Archives: production blog

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

Hangin’ at ILM

The ILM filming was brilliant, we spent most of the day there, and we were made so welcome. A few things we got to do apart from film the interview – some I can share – others we can’t right now… but one was we saw a screening in the Premier Cinema. This is a

ILM : exclusive

For this week’s Background Fundamentals we have a very special surprise – we are live in San Fran – to talk to the Oscar winning team of Pirates, in this exclusive fxphd class – we talk to this week’s award winning senior compositing team at ILM about just what it takes to win an Oscar.

February 13th update

Challenge 7 is in full gear — it’s an HD res film challenge that is typical of the type of work you’d be doing on the job. Every high quality entry will get a free fxphd tshirt — and the winner will be considered for use in the actual film…complete with credits. Thanks to REALVIZ