From thefoundry.co.uk: Weta Digital, New Zealand’s multi award-winning VFX studio has purchased a site license of Nuke to enhance their in-house pipeline. Paul Ryan, Chief Technology Officer at Weta Digital, comments: “With ambitious projects on the slate, we need to ensure we have the best tools at our disposal. Our long-standing relationship with The Foundry and our faith in their product development, support and focus on producing a truly useful artist tool set has given us the confidence to make this investment.” Read the full press release
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Comic-Con, a world showcase of pop-culture, has been trying to land Peter Jackson for the last decade since it was announce that he would helm the three-film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of The Rings.” Jackson sent along video to the mega-show for both LOTR and King Kong but for the first time the now big-time director will make the show in person. Continue reading “Jackson, Taylor, Noble and TORn at Comic-Con”
A new trailer for ‘District 9’ has popped up on Yahoo! featuring a ton more footage and more of the general plot of the film, it looks amazing.
‘District 9’, which Peter Jackson is producing and Sony will be conducting a panel for at Comic-Con with Peter and Director Neill Blomcamp attending. Check out the new trailer here. You may have already begun seeing TV News alerts about non-humans, stay safe out there people. D-9.com
It is official, TheOneRing.net has been officially invited to present a panel at the 2009 edition of Comic-Con in San Diego on its first day of programming on Thursday, July 23 at 10:30 a.m. in room 7AB. That great news gets even better because we can announce that Weta’s own Richard Taylor is very likely to join in! Continue reading “TORn at Comic-Con with big surprise guest”
Ringer spy Michelf has sent us the link of Guillermo del Toro chatting with Charlie Rose. The interview features a great but short collection of clips and then the two jump into the rich soil of GDT’s imagination. Rose is his usual warm self and the director of the two “The Hobbit” movies is passionate about monsters, movies, writing, life and the horror of banal reality and tabloid existence. GDT talks about science fiction and fantasy and drops such gems as, “I am not a hardware guy. I am a biologically perverse guy. I am into squishy things.” Click here to enjoy.
Good new for Wellington Hobbit fans and GDT fans, from the Noldor Blog again: Del Toro will be signing copies of his new book The Strain at Unity Books. The man seems to be everywhere these days! Read More