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Mike Seymour

  • University Lecturer, University of Sydney and Contributing Editor and Co-Founder, fxguide
Australia
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Visual Guy who researches and explores visual things (Digital Humans). I like 'deep dives' on complex subjects + Good Margaritas. @Sydney_Uni @fxguidenews
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VFXShow 307: The Odyssey

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By Mike Seymour
| fxguide: the vfx show
https://podcasts.fxguide.com/vfxshow/the_vfx_show-307-TheOdessey.mp3 Play in new window Download A giant stands inside a Greek cave. He is sixty feet tall, surrounded by sheep and terrified soldiers, his single eye fixed on Odysseus. Yet the creature isn’t simply a digital creation. He is part actor, part prosthetic, part puppet, and part carefully crafted 70mm IMAX illusion. The world of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey.
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StEM3: Know your LED volume before you shoot

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By Mike Seymour
| fxguide
Virtual production has given filmmakers an extraordinary amount of control, but it has also made the stage itself part of the VFX imaging pipeline. A cinematographer can arrive with a carefully tested camera, lens package and colour workflow, only to discover that the LED volume has poor calibration, compromised dynamic range, mismatched panels or an unexpected interaction with the camera. StEM3 is designed to identify those problems before the first day of principal photography.
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With the Sony FX5, Gareth Edwards takes guerrilla filmmaking to the next level

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By Mike Seymour
| fxguide
Sony has launched a new compact full-frame Cinema Line camera with 5K Open Gate acquisition, internal 16-bit X-OCN, and thus offered a new level of distinctly stripped-down approach to production. Gareth Edwards, director of The Creator, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Jurassic World: Rebirth, took the new FX5 to Cambodia, Thailand and Nepal, to film his own camera test. “Guerrilla filmmaking just went to the next level,” Edwards says, speaking to Yaroslav Altunin.
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