Yearly Archives: 2007
Visual Effects: An Interview with Lead Compositor of Van Helsing
I stumbled accross this (somewhat aged) interview with Todd Vaziri, a lead compositor in Van Helsing, at ILM. It might be interesting for some to see how After Effects is used in a larger professional production workflow on a big effects-heavy film production. The Interview (via vfxtalk.com)
Posted in Discoveries, Evergreen Tagged After Effects, Projects and Thoughts, Technology Leave a comment
SOS: Media Spring – Week 4 Update
Let me start out by saying this: I am behind. Very behind. I feel overwhelmed with the amount of work I have on my back, and I need a strong injection of excitement and enthusiasm to facilitate the battle with sleep that I will have to wage in order to be victorious. This past week [...]
Red Camera – Peter Jackson Short
The Red Camera is becoming less and less of a pipe-dream and more and more of a reality. Recently, Peter Jackson borrowed two prototype cameras and shot a short ‘video’ with them, “Crossing the Line”. There is a small trailer released for that on the reduser.net forums. This was discovered through the excellent site, fxguide.com. [...]
Rabbit, Owl
Recently I happened across the animation “Rabbit” by Run Wrake, on the DVblog website (a rather prolifically updated compilation of interesting video). I had seen this screened in SOS: Media by Ruth Hayes previously, but thought I would share it here, as the 3rd post in this little series of interesting and notable “Multimedia Discoveries”. [...]
Posted in Discoveries Tagged Animation, I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness, Media Artists, Rabbit, Run Wrake, The Owl Leave a comment
After Effects Workshop v3.0
This last Friday, I taught the third After Effects workshop that I have been a part of, for the benefit of a few students from the Mediaworks program. Myself having been in Mediaworks last year, and having attempted to put together a similar workshop for Mediaworks then, it was great to see all of the [...]
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Continuing Thoughts About Artificial Intelligence (SOS: Media – Week 2 Update)
For the past couple of days, I have been getting reacquainted with all of the writing and notes and ideas I was engaged with during fall quarter for my Artificial Intelligence project. Involved in this process is the reading of the massive quantity of journaling that I did, and watching and reading some new research [...]
Human-Computer Symbiosis and the Technology of Today
J.C.R. Licklider’s March 1960 paper “Man-Computer Symbiosis” presents a cogent, logical, and perceptive discussion of conceptual and technical matters surrounding the term present in his title. His pontifications regarding the nature of man-computer symbiosis, how it differs from conventionally existent human-machine relationship dynamics, and possible effects on human functioning, are exemplary timeless, and remain of [...]
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SOS: Media – Spring Quarter Week 01
I was just falling asleep a moment ago when I realized that I hadn’t written a blog post yet this week about my progress and activities for SOS: Media. I have a bit of a little exigetic thought process on this topic. It seems that all of my classes this quarter are melding into this [...]
Posted in Evergreen Tagged Peter Rose, Production Entries, Projects and Thoughts, SOS: Media 1 Comment
Maywa Denki
Maywa Denki are a group of artists and engineers in Tokyo, Japan. They are known for their creation of absurdly creative “nonsense machines“, and other works of electromechanical devices which are gloriously surreal in their purpose and functioning. Here are some blog posts for further reading. The Nonsense Machines of Maywa Denki PopGadget – Maywa [...]
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Peter Rose VOX 13 Series (1982 – 2000) on UbuWeb