check out this interview with Dennis Muren on his VFX history as well as some SUPER 8 specific stuff.

Canon EOS Gamma Curves

  The selection of curves provided by Light Illusion attempt to maximise the capture capabilities of the Canon EOS cameras, enabling the most to be made of the images in later post-production, and are based on the very successful Sony Gamma Curves, also from Light Illusion.

In the following url from light illusion they go into depth about trying to mimic "LOG" gamma from canon DSLR cameras.. Really useful when trying to get the most out of the post color process. Forget baking in the saturated colors and beauty that the camera can give you. A good colorist can bring that out 10 fold. They offer packages for most Sony CineAlta cameras as well as Canon DSLRs.

You can buy their curves here.

http://www.lightillusion.com/canon_curves.html

The art of storyboarding with Ridley Scott

You gotta love Ridley Scott. This creative vision and storyboard techniques show why he makes hit movies and not just the run of a mill "bay" flick..

In this video you Ridley takes you on a journey through story boarding and what it means in the production process for him.

This is one of the best VFX shots I have seen the breakdown for in a while. I am sure great shots go unseen all the time. I must say though, this is awesome.

Its one of those "one take" shots that travels from a helicopter shot, then stitched to a crane shot then follows the main character through an entire stadium.  

Its flawless and a must see for you VFX lovers.


LEGAL DISCLAIMER
The images show­cased rep­res­ents the pro­fes­sional work of Rodrigo Tomasso –vfx designer/supervisor– and Mar­celo Gar­cía –vfx pro­du­cer– for the film “The Secret in their Eyes”.
The vfx pro­ject was done at “100 Bares Pro­duc­ciones” where they were the Heads of the Vfx Depart­ment dur­ing 2006–2009. This vfx break­down reel intends to show ONER Vfx’s tech­nical and artistic exper­i­ence only, not to take comer­cial cred­its. The final images of the film “The Secret in their Eyes” con­tained in this vfx break­down shall retain their respect­ive copyrights.
Images cour­tesy of 100 Bares Producciones.

• artist/studio: ONER Vfx
• web­site: http://www.oner-vfx.com

James Cameron Wants to Convert Everyone to 5D

James Cameron wants everyone to adopt "5-D," a term coined by the film and television industry to describe shooting in 2-D and 3-D simultaneously.

Follow the link to the full story on Gizmodo > James Cameron wants everyone to adopt 5D