production blog

Nuke, Vue and digital environment expert Eran Dinur talks about his work and career.

As part of continuing series of Studio Profiles: we look at Los Angeles based Mirada Studios: A studio designed for Story Tellers.

We often hear industry professionals complain that their work ends up being viewed on smaller and smaller screens. At the same time we increasing hear that clients want dailies delivered on iPads and we know they frequently use such devices to review work in progress. As Apple released the third generation iPad we saw two [...]

In this profile of people teaching in fxphd we speak to Designer, VFX supervisor and TD Tim Clapham. Tim is one of the most popular ‘Professors’ at fxphd – he discuss Art, giant projectors and Uk Beer with fxphd’s Mike Seymour.

Jeff Heusser shows us a great workflow for geotagging in Lightroom 4. This is a perfect approach for your next location survey. Jeff recently flew up to Adobe and did both a geotagged photowalk and sat down with the great team there. As a bonus, Jeff shows how this can then integrate with sun position apps like LightTrac and other apps on the iPad or iPhone.

As part of our Background Fundamentals course this term we’ve been looking at Behavioral Economics – here’s a bonus interview with Jon Holloway from The Works about the impact of Twitter in this area.

Laser projectors are likely to emerge as one of the most interesting new technologies of this year, and perhaps the hit of NAB 2012.

In this professor profile we talk to Wayne Robson, who is behind fxphd’s Vue digital environment / modelling courses, and also has some interesting and…inescapable…aspects of his past to reveal.

In this Professor Profile, we speak to Mark Bowey who is teaching the MOG 204 – Typography in Title Design course this term. Mark tells us about how he got started, his background in design and we learn about his second life as a restaurant owner!

One of the new things we are doing in the production blog is looking at the work of members. Chad Gilmour is a relatively new member of fxphd, we speak to him about his experiences and a recent challenge submission he made – and won – inside fxphd.