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3D, Animation, Event, Film, Galway Film Fleadh, News, Previz

Films at The Galway Film Fleadh


The Galway Film Fleadh is undoubtedly Ireland’s leading film festival. A six-day international event, the Fleadh is held every July and welcomes a diverse range of films from around the world. GLUE VFX travelled across to Galway to catch up with film industry colleagues and to mix and mingle with some of the best film talent Ireland has

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3D, Animation, Compositing, Dynamics, Fluid Simulation, Particles, Reference, VFX

OTTCO Industrial Scale Oil Facility 3D Modelled


OTTCO Some months ago, we were approached to create a video for an oil shipping and storage facility in The Middle East. A large scale industrial project, the video called for us creating a whole host of our favourite things; graphical elements and near-real rendered impressions of the facility including the pipeline terminal, the ground site,  buildings and surrounding landscape,

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3D, Animation, LEGO, Modular, Previz, Uncategorised, VFX

My Bridge programme internship with GLUE


For this week’s blog, I’ve been asked to give an overview about my time on the Bridge programme, through Animation Skillnet, to photo-realistic modelling and everything in-between.  Before GLUE, I studied 3D Visual effects in London with Escape Studios, spending a good part of the beginning of 2015 working on my portfolio and showreel before

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3D, Animation, Film, LEGO

LEGO Shakespeare


The man himself It is almost 400 years since the death of William Shakespeare (or Willm Shaxberd, depending on which of the 80+ variations of his name you use – we’re not so sure that he even spelled it correctly himself!). To celebrate this great man’s legacy, we were commissioned to create a video featuring

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3D, Compositing, VFX

Explosions! Fire & Smoke in VFX


If you ask a group of people for an example of visual effects, some people will say green screen, others will mention monsters, but most will reckon explosions! Fireballs and exploding cars are a guarantee for most films. They can create tragedy and a sense of danger for the viewer. There are a few different options for achieving these effects. Whether

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Event, Film, News

GLUE Batman V Superman competition


Earlier this year, GLUE put out a blog about upcoming films we’re excited about. To celebrate the most notable of these upcoming films, GLUE has teamed up with Forbidden Planet (see what we did there?!) to offer you the chance to win free tickets to see Batman vs Superman: Dawn Of Justice, which will be released on the 25th

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3D, Animation, Event, VFX

VFX and Animation Summit Dublin 2015


Has it really been a year already? We’ve been jogging on the spot, hyperventilating, excited as children at Christmas with the thoughts of this year’s VFX and Animation Summit. The cream of the Visual Effects and Animation Industries will be here again to enlighten us with their knowledge, experience and to simply enthrall us with

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