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- Planes, Trains & Automatic Weapons: Zoic Provides Explosive VFX for FOX’s Human Target
Based loosely on the DC comic series of the same name, Human Target is an action-drama starring Mark Valley (Boston Legal) as security expert Christopher Chance, with Chi McBride (Boston Public) and Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen). It airs Wednesdays at 8pm on FOX. Zoic Studios provided a number of visual effects shots for the series, [...]
- Zoic Brings Photo-real CG to Broadcast TV with ESPN NASCAR “Dominoes”
Originally published on IDesignYourEyes on 2/2/2010. To the opening riffs of Metallica’s “Master of Puppets,” two NASCAR drivers jostle for position at the front of the pack. One cuts off the other by the wall, and the rear car speeds up, smashing into the front car. As the front car drifts from the wall, the [...]
- Zoic Studios’ ZEUS: A VFX Pipeline for the 21st Century
Originally published by IDesignYourEyes on 1/7/2010. Actors Christopher Shyer and Morena Baccarin on the greenscreen set of ABC’s V; the virtual set is overlaid. Visual effects professionals refer to the chain of processes and technologies used to produce an effects shot as a “pipeline,” a term borrowed both from traditional manufacturing and from computer architecture. [...]
- The End of Rendering: Zoic Studios’ Aaron Sternlicht on Realtime Engines in VFX Production
Originally published on IDesignYourEyes on 1/6/2010. Zoic created this Killzone 2 commercial spot entirely within the Killzone 2 engine. The level of the technology available to produce computer graphics is approaching a new horizon, and video games are part of the equation. Creators in 3D animation and visual effects are used to lengthy, hardware-intensive render [...]
- Zoic Presents: The Creatures of ‘Fringe’ – Part 2
Originally published on I Design Your Eyes on 12/24/09. This is second part of a two-part interview with Zoic Studios senior compositor Johnathan R. Banta, about creatures designed for the Fox sci-fi drama Fringe. Be sure to read part one. The Lionzard (from episode 1:16, “Unleashed”) In this first-season episode, anarchists opposed to animal testing [...]
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