Everest →

The Onion:

“Sometimes a little script tinkering is needed to work in the fact that everyone’s wearing oxygen tanks and 50 pounds of climbing gear, but given the incredible savings it’s nothing you can’t smooth out in post.”

What could go wrong?

Via:John Montgomery

Ops

There have been a lot of searching for J_Ops. I will assume it's to see if there will be a Nuke 8 version soon. I have no official word but it is being worked on.

Remember we are all very busy and sometimes that means other projects take a backburner.

I am also looking forward to a full Nuke 8 version.

Have a good weekend.

GPU Confrence Day 1 →

John Montgomery writing for Fxguide:

In Pascal, the solution is to move the memory and stack multiple memory chips it on top of the GPU on a silicon substrate (a slice of silicon). They then cut through the memory, directly connecting the memory to the GPU. This will solve having to get memory off the actual GPU chip and onto the surrounding board.

Seems simple enough.

The Frame's the Thing →

Stu Maschwitz

Nothing about cinema is real. It’s all gloriously, magically fake. Acting is fake. Lighting is fake. Sets, concepts, levels of attractiveness and charisma, ease of parking, thematic relevance of small details, amount of lipstick on the leading man’s face after a kiss—all fake.

No wonder it's hard.

Rates

Frank Rueter:

Anyway, I guess what I'm trying to say is that we all need to be a bit more accountable as to the rate we aim for.

You can do a lot of damage to yourself and to others.

Project Yosemite →

Project Yosemite:

A 200+ mile backpacking experience through Yosemite National Park captured by Colin Delehanty and Sheldon Neill. This project was filmed over the course of 10 months. We spent a combined 45 days in the park capturing the images in this video.

Control →

When a company changes something in software that has been the same since 1993, you might just get into a discussion as to which way is better.

There is always Option+Command Click on the color wheel.

Deep →

As usual a novel to read but great infomation. Now that Nuke can output Deep from the scanline render, things can get even more interesting.