

Revenge of the Sci-Fi Victims

Monsters vs. Aliens, DreamWorks' latest epic, puts vaguely familiar characters from our favorite '50s movies into a ginormous stereoscopic package. It all started with the...

Eyetronics Lends EFX Insurance to Bulletproof Monk

Over the last year or so, it has become a standard practice in action films to scan and create digital models of actors and...
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