If you miss the conferences of Imaging the Future 2010 in Neuchâtel, here are some of the videos of them:

VFX Production and supervision

Cargo – Building a VFX-Pipeline in Switzerland

Invisible Effects : Creating Atmosphere

Inside the Black Box : A Look at the VFX Pipeline

Meet Douglas Trumbull

The video for the conference of Swiss Made VFX is not good one.
Once this is corrected, I will put a news for that.

To see more videos about ITF, click here.

If you’re traveling to Amsterdam from September 10th to 14th for IBC 2010, do not forget to visit the Marquise Technologies booth to discover the latest versions of OCEAN, MIST and RAIN.

You will find them in Hall 13 – Booth 13.A30.

For more information, click here.

Elefant Studios is showing to us the trailer for the festival Fantoche 2010:

Here is a presentation text:
For this year’s FANTOCHE, a decently humorous make-over of the common style of the festival has been created. Predecessor editions of the international festival for animated film in Baden traditionally just added a small animation to the 2D design of the still to compose the trailer. With plenty of rope for this project, there were many possibilities to take the step from the banner to the fully animated, 3D debutting version.

Discover also a making of for the trailer:

After his studies in Switzerland, Simon Christen came to California to study at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. After graduation, he took a first job at Pixar and then Disney before going back at Pixar, where he has worked since on RATATOUILLE, UP and TOY STORY 3.

In the following interview, he talks to us about his work on TOY STORY 3.

To read the interview, click here.

Here is the new demo on the Demoreel page.

The studio g3D art e-motion of Chris Blaser shows us his latest works.

Here is his demo reel.

Kompost is showing to us his new commercial, Spaceman Stu for Mc Donald:

Here is a presentation text:

Leo Burnett asked us to create an original animation to promote the McDonalds Happy Meal. We did just that by captivating the imagination that lives inside of every child. The story and the visuals show the colorful environment that is projected from Spaceman Stu’s point of view. Stu loves to gaze upon the stars with his fish bowl over his head dreaming of one day floating amongst them in space.

Artistic Challenges:

We tried to create an illustrated universe that didn’t necessarily convey reality as seen through an adult perspective. We wanted something that could have grown out of a child’s imagination. Therefore we chose a more stylized representation of things. The stars had to look like how a child would imagine them to look and not like out of a astrological representation. We also decided to bring them much closer to the subject then they would in real life. This enabled us to have the main character be surrounded by stars rather then having them far above his head. This again emphasized the imaginary force of our character and really illustrated that it all comes from his vivid imagination. Another tool to enhance this concept was the fact that only certain elements were effected by gravity and others not. The mother for instance is grounded at all times.

The visual language, the look and feel had to enhance all of these aspects. Things are always slightly out of proportion, and then a certain hand made feel was implemented. All off the textures were hand made, the stars were cut out of cardboard before digitizing.

We knew we were not going to have a lot of time to produce this technically demanding project. One of the challenges was to build up team that could handle the huge amount of work that was coming our way. To make it happen we brought together some of the most talented and experienced artists from around the globe. At the end our core team was built up out of 8 people originating from six different countries. Having an international team of top shots working on location, pulling on the same rope created a truly inspiring and highly effective work environment. The atmosphere was similar to a creative think tank, obstacles that arose where solved, new ideas and concepts were immediately evaluated and then put in to practice. Over the duration of the Project our team really grew together and real friendships were made.

Here are some links about it:

Motionographer
Sun Times
Media Bistro
Sun Times 2nd article
Kompost

Important: Kompost is looking for interns to start in beginning September in his new studio in Zurich!

Here is a VFX breakdown showing the work of Chris Blaser on the music video “Line of Fire”.

The music video was shot in RED and Chris did the vfx supervision and all the effects.

Danny Boy, animation short film , has won the SSA / SUISSIMAGE price of the best swiss short fantastic film in Neuchatel International Fantastic Film Festival 2010.

Sapristi Studio performs in 2009 the postproduction of the 90 shots of Danny Boy. Completed between Switzerland and Poland, this short animation volume film tells the story of a poet in a city full of characters without a head. Aesthetic everything in detail, hazy atmosphere sometimes, severed heads and blind love punctuate this short film’s reflections resolutely contemporary.

For more informations: http://www.sapristi.ch/newsletter/juill2010/dannyboy_nifff.html

Elefant Studios presents the making of for their RUF commercial:

Click HERE to see it.

Boutiq purpose to us his brand new commercial for M-Budget: