Barbara Robertson
I'm an author and journalist.
I've written two books and contributed to five. My articles about visual effects, animation, VR, computer graphics, dogs, and travel have won major awards. And, I've begun writing about gardening.
PROJECTS
marinij.com
Mysterious life of lichen
All winter, I stared at my magnolia tree’s bare branches, wishing for spring. Except, when I looked closely, I saw that the branches weren’t bare. While I waited for green leaves and pink blossoms, I saw that silvery tufts and grey-blue rosettes like doilies on my grandmother’s armchair had adorned the branches and tattooed the trunks. Lichens.
Once I became aware of lichens, I saw them everywhere: In spots where nothing else thought to grow. On fences, trees and rocks. Green, blue, yellow, r...
Computer Graphics World
A Night to Remember
Once again, the skilled artists working at Pixar Animation Studios have exercised their expertise in computer graphics, animation, and storytelling to raise the art of CGI filmmaking with a colorful, unique, heart-tugging, joyful, and memorable film. The venerable studio’s 19th animated feature Coco takes place during one day and night, a time known in Mexico as Dìa de Muertos, the Day of the Dead. If you think a one-day timeframe confining, you underestimate Pixar.
Disney•Pixar’s Coco center...
Animation World Network
Inside the OASIS: ILM’s Roger Guyett Talks ‘Ready Player One’
Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One sends movie audiences into a dismal future. But who really cares when it’s possible to escape a dreary existence anytime by entering a virtual playground called the OASIS? In the OASIS you can become anyone you want in a world you create. The movie takes off when OASIS creator Halliday (played by Mark Rylance) dies leaving behind a challenge: Find his Easter Egg and win control of his fortune and the OASIS. And thus, a massive treasure hunt begins. We follo...
Animation World Network
The Visual Effects of Wes Anderson’s ‘Isle of Dogs’
Wes Anderson’s set his stop-motion film Isle of Dogs in Japan, where, supposedly for health reasons, Mayor Kobayashi (voiced by Kunichi Nomura) has exiled all dogs to an island full of garbage, including his young ward Atari’s (Koyu Rankin) guard dog, Spots (Liev Schreiber). Produced by American Empirical Pictures and distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures, the film, which went into wide release on April 13, has achieved a 91 percent aggregate approval rating on the website Rotten Tomatoes, ...
marinij.com
Marin Master Gardener: Understanding heirloom, hybrid and open ...
Marin Master Gardener: Understanding heirloom, hybr...
Animation World Network
Worlds Apart: Artistic Effects, Invisible Effects, Spectacle & Fantasy at ...
Worlds Apart: Artistic Effects, Invisible Effects, ...
studiodaily.com
ILM Senior VFX Supe John Knoll on Rogue One: A Star Wars Story ...
ILM Senior VFX Supe John Knoll on Rogue One: A Star...
studiodaily.com
Oscar-Nominated VFX Supervisor Rob Legato on The Jungle Book ...
Oscar-Nominated VFX Supervisor Rob Legato on The Ju...
Computer Graphics World
Volume 39 Issue 6: (Nov/Dec 2016) | Computer Graphics World
Volume 39 Issue 6: (Nov/Dec 2016) | Computer Graphi...
Computer Graphics World
Volume 40 Issue 1: (Jan/Feb 2017) | Computer Graphics World
Volume 40 Issue 1: (Jan/Feb 2017) | Computer Graphi...
studiodaily.com
ILM VFX Supervisor Roger Guyett on Star Wars: The Force Awakens ...
ILM VFX Supervisor Roger Guyett on Star Wars: The F...
Amazon
The Art of Penguins of Madagascar: Barbara Robertson, Tom ...
The Art of Penguins of Madagascar: Barbara Robertso...
Computer Graphics World
Animal Farm | Computer Graphics World
By: Barbara Robertson. In the film Jurassic World, the fictional owners of the imaginary Jurassic World theme park faced a problem: Attendance at the island ......
studiodaily.com
Oscar-Nominated VFX Supervisor Paul J. Franklin on Interstellar - Studio Daily
A look at Oscar-nominated Interstellar VFX work by VFX supervisor Paul Franklin....
studiodaily.com
Marvel Studios VFX Supe Stephane Ceretti on Guardians of the Galaxy - Studio Daily
In Marvel Studios’ Guardians of the Galaxy, a quartet of misfits that include, improbably, a CG raccoon named Rocket and a CG tree named Groot, zip f...