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/director-kory-martin-juul-creates-white-tiger-legend-almost-single-handedly/ http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/visual-fx/director-kory-martin-juul-creates-white-tiger-legend-almost-single-handedly/#comments Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:35:07 +0000 Staff http://www.btlnews.com/?p=10964 Kory Martin Juul relied extensively on the PhaseSpace motion capture system for production on his new animated martial arts film, White Tiger Legend. Through creative use of the system, and his own martial arts training, Juul was able to capture 572 shots for the film on a tight schedule using a skeleton crew with only a shoestring budget.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/visual-fx/director-kory-martin-juul-creates-white-tiger-legend-almost-single-handedly/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/ilm-bends-fantasy-into-reality-in-the-last-airbender/ http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/ilm-bends-fantasy-into-reality-in-the-last-airbender/#comments Fri, 02 Jul 2010 01:58:59 +0000 Mary Ann Skweres http://www.btlnews.com/?p=10871 brings Nickelodeon's popular animated series, The Last Airbender, to the big screen in a live-action adventure created with the help of the visual effects, 3D matte painting and animation artists of Industrial Light and Magic. Although the team was faithful to the original television show, incorporating key elements, they also needed the film to look completely realistic.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/ilm-bends-fantasy-into-reality-in-the-last-airbender/feed/ 1 http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/post-production/light-illusion-launches-lightspace-cms/ http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/post-production/light-illusion-launches-lightspace-cms/#comments Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:04:10 +0000 Staff http://www.btlnews.com/?p=10815 http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/post-production/light-illusion-launches-lightspace-cms/feed/ 4 http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/post-production/framestore-creates-cg-rodent-rappers-for-kia/ http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/post-production/framestore-creates-cg-rodent-rappers-for-kia/#comments Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:50:09 +0000 Staff http://www.btlnews.com/?p=10752 Framestore recently spent three months creating 45 photoreal CG rodent rap stars for David & Goliath's new Kia Soul spot, "This or That." The spot was directed by Partizan's Antoine Bardou-Jacquet.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/post-production/framestore-creates-cg-rodent-rappers-for-kia/feed/ 2 http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/visual-fx/frame-studio-explores-the-history-of-music/ http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/visual-fx/frame-studio-explores-the-history-of-music/#comments Sat, 05 Jun 2010 12:21:39 +0000 Staff http://www.btlnews.com/?p=10894 http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/visual-fx/frame-studio-explores-the-history-of-music/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/visual-fx/below-the-line-trends-hybrid-visual-effects-techniques-%e2%80%93-the-wolfman/ http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/visual-fx/below-the-line-trends-hybrid-visual-effects-techniques-%e2%80%93-the-wolfman/#comments Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:07:43 +0000 Scott Essman http://www.btlnews.com/?p=10732 http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/visual-fx/below-the-line-trends-hybrid-visual-effects-techniques-%e2%80%93-the-wolfman/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/visual-fx/ben-hur-rides-again-with-oblique-fx/ http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/visual-fx/ben-hur-rides-again-with-oblique-fx/#comments Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:40:04 +0000 Scott Lehane http://www.btlnews.com/?p=10665 Oblique FX recently completed all of the visual effects for Ben Hur – a new two-part miniseries that revisits the Charlton Heston classic tale of a man betrayed and sold into slavery by his friend.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/visual-fx/ben-hur-rides-again-with-oblique-fx/feed/ 1 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/crafts/post-production/i-e-effects-boosts-stereo-3d-pipeline-with-isilon-storage/ http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/post-production/i-e-effects-boosts-stereo-3d-pipeline-with-isilon-storage/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:16:08 +0000 Staff http://www.btlnews.com/?p=9944 http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/post-production/i-e-effects-boosts-stereo-3d-pipeline-with-isilon-storage/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/visual-fx/previs-society-ramps-up/ http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/visual-fx/previs-society-ramps-up/#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:28:30 +0000 Phil Rhodes http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/visual-fx/previs-society-ramps-up/ http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/visual-fx/previs-society-ramps-up/feed/ 1