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  1. No comments May 11, 2011 fmx ’11, Day Four Posted in Animation, CGI & Rendering, Films, Lectures, Quotes, Reports, Technology

    fmx 2011 ReportIt’s terrible to say but I was somewhat glad this was the last day of fmx. There had been so much input, creatively, inspirationally and technically that my brains were running out of memory like my Maya scenes with MentalRay. And I didn’t get much sleep this night either and staggered like a zombie down to the breakfast, at least that’s what I think, it wasn’t quite there. Man, if I had feasted on brains I wouldn’t remember it.

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  2. No comments May 06, 2011 fmx ’11, Day Three Posted in Animation, CGI & Rendering, Compositing, Films, Lectures, Quotes, Reports, Technology

    fmx 2011 ReportThe morning was worse than I had anticipated it, I don’t quite remember how I got to the venue today, I only remember that I didn’t even get tea for breakfast. The Haus der Wirtschaft was buzzing like a hive again and most of the bees hat been busy at the Echtzeit party that lasted roughly as long as my writing session for yesterday’s blog post. Even worse: Those people seemed much better rested. Life is unfair.

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  3. No comments May 05, 2011 FMX ’11, Day Two Posted in Animation, CGI & Rendering, Compositing, Computing, Films, Quotes, Reports, Technology

    fmx 2011 ReportI got up after too little sleep and staggered down to the common room for a breakfast — any breakfast. As I was pushing the wrong buttons on the Chinese water cooker for my tea and dropping the butter three times in a row I overhead a conversation among a bunch of young people on a table. I heard “plug-ins” and “Cinema” and “Color Grading” and what not.

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  4. No comments May 17, 2010 FMX ’10, Day One Posted in Animation, CGI & Rendering, Compositing, Films, Lectures, People, Quotes, Reports, Technology

    I awoke after a terrible night of too little sleep (thank you, insane entertainment-industry sleep-cycle!) and was greeted suspiciously by Mrs. Zheng, the hotel manager, on my way to the hotel’s breakfast premises where the ongoing conversations ebbed as I entered. Too much eyeliner, I thought. But I had other things on my mind. In fact, I was so excited that I ran a red light on my way to the conference.

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  5. No comments 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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  6. No comments 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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  7. 3 comments 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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  8. No comments 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 leak a break.

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  9. No comments Nov 19, 2008 WALL·E vs. Taxi Driver Posted in Animation, CGI & Rendering, Films, Rants, Reports, Reviews

    I have much time on my hands in Berlin now so I’ve been to the movies. I watched two classics in a charming little theater in the Kastanienallee, Delicatessen and Taxi Driver and two current Hollywood blockbusters in the UCI Colosseum multiplex theater, WALL·E and Burn After Reading. I will not talk so much about the films themselves because that has already been done by people way more proficient than me. No, I will focus on my experiences around and inspired by the movies. With no spoilers, as usual.

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