by Lee on November 16, 2009
This is a tentative schedule of the events for the Visual Effects Supervisor’s Boot Camp
Friday, December 4
7:30pm – Opening reception
Meet students and instructors and have some pizza.
At Saggio’s, 107 Cornell SE
Saturday, December 5
8:00am – Script breakdown and budgeting
Learn how to break down a script for visual effects purposes and budget effects shots.
9:30am – Shooting Stills
Shooting panoramas and HDRI probes, working with the Nodal Ninja nodal offset head
11:00am – The Location Shoot
Set etiquette for visual effects supervisors, understanding crew positions, camera, lighting and grip equipment and shooting plates with the Red One Camera
4:00pm – Green Screen & Studio Shooting
More work with the Red One Camera, shooting compositing elements
7:00pm – Motion Capture
Setting up an infrared camera system for motion capture, directing stunt actors, facial motion capture, working with BVH data
Saturday, December 6
8:00am LiDAR Capture
Shooting large exterior elements for pre-vis and set extensions with LiDAR
11:30 Boot Camp Wrap Up Session
Q & A, working with data, students receive hard drives and certificates of completion
by Lee on November 16, 2009
2012 cleaned up worldwide. You think the visual effects had anything to do with it?
From Scott Mendelson’s report…
Roland Emmerich’s 2012 almost made back its $260 million budget in just three days. The domestic opening weekend was a whopping $65 million and the global total was a mammoth $225 million. This is the seventh-biggest domestic bow ever in November, and just shy of the $67 million that Emmerich’s The Day After Tomorrow pulled in during the Fri-Sun portion of its four-day Memorial Day weekend launch in 2004. With its $160 million non-domestic weekend gross, it’s also the fifth-largest non-US debut of all time and the all-time champ non-US debut for a non-sequel/franchise picture. So the film pulled in a surprisingly potent 2.8x weekend multiplier and actually had a token increase on Saturday from $23 million to $24 million. Point being, this one is playing as a normal grown-up smash hit and should have decent legs until Avatar comes down the pike in just over a month. See, that’s what happens when you actually deliver the goods and have the decency to be not all that bad.
by Lee on November 15, 2009
When I heard that rapper 50 Cent had a book coming out, I wasn’t really planning to read it. Don’t get me wrong – I love High All The Time and I’ve heard 50 interviewed and he was impressive
But this piece on the Huffington Post is an excerpt from his book and NOW I want to read it. The book is called The 50th Law and the law is – fear nothing. Check this bit out…
You came into this life with the only real possessions that ever matter — your body, the time that you have to live, your energy, the thoughts and ideas unique to you, and your autonomy. But over the years you tend to give all of this away. You spend years working for others — they own you during that period. You get needlessly caught up in people’s games and battles, wasting energy and time that you will never get back. You come to respect your own ideas less and less, listening to experts, conforming to conventional opinions. Without realizing it you squander your independence, everything that makes you a creative individual.
Before it is too late, you must reassess your entire concept of ownership. It is not about possessing things or money or titles. You can have all of that in abundance but if you are someone who still looks to others for help and guidance, if you depend on your money or resources, then you will eventually lose what you have when people let you down, adversity strikes, or you reach for some foolish scheme out of impatience. True ownership can only come from within. It comes from a disdain for anything or anybody that impinges upon your mobility, from a confidence in your own decisions, and from the use of your time in constant pursuit of education and improvement.
It’s downloading to my Kindle right now.
