April 12th, 2015 / Balazs Kiss /
. You simply can not beat Wellington (New Zealand) on a nice, sunny day. We have recently moved to a new house and I have taken a few images from our living room to show the beauty if this amazing town. Hope you like them. Luckily its not too busy yet at Weta Digital…
View Article
November 17th, 2014 / Balazs Kiss /
. as far as VFX is concerned we are done with the last installment of the Hobbit saga. It was a tough ride, the most shots delivered in the shortest time I ever seen during my film career. This time I was back at Laketown leading the Laketown Destruction / Smaug Death sequence what is…
View Article
July 24th, 2014 / Balazs Kiss /
Awesome new Comic-con poster for The Hobbit – The Battle of the Five Armies. Showing the burning Laketown and a very pissed off Smaug (the very same sequence I am currently working on) and a few pretty cool shots of mine surfaced in the latest Apes2 trailer, so I did a bit…
View Article
June 5th, 2014 / Balazs Kiss /
This is the movie I am spending most of my time on nowadays, and a quite nice new poster just surfaced today. (the US one is way better than the international, I am not much fan of the faces on that one) anyway, enjoy the US version here:
March 28th, 2014 / Balazs Kiss /
Last time I prepared a showreel was way back in 2008, somehow I never really had the time or the will power to edit a new one. I was always planning to do the new one in HD though, that obviously required all the movies to be on my shelves in blue-ray version, now that…
View Article
March 21st, 2014 / Balazs Kiss /
Finally, I had the chance to upload some nice, HD resolution screen shots from the first Hobbit movie: An Unexpected Journey. I was sequence lead of the Bilbo and Brute fight, and also co-lead of the sequence where the dwarf companion escapes from the hands of the Goblin King. The big chase sequence involved 1000s of…
View Article
March 20th, 2014 / Balazs Kiss /
the guys behind the movie magic of THB2 (taken in Nov 2013):
March 18th, 2014 / Balazs Kiss /
Its an oldie but goldie ;), I had a long, in depth interview with one of the largest Hungarian online news portal called origo.hu a bit over 2 years ago. Check this out here:
March 17th, 2014 / Balazs Kiss /
It was about time to put up some new content for sure. Over two years have passed since the last update, I was working on some pretty cool titles during this period. Check out some of this on the Prometheus, Iron Man 3, Man of Steel and The Wolverine pages. I am planning to upload…
View Article
December 19th, 2011 / Balazs Kiss /
This is my last post in 2010: an other great year has gone, so fast, almost could not keep up. I had many goals for this year and I am pleased to say that I have accomplished most of them, what is lacking behind is well under way too, so I am feeling confident about…
View Article