Its 10.30 at night and the lights go down, but we are not in a cinema but rather at an underground restaurant, as all of Sundance went black. All the street power died in Park City for 45 minutes. Hardly anyone seems that surprised given the amount of lights, parties and music that was happening
The night started well at restaurant Kate Mantilini just a couple of doors down from the Oscar Bake Off screening. The traditional pre and post show party at the famous restaurant was completely packed (see right). There was an honor roll of visual effects artists and senior vfx supervisors on hand including (but not limited
We have expanded again at the fxphd studios and built a new set. This new permanent set is for this terms Photography for VFX and the new IT courses. Both courses require some space and we decided to design and build a new set, taking to 4 the number of permanent fixed sets we use
From all of us here, thanks for the year, we hope to see you again in 2008. Travel Safe.
It is hard sometimes to shoot bad stuff, but in response to requests in the RED course, we have been shooting bad blue screen. Given the Bayer pattern on the sensor, the response to light and a few other things – we know that the best keying option would be green screen, and we have
This week’s upcoming fxphd, we are looking at 35mm lens adaptors. Which is also a great way to drink cocktails while working. We did not do a shoot out but we did try and show a range of options and some low cost cool solutions. I used to be very nervous about these solutions but
It is hard to not just post stills from our photography course here each week – clearly they lend themselves to this production blog. We just finished shooting another class and while I posted a few of these for the Post-Grads in those classes – I figured I would also post here. What makes fxphd
As we have just posted our 100th podcast on fxguide.com, and this is our production blog, I figured I would give you guys some facts and figures Jimmy and I worked out before recording this week’s podcast. This week alone we had 1 major and 6 minor shoots, – covering 35mm lens Adaptors, DOPs, dogs
I’d like to add to Mike’s post a bit because what we love about our workflow is our P2 camera — and not really P2 per se. To be fair, we don’t use P2 files that much in our workflow due to some of the insufficiencies that Barry has documented quite well. What we do
Production continues with fxguidetv – Ep 18 is out and we record Ep 19 on Monday. The next ep will cover Beowulf. We had a great chat the other day with Barry from DVXUser. We both use the P2 in vastly different ways – but I think it is safe to say we are both