We will be doing live blogs today from www.fxguide.com Please got to the site and check up the updates (dont forget the page does not auto-update so you will need to hit refresh) Mike […]
Archives: production blog

Well, we made it to Vegas, good drive across from LA. We are all set to broadcast each day from NAB for fxguide.com. Tomorrow we will blog here …LIVE from the Apple press conference – 11am-12 midday. This is a shot of John and some very good friends of ours, all senior compositors and facilities […]
Thurs Part 2
Just a quick post – met up with Ron Brinkman this arvo, had a long chat while I shopped for antiques for my wife back home. Ron is working hard now on his book, and apart from getting all the approvals – the book is progressing really well ! Cross your fingers but Ron may […]
Thurs before NAB

Sorry to not post for the last couple of days but let me explain.. I posted on Monday, on Tuesday we were shooting and Wed I was flying to LA – today is Thursday and here I am ! OK to recap on Tuesday as this is mainly a blog about production stuff and not […]
Easter Monday
So we are preparing for tomorrow’s shoot. We have all the Viper gear and Codex etc for the shoot. Around 2pm today the DOP and Director are coming in for a pre-production meeting – and to discuss the tests we will shoot – so that when the actual production rolls on the 28-29-30th there are […]
Easter Friday
Well it is Easter in Sydney – the rest of the world may need a couple of hours to catch up ! So continuing our production blog.. I figured I would give you guys an insight into one day of pre-production for a major fxphd shoot. So this was my Thursday ! Day starts 5AM […]
Visiting LA to wrap up Lustre

Just wrapped up recording the last classes of the Lustre course last night with grader/artist Jeff Olm. Flew into LA yesterday morning and headed right on over to the Autodesk office to set up recording. fxphd postgrad Ido dropped by to help out and was invaluable in getting the session done. It was great to […]
April 05 blog on
After some discussion in the fxphd forums we decided to go ahead and blog this term… so I will try and post here most days during the term… Let’s see if it works and if not – we can change direction ! Today is a Thursday – we have pre-production meetings about April 10th Helicopter […]
New term for fxphd
So we have started posting more info on the term courses for fxphd – April 07 term… man so great stuff- we’ll post more here about the courses.. and about the prep.. in fact starting in April this blog will get really busy… Let the games begin. If you want to hear all about the […]
fxguide in the Washington Times
Jeff from fxguide is quoted in an article in the Washington Times. Washington times […]