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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. 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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  5. No comments Aug 27, 2010 BleepCast – Level 7 Posted in BleepCast, Computing, Games, Music, People, Quotes, Retro

    This is the BleepCast on Rob Hubbard, part two. Everything you want to know about the man that taught the Commodore 64 to produce grand sound-scapes and catchy tunes amidst the incoherent 8-bit turds coated with incompetence in the early 80′s. We will hear his later music, hear him talk about his time in the US and why he eventually came back. Don’t miss it!

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  6. 4 comments Aug 25, 2010 BleepCast – Level 6 Posted in BleepCast, Games, Music, Quotes, Retro

    Two words that describe this and the next BleepCast: Rob Hubbard. The man that taught the Commodore 64 to produce grand sound-scapes and catchy tunes amidst the incoherent 8-bit turds coated with incompetence in the early 80′s. This level is huge, so it’s clipped into two. And you better stock up on extra lives and get ready to enjoy Hubbard’s music, hear Hubbard’s voice and lean about the man in a tenaciously researched podcast. This is part one.

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  7. No comments Jun 15, 2010 FMX ’10, Day Two Posted in CGI & Rendering, Compositing, Films, Lectures, Quotes, Reports, Technology

    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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  8. 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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  9. No comments Apr 20, 2008 Supervise Me Posted in People, Quotes, Reports, Video

    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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  10. 2 comments Sep 27, 2007 Girls and Games. And Mega Man. Posted in Games, Quotes, Retro

    Samus Aran on the NESA few days ago I received the Metroid: Zero Mission GBA game. I play lots of GBA games on my DS because they’re much cheaper and the same fun. But I must confess: I’ve never played any game of the Metroid series before.

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