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 […]
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. […]
Here at the Annual fxphd Summit – it’s snowing !!! […]
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 […]
Silo McClean dropped by the Tech Penthouse to discuss her book, which seriously examines the issues of styles of visual effects. The book is a serious look at the nature of visual effects, and it was great she could drop by and talk to us about it. […]
We had a great time visiting MEG and seeing their special effects makeup. This will be covered in BKD 301 – but also these guys did work for the Stunt shoot AND they have promised to do help us again NEXT term in a big cool new shoot we have planned. Mike […]
This week Mike was on set shooting a ‘baby’ commercial. In this spot, we need to help one new born baby help out another newborn baby. As little babies can’t exactly take direction, a lot of the movements they do are achieved via visual effects. Should be fun, – we shot some motion control, with […]
Editing and online started this week on the Stunt project. We transferred all the film to SR – and then conformed 1920 x 1080 in Flame. The project will be done all HD – and we’ll be distributing high res files later in the term. […]
I first went to MacWorld about 13 years ago when I first moved to Chicago and started working at Avenue Edit. I moved from Grand Rapids, which was a much smaller market — but we were using the Mac IIci to do graphics design work. When I got to this “big city” post house in […]