Posts Tagged ‘Nuke’
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May 04, 2011
FMX ’11, Day One
Posted in CGI & Rendering, Compositing, Films, Lectures, Quotes, Reports, Technology
Today 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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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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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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Mar 17, 2010
Tutorial: After Effects vs. Nuke
Posted in Compositing, Tutorial
Yay! Today my second tutorial for AEtuts+ went online. As usual, it was very labor-intense but from the first comments I got on it, it was really worth it. And that people like my hair.Feel free to check it out yourself here, where you can also see the sneak peek of it. Now I gotta get some some sleep, just came back from holding a live tutorial on the FH Salzburg. Exhausting, but fun!
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Jan 30, 2010
Make Something Creative!
Posted in Compositing, Computing, Dear Diary, Tutorial
Wassup, y’all? I’m back! Back from the vault, back from grinding merrily away 20 to 30 hrs a day on my diploma thesis and back from LaTeX formatting hell. Through my veins still runs a little amount of blood among all that caffeine and so I’m announcing my new credo for 2010: Make Something Creative Every DayWeek! -
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May 10, 2009
FMX 09, Day Four
Posted in Animation, CGI & Rendering, Games, Lectures, People, Reports, Technology
Traditionally the last day of every fmx is the games day and this year I was prepared for it: Yes, I was wearing my Half-Life² t-shirt proudly in any Electronic Arts lecture I could get in. “They save the best for last”, as AIAS president Joseph Olin put it in the beginning. Yes, there was a lot to come. As always I just wish I had slept more. -
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May 08, 2009
FMX 09, Day Three
Posted in Animation, CGI & Rendering, Compositing, Games, Lectures, People, Photography, Random Thoughts, Rants, Reports, Retro, Technology, Video
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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Apr 22, 2009
Status Update: Still Alive
Posted in Compositing, Dear Diary, Reports, Seph Carissa / texx sound
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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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…
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Jun 01, 2008
Digital Cinematography
Posted in Compositing, Films, Reports, Technology, Video
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.
