Category: Generation Kill

Digital Arts: Cinesite picks up Emmy for VFX in Generation Kill

16 September 2009 Cinesite has won an Emmy Award for its VFX work on the HBO mini-seriesGeneration Kill, which was created by The Wire’s David Simon and Ed Burns. The award for Outstanding Achievement In Special Visual Effects for A TV Special Or Miniseries wasn’t a surprise for the post house as its were competing against its own work on Into The Storm and were therefore guaranteed […]

POST MAG: Emmys – “Generation Kill” Earns Cinesite VFX Honors

15 September 2009 Cinesite’s work on HBO’s Into the Storm was also nominated in the same category. The Emmy award marks the company’s second for visual effects, having previously been recognized in 2005 for the HBO miniseries Rome. Generation Kill is a seven-episode series based on the book by Evan Wright. It follows the First Marine Reconnaissance Battalion at […]

VFX World: ‘Generation Kill’ – Recreating Iraq in Photoreal CG

When it comes to making films and documentaries about our world’s great wars and conflicts, HBO has positioned itself as one of the preeminent networks. From the Emmy Award-winningBand of Brothers to their latest miniseries Generation Kill, HBO demands authenticity in the telling of their war stories, which makes them such “must see” events. This summer HBO shifts its […]