Wednesday, February 17, 2010

More VFX wage issues

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There's been more posting and other things around the web regarding the state of VFX artists. Here's a couple more related links: So...
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Sunday, February 14, 2010

Motionographer interview with Lee Stranahan

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More followup to the previous post regarding the VFX letter to James Cameron at Motionographer .
Sunday, February 07, 2010

Open Letter To James Cameron: Fairness For Visual Effects Artists

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For those who haven't seen this yet, Lee Stranahan has posted an open letter to James Cameron regarding the state of the VFX artists wor...
Monday, February 01, 2010

Commotion

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Matthew Ingram has written up a great posting about Commotion here .  [Update: I think this site is gone so may re-post it here if I can] T...
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

More VFX wage issues

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More bad news for Visual Effects Artists around the world. (and bad news for VFX vendors as well). Keep in mind that most of the top money ...
Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Woes of non-union VFX

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The Meteor case has become a symbol of the shaky standing of the vfx industry and vfx artists in particular. Vfx artists have no union or gu...
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VES Annual Meeting

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The Visual Effects Society had it's annual meeting last Saturday. There was a live feed to Vancouver and San Francisco. It was also web...
Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Healthcare for all

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Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell
Friday, September 11, 2009

Public Healthcare

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Quite a few visual effects artists are freelance. They work from project to project. Some are contractors. Even when working at large VFX ...
Thursday, September 10, 2009

Visual Effects Producer Book

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This was written by Charles Finance and Susan Zwerman, both with the VIsual Effects Society. Susan is also one of the editors of the VES Ha...
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Monday, August 03, 2009

Greenscreen plates

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For those interested in practicing with greenscreen plates check out Greenscreen Test Footage Hollywood camera work Tracking footage...
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Reworking Blog

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Reworking the blog and updating the template. Will have to restore many things so it may be awhile.
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Sunday, July 12, 2009

Previs thoughts

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Just Misc Previs thoughts from a note I had sent someone months ago. I think previs encompasses anything that is used to get a visual sense ...
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Thursday, May 07, 2009

Science of Magic and Illusion

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Wired magazine takes a look at the science of magic. (thanks to Eric Alba http://twitter.com/alba for mentioning it) Click the title or u...
Monday, February 23, 2009

VES Handbook

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I wanted to let everyone know that there is a Visual Effects Society handbook being written by quite a few visual effects artists, myself in...

Cloud Tank effect

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People have been asking me to provide some of the details of the Cloud Tank so that's been on a long list of subjects. Recently I had t...
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Update on Dallas Cook

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When I started this blog I had posted news on a young man who was killed by a drunk driver. Ryan Dallas Cook was in the band Suburban Legend...
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Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Fliparoni update

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Just a note that Fliparoni (iPhone and Touch game) is available free for a very short time as a promotion on the App Store and iTunes.
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Fliparoni

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My newest iPhone application is now available. Fliparoni, It's a video puzzle game for the iPhone. Improve your visual sense. Click on ...
Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Squiggles

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For those interested I updated my iPhone/Touch paint program Squiggles. Click the Squiggles link above to see demo video and images. This ha...
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Space Race

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For those interested in a blast from the past (late 80's?, early 90's?) a ShowScan simulator ride I directed and Supervised is poste...
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Friday, July 11, 2008

iPhone

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I've been tied up lately with a lot of other things. (Hence the delay in getting new postings up). One of those things is a paint progr...
Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Designing Visual Effect Shots

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Designing Visual Effect Shots, Part 1 (This posting started getting very long and cover a lot so I’m breaking it into smaller postings. I’l...
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008

VES & Gnomon - Golden Compass Breakdown

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Gnomon School Of Visual Effects And The VES Welcomes The Visual Effects Team From The Academy Award Nominated, The Golden Compass Feb 28, 20...
Sunday, February 03, 2008

Depth of Field and VFX

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Depth of Field and VFX This is in response to a question from a reader about depth of field and how it relates to visual effects. Models Wit...
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Monday, January 21, 2008

VFX Schedules

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More reader questions regarding schedules What is a 'Shot Timeline'...is this some sort of device used to tell the amount of time ...
Thursday, January 17, 2008

VFX management

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Here are a few reader questions. As I’ve said before each company and each production is a bit different. There are no standards of operat...
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Monday, December 17, 2007

Close Encounters Book

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There's a new book on Close Encounters of the Third Kind. This was the first film I worked on and the author covers the behind the scen...

VFX Supervisor article in Variety

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Click on the post title to go to an article in Variety about visual effects supervisors. Some productions are catching on. Here's the...
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Visual Effects in India

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NPR did a story on vfx animation in India last week. Click on the Post Title above to go to the article or use the link below. http://www.n...
Thursday, December 13, 2007

Audio Reminder

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This is just a reminder for those who subscribe to the audio feed to check out the latest articles posted here. http://www.effectscorner.co...
Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Comparisons

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When you go to an eye doctor he asks you to compare two different lens choices. “Is this better or this better?” Step by step he refines t...
Friday, November 23, 2007

LA Shows - Matte Painting, Illustrations

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The Academy is having a couple of events in the next 2 or 3 weeks of interest. Motion Picture Illustrators exhibit in their gallery until D...
Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Mac Widget for Effects Corner

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Click the link of the title and download a Widget for the Mac to display the highlights of the last 10 postings here. Click on the article ...

Photo Real and Realism in Visual Effects

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At the start of most projects every director requests their shots be photo real What does Photo Real mean? Are realistic vfx shots a lot mo...
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Saturday, November 17, 2007

Visual Effects Society

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Just a reminder to check out the Visual Effects Society (VES) sometime. If you're a professional with 5 years or more experience then...
Thursday, October 25, 2007

Budgeting VFX

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Budgeting VFX I covered some of the basics of this in the post/podcast Bidding and Preproduction I’ll be going into more detail in this ...
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