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FMX ’10, Day Two

CGI & Rendering, Compositing, Lectures, Quotes, Reports, Technology, films, on set No Comments

On the second day we all got late to the first lecture and missed “The VFX of Iron Man” and instead enjoyed the breakfast at our value-priced hotel whose every room was kept in shape for the whole place looked like a museum of 1970′s rustic dwelling. Mrs. Zheng apologized for not having boiled eggs and I downed every bit of orange juice that was left on the buffet because I almost died of thirst the night before. Mrs. Zheng didn’t like seeing me drinking eagerly directly out of the jar but left it at a sullen glance this time. Then we drove off to the Haus der Wirtschaft once again.

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My First Movie Poster

Art, filmmaking 2 Comments

It’s been more than eight months now since the student project MOSKAU (we also have a website) I was Head of VFX is finished. But since it was the practical project to my diploma thesis I needed to design a poster for it. So here it is, my first movie poster in cinematic 50 x 70 cm fresh out of InDesign and Photoshop.

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The Future of Visual Effects

CGI & Rendering, Essay, filmmaking 1 Comment

“Is this a computer film or a normal film?” I recently overheard a question of a girl directed at her boyfriend near a movie theater. The guy told her that they were about to watch Terminator 4 and it would be a “normal film but with lots of computer stuff”. The girl sighed. “Nobody falls in love with anybody in those movies…”

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FMX 09, Day Three

Animation, CGI & Rendering, Compositing, Lectures, Random Thoughts, Reports, Technology, filmmaking, games, people, photography, ranting, retro, video No Comments

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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FMX 09, Day Two

Animation, CGI & Rendering, Compositing, Lectures, Reports, filmmaking, films, people 3 Comments

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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FMX 09, Day One

Animation, CGI & Rendering, Compositing, Computing, Lectures, Reports, Technology, films, on set, people No Comments

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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Status Update: Still Alive

Compositing, Dear Diary, Reports, Seph Carissa / texx sound, filmmaking 3 Comments

It’s been quite a while since my last blog entry. In fact it has been so long, that I had to think twice to recall my password for this sweet blog o’ mine.

You ask “What’s new? What’s cool?” and I tell you: A lot: I’ve been in the trenches with Nuke and fought After Effects so there’s a lot of stuff I want to show and tell what I’ve learned in the past weeks, not only about VFX.

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Dear Uwe Boll,

filmmaking, films No Comments

I’ve noticed over the past years that quite some people feel that you should die instantly of all the shitload of donkey diarrhea you put on moviegoers, fans of the horror genre and fans of the video games you rape in your films. But I tell those people “Give the poor man a break!” because as some kind of pseudo-filmmaker myself I understand that you must love your film-making, ordering people around and getting money for it. But is this the true you?

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Digital Cinematography

Compositing, Reports, Technology, filmmaking, films, video No Comments

Another convention report, my apologies! I haven’t thought that I would be on so many (= two) conventions in the field of digital film in such a short span of time. But attending the Digitale Cinematographie convention this Thursday in Munich was something way out of the ordinary because a little dream never dreamed came true: Seeing my work on the grandeur of a real IMAX theater silver screen.

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Supervise Me

Quotes, Reports, on set, people, video No Comments

This Saturday was a big day for me: My first Visual Effects supervision job apart from anything related to my education. Magic Movie hired me for the visual effects to their documentary for national TV which will be aired some time in fall. I can’t tell you about the story (because I’ve signed a non-disclosure contract) but I can tell you about my day.

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