We were talking about this yesterday in the office. I think this move is about the Adobe price tag. But that just me.
Conversation Series: Blackmagic CEO Grant Petty Talks Pricing and 4K →
Grant Petty:
“You want creative options; I hope someone keeps manufacturing film,” he said, adding that should Kodak [which maintains that it will continue to make film though it is currently working to emerge from chapter 11] at some point cease to make film, there might be a business there for a small company that “buys the licenses from Kodak and runs a few hundred feet of film a day. It could still be several thousand feet, there’s still a lot of film being consumed.”
Black Magic has always been a great company doing great work. Good to see. Love his take on film.
Lightning sparks high country to life →
Fantasic
davidstripinis.com - In Which I Try and Fix the Entire Film Industry →
David Stripinis:
Most every country in the world taxes the value of goods coming into their country from overseas, the US included. There are massive books which detail exactly how much each item should be taxed ( called a duty or tariff when applied to imported goods ). The detail is hilarious and stunning.
It has taken 7 months. Good to see David writing again.
VFX RESET 2013 →
Have a look. If their is anyting you don't like let them know.
A Picture-Perfect Lightning Strike in Front of a Wedding Photographer's Lens →
Michael Zhang:
Here’s a wedding photographer who probably wishes now that he had set up a second camera with a lightning trigger. It could have resulted in an epic “altar shot”.
No FX here. Awesome.
Stop frame animation made with atoms - yes at the atomic level! | fxguide →
Mike Seymour:
The work is only visible if you use a microscope that enlarges the ‘canvas’ by 100 million times. Using their techniques developed over years of researching atomic level data storage, IBM created 250 frame stop-motion animation of a boy playing with an atom.
This would have been better posted on 4-1-2013. Amazing stuff.
LED light quality: a free fxphd Background lecture | fxguide →
Mike Seymour:
Mike Seymour discusses the quality and variation seen in LED lighting
I have said this before, If you know everything don't bother. If you want to learn more about light have a look. I can't tell how much I learned from being a Set Lighting Tech before my compositing career really got going. One of the best moves I made.
Silhouettes in a Giant Moonrise, Captured Using a 1200mm Lens →
Michael Zhang:
Schmidli first spent hours exploring Google Earth, searching for the perfect location to shoot the image. He needed a hill in the distance that would allow his subject to be framed by the moonrise. Schmidli ended up deciding on this hill:
So great.
66 Behind the Scenes Pics from THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK - Imgur →
I hope everyone is having a good weekend. If you are working have a look on the next render.