Spotlights

Peter Baustaedter was part of the Vue team at Weta Digital who did over 330 shots in "Avatar". For their work, his team won the VES award for Outstanding Matte Paintings in a Feature Motion Picture. Peter's art can also be seen in "Lovely Bones", "30 Days of Night" and more!

BlackSmith Studios created one of the largest architectural visualization projects in Beirut, Lebanon for Emaar, one of the largest real estate developers in the Middle East and the world. Meet Rabih Haddad, CEO of BlackSmith Studios, who shares with us how they introduced Vue to their pipeline.

Please meet Dark Hoffman, a Vue artist currently working for MPC London. In this user profile, Dark tells us how he got to use Vue in feature films such as "2012", "Fantastic Four 2", "GI Joe", "The Wolf Man", "Alien vs Predator 2: Requiem", "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", the video game "Dantes Inferno" and many, many more projects!

Taylor James studio continues to push the capabilities of Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) with its latest press, billboard and digital campaign for Tourism Ireland.

Whiskytree, a San Rafael based CG studio, used Vue to completely devastate Los Angeles in Paramount Pictures' "Terminator Salvation"!

Polygon Pictures, a Japanese CG Studio, used Vue to create over 850 shots of Mamoru Oshii's latest anime movie "The SkyCrawlers". The Polygon Pictures artists share with us some of their secrets through 4 exclusive interviews.

BBDO NY approached leading CGI specialists Taylor James, to create a print campaign image for Motorola Government & Public safety solutions. Too tricky and expensive to shoot using traditional photography and retouching, they needed a world class CGI company that could deliver photo realistic imagery.

Acht Frankfurt created the intro trailer for Terra X broadcasted on the public-service German television channel ZDF. Michael Koch shares with us how they introduced Vue to their pipeline.

Rodrigo Olmos, from ANIMA RES, shares with us how they introduced Vue to their pipeline, for the creation of 3 TV-commercials for Ubisoft's Video Game 'The Settlers: Dawn of cultures', broadcasted in Germany.

Emmanuel Blasset, CG Supervisor on Baz Luhrmann's "Australia" shares with us an insight on how the renowned Sydney-based studio Animal Logic introduced Vue to their pipeline, for the creation of over 20 shots of the movie.

Realtime:UK, a UK based animation studio, used Vue for several shots for the Cinematic of THQ's recently-canceled game, "Stormbirds".

The Matte department at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) used Vue again for several shots of the Paramount Pictures and LucasFilm blockbuster, "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull".

The Matte department at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) used Vue again for several shots of Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies blockbuster, The Spiderwick Chronicles.

Hamburg based agency KNSK used Vue to create an advertising campaign for the all-terrain vehicle Jeep.