Susan's Weekly News Mashup: Friday 2 Dec 2011

Another week has gone by – I sat out last week due to the holiday, but here, for your reading pleasure is a mashup of the good, the bad and the absurd. I hope you find some interesting reading within!

Latest from Psyop for Fedex, 'Encanted Forest'
From Psyop.TV
A vew of their latest work. 

How Can You Tell if a Picture Has Been Photoshopped?
From DMA Central
Photos are everywhere. And there’s a very good chance the photo you’re looking at has had a touch-up or two. Do you know how to tell the difference between a real or phony photo?

9 Pro Tips For Breaking Into Visual Effects From Jurassic Park’s VFX Pioneers
From VFX Sverige
If there’s anyone who knows about breaking barriers in the visual effects industry, it’s Dennis Muren, Phil Tippett and John Rosengrant, whose computer-generated dinosaur effects on Jurassic Park forever changed the FX landscape, earned them Academy Awards and famously caused George Lucas to tear up with joy. But their work pioneering new technologies did not begin or end with Steven Spielberg’s 1993 classic. The artists have worked on some of Hollywood’s most technologically innovative titles including Star Wars, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, Predator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, A.I. Artificial Intelligence and Avatar.

Top 10 Worst Christmas Movies Ever
From DMA Central
It’s that time again, when holiday movies and TV shows take over the airwaves. And why not gather round the television with the family and zone out on a holiday movie after a platter full of turkey or ham? But before you find yourself in the middle of a stocking-stinker, check out our list for the ten worst holiday/Christmas movies ever.

National Television - Syfy - Imagine Greater
From DMA Central
It’s that time again, when holiday movies and TV shows take over the airwaves. And why not gather round the television with the family and zone out on a holiday movie after a platter full of turkey or ham? But before you find yourself in the middle of a stocking-stinker, check out our list for the ten worst holiday/Christmas movies ever.

Mercedes "Escape the Map"
From Motionographer
Digital Domain teamed up with director Carl Rinsch, RSA and AMV BBDO for “Escape the Map,” a surreal POV journey into a world inspired by Google Street View. With characters ravaged by digital artifacts, blurred visages and time echoes, it’s a slickly imagined ride that pulled me in, despite knowing it was a car advert.

Hugo: a study of modern inventive visual
From FXGuide
Martin Scorsese’s Hugo tells the story of an orphan living in a 1930s Paris train station. But it is also a story of the birth of cinema and the film itself used a wide range of inventive solutions to both tell its tale and pay homage to the earliest masters of cinema. To help bring Hugo to life, Scorsese called on long-time collaborator Rob Legato as the film’s visual effects supervisor. “The whole film really is celebrating persistence of vision,” says Legato, “and what it meant to early filmmakers, and the film is so rich with homage and appreciate of that.”

Terry Gilliam explains the difference between Kubrick and Spielberg
From io9.com
This video has been around since 2009, so maybe you've already seen it — but it's a pretty great, thought-provoking discussion nonetheless. Terry Gilliam, interviewed by TCM, explains the major difference between movies like Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and the mega-successful but more comforting works by Steven Spielberg. Even if you don't agree with Gilliam, it's still pretty thought-provoking stuff.

MARI 1.4 is announced
From 3dworld Magazine
The Foundry continues to shake-up 3D Paint with the release of MARI 1.4.