Copied from the Tears of Steel website. A great opportunity to work with 4k material and to use it for demos and tutorials.

"Thanks to our friends at Xiph.org we now can offer everyone access to the original source footage of Tears of Steel.

You’ll find something like 80,000 frames, each in OpenEXR half float files, in 4096 x 2160 pixels. This is 5 times more footage than used in the film, including unused shots, but mainly it’s because of long lead-in and lead-outs, and of course we’ve been cutting shots sharp.

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"VERTEX is the world's leading source of educational information for professionals and students in the video game industry. We combine industry expertise with innovative techniques to deliver critical information to the video game industry. Our mission is to provide professionals and students with the most educational and effective experience to learn and interact and share tips and tricks and workflows with the world through digital and print publication.

VERTEX is available as a free service as an online readable eBook if you would like to donate to help with server and bandwith costs or if you just want to support the cause you may do so here. It will soon come in the form of bound and print media for users to purchase and read in high quality."

Here you can download the free artbook.

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“LIFE OF PI” VFX BREAKDOWN

While Pi drifts on his lifeboat, Richard Parker, the tiger, stares at the surface of the ocean and begins a dream-like journey into the depths.

The sequence is shot as one constant descent from the surface towards the bottom of the ocean. We meet a school of tuna and a shark in a photorealistic environment before witnessing the battle between a giant squid and a sperm whale – who transform into multiple animals from Earth and Sea.

The journey continues; passing a Lantern Fish, macroscopic planktons and a cosmic environment where particles provide a vision of Pi's mother.

The descent finishes on the wreck of the Tsimtsum, the ship Pi and his family had been traveling on before the storm.

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