RED Countdown

Writing this from a hotel in the OC – California. Tomorrow we pick up the RED camera and have a day of RED training. Tomorrow we are training and then Saturday we start filming tests for fxphd. Check back tomorrow for more details on the camera and its operation, and then each day after that

Siggraph starts

We are in San Diego ! Siggraph started for us today, with a brilliant presentation called “Anyone Can Cook Inside Ratatouille’s Kitchen”, by the nice folks from Pixar. What made this entire morning session so interesting was it’s focused discussion on just producing the food of Pixar’s Ratatouille. There was no real discussion about animation,

On the road to Siggraph

Pixar makes me smile – what a great place – doing great work – it brings out the kid in all of us ! So we are on the road to Siggraph – Via San Fran. We were at ILM yesterday and Pixar today. (We also recorded a podcast last night at PXC head quarters

flame masterclass in Beijing

Next stop on the flame+smoke masterclass tour: Beijing. Great turnout on this stop — really amazing.The audience was filled with note-taking artists. We provided course notes to all the participants — but also gave them a download link to get setup files and more enhanced notes. This was the first consecutive translation (speak in English…pause…

More Apple 1

So just a follow up from the Ted iphone photo – a few people emailed and commented that they had not seen an Apple 1 and how did Ted’s photo come out.. you asked and here it is – From Ted’s personal Iphone … the Apple 1 photo.

where’s john?

I’m alive and still in Asia. At this point, I’m fully recovered from my ilness while in Sydney, but it took a while. It was quite remarkable how long it took me to feel better though understandable because I was down for the count for three days and it took a lot out of my

Apple 1 on an iphone

Last week I was at an ACS function in Sydney with Ted from Red when we cam across an Apple 1 computer. I could not help photographing Ted taking a photo of the original Apple 1 on his new Apple iPhone. More on RedCine and the ACS night: So the Friday night event was huge