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83rd Annual Academy Awards Nominees

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83rd Annual Academy Awards Nominees Announced

The nominees for the 83rd Annual Academy Awards have been announced. As expected, big players include The Social Network and The King’s Speech, but there are very strong showings for The Kids Are All Right, The Fighter and True Grit. The Best Picture nominees are: Black Swan, The Fighter, Inception, The Kids Are All Right, The King’s Speech, 127 Hours, The Social Network, Toy Story 3, True Grit, and Winter’s Bone. If you’re going by the numbers, The King’s Speech is strong with 12, followed by a wonderful 10 for True Grit and then 8 for both The Social Network and Inception, with the latter scoring on technical nominations.

For the full list of nominees Read More.

While Inception did manage to squeeze into the Best Picture race, Christopher Nolan didn’t get a Best Director slot. Glad that Javier Bardem got his nod for Biutiful, and that True Grit shows up as strong as it does. And people were afraid it might get shut out. Scott Pilgrim could have used at least an effects nod, especially over the dismal Alice in Wonderland, but I’m not actually surprised to see the way that category went.

Surprises include the nomination of Dogtooth in the Foreign category (that was a big and very pleasant surprise), and it’s great to see John Hawkes get a nod for his great work in Winter’s Bone. Not really a surprise to see James Franco nominated for 127 Hours, but as his work was perhaps the strongest aspect of that film, it’s still a good thing. Despite getting a few nods in other awards circles, Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer didn’t show at all.

The Oscars will be awarded live by hosts James Franco and Anne Hathaway on February 27, 2011. Here are the nominees.

BEST PICTURE:
Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The Kids Are All Right
The King’s Speech
127 Hours
The Social Network
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter’s Bone

DIRECTING:
Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan
David O. Russell, The Fighter
Tom Hooper, The King’s Speech
David Fincher, The Social Network
Joel and Ethan Coen, True Grit

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE:
Javier Bardem, Biutiful
Jeff Bridges, True Grit
Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network
Colin Firth, The King’s Speech
James Franco, 127 Hours

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE:
Annette Bening, The Kids Are All Right
Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole
Jennifer Lawrence, Winter’s Bone
Natalie Portman, Black Swan
Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE:
Christian Bale, The Fighter
John Hawks, Winter’s Bone
Jeremy Renner, The Town
Geoffrey Rush, The King’s Speech
Mark Ruffalo, The Kids Are All Right

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE:
Amy Adams, The Fighter
Helena Bonham Carter, The King’s Speech
Melissa Leo, The Fighter
Hailee Steinfeld, True Grit
Jackie Weaver, Animal Kingdom

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
127 Hours (Fox Searchlight), Screenplay by Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy
The Social Network (Sony Pictures Releasing), Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin
Toy Story 3 (Walt Disney), Screenplay by Michael Arndt. Story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich
True Grit (Paramount), Written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
Winter’s Bone (Roadside Attractions), Adapted for the screen by Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
Another Year (Sony Pictures Classics), Written by Mike Leigh
The Fighter (Paramount), Screenplay by Scott Silver and Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson. Story by Keith Dorrington & Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson
Inception (Warner Bros.), Written by Christopher Nolan
The Kids Are All Right (Focus Features), Written by Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg
The King’s Speech (The Weinstein Company), Screenplay by David Seidler

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:
Biutiful
Dogtooth
In a Better World
Incendies
Outside the Law

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM:
How to Train Your Dragon
The Illusionist
Toy Story 3

CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Black Swan (Fox Searchlight) Matthew Libatique
Inception (Warner Bros.) Wally Pfister
The King’s Speech (The Weinstein Company) Danny Cohen
The Social Network (Sony Pictures Releasing) Jeff Cronenweth
True Grit (Paramount) Roger Deakins

FILM EDITING:
Black Swan (Fox Searchlight) Andrew Weisblum
The Fighter Paramount Pamela Martin
The King’s Speech (The Weinstein Company) Tariq Anwar
127 Hours (Fox Searchlight) Jon Harris
The Social Network (Sony Pictures Releasing) Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter

DOCUMENTARY:
Exit through the Gift Shop (Producers Distribution Agency) Banksy and Jaimie D’Cruz A Paranoid Pictures Production
Gasland Josh Fox and Trish Adlesic A Gasland Production
Inside Job (Sony Pictures Classics) Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs A Representational Pictures Production
Restrepo (National Geographic Entertainment) Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger An Outpost Films Production
Waste Land Lucy Walker and Angus Aynsley (Arthouse Films) An Almega Projects Production

DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
Killing in the Name (dir: Jed Rothstein)
Poster Girl (dir: Sara Nesson)
Strangers No More (dir: Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon)
Sun Come Up (dor: Jennifer Redfearn and Tim Metzger)
The Warriors of Qiugang (dir: Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon)

ORIGINAL SCORE:
How to Train Your Dragon (Paramount) John Powell
Inception (Warner Bros.) Hans Zimmer
The King’s Speech (The Weinstein Company) Alexandre Desplat
127 Hours (Fox Searchlight) A.R. Rahman
The Social Network (Sony Pictures Releasing) Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

ORIGINAL SONG:
Coming Home from Country Strong (Sony Pictures Releasing (Screen Gems)) Music and Lyric by Tom Douglas, Troy Verges and Hillary Lindsey
I See the Light from Tangled (Walt Disney) Music by Alan Menken Lyric by Glenn Slater
If I Rise from 127 Hours (Fox Searchlight) Music by A.R. Rahman Lyric by Dido and Rollo Armstrong
We Belong Together from Toy Story 3 (Walt Disney) Music and Lyric by Randy Newman

VISUAL EFFECTS:
Alice in Wonderland (Walt Disney) Ken Ralston, David Schaub, Carey Villegas and Sean Phillips
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (Warner Bros.) Tim Burke, John Richardson, Christian Manz and Nicolas Aithadi
Hereafter (Warner Bros.) Michael Owens, Bryan Grill, Stephan Trojanski and Joe Farrell
Inception (Warner Bros.) Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb
Iron Man 2 (Paramount and Marvel Entertainment, Distributed by Paramount) Janek Sirrs, Ben Snow, Ged Wright and Daniel Sudick

ART DIRECTION:
Alice in Wonderland (Walt Disney), Robert Stromberg (Production Design), Karen O’Hara (Set Decoration)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (Warner Bros.), Stuart Craig (Production Design), Stephenie McMillan (Set Decoration)
Inception (Warner Bros.), Guy Hendrix Dyas (Production Design), Larry Dias and Doug Mowat (Set Decoration)/span>
The King’s Speech (Paramount), Eve Stewart (Production Design), Judy Farr (Set Decoration)
True Grit (Paramount), Jess Gonchor (Production Design), Nancy Haigh (Set Decoration)

COSTUME DESIGN:
Alice in Wonderland (Walt Disney) Colleen Atwood
I Am Love (Magnolia Pictures) Antonella Cannarozzi
The King’s Speech (The Weinstein Company) Jenny Beavan
The Tempest (Miramax) Sandy Powell
True Grit (Paramount) Mary Zophres

MAKEUP
Barney’s Version, Adrien Morot
The Way Back, Edouard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk and Yolanda Toussieng
The Wolfman
Rick Baker and Dave Elsey

SHORT FILM, ANIMATED
Day & Night (dir: Teddy Newton)
The Gruffalo (dir: Jakob Schuh and Max Lang)
Let’s Pollute (dir: Geefwee Boedoe)
The Lost Thing (dir: Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann)
Madagascar, carnet de voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary)

SHORT FILM, LIVE ACTION
The Confession (dir: Tanel Toom)
The Crush (dir: Michael Creagh)
God of Love (dir: Luke Matheny)
Na Wewe (dir: Ivan Goldschmidt)
Wish 143 (dir: Ian Barnes and Samantha Waite)

SOUND EDITING
Inception, Richard King
Toy Story 3, Tom Myers and Michael Silvers
Tron: Legacy, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle and Addison Teague
True Grit, Skip Lievsay and Craig Berkey
Unstoppable, Mark P. Stoeckinger

SOUND MIXING
Inception, Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick
The King’s Speech, Paul Hamblin, Martin Jensen and John Midgley
Salt, Jeffrey J. Haboush, Greg P. Russell, Scott Millan and William Sarokin
The Social Network, Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick and Mark Weingarten
True Grit, Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland

Filmography 2010

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Filmography 2010

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Philips Carousel Commercial - Commercial of the Year

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Philips Carousel Commercial - Adam Berg Commercial of the Year Stink Digital

Fantastic ad and here is the making of it...

Trailers - Source Code (2011)

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Source Code (2011)

Release Date : 1 April 2011 (USA)

Director: Duncan Jones
Writer: Ben Ripley
Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan and Vera Farmiga
Storyline : An action thriller centered on a soldier who wakes up in the body of an unknown man and discovers he's part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train.

Cowboys & Aliens (2011)

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Cowboys & Aliens (2011)

Release Date : 29 July 2011 (USA)

Director: Jon Favreau
Writer: Roberto Orci (screenplay), Alex Kurtzman (screenplay)
Stars: Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford and Olivia Wilde
Storyline : A spaceship arrives in Arizona, 1873, to take over the Earth, starting with the Wild West region. A posse of cowboys are all that stand in their way.

The Chaperone (2011)

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The Chaperone (2011)

Release Date : NA

Director: Stephen Herek
Writer: S.J. Roth
Stars: Paul Levesque, Kevin Corrigan and José Zúñiga
Storyline : An ex-con on the run from his criminal past, hides out from those he ratted on by chaperoning a field trip to New Orleans.

Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Animation 2011 Sneak Preview

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Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Animation 2011 Sneak Preview

Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Animation have released a preview of their upcoming 2011 release slate for movies opening between January and December. The upcoming movies include: No Strings Attached, Justin Bieber: Never Say Never, Rango, Thor, Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom, Super 8, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Captain America: The First Avenger, Footloose, Paranormal Activity 3, Puss in Boots, Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol, The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn.

No Strings Attached - January 21

In this comedy, Emma (Natalie Portman) and Adam (Ashton Kutcher) are life-long friends who almost ruin everything by having sex one morning. In order to protect their friendship, they make a pact to keep their relationship strictly "no strings attached." "No strings" means no jealousy, no expectations, no fighting, no flowers, no baby voices. It means they can do whatever they want, whenever they want, in whatever public place they want, as long as they don't fall in love. The questions become - Can you have sex without love getting in the way? And can their friendship survive?

Justin Bieber: Never Say Never - February 11

"Justin Bieber: Never Say Never" is the inspiring true story and rare inside look at the rise of Justin Bieber from street performer in the small town of Stratford, Ontario to internet phenomenon to global super star culminating with a dream sold out show at the famed Madison Square Garden in 3-D.

Rango - March 4

From the director of "Pirates of The Caribbean: The Curse of The Black Pearl" comes Rango, featuring Johnny Depp in an original animated comedy-adventure that takes moviegoers for a hilarious and heartfelt walk in the Wild West. The story follows the comical, transformative journey of Rango (Johnny Depp), a sheltered chameleon living as an ordinary family pet, while facing a major identity crisis. After all, how high can you aim when your whole purpose in life is to blend in? When Rango accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging town of Dirt - a lawless outpost populated by the desert's most wily and whimsical creatures - the less-than-courageous lizard suddenly finds he stands out. Welcomed as the last hope the town has been waiting for, new Sheriff Rango is forced to play his new role to the hilt . . . until, in a blaze of action-packed situations and encounters with outrageous characters, Rango starts to become the hero he once only pretended to be. With a cast that includes Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Abigail Breslin, and Bill Nighy, Rango is an exciting new twist on the classic Western legend of the outsider who saves a town - and himself in the process.

Thor - May 6

The epic adventure Thor spans the Marvel Universe from present day Earth to the mystical realm of Asgard. At the center of the story is The Mighty Thor, a powerful but arrogant warrior whose reckless actions reignite an ancient war. As a result, Thor is banished to Earth where he is forced to live among humans. When the most dangerous villain of his world sends its darkest forces to invade Earth, Thor learns what it takes to be a true hero.

Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom - May 26

In "Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom", Po is now living his dream as The Dragon Warrior, protecting the Valley of Peace alongside his friends and fellow kung fu masters, The Furious Five. But Po's new life of awesomeness is threatened by the emergence of a formidable villain, who plans to use a secret, unstoppable weapon to conquer China and destroy kung fu. Po must look to his past and uncover the secrets of his mysterious origins; only then will he be able to unlock the strength he needs to succeed.

Super 8 - June 10

A mysterious, supernatural event from director J.J. Abrams and producer Steven Spielberg.

Transformers: Dark of the Moon - July 1

The Autobots Bumblebee, Ratchet, Ironhide and Sideswipe led by Optimus Prime, are back in action, taking on the evil Decepticons, who are determined to avenge their defeat in 2009's Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. In this new movie, the Autobots and Decepticons become involved in a perilous space race between the U.S. and Russia, and once again human Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) has to come to the aid of his robot friends. There's new characters too, including a new villain in the form of Shockwave, a longtime "Transformers" character who rules Cybertron while the Autobots and Decepticons battle it out on Earth.

Captain America: The First Avenger - July 22

Born during the Great Depression, Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) grew up a frail youth in a poor family. Horrified by the newsreel footage of the Nazis in Europe, Rogers was inspired to enlist in the army. However, because of his frailty and sickness, he was rejected. Overhearing the boy's earnest plea, General Chester Phillips offered Rogers the opportunity to take part in a special experiment... Operation: Rebirth. After weeks of tests, Rogers was at last administered the 'Super-Soldier Serum' and bombarded by 'vita-rays.' Steve Rogers emerged from the treatment with a body as perfect as a body can be and still be human. Rogers was then put through an intensive physical and tactical training program. Three months later, he was given his first assignment as Captain America. Armed with his indestructible shield and and battle savvy, Captain America has continued his war against evil both as a sentinel of liberty and leader of the Avengers.

Footloose - October 14

Writer/Director Craig Brewer ("Hustle & Flow," " Black Snake Moan ") delivers a new take of the beloved 1984 classic film, " Footloose." Ren MacCormack (played by newcomer Kenny Wormald) is transplanted from Boston to the small southern town of Bomont where he experiences a heavy dose of culture shock. A few years prior, the community was rocked by a tragic accident that killed five teenagers after a night out and Bomont's local councilmen and the beloved Reverend Shaw Moore (Dennis Quaid) responded by implementing ordinances that prohibit loud music and dancing. Not one to bow to the status quo, Ren challenges the ban, revitalizing the town and falling in love with the minister's troubled daughter Ariel (Julianne Hough) in the process.

Paranormal Activity 3 - October 21

The third installment of the popular horror franchise created by producer Oren Peli will once again terrify audiences across the country just in time for Halloween.

Puss in Boots - November 4

Way before Puss ever met Shrek, our suave and furry feline hero goes on a swashbuckling ride, as he teams with mastermind Humpty Dumpty and the street-savvy Kitty to steal the famed Goose that lays the Golden Eggs.

Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol - December 16

" Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol," the new film in the series which has grossed $2 billion dollars worldwide, will feature locations in Dubai, Moscow, Prague and Vancouver. The filmmakers have assembled a talented production team including Academy Award®-winning director of photography ("There Will Be Blood "), production designer ("Good Night, And Good Luck. "), costume designer Michael Kaplan ("Star Trek "), Academy Award®-winning editor Paul Hirsch ("Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope ") and visual effects producer Tom C. Peitzman ("Alice in Wonderland "). Director Brad Bird wrote and directed " The Incredibles," which was nominated for Best Original Screenplay and won the Academy Award® for Best Animated Feature. More recently, Brad Bird received both a Golden Globe and his second Oscar for Best Animated Feature with " Ratatouille."

The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn - December 23

"The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn" is the first in the series of 3D motion capture films based on the iconic character created by Georges Remi, better known to the world by his pen name " Hergé " and is due for release in 2011. The film stars Jamie Bell as Tintin, the intrepid young reporter whose relentless pursuit of a good story thrusts him into a world of high adventure, and Daniel Craig as the nefarious Red Rackham. Jamie Bell and Daniel Craig are joined by an international cast that includes Andy Serkis, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Toby Jones and Mackenzie Crook.

The visual effects of Red

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The visual effects of Red

Director Robert Schwentke’s Red tells the story of ex-CIA agent Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) recruiting his former team to help him defeat a hi-tech assassin. CIS Vancouver contributed 220 shots to the film ranging from detailed composites, CG bullets, an exploding RPG and plentiful destruction. We talk to CIS vfx supe Randy Goux.

fxg: One of my favourite shots is the one of Bruce Willis’ character exiting a spinning car on the street. How did that come together?

Goux: That’s Bruce Willis’ big ex-CIA badass moment where you don’t really see it coming. They’re driving down the street and they get T-boned by an SUV. Bruce steps out of the car doing a 360, eyes focused on the SUV, pulls his gun, and he’s Bruce – he’s back. So how do you shoot something like that? Because obviously you can’t have you highest paid actor stepping out of a car doing a 360 on a wet street. So, you have Bruce on a greenscreen stage on a moving cart. Our job was to encase him inside the police car and have him interact with it.

The overall vfx supe, James Madigan, took a police car and put it on a turntable and filmed it spinning. We extracted that car, built it out in 3D and composited Bruce inside the car stepping out at the same time. There was a lot of integration involved in putting that car out onto the street in Louisiana. The car’s wheels were actually off the ground, so we had to extract it out in 3D, place it back on the road with wet streaks and have the wheels vibrating as it’s spinning. And then we had to do some comp tricks on Bruce like shading him as he steps out.

The original photography

The final shot

fxg: How did you approach the compositing for that shot?

Goux: Getting that car in 3D space was the real trick and we used Nuke for that. We had a plate of the car spinning, but you really need to start moving that car around – you can’t just do an A over B of Bruce from the greenscreen with the roto and have it perfectly sit in. We extracted the plate of the car turning and projected it back onto a 3D model of the car in Nuke so we could move it around in 3D space. It didn’t need to go back into Maya for lighting or anything. Jim Madigan was able to ask for the wheels on the car to be more compressed and we could do it all in Nuke. The car needed to slide and move down the road a bit and we were also able to make that happen. Nuke just opened up lots of iterations and the best thing to have is the ability to pump out lots of iterations in your production pipeline. I think there were about 70 iterations of that shot.

The original photography

The final shot

fxg: Another signature shot in the film is the slow motion one of the bullet hitting the rocket-propelled grenade and the resulting explosion. Can you talk about that?

Goux: Well, everyone knows what a massive fireball looks like when it goes off in the movies, but nobody really sees what happens at the very start of it, up close, in slow motion. We had to work out how that happened. We analysed tonnes of slow motion footage of how metal bends when it’s hit by metal. We noticed it doesn’t quite tear up like paper. Once metal goes into metal, it’s almost like a Terminator effect – a little bit watery. Jim Madigan shot a lot of elements and we talked to the weapons expert about what happens with RPGs and where the tear points would be, how would the metal curl and how the pinholes and pockets would tear into sheets.

The original photography

The final shot

fxg: How did you bend the metal like that?

Goux: We actually used Maya’s cloth simulation. It’s weird telling people we bent metal that way, but it’s basically the dynamics module in Maya we’re using. We modelled the RPG, set it up as a cloth object and then you can define its tearing properties. You can have it tear like a paper bag or sheet metal or you can give it whatever threshold you like for the simulation. The sims went back and forth on how tense that metal was and how much we would reveal as the fireballs come out. There was also some fluid dynamics going on in the inner core, basically fire effects that curl around the ‘cloth’ objects. We also had to define how much mass the bullet going in had and how that correlated with the RPG. We pushed it a little further by animating a few hero pieces coming out towards the camera. The bulk of it was a dynamic simulation where you let the software do its course, but then we augmented that with some hero pieces animated in Maya and also in Nuke.

The original photography

The final shot

fxg: How was that resulting overhead explosion shot achieved?

Goux: That was shot as an in-camera explosion where they’re doing their Western show-down and the explosion happens between the two characters. The explosion then fires back at the person firing the RPG who explodes. They shot the whole thing as a one-two explosion and the one went off in the middle and the two, which was the RPG, just went off a second too late. So we had to split the pyro event in half and enhance it by adding a flame thrower effect. We made it shoot it right back at that person on screen right and blow them up. There was a fair amount of surgery in re-timing half of the fire. It wasn’t a lot of CG fire but still had some tricky compositing.

fxg: There’s some other neat explosions too, like the one where John Malkovich paddles back the grenade with his gun to the other guy.

Goux: Yeah, it’s funny, actually, this movie is full of people blowing up but there’s obviously something comical about it. Part of it is the actors. I think if you had anyone else paddling a grenade back it wouldn’t be funny, but when John Malkovich does it, you just start laughing. We had elements for that again, with pyro at the right angle and a dummy buck character in that space. It was also shot high-speed to get that slow motion curling orange flames look. So in that shot we are behind the guy getting blown up and the flames are literally curling around him as he is engulfed and the flames engulf the camera.

The original photography

The final shot

fxg: Tell me about bullet-holes and bullet hits, because there seem to be a lot of them in this film.

Goux: Well, if you had walked through our facility in July, you could walk through our artist bay and see 25 compositors placing bullet-holes – all day. There’s a major continuity effort happening, as in every movie. To do this, we referenced lots of element shoots. We had minutes and minutes of bullets shooting into concrete and metal. And we added actual bullets everywhere and grenades and smoke and things like that. We basically lived bullet holes and destruction. There’s one shot in a kitchen where they’re fighting the Secret Service. We had to literally destroy walls that were white tiles and add smoke and bullets all over the place. There was some CG moments when the bullets weren’t giving us enough chunks and debris, we dabbled in some dynamic stuff. But mainly it was a really hard effort in comp to make the effort work.

fxg: There’s a scene with some bullets going off in a frying pan. How was that accomplished?

Goux: It’s one of the more stylistic shots in the movie. There’s a whole sequence inside the house that has a real graphic novel feel to it. It really builds up this moment where you learn that Bruce is one of the coolest ex-CIA guys you’ve ever seen. There’s a montage where he’s setting up some bullets in a frying pan. They do a neat macro shot where the camera is in the pan and pulling back and the bullets are about to go off and it’s supposed to throw off the guys storming the house, thinking that there’s a gun battle happening in the kitchen.

To shoot the scene, they made 9mm bullets that were about six inches tall and weighed about 10 pounds and filmed them in a frying pan about three feet wide. The bullets are supposed to get hot and bounce around a little bit and the oil is supposed to crackle before the bullets go off. But the bullets were so heavy that they just didn’t move around enough in the pan. So we re-built the scene in CG. It was great to have the plate to reference to so we knew what it was supposed to look like. We set the shot up in Maya and then also used Nuke’s 3D space to move things around. It also let us deal with the depth of field and all the little nuances the director really needed. We had about 20 different passes for the compers to deal with – normals, z-depths, reflection passes – and then re-lighted things in Nuke where we had to.

The original photography

The final shot

fxg: Finally, can you talk about that long shot of Bruce Willis and Mary-Louise Parker in a police car with the camera moving around?

Goux: That’s again one of those shots where you shoot it and then you get handed this puzzle where the pieces don’t fit right off the bat. The whole idea was to set up a continuous shot where they’re exchanging dialogue and the camera is inside the police car. The camera starts at the back and moves forward between their two heads in a continuous 15 second shot. The trick was how to shoot it on greenscreen and get the backplate for it. What Jim Madigan did was set up a camera car with five different cameras on it and just rolled and went down the street in Louisiana. Then we reverse-engineered the camera move on the greenscreen, got a camera track for that and then used the backplate that was filmed on the street with the five cameras offset at 35 degrees and projected them all at the right place and stitched them together. It’s almost like we made a big IMAX screen of all those different views from the cameras and had our CG camera in the middle and could move that around by tracking it in from the movement on the greenscreen for the continuous shot.

Avatar: Interview with James Cameron

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The Walking Dead Bicycle Girl Time Lapse

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The Making of Inception

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The Dark Knight Rises - Villians Role Confirmed

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The Dark Knight Rises - Villians Role Confirmed

The Villians Finally official for The Dark Knight Rises, Tom Hardy as Bane and Anne Hathaway as Catwoman......

Anne Hathaway has clawed her way into the latest Batman movie, nabbing the role of Selina Kyle and her alter ego, Catwoman.

Warner Bros. announced the casting Wednesday for Christopher Nolan's latest film in the superhero saga, The Dark Knight Rises. Hathaway will appear opposite

Christian Bale, who's returning as Bruce Wayne and Batman. The studio also announced that Tom Hardy, whom Nolan directed in last year's Inception, will play one of Batman's enemies, Bane. The Dark Knight Rises is slated for release on July 20, 2012. Hathaway, an Oscar nominee for 2008's Rachel Getting Married, will co-host the Academy Awards with James Franco on Feb. 27.

Cannot wait for this....

2011 BAFTA Film Awards Nominees

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2011 BAFTA Film Awards Nominees

Nominations were announced on Tuesday 18 January by BAFTA Chairman Tim Corrie, actor Dominic Cooper and actress Talulah Riley.

For all the Nominations Read More...

BEST FILM

BLACK SWAN - Mike Medavoy, Brian Oliver, Scott Franklin

INCEPTION - Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan

THE KING’S SPEECH - Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin

THE SOCIAL NETWORK - Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca, Céan Chaffin

TRUE GRIT - Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM

127 HOURS - Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy, Christian Colson, John Smithson

ANOTHER YEAR - Mike Leigh, Georgina Lowe

FOUR LIONS - Chris Morris, Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain, Mark Herbert, Derrin Schlesinger

THE KING’S SPEECH - Tom Hooper, David Seidler, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin

MADE IN DAGENHAM - Nigel Cole, William Ivory, Elizabeth Karlsen, Stephen Woolley

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER

THE ARBOR - Director, Producer - Clio Barnard, Tracy O’Riordan

EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP - Director, Producer – Banksy, Jaimie D’Cruz

FOUR LIONS - Director/Writer - Chris Morris

MONSTERS - Director/Writer – Gareth Edwards

SKELETONS - Director/Writer – Nick Whitfield

DIRECTOR

127 HOURS - Danny Boyle

BLACK SWAN - Darren Aronofsky

INCEPTION - Christopher Nolan

THE KING’S SPEECH - Tom Hooper

THE SOCIAL NETWORK - David Fincher

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

BLACK SWAN - Mark Heyman, Andrés Heinz, John McLaughlin

THE FIGHTER - Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson

INCEPTION - Christopher Nolan

THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT - Lisa Cholodenko, Stuart Blumberg

THE KING’S SPEECH - David Seidler

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

127 HOURS - Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO - Rasmus Heisterberg, Nikolaj Arcel

THE SOCIAL NETWORK - Aaron Sorkin

TOY STORY 3 - Michael Arndt

TRUE GRIT - Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

BIUTIFUL - Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jon Kilik, Fernando Bovaira

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO - Søren Stærmose, Niels Arden Oplev

I AM LOVE - Luca Guadagnino, Francesco Melzi D’Eril, Marco Morabito, Massimiliano Violante

OF GODS AND MEN - Xavier Beauvois

THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES - Mariela Besuievsky, Juan José Campanella

ANIMATED FILM

DESPICABLE ME - Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON - Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois

TOY STORY 3 - Lee Unkrich

LEADING ACTOR

JAVIER BARDEM - Biutiful

JEFF BRIDGES - True Grit

JESSE EISENBERG - The Social Network

COLIN FIRTH - The King’s Speech

JAMES FRANCO - 127 Hours

LEADING ACTRESS

ANNETTE BENING - The Kids Are All Right

JULIANNE MOORE - The Kids Are All Right

NATALIE PORTMAN - Black Swan

NOOMI RAPACE - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

HAILEE STEINFELD - True Grit

SUPPORTING ACTOR

CHRISTIAN BALE - The Fighter

ANDREW GARFIELD - The Social Network

PETE POSTLETHWAITE - The Town

MARK RUFFALO - The Kids Are All Right

GEOFFREY RUSH - The King’s Speech

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

AMY ADAMS - The Fighter

HELENA BONHAM CARTER - The King’s Speech

BARBARA HERSHEY - Black Swan

LESLEY MANVILLE - Another Year

MIRANDA RICHARDSON - Made in Dagenham

ORIGINAL MUSIC

127 HOURS - AR Rahman

ALICE IN WONDERLAND - Danny Elfman

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON - John Powell

INCEPTION - Hans Zimmer

THE KING’S SPEECH - Alexandre Desplat

CINEMATOGRAPHY

127 HOURS - Anthony Dod Mantle, Enrique Chediak

BLACK SWAN - Matthew Libatique

INCEPTION - Wally Pfister

THE KING’S SPEECH - Danny Cohen

TRUE GRIT - Roger Deakins

EDITING

127 HOURS - Jon Harris

BLACK SWAN - Andrew Weisblum

INCEPTION - Lee Smith

THE KING’S SPEECH - Tariq Anwar

THE SOCIAL NETWORK - Angus Wall, Kirk Baxter

PRODUCTION DESIGN

ALICE IN WONDERLAND - Robert Stromberg, Karen O’Hara

BLACK SWAN - Thérèse DePrez, Tora Peterson

INCEPTION - Guy Hendrix Dyas, Larry Dias, Doug Mowat

THE KING’S SPEECH - Eve Stewart, Judy Farr

TRUE GRIT - Jess Gonchor, Nancy Haigh

COSTUME DESIGN

ALICE IN WONDERLAND - Colleen Atwood

BLACK SWAN - Amy Westcott

THE KING’S SPEECH - Jenny Beavan

MADE IN DAGENHAM - Louise Stjernsward

TRUE GRIT - Mary Zophres

SOUND

127 HOURS - Glenn Freemantle, Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke, Steven C Laneri, Douglas Cameron

BLACK SWAN - Ken Ishii, Craig Henighan, Dominick Tavella

INCEPTION - Richard King, Lora Hirschberg, Gary A Rizzo, Ed Novick

THE KING’S SPEECH - John Midgley, Lee Walpole, Paul Hamblin

TRUE GRIT - Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff, Peter F Kurland, Douglas Axtell

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS

ALICE IN WONDERLAND - Nominees TBC

BLACK SWAN - Dan Schrecker

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 1 - Tim Burke, John Richardson, Nicolas Ait'Hadi, Christian Manz

INCEPTION - Chris Corbould, Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Peter Bebb

TOY STORY 3 - Nominees TBC

MAKE UP & HAIR

ALICE IN WONDERLAND - Nominees TBC

BLACK SWAN - Judy Chin, Geordie Sheffer

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 1 - Amanda Knight, Lisa Tomblin

THE KING’S SPEECH - Frances Hannon

MADE IN DAGENHAM - Lizzie Yianni Georgiou

SHORT ANIMATION

THE EAGLEMAN STAG - Michael Please

MATTER FISHER - David Prosser

THURSDAY - Matthias Hoegg

SHORT FILM

CONNECT - Samuel Abrahams, Beau Gordon

LIN - Piers Thompson, Simon Hessel

RITE - Michael Pearce, Ross McKenzie, Paul Welsh

TURNING - Karni Arieli, Saul Freed, Alison Sterling, Kat Armour-Brown

UNTIL THE RIVER RUNS RED - Paul Wright, Poss Kondeatis

ORANGE WEDNESDAYS RISING AWARD

GEMMA ARTERTON

ANDREW GARFIELD

TOM HARDY

AARON JOHNSON

EMMA STONE

Which Movies Will Have Super Bowl Spots?

2011-01-20T01:50:00.000-08:00

Which Movies Will Have Super Bowl Spots?

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

Studios will reveal new footage from a lot of their upcoming titles on Sunday, February 6, before, during and after Super Bowl XLV on FOX. Each 30-second spot is costing the studios about $3 million, though last year a record 106 million viewers tuned in, guaranteeing that a massive amount of eyes will see the spots. It looks like Warner Bros. Pictures and 20th Century Fox may be sitting it out again, though one would think that Fox is still considering airing the first X-Men: First Class footage during the game.

Here's the line-up for the pre-game hours, the game itself and the spots that will air during the post-game "Glee" episode:

Pre-Game Spots:

Battle: Los Angeles (Sony)

The Eagle (Focus)

Just Go With It (Sony)

Kung Fu Panda 2 (Paramount)

Priest (Sony)

Game Spots:

Captain America: The First Avenger (Paramount)

Cowboys & Aliens (Universal)

Limitless (Relativity)

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (Disney)

Rango (Paramount)

Super 8 (Paramount)

Thor (Paramount)

Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Paramount)

Post-Game "Glee" Spots:

Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (Paramount)

Take Me Home Tonight (Relativity)

Cars 2 (2011)

2011-01-19T02:05:00.000-08:00

Cars 2 (2011)

Release Date : 24 June 2011 (USA)

Director: John Lasseter, Brad Lewis
Writer: --
Stars: Owen Wilson, Michael Caine and Emily Mortimer
Storyline : Racing star Lightning McQueen teams up with his best friend Mater for an international adventure as they go up against the world's fastest cars.

Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011)

2011-01-19T02:02:00.000-08:00

Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011)

Release Date : 27 May 2011 (USA)

Director: Jennifer Yuh
Writer: Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger
Stars: Jack Black, Angelina Jolie and Jackie Chan
Storyline : Po joins forces with a group of new kung-fu masters to take on an old enemy with a deadly new weapon.

I Am Number Four (2011)

2011-01-19T01:51:00.000-08:00

I Am Number Four (2011)

Release Date : 18 February 2011 (USA)

Director: D.J. Caruso
Writer: Alfred Gough (screenplay), Miles Millar (screenplay)
Stars: Alex Pettyfer, Timothy Olyphant and Dianna Agron
Storyline : John is an extraordinary teen, masking his true identity and passing as a typical high school student to elude a deadly enemy seeking to destroy him. Three like him have already been killed ... he is Number Four.

Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)

2011-01-19T01:39:00.000-08:00

Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)

Release Date : 1 July 2011

Director: Michael Bay
Writer: Ehren Kruger
Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Tyrese Gibson
Storyline : The Autobots learn of a Cybertronian spacecraft hidden on the Moon, and race against the Decepticons to reach it and learn its secrets, which could turn the tide in the Transformers' final battle.

2010 VFX Oscar race

2011-01-19T01:31:00.000-08:00

Seven features selected in 2010 VFX Oscar race for February.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that after a grueling judging and vetting session, they have selected the shortlist for the Visual Effect Category Oscar prize.

This evening, seven films remain in the running in the Visual Effects category for the 83rd Academy Awards.
The films are listed below in alphabetical order:

        “Alice in Wonderland”
        “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1”
        “Hereafter”
        “Inception”
        “Iron Man 2”
        “Scott Pilgrim vs the World”
        “Tron: Legacy”

All members of the Visual Effects Branch will be invited to view 15-minute excerpts from each of the seven shortlisted films on Thursday, January 20. Following the screenings, the members will vote to nominate five films for final Oscar consideration.

The 83rd Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Tuesday, January 25, 2011, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

So who do you think will win the Oscar for 2010?

DreamWorks and Bollywood

2011-01-17T22:44:00.000-08:00

Paul Berges, Gurinder Chadha, Stephen Schwartz, A.R. Rahman

DreamWorks Animation to make‘Monkeys of Bollywood‘

DreamWorks Animation announced that it is fast-tracking the development of Monkeys of Bollywood (working title), a Bollywood-style animated musical adventure set in modern-day Mumbai.

Executive producer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz (Wicked, Prince of Egypt, Enchanted), executive producer and composer A.R. Rahman (127 Hours, Slumdog Millionaire, Bombay Dreams), and writers Gurinder Chadha & Paul Berges (Bride & Prejudice, Bend It Like Beckham) are together this week at DreamWorks Animation‘s headquarters in Glendale, California to continue their collaboration on the feature project.

"To reunite with Stephen Schwartz and work with such a celebrated team of artists on DreamWorks Animation‘s first-ever CG animated feature musical project is incredibly exciting," said DreamWorks Animation‘s Chief Creative Officer, Bill Damaschke. "Together we will create a movie that is full of magic, fantasy, adventure, comedy and emotion in which inspiring songs and dances will delight audiences everywhere."

Inspired by the great Indian epic tale of The Ramayana - but retold through the point of view of its monkeys - Monkeys of Bollywood revolves around two common monkeys who become unlikely heroes in a last ditch effort to stop an ancient, thought-to-be-mythical demon from conquering the world. The project is being overseen at DreamWorks Animation by Bill Damaschkeand development executive Chris Kuser.

68th Annual Golden Globes Awards 2011

2011-01-17T22:32:00.000-08:00

Toy Story 3 Takes Home Golden Globe

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced the winners of the 68th Annual Golden Globes on Sunday, January 16, 2011.

TOY STORY 3 won Best Animated Feature, beating out DESPICABLE ME (Universal Pictures), HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON (DreamWorks Animation), THE ILLUSIONIST (Sony Pictures Classics) and TANGLED (Walt Disney Pictures).

Below is a complete list of winners and nominees.

BEST MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA
Winner The Social Network (Columbia Pictures)
Black Swan (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
The Fighter (Paramount Pictures)
Inception (Warner Bros. Pictures)
The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company)

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA
Winner Natalie Portman - Black Swan
Halle Berry - Frankie & Alice
Nicole Kidman - Rabbit Hole
Jennifer Lawrence - Winter's Bone
Michelle Williams - Blue Valentine

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA
Winner Colin Firth - The King's Speech
Jesse Eisenberg - The Social Network
James Franco - 127 Hours
Ryan Gosling - Blue Valentine
Mark Wahlberg - The Fighter

BEST MOTION PICTURE - COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Winner The Kids Are All Right (Focus Features)
Alice in Wonderland (Walt Disney Pictures)
Burlesque (Screen Gems)
Red (Summit Entertainment)
The Tourist (Columbia Pictures)

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE - COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Winner Annette Bening - The Kids Are All Right
Anne Hathaway - Love and Other Drugs
Angelina Jolie - The Tourist
Julianne Moore - The Kids Are All Right
Emma Stone - Easy A

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE - COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Winner Paul Giamatti - Barney's Version
Johnny Depp - Alice in Wonderland
Johnny Depp - The Tourist
Jake Gyllenhaal - Love and Other Drugs
Kevin Spacey - Casino Jack

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Winner Toy Story 3 (Disney•Pixar)
Despicable Me (Universal Pictures)
How to Train Your Dragon (DreamWorks Animation)
The Illusionist (Sony Pictures Classics)
Tangled (Walt Disney Pictures)

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Winner In a Better World (Denmark)
Biutiful (Mexico/Spain)
The Concert (France)
The Edge (Russia)
I Am Love (Italy)

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE
Winner Melissa Leo - The Fighter
Amy Adams - The Fighter
Helena Bonham Carter - The King's Speech
Mila Kunis - Black Swan
Jacki Weaver - Animal Kingdom

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE
Winner Christian Bale - The Fighter
Michael Douglas - Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Andrew Garfield - The Social Network
Jeremy Renner - The Town
Geoffrey Rush - The King's Speech

BEST DIRECTOR - MOTION PICTURE
Winner David Fincher - The Social Network
Darren Aronofsky - Black Swan
Tom Hooper - The King's Speech
Christopher Nolan - Inception
David O. Russell - The Fighter

BEST SCREENPLAY - MOTION PICTURE
Winner Aaron Sorkin - The Social Network
Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy - 127 Hours
Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg - The Kids Are All Right
Christopher Nolan - Inception
David Seidler - The King's Speech

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE - MOTION PICTURE
Winner Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - The Social Network
Alexander Desplat - The King's Speech
Danny Elfman - Alice in Wonderland
A.R. Rahman - 127 Hours
Hans Zimmer - Inception

BEST ORIGINAL SONG - MOTION PICTURE
Winner "You Haven't Seen the Last of Me"; Music & Lyrics by Dianne Warren - Burlesque
"Bound to You"; Music by Samuel Dixon, Lyrics by Christina Aguilera, Sia Furler - Burlesque
"Coming Home"; Music & Lyrics by Bob DiPiero, Tom Douglas, Hillary Lindsey, Troy Verges - Country Strong
"I See the Light"; Music by Alan Menkin, Lyrics by Glenn Slater - Tangled
"There's a Place for Us"; Music & Lyrics by Carrie Underwood, David Hodges, Hillary Lindsey - The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

BEST TELEVISION SERIES - DRAMA
Winner "Boardwalk Empire" (HBO)
"Dexter" (Showtime)

"The Good Wife" (CBS)
"Mad Men" (AMC)
"The Walking Dead" (AMC)

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES - DRAMA
Winner Katey Sagal - "Sons of Anarchy"
Juliana Margulies - "The Good Wife"
Elizabeth Moss - "Mad Men"
Piper Perabo - "Covert Affairs"
Kyra Sedgwick - "The Closer"

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES - DRAMA
Winner Steve Buscemi - "Boardwalk Empire"
Bryan Cranston - "Breaking Bad"
Michael C. Hall - "Dexter"
Jon Hamm - "Mad Men"
Hugh Laurie - "House"

BEST TELEVISION SERIES - COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Winner "Glee" (FOX)
"30 Rock" (NBC)
"The Big Bang Theory" (CBS)
"The Big C" (Showtime)
"Modern Family" (ABC)
"Nurse Jackie" (Showtime)

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES - COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Winner Laura Linney - "The Big C"
Toni Collette - "United States of Tara"
Edie Falco - "Nurse Jackie"
Tina Fey - "30 Rock"
Lea Michele - "Glee"

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES - COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Winner Jim Parsons - "The Big Bang Theory"
Alec Baldwin - "30 Rock"
Steve Carell - "The Office"
Thomas Jane - "Hung"
Matthew Morrison - "Glee"

BEST MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Winner "Carlos" (Sundance Channel)
"The Pacific" (HBO)
"Pillars of the Earth" (Starz)
"Temple Grandin" (HBO)
"You Don't Know Jack" (HBO)

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Winner Claire Danes - "Temple Grandin"
Hayley Atwell - "Pillars of the Earth"
Judi Dench - "Return to Cranford"
Romola Garai - "Emma"
Jennifer Love Hewitt - "The Client List"

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Winner Al Pacino - "You Don't Know Jack"
Idris Elba - "Luther"
Ian McShane - "Pillars of the Earth"
Dennis Quaid - "The Special Relationship"
Edgar Ramirez - "Carlos"

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Winner Jane Lynch - "Glee"
Hope Davis - "The Special Relationship"
Kelly MacDonald - "Boardwalk Empire"
Julia Stiles - "Dexter"
Sofia Vergara - "Modern Family"

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Winner Chris Colfer - "Glee"
Scott Caan - "Hawaii Five-0"
Chris Noth - "The Good Wife"
Eric Stonestreet - "Modern Family"
David Strathairn - "Temple Grandin"

Character Animation - King Julien Dialogue

2011-01-04T22:40:00.000-08:00

Character Animation

Softwares Used : Autodesk Maya

Author : Siddharth Rathore

Here is a classic clip from Siddharth, who is a character animator. Animation is all about posses and timing. If you can get the posses right then its way easier to animate and also makes your character look lively and responsive. This dialogue is from the film Madagascar, said by the character "KING Julien".

Exterior Lighting Using Standard Lights - V Ray

2010-12-23T02:10:00.000-08:00


Click the image for the full render

Architectural Work

Softwares Used : 3DS Max 2009 + Vray 1.5

Lights Used : 1 Standard Directional Light Used
Author : Aditya Rathod

Was working on this for quite some time now. Its just made up of some simple geometry. I have only used one standard directional light. The shadows are coming nicely as well. I have also used a sky image in the background. Its a easy way to fake the vray sun effect. Although Vray sun has a greater feel but this is just another way to fake the vray sun effect and its less time consuming as well.

Study Room / LibraryRoom : 3DS Max + V Ray

2010-12-17T21:04:00.000-08:00

Click on the image for the Full Render

Architectural Work

Softwares Used : 3DS Max 2009 + Vray 1.5

Lights Used : 2 Vray Lights

Author : Aditya Rathod

Ok, so this is basically a study room or it can be a library as well. Lots of diff materials used on this one, again as i said earlier, keeping it simple is the key to good art work. This image clearly shows that the textures can really make a lot of difference to the look of your image.

Relaxing Chair - 3DS Max + V Ray

2010-12-17T20:56:00.000-08:00

Click on the image for the Full Render

Architectural Work

Softwares Used : 3DS Max 2009 + Vray 1.5 + Photoshop CS 2

Lights Used : 3 Vray Lights
Author : Aditya Rathod

One of the very first Vray works from us. Just a simple chair, good lighting can go a long way in making your renders look real. Its essential you have your concept in your mind as to what you want to achieve. Keeping it simple is the main criteria for good architectural work.

Just Another !llusion

83rd Annual Academy Awards Nominees

Filmography 2010

Philips Carousel Commercial - Commercial of the Year

Philips Carousel Commercial - Adam Berg Commercial of the Year Stink Digital

Fantastic ad and here is the making of it...

Trailers - Source Code (2011)

Cowboys & Aliens (2011)

The Chaperone (2011)

Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Animation 2011 Sneak Preview

Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Animation 2011 Sneak Preview

No Strings Attached - January 21

Justin Bieber: Never Say Never - February 11

Rango - March 4

Thor - May 6

Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom - May 26

Super 8 - June 10

Transformers: Dark of the Moon - July 1

Captain America: The First Avenger - July 22

Footloose - October 14

Paranormal Activity 3 - October 21

Puss in Boots - November 4

Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol - December 16

The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn - December 23

The visual effects of Red

Avatar: Interview with James Cameron

The Walking Dead Bicycle Girl Time Lapse

The Making of Inception

The Dark Knight Rises - Villians Role Confirmed

The Villians Finally official for The Dark Knight Rises, Tom Hardy as Bane and Anne Hathaway as Catwoman......

Anne Hathaway has clawed her way into the latest Batman movie, nabbing the role of Selina Kyle and her alter ego, Catwoman.Warner Bros. announced the casting Wednesday for Christopher Nolan's latest film in the superhero saga, The Dark Knight Rises. Hathaway will appear opposite

Cannot wait for this....

2011 BAFTA Film Awards Nominees

2011 BAFTA Film Awards Nominees

Nominations were announced on Tuesday 18 January by BAFTA Chairman Tim Corrie, actor Dominic Cooper and actress Talulah Riley.

For all the Nominations Read More...

BEST FILM

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER

DIRECTOR

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

ANIMATED FILM

LEADING ACTOR

LEADING ACTRESS

SUPPORTING ACTOR

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

ORIGINAL MUSIC

CINEMATOGRAPHY

EDITING

PRODUCTION DESIGN

COSTUME DESIGN

SOUND

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS

MAKE UP & HAIR

SHORT ANIMATION

SHORT FILM

ORANGE WEDNESDAYS RISING AWARD

Which Movies Will Have Super Bowl Spots?

Cars 2 (2011)

Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011)

I Am Number Four (2011)

Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)

2010 VFX Oscar race

DreamWorks and Bollywood

68th Annual Golden Globes Awards 2011

Toy Story 3 Takes Home Golden Globe

Character Animation - King Julien Dialogue

Exterior Lighting Using Standard Lights - V Ray

Study Room / LibraryRoom : 3DS Max + V Ray

Relaxing Chair - 3DS Max + V Ray

Anne Hathaway has clawed her way into the latest Batman movie, nabbing the role of Selina Kyle and her alter ego, Catwoman.

Warner Bros. announced the casting Wednesday for Christopher Nolan's latest film in the superhero saga, The Dark Knight Rises. Hathaway will appear opposite