behind the scenes and more
So we have done: 43 sessions and talks, 23 meetings, 19 recorded interview, made 6 fxguidetv, recorded 5 fxphd classes, done 4 podcasts, – been to 9 Japanese restaurants and won one Imperial Storm Trooper Helmet (thanks ILM ) ! And Siggraph 2011 ends. Its been a great show- to everyone who attended and to [...]
Filming here at Siggraph is going well, we have two crews shooting classes for fxphd, fxguidetv and also we have recorded some podcasts. Today I think we had a total of 20+ interviews, press conferences and appointments between us. Which as you can imagine is exhausting, especially when you add in award shows, geek fest, [...]
The team has arrived in Canada for Siggraph 2011, the first siggraph to be outside the USA. As such we have been visiting Vancouver Post and effects houses. Yesterday we had a great time at both Prime Focus and Image Engine, filming and doing stories on up coming projects. Today we start recording fxphd classes [...]
We announced our new July term last Friday, and work behind the scenes is hitting full speed. The beginning of the term is always the busiest time as we work with new professors, finalize footage, and put the orientation week (o-week) video together. In the realm of finalizing footage, Russel Dodgson (Senior Nuke Compositor [...]
I am here in LA at Cinegear 2011. This is part of a longer trip that includes days of interviews up in San Fran and back in LA. Cinegear was great fun. Located on the backlot of Paramount Studios – it was a wonderful outdoor camera geek fest. One of many interesting talks / interviews [...]
At NAB Mike joined Leo and guests at the NAB TWIT broadcast. You can see the replay at http://twit.tv/specials76 (about 43 mins in)
New classes are rolling out and – as we tend to do at this time each term: we just wanted the flag that if you are a member you can sample as many courses as you like before you commit. Each term we have courses that might sound like they could perhaps be something of [...]
The crew are now all here in Las Vegas for NAB 2011. It should be a good show, we are here filming for fxphd and fxguide. We expect big news from APPLE, RED, CODEX, ADOBE and several others, we will be posting on fxguide, in the forums here at fxphd and during the day to [...]
One of the things I noticed – first with the DSLR revolution and now with the EPIC is how a small camera allows you too also scale all the associated gear on a shoot. As you have smaller cameras – you have smaller everything else. Smaller tripods (we had the EPIC on a 75mm bowl [...]
We are grading the footage from our recent shoots. The thing that strikes me is the flexibility of grading with this footage. Of course there are many ways one can grade footage, with the recent Curl Curl Sea Pool clip we went down a de-sat path, with the New Zealand footage a bolder, richer and [...]