Archives for February 2007
Yo ho, yo ho
Startin’ recently I’ve taken on a new opportunity, workin’ on what I can now term “t’ sequel t’ last year’s effects Oscar winner.” Arrrr! Not only that, it’s a chance t’ do this level o’ compositin’ usin’ a vfx industry standard – that moribund software, shake, rumors o’ whose demise be greatly exaggerated.
I’ll be, arrr, [...]
Make 3D tracking work in AE
This morning, Peter Logarusic, a compositor from Germany and a member at fxPhd, posted a set of instructions to massage a .ma file so that the tracking data works properly in After Effects.
If you matchmove with Boujou or Syntheyes, you might not even be aware that there’s a problem, since both of those write [...]
Quality in the Age of YouTube
The unanimous choice among CG/FX types for the best Super Bowl ad this year is the Psyop Coke spot (which many of us had seen in some form last year ).
And now, a radical thought: the job of advertisements is to sell product. Did Coca Cola sales jump as the result of that ad? It [...]
It’s Groundhog Day! Happy Birthday Gridiron
I could probably opine at some length about what a great movie Groundhog Day is. To think that most 1990’s high-concept comedies were hard to sit through once, and yet this one inspired a lecture series at a bay area Zen center. See it again! And again…
Meanwhile, there’s a one-day sale over at Gridiron software, [...]