20 February 2016

Every Best Visual Effects Winner. Ever.


The folks at Burger Fiction can always be relied on to come up with something special and this is no exception. If you want to see how visual effects have improved over the decades then you need to look no further than this – a glimpse of each and every Oscar winner since the Award for Special Effects (under its various guises) was first started way back in 1927.

17 November 2014

What if an Epidemic Emptied London of People?


Can you imagine London without people?  That is quite an ask, particularly if you live there: the one constant you have is the presence of another person in the vicinity.  Yet Clare&Max have done this in Miasmatic and the result is eerie, like 28 Days Later without Cillian Murphy – or any zombies for that matter.  Yet watch closely -  there is still a barely detectable presence here. Find out how they did it here.

22 September 2013

Living History: 3D Without 3D


The 1st year Bachelor Computer graphics students at Bellecour had to create VFX (special effects) shots in the manner of many historical documentaries that can be seen currently on our screens.

Without videos, journalists have increasingly tended to animate pictures to illustrate their points.

The photograph seems to take life and when some items in the frame are highlighted by a fake camera movement, revealing a depth and an extra dimension. 3D without 3D somehow...