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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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Nov 01, 2008
Cloudy Sky
Posted in Dear Diary, Games, Rants, Video
I needed to reward myself and soothe my jangled nerves from all the stress I had. So I purchased S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Clear Sky in advance. And today was the great day to set it up and stalk through the Zone once again. Oh, I love radiation!EDIT: See below for some new insights about the critical start-up bug. Why me?!
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Oct 31, 2008
Hell o’Berleen
Posted in Compositing, Dear Diary, Random Thoughts, Rants, Reports
It was the first day that brought the smell of winter. Along with it two emails from Amazon tumbled into my mailbox, asking me whether my wishlist is ready for Christmas (it’s not). Today also is Halloween here in Berlin. On my way home from work the streets were filled with drunken people, costumed people, drunken people in costumes and punks (who I count to the latter group as well). People were carrying around pumpkins, I saw a guy carrying a ribcage around that looked shockingly real and giggling girls wearing pointed hats. Only one misguided blonde was wearing a Father Christmas Hat. That was my day…
EDIT: Thanks to some Russian Malscript the rest of this post has gone into nirvana. And there was so much more ranting going on…
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Oct 24, 2008
Autodesk swallows Softimage
Posted in Compositing, Random Thoughts, Rants
…and we all are worried and upset. Just look at that and tell me it doesn’t look scary. Maya, any former *discreet products such as flame, smoke, inferno, combustion, further 3dsmax and so on all come from Autodesk who will become the Adobe of post production. So you either buy from Autodesk or you switch to charted accountancy.
I guess they will become what Electronic Arts is in games: Every year a new update of the same old shit with not more than one new feature but for the same price as the previous version. Not to mention cash-cowing with add-ons. So watch out for Avid 2009, 3dsmax 2010, Combustion: Tournament and the Maya Add-On Maya: Masters of Mayhem.
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Aug 29, 2008
The Dark Knight
Posted in Dear Diary, Films, Rants, Reports, Reviews
I just came home from watching “The Dark Knight” in the UCI Colosseum in Berlin and I have to say: What a bunchload of crap! Really? No, of course not! This movie actually seems to me as one of the best super hero movies there can be — with a sophisticated story off the beaten tracks while staying true with the fans. Read on.
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Aug 15, 2008
Narcissistic Machines
Posted in Computing, Dear Diary, Random Thoughts
Now it is the third week I am living here in Berlin and it’s about five days since Lisa left and I am all alone here. And just before I asked myself whether I was homesick. And as strange it may sound, my answer is no. But why? What is it that makes me feel that way?
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Aug 03, 2008
Three Months in Berlin
Posted in Dear Diary, Rants, Reports
Berlin again — at last! It’s been nearly a year since my first visit to this amazing city and hence I am working as an intern at rise|fx I am about to stay much longer than last year which is great. I’ve been here only a couple of days now but I really like this city full of textures and shaders, not only for its textural qualities but also for the new way of living and working here.
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Jun 24, 2008
DVCPRO-HD-MXF-QT-MOV-FCUK!
Posted in Computing, Rants, Reports, Technology, Video
Working on bigger projects with people in remote places always is a hassle. Today 1 I received the long anticipated hard disk with the blue screen shots I should be working on. I popped it into the USB port but Windows thought the device was damaged and suggested to replace it. Luckily I remembered that the person who sent me the disk was a Mac user so I tried connecting the device on some Mac and it worked. Then my data-odyssey began…
- Well, in fact yesterday now ↩
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Jun 03, 2008
YouTube features
Posted in Fonts, Funny?, Random Thoughts, Video
While I was spending the night cleaning up and UV layouting a scene in Maya I felt a the urge to check my mail. So I logged on Yahoo! to check whether I got some more r*0*l*e*x and v14gr4 spam mails to get rid off, usually no more than 2 or 4. but today it was different. When you have suddenly 68 new emails from one day to another in your inbox then either something great or something terrible has happened to you.
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May 07, 2008
FMX 08, Day Two
Posted in CGI & Rendering, Compositing, Lectures, People, Rants, Reports, Technology
Recruiting day for me! Yesterday I was too tired and lacked of motivation getting some of my demo reels to the important representatives of Some Great Company. And I even shook hands with one of the people who got me into VFX at all.
