Cool VFX

A great visual effects project is profiled on CG Society.org:

The 'Huracán' sequence was a long shot of five and a half minutes with seven hardly-discernible camera cuts. It was the first VFX shot of its kind in Argentinean cinematographic history. It was rendered in Air 8 using the Air Stream plugin as the lighting bridge between Massive and Maya. Up to 42,000 agents were rendered in a crowded stadium with a render farm that peaked at 20 workstations as the deadline approached.
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The VFX crew were more than 20 artists and technicians but the main (in-house) VFX core team were only ten. All of them lead by Rodrigo S. Tomasso (VFX Designer/Supervisor) and Marcelo G. Garcia (VFX Producer). "This team did more than 108 VFX shots including the extended chase sequence of five minutes an a half with a crowded stadium made with Massive Software, Maya, Air Render and Nuke," explains Marcelo, "As VFX supervisor I spent almost eleven months from pre-production until final delivery. The main VFX team spent between seven to nine months."

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Whoa! Tron 2 Trailer

Check it out on Trailer Addict.com.

Looks like they've come up with a new story. I wonder how they moved the laser to Flynn's Arcade...

Vampire and Zombies: Works Every Time

From Cinemablend.com:

I know there's a lot of good to be found in quirky literary revisits like Pride, Prejudice & Zombies or author Seth Grahame-Smith's newest, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. But when the trick is to take an author's familiar prose or a person's life story and throw in supernatural creatures, is it really going to translate that well to the screen? Twice?

Tim Burton is apparently counting on it.

Another Step Closer to Tronness

From Slashfilm.com:

I just returned home from the Tron Legacy event in Los Angeles, held at The Bridge IMAX Theatre. The event was actually to premiere the first Tron Legacy movie trailer, which will be attached to Alice in Wonderland next week.
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For those of you not following along, this event is the result of the recent /ZeroHour viral event/game. A page was unlocked which allowed those participants to register for a free ticket to “an exclusive limited event” at IMAX Theatres in five cities around the world: New York, Los Angeles, London, Toronto and Sydney.
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I’ll give you my thoughts on the trailer. I thought it was awesome.