Every web-nerd’s favorite comic strip xkcd just wrapped up a 5 part series called “The Race” featuring stick figure likenesses of Nathan Fillion, Summer Glau and chock full’o inside VFX/Sci-Fi geek humor. It’s laugh out loud funny. if your into that sort of thing.
(LINK) to Part 1
Smashing Magazine has posted a list of Best Tutorials For Cinematic Visual Effects. The post links to 62 techniques ranging from the 007 Intro to Meteor Crashes. So this one post contains all the knowledge you would need to make a tent-pole VFX feature or start your own effects boutique. Right? Seriously, if all this information was available to me when I got started, it would have been much harder to impress people by showing them a chrome sphere on a checkerboard.
(LINK) to the full post
Filmmaker Kris Wong has put together Command+Z, a nifty little short that has tons of energy and a lot of VFX moxie. According to Kris’ website
Our main influences came from action films from the 90′s, art deco, and war propaganda
The result is kinda like if the Hudsucker Proxy and Kill Bill had a love child. And I mean that in a good way. Make sure you check out the Making Of section. These guys obviously had a blast making this thing.
(LINK) to the Command+Z microsite
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