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unusual facts about Visual Effects


Bluepixel Animations

It offers courses that include Editing, Visual Effects, Advanced 3D(Maya) to prepare students for careers in animation production.


Digital Media Arts College

This school of art and design attracts faculty with appropriate academic and industry credentials to teach a curriculum around graphic design, computer animation, game art, website design and visual effects.

Jenny Fulle

In the early nineties, Fulle moved to Los Angeles to further pursue her career in visual effects, landing her first Visual Effects Producer credit on Batman Returns.

Shawn Kelly

Kelly received the 2007 award for the ‘Best Single Visual Effect of the Year’ by the Visual Effects Society (VES), an organization dedicated to advancing the arts, sciences and the application of visual effects.

Spierig brothers

Peter and Michael made their directing debut in 2003 with Undead, and rose to fame with their second film Daybreakers (2010) starring Ethan Hawke and Willem Dafoe, for which they won their country's top prize for Best Visual Effects at the Australian Film Institute Awards.

The Foundry Visionmongers

The Foundry Visionmongers is a visual effects software development company with headquarters in London, and offices in Los Angeles and Mountain View, California.

Tony Bancroft

In May 2008, it was announced that Bancroft would co-direct, along with Jim Rygiel, visual effects supervisor on The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, an animated folk tale titled Bunyan and Babe.

Worker Studio

The company has provided visual effects for a number of short films including Angela Bettis' segment E is for Exterminate in the horror anthology film The ABCs of Death.


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Ada, Ohio

John Berton, award-winning computer graphics animator and visual effects supervisor.

Albert Whitlock

Universal loaned out Whitlock and his team to other studios for visual effects work on films including Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, the David Lynch version of Dune, Mame, The Learning Tree and Bound for Glory.

Alexander Livingstone Bruce

Amy died in 1927, and they had one child, a daughter Diana Livingstone Bruce (born 1927), who in 1963 married the American visual effects creator and producer Ray Harryhausen.

Atlantis, the Lost Continent

The spectacular special visual effects work of Atlantis, the elaborate miniature work of ancient Greek and Roman-style buildings, landscapes, temples, the volcano, the destruction of Atlantis, and the giant crystal ray machine, were the work of the special effects production company Project Unlimited, supervised by Gene Warren, Wah Chang, and Jim Danforth, along with the MGM production staff supervised by A. Arnold Gillespie.

Brothers Strause

In the fall of 2008, the Brothers directed 50 Cent's music video "Get Up" as well as commercials for Pennzoil and Shell, in addition to supplying some visual effects for Avatar.

Cafe FX

Snakes on a Plane- As the lead visual effects studio, CafeFX created more than half of the 500 VFX shots, including some 100 photoreal snake sots as well as all of the airline exteriors.

CD-i games from The Legend of Zelda series

Because the aging early 1990s visual effects of the titles failed to live up to the graphic effects of the 2000s, and because for many fans this was their first experience of the games, the CD-i Zelda titles have developed a critical reputation as particularly poor members of the Zelda franchise based largely on animation quality and to an extent on awkward controls.

Dean Wright

Wright was the visual effects supervisor for Andrew Adamson's Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and was nominated for an Academy Award, BAFTA Award and VES Award for Best Visual Effects for 2005.

Doug Drexler

Doug Drexler (born in New York City) is a visual effects artist, designer, sculptor, illustrator, and a makeup artist who has collaborated with such talents as Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, James Caan, Meryl Streep, and Warren Beatty.

Electrooculography

Electrooculography was used by Robert Zemeckis and Jerome Chen, the visual effects supervisor in the movie Beowulf, to enhance the performance capture by correctly animating the eye movements of the actors.

Entopic

Entoptic phenomenon, visual effects arising from within the eye, often misspelled entopic

Flash Film Works

Flash Film Works won the Visual Effects Society Award for "Best Supporting Visual Effects" for its work on the motion picture The Last Samurai in 2004.

Frantic Films

Superman Returns (2006) – visual effects, software development

Ghosts of War

The film was shot on the Red One digital cinema camera, cut on Apple Final Cut Pro, and finished (graphics, grading, visual effects) using Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop and Electric Image (3D).

Giantsteps

Giantsteps was nominated for "Best Visual Effects" at the 2006 MVPA Awards for its work on the Natasha Bedingfield video entitled These Words.

Hoyt Yeatman

In 1979 Yeatman, Scott Squires, Rocco Gioffre, Fred Iguchi, Tom Hollister and Bob Hollister co-founded Dream Quest Images, a groundbreaking visual effects house, winning the Academy Award for Visual Effects in 1989 for the motion control and underwater effects in The Abyss.

Imageworks

Sony Pictures Imageworks, a visual effects and character animation company headquartered in Culver City, California, USA

In My Mind's Eye

Upon its release, bandmembers Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal stated that although they were happy with the video release in general, they were less enthused about the visual effects added to it.

Joe Letteri

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) (visual effects supervisor: Weta Digital)

John Gaeta

Trumbull was visual effects supervisor for such films as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, as well as the director of such films as Silent Running and Brainstorm.

Ken Ralston

Ralston has won five Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, including a Special Achievement Oscar for the visual effects in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, and regular awards for his work on Forrest Gump, Death Becomes Her, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Cocoon.

Klingon culture

The style is similar to t'ai chi and was invented for Star Trek by visual effects producer and martial artist Dan Curry.

Lee Lanier

After working for Buena Vista Visual Effects at Walt Disney Studios in Los Angeles, Lanier worked at PDI/DreamWorks in the San Francisco bay area—where he created digital special effects for the movies Shrek and Antz.

Mat Irvine

In 1981, Irvine served as Visual Effects Designer for the Doctor Who spin-off, K-9 and Company.

Mental Images

The first versions of the rendering software were influenced, tested and used for production by Mental Images' then operating large commercial computer animation division, led by the visual effects supervisors John Andrew Berton (1986-1989), 2000 Academy Award winner John Nelson (1987-1989), and 1996 and 2000 Academy Award nominee Stefen Fangmeier (1988-1990).

Method Studios

Method Studios is a visual effects company founded in 1998 and located in Los Angeles, California with facilities in Vancouver, New York, Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, London, Sydney and Melbourne.

Michael Kogan

His daughter, Rita, lives in Southern California and is married to Richard Edlund, founder of Boss Film Studios and an Academy Award-winning Visual Effects Supervisor.

Mike Morasky

He is also known for his groundbreaking visual effects work on The Lord of the Rings and The Matrix trilogies as well as founding the seminal underground art band Steel Pole Bath Tub.

Mir Zafar Ali

Ali has worked on visual effects and graphics in many Hollywood movies, including The Day After Tomorrow, X-Men (in which he was primarily in charge of the character Banshee as effects technical director), Stealth, Monster House, The Golden Compass, The Incredible Hulk, The Mummy and Aliens in the Attic.

Moon 44

Production design and visual effects bear signs of significant inspiration by aesthetics of notable 1970s/80s science fiction films like Alien, Aliens, Blade Runner or The Terminator.

Naveen Goud Medaram

He worked in Fremont, USA as a Webdesigner and in UK studios Double Negative Studios, The Moving Picture Company, as well as at the Pinewood Studios as a Visual Effects Compositor.

Pokémon Red and Blue

Papers published by the Columbia Business School indicate both American and Japanese children prefer the actual gameplay of a game over special audio or visual effects.

Radiodrum

The radiodrum has been used to control visual effects, and even robotic acoustic instruments like the Yamaha Disklavier and Trimpin instruments.

Russian Snark

Stephen Sinclair nominated for Best Director, Stephen Papps nominated for Best Actor, Elena Stejko nominated for Best Actress, Stephanie Tauevihi nominated for Best Supporting Actress, Stephen Gallagher and David Long nominated for Best Music, and Park Road Post nominated for Best Visual Effects.

Rygiel

Jim Rygiel (born 1955), Polish-American visual effects supervisor

Shane Acker

Weta Digital will create the film's visual effects, with design by Weta Workshop Design Dept.

Swen Gillberg

Swen Gillberg is a visual effects supervisor best known for his work with Digital Domain.

The Drawn and Quartered EP

It features short band and fan interviews, some of which done in their hometown of Sulphur Springs, Texas, live performances with visual effects, studio sessions, and animations by Armen Mirzaian.

The Embassy Visual Effects

The studio completed a number of visual effects shots for Marvel Studios, Iron Man and more recently contributed effects to the climactic sequence of the Peter Jackson produced film, District 9.

The Storm Warriors

Visual effects for the film was produced by Fat Face Productions, which has been a leader in digital effects work for the Asian region with past credits that include The Warlords, and Kung Fu Hustle.

TouchFLO 3D

The HTC Touch Viva, HTC Touch 3G and HTC Touch2 have a simpler version entitled TouchFLO 2D, where they have the same scrolling tab on the bottom of the screen, however they do not have any 3D visual effects.

Troublemaker Studios

The company's visual effects division, Troublemaker Digital, is also located at the site, and uses six-core AMD Opteron processors and FirePro graphics accelerators on many of its productions.

What Happens Tomorrow

It was nominated on the Visual Effects Society Awards 2005 for "Outstanding Visual Effects in a Music Video" for media artists Jerry Steele, Jo Steele, Brian Adler and Monique Eissing.

Wizen

Effi Wizen, born 1956, Israeli computer animator and visual effects specialist

Wonderfalls

The DVD set includes all 13 episodes; six commentary tracks by creators Todd Holland and Bryan Fuller, and actors Caroline Dhavernas and Katie Finneran on "Wax Lion", "Crime Dog", "Lovesick Ass", "Safety Canary", "Cocktail Bunny" (with Scotch Ellis Loring) and "Caged Bird"; a behind-the-scenes documentary, an examination of the show's visual effects, and a music video produced for the theme song, "I Wonder Why the Wonderfalls" by Andy Partridge.