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DigitalContentProducer.com has a step by step overview of a CG sequence in Battlestar Galatica. I’m a huge fan of the series, having watched all 3 season thus far, it’s really interesting to the amount of effort put into a single cg sequence. They also have a video of the various passes that make the final sequence here.

Production focus on Pan’s Labrinyth at CGTalk.com. Here’s a short excerpt:

‘Pan’s Labyrinth,’ (‘El Laberinto del Fauno’) Mexican producer, writer, director and makeup artist Guillermo del Toro whirled Spanish history, a fairy tale, and his experience with such horror films as ‘Blade II’and ‘Hellboy’ into a magical cinematic..

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This video maybe a few years old, but it still manages to put me in awe. You can head over to this live action evangelion blog for more news update.

Take an exclusive look at the visual effects in BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA (visual effects by WETA workshop) at yahoo movies.  Lots of nice CG sequences to watch as well.

No one can get enough of Pirates 2, here’s another article from CGTalk regarding the rendering pipeline for Davy Jones and his crew. An excerpt from the full article:

Several people asked, in the Davy Jones appreciation forum, about how ILM rendered Davy and his digital crew of half-human, crustacean-covered Pirates. We have some answers, direct from Christophe Hery, Lead Research & Development Engineer at Industrial Light & Magic.

Production focus on Pirates of the Carribean 2 over at CGTalk.com Here’s a short excerpt:

To create the characters, modelers worked directly in Maya from Aaron McBride’s photorealistic illustrations, referencing Gentle Giant body scans of actors playing the main characters to create subdivision surface models with compatible proportions. They also referenced scans of the actors’ faces taken with

This is a really good interview with Jean Bolte, you can understand the kind of effort and detail the film industry requires when it comes to texture painting for creatures such as Saphira, the dragon in the film Eragon. Here is a short excerpt, be sure to head over to CGTalk.com to read the whole interview!

Even so, she turned to natural substances to ground the creature in reality, one of director Stephen Fangmeier’s mandates, and Bolte’s preference. “I like taking texture and color from nature,” she says. “Nature is astonishing; we can’t improve on it. It’s better if we don’t change it too much to keep the essence real. So, viewpainting is like

Experience the making of Pirates 2. There are some nice 360 turn arounds for the digital characters as well as some comparison footages between digital and actual film footage. I don’t think this website is permanent, it’ll be updated whenever a new film made with visual effects done by ILM.

Jason Adams visits ILM to talk to the people behind Pirates of the Carribean 2. Here is an excerpt:

McBride and his team were the ones who actually came up with the details for every member of the Flying Dutchman, working alongside director Gore Verbinski and renowned character designer Crash McCreery. Despite being mainly background characters, each of the 18 scallywags

Check out the third and final installment of CGSociety’s inside look into the making of the HD cinematic for Sunflowers/SEK’s game ‘Paraworld’.