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Unwrapping the VFX inside The Mummy
[Wed 24/09/2008 09:57:52]
Check out the latest issue of Smoke & Mirrors, featuring an exclusive story on how the VFX were created for the latest Mummy movie, a set report from Spielberg's The Pacific and much more.
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Cover Story: Unwrapping VFX inside The Mummy
Joel Hynek and Matthew Butler explain how much they enjoyed creating the effects for this epic movie, which involved contributing significant ideas during pre-production and production. They pushed the boundaries of Massive to create 4800 life-like warriors and incredibly realistic CG replicas of Jet Li, amongst other stars.
Inside Lucas’ valley of dreams
Our freelance reporter, Darryl Wilson, was recently granted a rare visit inside George Lucas’ LucasFilm building and Skywalker Ranch. As part of his life-long dream, he was fortunate enough to interview Rick McCallum about the forthcoming Star Wars TV series that will be filmed in Sydney.
A new Chapter for Australian VFX
Some of the key individuals behind the campaign to get the Australian Chapter of the Visual Effects Society off the ground talk about the benefits it should bring to the VFX community in Australia. The Chapter aims to unite together talented individuals and speak as one voice for the sector.
US Focus
We speak to some of ILM’s brightest visual effects artist about how much they enjoy working on Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters.
UK Focus
The effects wizards from Double Negative explain how they brought Guillermo del Toro’s bold and ambitious vision of Hellboy II: The Golden Army to life.
NZ Focus
Photon NZFX recently created key effects for The Laundry Warrior, which stars Kate Bosworth and Geoffrey Rush. The film tells the story of the world’s greatest swordsman, who betrays his clan to save his last enemy.
Asia Focus
Rob Cohen, the director of The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, talks about how much he enjoyed fulfilling his life-long dream of filming in China.
Production Investigator
We report from the set of The Pacific about its amazing battle scenes and the ultra realistic special make-up effects created by the team from JMB FX Studio. Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks are executive producers for this multi-million dollar production.
Special model makers: Studio Kite
Steve Rosewell, the owner of Studio Kite, explains how his company uniquely blends together the crafts of digital design, manufacturing machinery and make-up effects to create highly artistic creations in a very short space of time.
Actor’s Corner
Samantha Morton and Philip Seymour Hoffman share their views on wearing old age make-up in Charlie Kaufman’s movie: Seychnode, New York.
Profile
Andrew Gordon, a supervising animator from Pixar, explains how he created key animated characters for Ratatouille.
Deconstruction
Simon Maddison, joint owner and VFX supervisor from Fuel, explains how he created the incredibly realistic and charismatic tortoise for the “V” commercial, which involved drawing on valuable experience learnt from Rogue and Charlotte’s Web.
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