Tag Archives: Evergreen
Tír na nÓg
Tír na nÓg: The Land of Eternal Youth or the Land of the Ever-YoungNote: In order to play this, you may need to update to Flash Player 9, which supports h.264/aac muxed in the popular mpeg4 container format. Get the latest Flash Player to see this player. [Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and refresh [...]
HV20 Workflow, Processing, and Image Quality
In a previous post, I briefly discussed some of the specific concerns of working with footage from the Canon HV20. In this post, I will talk about these things in a little more depth, and with some example pictures to more fully demonstrate what I’m talking about. Here is a full resolution frame-capture of a [...]
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SOS: Media – Week 10
For the last 7 days, I have been working pretty constantly on the Trouble With Unicorns. On Thursday of last week, we shot the Meadow pixilation sequence, and on Monday, we shot more stills of our actor who plays Morgan, whose name is Venu Mattraw, walking through forest. We also shot the pixilation scene that [...]
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SOS: Media Spring – Week 6+7 Update
Well, it is 4 days after the promised date that I would give my (now long overdue) Week 6 update, and the end of Week 7 is approaching by the minute. Given the current circumstance, and my lack of desire to mislead anyone, I am going to make this post a Confabulation post! It will [...]
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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 [...]
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Production Stills – Makeup Tests
The following are some photographic images of the things we have been doing for the last few weeks. Last week, we did extensive motion and lighting tests with a large variety of different video cameras. Here, we see Brad poking a Fusebox, a small kid’s camera, which records in 320×240 highly compressed video onto internal [...]
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Film Journal: La Jetée
Here are some more thoughts about the cinematic endeavors I have been resting my eyes upon. Inside are lengthy thoughts and discussions about the movie La Jetée, by Chris Marker.
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Trouble With Unicorns Pixilation Shoot
A Technical Description of the Workflow and Tools Used During the Chroma Key Trouble With Unicorns Introduction Shoot The Pixilation Shoot On Saturday 2006-11-04, the first shoot of the Trouble With Unicorns took place. This was for the opening sequence of the project, which is in a 2D-animation visual style. Instead of characters made of [...]
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Learning Updates
I will try to be updating this blog more frequently now, as I make actual progress on my project. As seems to be usual, I had a very busy week all the way from Monday through Friday at 5pm, at which point and for the next 3 days I hopefully actually have time to devote [...]
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