Rob Bredow

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  • Number 17

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    Surf’s Up makes an appearance as #17 on CG Society’s 2007 Retrospective–“the public-voted list of the most requested cool items for 2007”. They make note of the hand-held camera work and the innovative waves.

  • Surf’s Up for Best Visual Effects?

    Surf’s Up for Best Visual Effects?

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    Variety has an interesting article today on whether movies like Surf’s Up should be considered for Best Visual Effects in the Academy Awards. What do you think?

  • Surf’s Up @ AEAF

    Surf’s Up @ AEAF

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    On Wednesday, November 14th I’ll be presenting a detailed look at the making of Surf’s Up at the Australian Effects and Animation festival. If you’re going to be near Sydney this November you might want to include AEAF in your plans–this has been an excellent conference in the past and it looks like another great…

  • Surf’s Up DVD #1

    Surf’s Up DVD #1

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    The Hollywood Reporter reports that Surf’s Up was the #1 seller on DVD in the first week of it’s release making $8.1 million.

  • Surf’s Up on DVD

    Surf’s Up on DVD

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    Surf’s Up is out on DVD (Widescreen Special Edition) this week (also available on Blu-ray). The DVD has a lot of special features and I’ve noticed a lot of great reviews:

  • Wrangling Waves

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    J.P. Beeghly: Hey Rob, can you get down to Dana Point within 3 hours? Rob Bredow: Uh, yea. It moved up? J.P. Beeghly: Yup, Sean thinks the swell is coming early. Jamie Stirling and Carlos Burle are already in the air from Hawaii. We’re leaving tonight. Rob Bredow: I’ll grab my camera and I’ll be…

  • FxGuide features Surf’s Up at Siggraph

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    John Montgomery from FxGuide.com caught up with me at Siggraph to shoot an interview. It makes for a nice summary of some of the wave techniques we presented at the course. The Surf’s Up part of the interview starts about 1/3rd of the way in of “Netcast #6” on this AWN media page.

  • Surf’s Up Course at Siggraph

    Surf’s Up Course at Siggraph

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    On Monday, August 6th, the Surf’s Up team will be presenting a half day course detailing The Making of the Animated Documentary. If you can’t make the course, you can download the course notes [14.3 Mb PDF file].

  • Mundos Digitales

    Mundos Digitales

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    This coming Saturday, July 7th, I will be speaking on the making of Surf’s Up at Mundos Digitales in A Coruna, Spain. I plan to post updates from the trip as possible.