{"id":1689,"date":"2015-04-24T01:47:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T08:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/?p=1689"},"modified":"2015-05-21T01:54:03","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T08:54:03","slug":"housespecial-mixes-up-some-alchemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/?p=1689","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Round Here Roundup &#8211; April 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just dropped by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.housespecial.com\/#intro\" target=\"_blank\">HouseSpecial<\/a> &#8211; your jaw!<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/125527643?color=ffffff&amp;title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/125527643\">The Alchemist&#8217;s Letter<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.housespecial.com\/#intro\" target=\"_blank\">HouseSpecial<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some very good looking work involving a lot of talented artists that will no doubt make the film fest circuit.\u00a0 Excellent to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.housespecial.com\/#intro\" target=\"_blank\">HouseSpecial <\/a>come out guns blazing and continue the rich animation tradition forged by Vinton and LAIKA \/house.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardboardcastle.com\" target=\"_blank\">Cardboard Castle<\/a> has been keeping busy, and have a new reel and fresh batch of VFX heavy spots.\u00a0 Check out the environment work on these spots for East Boston Bank:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/123156157?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/123156157\">EBSB &#8211; Manufacturing<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/cardboardcastle\">Cardboard Castle<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And the breakdown:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/123155795?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/123155795\">EBSB &#8211; Manufacturing &#8211; VFX Breakdown<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/cardboardcastle\">Cardboard Castle<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the latest reel and freshened <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardboardcastle.com\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/126560577?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/126560577\">Cardboard Castle 2015 Reel<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/cardboardcastle\">Cardboard Castle<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Taking the bus from CBC&#8217;s Boise &#8216;hood down to the heart of Division at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bentimagelab.com\" target=\"_blank\">Bent Image Lab<\/a>, the team there had an animated piece catch my eye lately &#8211; this bit for the recent Nirvana documentary has a nice feel to it:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/126403531\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/126403531\">&#8220;Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck&#8221; (animated sequences by Stefan Nadelman)<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/bentimagelab\">Bent Image Lab<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kudos to animator\/director Stefan Nadelman on that one.\u00a0 Unknown if any of those were inspired or directly lifted from actual Cobain artwork.\u00a0 The reviews of the film have been stellar.<\/p>\n<p>Making our way up north to lovely St. Johns, we have the boys at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.refugevfx.com\" target=\"_blank\">Refuge VFX<\/a> showing off some work outside of their typical bread and butter <em>Grimm<\/em> fare.\u00a0 This BTS details some of their work on the film <em>Last Knights.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vY8o1DN4t7E\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Related, here&#8217;s an extended look into the mind of Refuge owner Fred Ruff over on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allanmckay.com\/36\/\" target=\"_blank\">Allan McKay&#8217;s VFX podcast.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an in-depth BTS from Hinge Digital showing some architectural renderings of the Portland Center Stage Armory, using the real-time tech from Nvidia&#8217;s Iray render engine.\u00a0 Not hard to see how this arch viz exercise could be applied to all sorts of environments and VFX situations, as we move into more virtual and augmented reality scenarios.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/112721620?color=72c267&amp;title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"500\" height=\"264\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/112721620\">NVIDIA &#8220;Photo vs CG using Iray &amp; VCA&#8221; &#8211; Behind the Scenes<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/hingedigital\">Hinge Digital<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On a lighter note, here&#8217;s some chuckle worthy fare from Hinge of the <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/124246059\" target=\"_blank\">2D animated variety.<\/a>\u00a0 Snow knows nothing!<\/p>\n<p>Last but not least, we head across the river to <a href=\"http:\/\/hive-fx.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">HiveFX<\/a>, who are busy finishing up another season of Grimm but promise a fresh website and updated reel coming soon.\u00a0 In the meantime, have a look at this fun spot that company heads Jim Clark and Gretchen Miller put together a while back for Columbia Bank:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/43569917?color=ee3a43&amp;title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/43569917\">Columbia Bank \u2013 HIVEFX<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/greenrubino\">GreenRubino<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Obviously the style had to be a bit safer than the average after-hours Grimm gore gracing the airwaves these days.\u00a0 Any chance to have some fun while doing what we love is a chance taken!\u00a0\u00a0 And helping out a local business that has obviously helped them in the past was a nice touch.\u00a0 Grimm continues to be the gift to Portland that keeps on giving, and <a href=\"http:\/\/hive-fx.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">HiveFX<\/a> has the skills to deliver top notch shots on each show they&#8217;re awarded.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll all be looking forward to that new site and reel!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Keep those gears turning, Portland!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just dropped by HouseSpecial &#8211; your jaw! The Alchemist&#8217;s Letter from HouseSpecial Some very good looking work involving a lot of talented artists that will no doubt make the film fest circuit.\u00a0 Excellent to see HouseSpecial come out guns blazing and continue the rich animation tradition forged by Vinton and LAIKA \/house. Cardboard Castle has&hellip; <a class=\"more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/?p=1689\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[22,65,86,88,34,85,69,47],"class_list":["post-1689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-bent-image-lab","tag-cardboard-castle","tag-carlos-stevens","tag-hinge-digital","tag-hivefx","tag-housespecial","tag-short-films","tag-the-refuge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Cfrz-rf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1732,"href":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions\/1732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}