We are in Sydney this week at the SMPTE conference, much of the week is doing prep work with the RED camera. There are heaps of things on here, and many friends in town from overseas. Today we helped Ted from Red with his presentation for SMPTE. Ted spoke at the Apple stand – and
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fxguidetv 03 is out, and term starts
Fxguidetv is out and the new term has started. In this week’s fxguidetv we talk to Ken and Dennis (the full interview), and in this week’s fxphd Background Fundamentals we look at Pirates. One thing I wanted to point out for those of you following here in the production blog… the tip in fxguidetv ep
fxphd term July 07 starts filming..
Today we were filming for the July 07 term, and it is off to a great start! We were filming a range of green screens and blue screens with a whole host of cameras: – HDV – HVX200 – F950 – 16mm – Digital Betacam – and the new Sony F23 To carry out the
More fxguidetv – download ep02 now
As you know we like to blog the production aspects of fxphd and fxguide here and this last week we have been busy, getting ready for our amazing new term at fxphd + doing fxguidetv fxguide started podcasting in the the same week Apple first added podcasts to Apple’s itunes store over a year ago,
karma
Tonight was the night to record my last After Effects class — Brian Higgins, AE monster and guest lecturer, could only do it on Friday night around 6pm. Sure, I said. I forgot that Friday = June 29th. But good friend who shall remain nameless ( but whose initials might include the letters M &
At least the Police released me…
So let me start by saying I was wrong – 100% wrong – what I did was wrong – I admit it, I am not proud of it, but I didn’t think I deserve to go to jail. The good news is that they did release me. the bad news is I screwed it for
fxphd + fxguidetv @ VES Festival Of Visual Effects
Ken Ralston and Dennis Muren interviewed for fxguidetv What a weekend! fxphd was at the Visual Effects Society Festival of Visual Effects, helping the VES shoot the event for their archives…and gathering other related material we hope to bring to fxphd members sometime in the future. The panels were great, as usual, and I had
Stunts
So I said I would write about stunts: so let me do that and give everyone a production update. Stunts: If you have never done stunt work – the first rule is safety, and on that score – a stunt is not done to entertain the crew, it is too look good on camera. So
I promise I’ll get back on track but…
For those in fxphd who have been doing various things with multiple images and 3D models – especially last term with 3D tracking and photogrammerty,… if you have not seen this video from the ted.com conference it is worth watching – it is an amazing techology showing. click here
Oh that’s got to hurt !
So this weekend we did an incredible stunt shoot for fxphd. We were incredibly lucky to get Tony Lynch and a great team of professional stunt guys to work with us. These guy’s film credits are an amazing body of international work in films such as Star Wars and The Matrix – but a nicer,