behind the scenes and more
After having earlier been accepted to Cannes, our little film BEAR has been accepted into Sundance. 64 short films were selected from 4083 submissions for Sundance. Like Spider (its sequel) before it, Bear will be in competition. Congrats to dir. Nash Edgerton and the team – especially the member of fxphd who did such a [...]
I know this is not strictly fxphd production related but it is the same family… I wanted to write about how much joy and success we have been getting from our podcasting lately. We run a series of podcasts • fxpodcast : a serious technical in depth look at issues from Siggraph papers to Union [...]
So as I indicated in the earlier posts, while we did a lot on destruction tech, plus covered up coming feature films and also project management stories ( – as you are seeing in this terms Background course with RV, Shotgun, 5th Kind etc), there was a lot of stereo work discussed on this last [...]
The first part of our trip was focused on stereoscopic cinematography. fxphd has of course done several Stereo projects but the gear afforded to us by Sony Pictures for our special training was the best we have been lucky enough to use. As the system is fully remotely controlled and self aligning, it makes it [...]
I had intended to blog while in the USA, but it was just impossible. Which surprised even me, I mean how hard can it be to just post a paragraph a day or so. But please take it as a good sign that we just had that much great stuff to do that we ran [...]
Yes that is my dog walking all over me … again, as part of some camera and workflow experiments we are doing for our grading courses, with Alexa, F35, Epic and others. I have to say it is so hard to imagine life without our studio space and everything that it affords us. This year [...]
We have launched the new Oct term and of course we have been working on it for some time now to get ready. From a production point of view one of the tasks has been filming heaps of stuff for the grading course. We have been shooting apes, woolsheds, micro closeups, DBS Aston Martin, sunsets, [...]
We had a great time shooting with the EPIC camera using the new Canon mount this week. I went to the Zoo here in Sydney and filmed for half a day. Having even already spent filming with the EPIC for months – it was a process of discovery as to how to film with the [...]
Up at 4:30 this morning to catch the morning light on this DB-S Aston Martin. We were filming it for an upcoming fxphd class. Car shots are such a part of the industry and there are few cars I’d rather have breakfast with than an Austin Martin DBS (and few better colors to grade with [...]
Today we said goodbye to Gary Ticehurst, husband of long time fxphd contributing Professor Teresa TiceHurst. Gary was one of Australia’s best known aerial filming pilots, shooting decades of films, tvc, shows and news programs: from the Matrix Reloaded to ABC news. He was also the key lynch pin in many air to surface rescues [...]