ARRI expanded its digital cinema camera line-up at NAB last week with the announcement of the ALEXA Plus 4:3 — it’s basically an ALEXA Plus with a 4:3 Super-35 sensor and built-in anamorphic, high-speed, and DNxHD capabilities. A 4:3 aspect ratio means the full area of the sensor can be used with anamorphic lenses, which “squeeze” the image horizontally during capture to generate a widescreen image with an aspect ratio of 2.39:1. When used with spherical lenses, the company noted, [...]

Elegant, sophisticated and jam packed with the latest digital cinema technology, Blackmagic Cinema Camera gives your work that timeless feature film look! Blackmagic Cinema Camera features an amazing 2.5K image sensor with a wide 13 stops of dynamic range for a true digital film camera. You get a built-in SSD recorder, popular open standard uncompressed RAW and compressed file formats, compatibility with quality EF and ZE mount lenses, LCD touchscreen monitoring plus metadata entry, all packed into an exciting hand [...]

The Secret in their Eyes, 2010 Academy Awarded as Best Foreign Film, let us show our art to the world through this money-shot: the Huracan ONER or extended sequence. This is the full length vfx breakdown (how- to) of the first Argentinean extended vfx shot. It was the first implementation of massive software technology in an Argentinean film production. It is an extended shot of five minutes and a half starting from an aerial view until a close-up of the [...]

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Director: Lizzie Oxby Production company: Lizzie Oxby Productions A short animated deconstruction of some of the compositing and effects in my film Extn.21 (3 mins). Full video here

Director: Lizzie Oxby Production company: Finetake Commission: Channel 4 Television Extn.21 is a short film about one man’s desire to be heard. The film uses an innovative blend of atmospheric stop-frame animation, live action performance (a live action head on a stop-frame puppet) and digital effects to create a dark world of uncertain reality (9 mins). The film won several awards, including a British Animation Award and a nomination for a British Independent Film Award. Broadcasts include: Channel 4 Television, [...]

Breakdown of some shots we did for Croatian kings documentary series. Various methods and approaches we took in creating those shots, as there was only 2.5 of us in the team Working on documentary series meant we needed to do a lot of research and tried to use as much facts as we could. This in the other hand meant some creative choices are made by very little or no information.

The AG-AF100 is a full HD 1080/720 production camera that offers superior video handling, native 1080/24p recording, variable frame rates, professional audio capabilities, and compatibility with SDHC and SDXC media. The AF100 delivers the shallow depth of field and wider field of view of a large imager, with the flexibility and cost advantages of a handheld camcorder. The AF100 is the next-generation, go-to HD camera that costs less, yet delivers so much more than other models in its class. The [...]

Beautiful work from Dan Schick. VFX breakdowns from a variety of projects.

Cat Footwear VFX Breakdown. Director / Compositor : Paul Clements. 3D Environments : Paul McGeoch The final commercial: