Posts in the "Visual Effects" Category

• An unexpected delight

  Cinema
  It’s a rare occurrence for a kid’s film to really touch you emotionally – especially with the assault of CG animated features which just keep coming and kids seem to lap up like ice cream. I’m thinking of The Bee Movie, Valiant, Madagascar – even Pixar’s offerings are getting stale and saccharine. The kid’s ‘effects’ [...]

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• Voldemort’s nose

  Cinema
  Saw Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix on the weekend and was transported by the design, performances, visual effects and the sound. But what’s with Voldemort’s nose? There were quite a few shots where the digital prosthetics work looked decidedly smudgy. I don’t usually watch for these things but this one really took [...]

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• Digital Storytelling – a new book out

  Australian Production
  

  Shilo McClean’s eagerly awaited book ‘Digital Storytelling: the narrative power of visual effects in film’ is out at last. Published by MIT press this weighty volume is an informed and practical extension of Shilo’s earlier work in the area. Her first book ‘So what’s this all about then?’ is a rare and valuable guide for [...]

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