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Both Francesco and Stephen were well acquainted with Nuke before starting Dune and, as the only compositing tool used on the film, it was used extensively on a daily basis, proving to be a fundamental part of DNEG’s pipeline. “There are proprietary tools that DNEG has built on Nuke that facilitate our daily work,” Francesco tells us.
Mar 18, 2022 · The film’s massive assault on Arrakeen — the capital and largest city on the harsh desert planet Arrakis — was created with a combination of practical and digital effects, with the latter handled...
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Crosby Clyse: The BBots are billed as your “best friend out of the box”. They are designed like slick, mobile iPhones that follow you around. Of course, we’d need to create the physical performance of their arms and wheels moving, but we also wanted to make the screen possibilities of the BBot endless. We generated hundreds of different personality...
Crosby Clyse: Upon first meet, a BBot downloads everything about you. It learns your likes, dislikes, daily routine, everything! But Ron isn’t able to do any of that. Ron’s incomplete download makes him naive, he’s trying to understand the world around him. That naivety, mixed with Ron’s brokenness, is where our Animators really found his charm. Th...
Philippe Denis: Our standard pipeline doesn’t introduce motion graphics until the final phase, which is compositing. In order to match the art direction, we needed the Animators to actually animate the motion graphics. We focused on how we could bring the Motion Graphics team into the fold from the beginning, partnering them with Rigging and Animat...
Philippe Denis: From a very general point of view the fact that “Ron’s Gone Wrong” was the first production both for Locksmith and for DNEG Animation represented a great challenge on its own. Both studios had to build a team of talents and develop their tools and process. Locksmith was starting from a blank canvas while we at DNEG Animation needed ...
It threatened the success of the operation. At 6:00 A.M. on June 4, Eisenhower decided to postpone the invasion for at least one day, hoping for better weather on June 6. For the next 24 hours the men of the Allied invasion force remained sealed aboard their ships. Cramped and tense, they waited.
On May 8th, 1945, the world breathed a collective sigh of relief as Nazi Germany unconditionally surrendered, bringing an end to six harrowing years of conflict in Europe. For the twelve months before this moment, as Nazi Germany's iron grip began to wane, the Allies embarked on a relentless march towards victory, culminating in the iconic scenes of jubilation on V-E Day. But what were the ...
The US military was hostile and unhelpful. The US military remained neutral. The US military trained them. The US military took their place. The US military trained them. Which statement best explains why President Bush targeted Afghanistan after declaring a war on terror? The Taliban, who held power in Afghanistan, welcomed Osama bin Laden.
The Iraqi invasion and occupation of Kuwait was unanimously condemned by all major world powers. Even countries traditionally considered to be close Iraqi allies, such as France and India, called for immediate withdrawal of all Iraqi forces from Kuwait. Several countries, including the Soviet Union and China, placed arms embargoes on Iraq.
