[image title=”img_9832b” size=”medium” id=”379″ align=”left” linkto=”[site_url]/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/img_9832b.jpg” ]We arrived in LA yesterday – we had a great afternoon at Third Floor and then headed downtown to what will be the home of fxphd for the next week, our apartment studio, or the ‘fxphd loft’. We will have two camera crews doing interviews for 8 days solid
[image title=”hero” size=”medium” id=”363″ align=”left” linkto=”[site_url]/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/hero.jpg” ]I’d like to say that we had a vastly important reason to be at the ballgame today, but we are about to work really hard for 10 days straight, – and in this industry one needs to make time for more than just work. But we did take some
[image title=”ben” size=”medium” id=”348″ align=”left” linkto=”[site_url]/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/ben.jpg” ]We have just completed a big shoot for the DOP course on fxphd. The plan was to do a serious production shoot day – as if for a major feature film and discuss all the real world issues such as LUTs-on set grading, lighting and blocking for 2.35:1 scope
[image title=”The set on the Resolution Digital Studios greenscreen stage” size=”medium” id=”329″ align=”left” alt=”The set” linkto=”[site_url]/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/shoot4.jpg” ]The shoot we did on Monday at Resolution Digital Studios for the new advanced After Effects course at fxphd.com went fantastic. A shoot day is always a long day but was a blast to do. Chicago-based DOP Bob Faison
We had a great day all around on Monday shooting footage for use in the AFX302 course. We were at Resolution Digital Studios (RDS) Chicago, which is a fantastic 32,000 square foot facility with production studios as well as full post production capabilities.
Last night we filming another fxguidetv with Paul Debevec. Paul was in town for a Siggraph Asia lecture, which was hugely interesting and completely packed out. While some of Paul’s talk covered the history of their research, the later part of the talk was on the amazing new research that he and the team are
This week we co-sponsored the local Final Cut User group event, and one of the organizers was fxphd Prof. Doug Suiter. Doug actually attended the event via ichat video window from London. The night focused on FCP server. I really like Server. I think asset management is one of the huge issues we still need
At the end of last week I flew up for the day to film Mark Coleran’s first After Effects class for this term.
We were just in Beijing and everywhere we saw countdown clocks to the Olympics ( three weeks btw). In the rush for gold, gold, gold, it is easy to forget the massive effort being undertook to televise the games. The Olympics are simply the most complex broadcast in the world. I had a small role
Last term, we had our first smoke course at fxphd which our members loved. This term, we’re bumping it up to the intermediate level with a new workflow-centric course being taught by Chris Kreynus and several guest lecturers. While it’s technically listed as a smoke course in our schedule, with the line blending between products