Archive for May, 2009
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May 21, 2009
No Strings Attached
Posted in Computing, Dear Diary, Reports
Impulse purchase — yet another. I got me a WLAN router. I didn’t know that I needed one until I got one. Usually I am not that enthusiastic about new consumer electronics 1 but this nifty router finally lifts the burden of ever too short LAN cables even in my
crampedspatially challenged campus room.- Okay, I am. But I keep the glee to myself usually ↩
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May 11, 2009
The Complete FMX 09
Posted in Random Thoughts
Finished! The fmx/09 posts are now complete with the photos I took and some video clips I captured. Be sure to check them out before I get asked to put them down.
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May 10, 2009
FMX 09, Day Four
Posted in Animation, CGI & Rendering, Games, Lectures, People, Reports, Technology
Traditionally the last day of every fmx is the games day and this year I was prepared for it: Yes, I was wearing my Half-Life² t-shirt proudly in any Electronic Arts lecture I could get in. “They save the best for last”, as AIAS president Joseph Olin put it in the beginning. Yes, there was a lot to come. As always I just wish I had slept more.
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May 08, 2009
FMX 09, Day Three
Posted in Animation, CGI & Rendering, Compositing, Games, Lectures, People, Photography, Random Thoughts, Rants, Reports, Retro, Technology, Video
7:30 am and somebody walks downstairs. Good morning to me. My program for today was mostly about tracking and motion capturing and heavy duty compositing. You might have guessed: It was the day of Benjamin Button.
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May 07, 2009
FMX 09, Day Two
Posted in Animation, CGI & Rendering, Compositing, Films, Lectures, People, Reports
Another night cut short at 5:30 by people walking downstairs. Or upstairs. So I already knew I would spend another evening on the floor of my car napping. But until then there was so much to see and learn.
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May 06, 2009
FMX 09, Day One
Posted in Animation, CGI & Rendering, Compositing, Computing, Films, Lectures, People, Reports, Technology
I woke up early. Too early. My room is located under the stairs to the third floor so it’s needless to say that it’s noisy. The day started off rather cloudy. But it got better along the way. The last two conventions where as sunny as California in any orange-juice commercial so it was okay this year that the weather took
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May 04, 2009
FMX 09, Day Zero
Posted in Dear Diary
Finally. I arrived in my hotel in Stuttgart, eagerly anticipating the fmx launch tomorrow. The ride from Salzburg didn’t feel really long mostly because of the lovely company on the way, a wonderful sunset and some good music.