Craig Xray Halperin — Insomniac Games
From veiny vampires to swinging superheroes: Craig Xray Halperin on an incredible career which has taken in blockbuster VFX, Greek temples and VR video games.
Sonja Christoph — Massive Entertainment
How do VFX skills translate into the world of videogames? Matte painter and level artist at Massive Entertainment Sonja tells Chris about going from “Doctor Strange” to “The Division.”
Robert Christophe — Victory Dojo/New Voices Academy
From sensei to cinema screen: discover how this karate sensei is using his skills to teach teens about writing, filming and acting for a short movie.
Colin Aguiar — Composer
How do you create a film score? Chris discusses the influences, ideology and intricate process of making film music with the “Construct” composer, Colin Aguiar
Robin Cowie & Tony Stanley — EA
Meet Hollywood talent who made the jump to games — and find out how they brought cinematic animation, storytelling and production techniques with them.
Four-years, 210 all-CG shots. The film that changed VFX workflows
Before “real-time ray tracing” was sexy: CONSTRUCT is the proof that a small team of top talent can literally change the future of VFX workflows.
Kevin Margo & Derron Ross — CONSTRUCT
After five years in production, Kevin Margo’s short film Construct has finally been released. Find out why it’s taken such a long time, and how this little film could change VFX workflows in a big way.
Jesse James Chisholm
After Black Panther and Ready Player One VFX supervisor tells you everything you need to know about working on set in the movies
Butterfly Effects
Graduation project When John Goes Outside is a short film with a big message. We talk to the students who created it.
Colin Green
The long history of how the art of Previs revolutionized the entire film industry
V-Ray Next: Switching the camera from manual to automatic
The new automatic exposure and white balance settings in V-Ray next not only make the rendering process simpler and faster, but they also balance your renderings for both speed and quality.
Saliency in VR
A recent paper on computer vision from Stanford University, Universidad de Zaragoza, and University of California Berkeley explains the Saliency of VR.
Ben Grossmann - Magnopus
We speak to Ben Grossmann about all the his work and start to get an idea of what Magnopus is all about.
Uncube feature on DFL member Ben West
Uncube featured an article about Digital Film League member Ben West on how his architecture background have help him evolve his creative skill set.
Digital Film League welcomes Justin Denton
Justin Denton is a director and vfx supervisor specializing in VR content.
Justin Denton
Justin Denton talks about how Legend 3D started to make VR content in both live action and CG.
Ben West joins the Digital Film League
Ben West joins the Digital Film League
Ben West
This week we talk to Ben West, a Creative Director at Framestore, and Director.
V-Ray running in Motion Builder in the Cloud
A look at how we tied V-Ray Cloud for Motionbuilder for CONSTRUCT.