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Barnstorm has put two minutes of its Spider-Noir work online, from a show that had to be finished twice over. Also this week: the people who build Star Wars voted to bargain collectively. |
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Barnstorm Shows How Spider-Noir Was Built |
Barnstorm VFX has published a two-minute breakdown reel from Spider-Noir, the Prime Video series that drops an ageing private investigator into 1930s New York. The show ships in two graded versions, Authentic Black & White and True-Hue Full Color, so its vendors delivered shots twice over: three kinds of deliverable in all, by befores & afters' count. The Take: Two grades is not a colour decision taken in the DI, it is a comp decision taken in every shot. The blacks, edges and grain that hold up in monochrome are not the ones that hold up in colour. Two minutes of split screens will show you which way they went. ▶ Watch the breakdown on Vimeo (2:02) → |
“That Man Spider was basically 100% prosthetic and puppeteering.”Hnedel Maximore, VFX supervisor, to befores & afters |
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Labour · AWN Star Wars VFX Workers Vote to Join IATSE US visual effects workers engaged directly by Lucasfilm's franchise productions have voted to join IATSE and will negotiate a first contract. Supporters read it as VFX finally reaching for protections adjacent crafts have held for decades. A first contract can take years, and it covers workers engaged directly, not the vendor pipeline where most VFX work sits.Photo: Tim-desser, CC0 |  |
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Tech · CG Channel Reallusion Puts an Omniverse Path Tracer Inside iClone RTX Render is in open beta for Character Creator 5 and iClone 8: an Nvidia Omniverse path tracer in the viewport, with subsurface skin scattering, camera depth of field and hair controls, no export step. |
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Production · AnimationXpress DNEG Takes Its Rs 4,000 Crore Ramayana to Comic-Con The team behind Ramayana took the stage at San Diego Comic-Con to detail a Rs 4,000 crore (US$500 million) two-part production. Producer and DNEG CEO Namit Malhotra said the studio is running a pipeline that captures live and digital actors on set together. |  |
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Closing thought Barnstorm's reel is a studio choosing to show its work. Two other stories are about who decides. A bargaining unit at Lucasfilm will work out what a first VFX contract looks like, while layout artists on a 2D feature settled the camera in Blender before anyone drew a frame. The tools keep pulling decisions earlier. The terms are a separate negotiation. |
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