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
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New Year – New Sets
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
Happy Holidays!
From all of us here, thanks for the year, we hope to see you again in 2008. Travel Safe.
Bad Red footage
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
Lens adaptors
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
Mr Tim Wheeler
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 this is our production blog…
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
We Love the HVX-200 and FireStore
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
We love P2
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
Fox Backlot filming
The production courses are going brilliantly at fxphd – they are some of the most popular courses this term. We have continued to filming to produce material for the courses. A recent shoot for fxphd took over the backlot at Fox Studios – thanks to our friends at Animal Logic and the ACS. The RED