Reports

  1. No comments Nov 01, 2011 Street Fighter 2 & Not So Much Free Time Posted in Games, Reports, Seph Carissa / texx sound

    So I did it again, but this time with a different game: After ripping the music-instrument samples from F-Zero and creating a soundfont out of it, I attempted just the same with Street Fighter 2 for the Super Nintendo. If you’re looking for some technical insights in Capcom’s SNES music, wanna listen to some music or just the frickin’ download for the soundfont, you’ve come to the right place!

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  2. 4 comments Oct 27, 2011 F-Zero & Too Much Free Time Posted in Games, Music, Reports, Retro

    Today was National Day in Austria and I had some free time on my hands. That’s why I tried hard not to get some work done today. “I’ll be messing around with my Super Nintendo,” I told Conny. And she said “Alright. Have fun with it.” And I did. But in a totally unexpected way. Read on if you want to learn about F-Zero and a little about the making of its music…

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  3. No comments Oct 20, 2011 Hello? Still Alive? Posted in Dear Diary, Games, People, Reports, Technology

    It’s been a while since my last update and a lot has happened. In fact, the less that happens around here on this blog, the more is happening with my outside life. Wow, I just realized that this is the first time that I apologized that I had a life outside the web. Anyways: I bet you’re incredibly curious about what has been happening since my last update? Read on, I keep it short and funny. I promise!
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  4. 1 comment Aug 08, 2011 Berlin, Not so sunny Sunday Posted in Dear Diary, People, Reports

    Today I overslept. Or so I thought. In fact I got up around noon after about five hours of sleep and my first thought was: “Damn, I’m gonna be late for the flea market!” I jumped up and emptied my backpack for the anticipated impulse purchases. Esther left to disassemble the audio setup from the party and I took the U8 to Bernauer Strasse. It almost rained.
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  5. No comments Aug 07, 2011 Berlin, Saturday Posted in Dear Diary, Reports

    So I’m in Berlin again, like the years before. And since my trip has become more tradition than exploration I decided to take it back and add more excitement in my experience. I started with booking a different seat in the plane, 23F instead of 15A – hell yeah!

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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 2 comments May 04, 2011 FMX ’11, Day One Posted in CGI & Rendering, Compositing, Films, Lectures, Quotes, Reports, Technology

    FMX 2011 ReportToday was more or less routine. In total I did not spend more than about fifteen days in my whole life in Stuttgart and many things feel so boringly familiar to me already: Breakfast in the common room of the hotel, packing my bag for the conference, parking in the Most Expensive Parking Garage, obtaining my ticket from the front desk. Still, there are a few things that have changed over the years…

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  10. No comments May 03, 2011 fmx ’11, Day Zero Posted in Reports

    fmx 2011 ReportIt was an exhausting day despite its predictability. I got up after four hours of sleep, finished packing my bag and got ready for holding my last lecture at the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences before leaving for the fmx 2011. Yes, it’s May, it’s springtime and nerds are feeling frisky for visual effects. The perfect time for their industry’s annual gathering in Stuttgart — with yours truly among them.
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