http://www.btlnews.com Voice of the Crew Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:07:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/visual-fx/burton-in-wonderland/ http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/visual-fx/burton-in-wonderland/#comments Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:06:29 +0000 Mark London Williams http://www.btlnews.com/?p=10552 Alice in Wonderland, Disney's not-a-remake revisiting of material they last brought to screen in 50's-era animation, apparently nibbled the cake that said "Eat Me," and became that big.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/visual-fx/burton-in-wonderland/feed/ 1 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-portfolios/joe-letteri-on-the-visual-effects-of-avatar/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-portfolios/joe-letteri-on-the-visual-effects-of-avatar/#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:19:53 +0000 Scott Essman http://www.btlnews.com/?p=9341 Peter Jackson’s final two films in his Lord of the Rings trilogy, Stephen Sommers’ Van Helsing, and Jackson’s King Kong, Joe Letteri might have faced an even greater challenge with James Cameron’s Avatar. For this newest project, which is winning troves of awards and breaking both worldwide and domestic box office records, Letteri faced supervising effects for a movie that was a predominantly virtual production, with fully-realized computer-generated characters and worlds, on top of being shot in 3D with new camera processes.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-portfolios/joe-letteri-on-the-visual-effects-of-avatar/feed/ 3 http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/post-production/men-who-stare-at-monitors-thomas-j-smith-on-rendering-fx-for-the-men-who-stare-at-goats/ http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/post-production/men-who-stare-at-monitors-thomas-j-smith-on-rendering-fx-for-the-men-who-stare-at-goats/#comments Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:05:08 +0000 Mark London Williams http://www.btlnews.com/?p=6810 Thomas J. Smith has overseen digital effects on pictures where you know you’ll be watching a lot of digital sleight-of-hand, like The League of Extraordinary Gentleman and The Chronicles of Riddick, and also films you wouldn’t immediately expect to be FX heavy, like all three Ocean’s films with George Clooney. He found himself in that role again with Clooney, with a film set in other deserts besides downtown Vegas, namely “The Men Who Stare at Goats.”]]> http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/post-production/men-who-stare-at-monitors-thomas-j-smith-on-rendering-fx-for-the-men-who-stare-at-goats/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/apocalypse-almost-now-volker-engel-and-marc-weigert-on-world%e2%80%99s-end-fx-in-2012/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/apocalypse-almost-now-volker-engel-and-marc-weigert-on-world%e2%80%99s-end-fx-in-2012/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:06:00 +0000 Mark London Williams http://www.btlnews.com/sean/wordpress/?p=549 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/apocalypse-almost-now-volker-engel-and-marc-weigert-on-world%e2%80%99s-end-fx-in-2012/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/visual-fx/charles-gibson-vfx-supervisor-terminator-salvation/ http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/visual-fx/charles-gibson-vfx-supervisor-terminator-salvation/#comments Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:48:41 +0000 Jack Egan http://www.btlnews.com/?p=9356 http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/visual-fx/charles-gibson-vfx-supervisor-terminator-salvation/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/visual-fx/a-sense-of-travel-alex-wuttke-and-victor-wade-on-quantum-of-solace/ http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/visual-fx/a-sense-of-travel-alex-wuttke-and-victor-wade-on-quantum-of-solace/#comments Sat, 08 Nov 2008 21:30:05 +0000 Mark London Williams http://www.btlnews.com/?p=9693 http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/visual-fx/a-sense-of-travel-alex-wuttke-and-victor-wade-on-quantum-of-solace/feed/ 0