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.

Special effects

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

On Set

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

Stunt Shoot

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.

Macworld has changed

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