Posts Tagged ‘animation’

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. No comments May 09, 2008 FMX 08, Day Four Posted in Computing, Games, Lectures

    Somehow I’ve all made it through many hours of very interesting presentations — still my spirits weakened: Four hours of sleep a day just isn’t enough for conventions like the FMX where one should be as sharply focused as a Pong-player in order not to miss anything: Today it was everything about games mostly.

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  6. No comments May 09, 2008 FMX 08, Day Three Posted in CGI & Rendering, Compositing, Films, Lectures, People, Reports, Technology

    Today I was eager for a new Pixar poster. Who would’ve thought that I spent nearly one and half hour talking with the guys and gals from Pixar?

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  7. No comments 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.

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  8. 1 comment May 07, 2008 FMX 08, Day One Posted in CGI & Rendering, Compositing, Reports

    At 4:30am my cell phone tried to wake me, without success, but it succeeded ten minutes later shortly before I stuffed in some clothes, my ten portfolio DVDs and my bag of hygiene products. Then I tried giving Martina, who was one of my two passengers, the ordered wake-up call, unanswered twice. The third time she picked it up and sounded not even as sleepy as me. Donsch, my other passenger, was waiting outside the campus building patiently for me to arrive, 18 minutes late for I forgot to print out the addresses of the convention center and my hotel which really saved my ass.

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