Who’s Who on a Movie Crew →

FilmmakerIQ: 

Keep in mind that this focuses mostly on the on-set personnel, and even still it doesn’t include every single crew member! Here’s a recap of what we just learned, along with a few extra people peppered in there to round out the list. The amount of people you need to help make your film vary widely from a simple duo to many hundreds of crew members. 

 

A film set in a war zone, and is run a lot like the military. I have witnessed many problems on set because the hierarchy was not followed. Having on set etiquette is maybe more important to getting your job done than anything else.

F_Regrain unreliable on render farm? →

Frank Rueter: 

Hi all,

this is reported but was wondering if I'm the only one who finds F_Regrain close to unusable in a render farm environment?

 

I see alot of this. Short anwser is yes F_Regrain is horrible on a farm. Ben Dickson has it right. Faster and more realiable.

Eyeon seeks ex AVID DS users →

Mike Seymour: 

Later today Avid confirmed the closure of DS on a conference call, “Since 2008-2209 we have tried to move people towards Avid DS but the business just hasn’t been there.” Users were not happy of course. The product hardware being discontinued for a month or so in June, and the software is EOL as of Sept. 30th, 2013 for sales, with service contracts continuing until June 30, 2014. There will be a v11.1 final version released, this week.

 

Passing it along.

Double Blasted →

RadioLabs: 

In early August of 1945, Tsutomu Yamaguchi had a run of the worst luck imaginable. A double blast of radiation left his future, and the future of his descendants, in doubt. In this short: an utterly amazing survival story that spans ... well, 4 billion years when you get down to it.

 

A neat recount of Hiroshima.

Hiroshima Visualized →

By Kelsey D. Atherton: 

In the whole of human history thus far, nuclear weapons have been used in anger exactly twice. Sixty-eight years ago today an American B-29 bomber named Enola Gay dropped Little Boy, the first atomic bomb ever used in war, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Between 90,000 and 166,000 people were killed by the bomb, some in the initial blast and others later through radiation poisoning.

 

Under domes and falling skies: an invisible vfx round-up | fxguide →

Ian Failes: 

In the newest installment of our invisible effects series, we delve into the production of several TV and film productions – from the on-set effects supervision for Under the Dome to the eerie effects in The Conjuring, the practical and digital make-up in Falling Skies, creating a post-war feel in the Emperor and delivering seamless work for Magic City.

 

Fusion-io Demos 12 GB/sec VFX Pipeline →

My favorite thing about my box at work, the FusionIO card. I hope everyone uses the localize feature in Nuke. Files are only getting bigger and slower.

Don't laugh we have had to talk clients out of 32bit 4k dpx files.

Cinefex Classic on Kickstarter →

Stu Maschwitz: 

It was bagged and boarded at Dreamhaven Books in Minneapolis, and I remember thinking it was expensive, and really fancy. I read it cover-to-cover, not understanding much of anything I was reading. When I got to the end, I read it again.

 

Back before vfx breakdowns and Youtube clips there was Cinefex.

DIY Education... VFX Style →

There are so many ways to stay up to date with industry trends and technology and you don't have to go to a fancy school in order to gain the knowledge.

 

You should always be learning. Its the only way. You can learn by just going to YouTube and searching Nuke.