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Mar 18, 2022 · March 18, 2022 1:15pm. The attack on Arrakeen sequence in 'Dune.'. Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures. Denis Villeneuve ‘s epic Dune was the big winner March 8 at the Visual Effects Society ...
On Dune one of the main challenges the team faced was the huge amount of deep data they had to tackle with the compositing. Almost every shot had a deep pass and the team relied heavily on Nuke to handle the large files and on large amounts of the pre-comp. With such a large project, every sequence in the film presented its own set of challenges.
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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 ...
Nov 6, 2021 · While of course the VFX vendors on the film, led by DNEG (other visual effects contributors were Wylie Co, Rodeo FX, with MPC handling previs), certainly tackled sandscreen comps with roto where necessary, the decision to use those screens was indicative of the overall ‘grounded’ approach to plate capture and later digital effects work that Lambert and the VFX team took to Denis Villeneuve ...
The Aryan Invasion theory was first propounded when linguistic similarities between Sanskrit and the major European languages were discovered by European scholars during the colonial era. In an atmosphere of raging eurocentricism, it was inevitable that any explanation of this seemingly inexplicable discovery would taken on racial and ideological overtones. (See Refs. 1) Colonial expositions ...
Dec 1, 2006 · Center for Middle East Policy. It never had to be this bad. The reconstruction of Iraq was never going to be quick or easy, but it was not doomed to failure. [ 1] Its disastrous course to date has ...
Mar 23, 2023 · One such team that helped breathe life into the post-apocalyptic world is visual effects production studio DNEG. While many different VFX houses helped put all of the puzzle pieces together to ...
