fxguide.com:
Since then he has been a Venture Capitalist, serial entrepreneur, mentor and now faculty member for Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center.
VES Understanding Unions Panel Report →
Jeff Heusser:
But there were several examples given of conditions – like staffing up for a show and then being surprised by the studio with a three month delay on turnover of plates. Parentau: “there are so many situations like that because we have no strength as a unit to be able to say to the studios… some sort of language that says if you delay your plate delivery, you have to pay us x amount of dollars every week…”.
This is a real problem. I have no idea what the problems are but I know it makes my boss crazy. He works really hard to have work to pay me to do. If he doesn't have art for me to do he can't pay me. Period.
Having artists sitting around burning bandwidth is expensive. Companies can't do expensive while not taking in cash. None can.
Airplane Composite video now on Youtube: →
Check out this curious 25-second time-lapse/composite video that shows every airplane that landed at San Diego International Airport on Black Friday a week ago between 10:30am and 3pm. The giant planes whiz by overhead as if they’re part of a fighter jet squadron heading off to battle — not something you’d expect to see with commercial planes at an airport. It was created by photography and film professor
The URL to the Video is here (Youtube Link)
National Geographic Photo Contest 2012: Part II - The Big Picture - Boston.com →
Paula Nelson:
The National Geographic Photo Contest for 2012 ends today, November 30, but for procrastinators that thrive on deadlines, there’s still time to enter! The contest officially closes at 11:59:00 p.m. US Eastern Time. This post features another small sampling of the entrants. (We featured another selection in an October Big Picture post.) View galleries of the thousands of entrants, from which an overall winner and winners in each category of People, Places, Nature will be chosen.
The Foundry Forums :: View topic - Render Manager of choice? →
nedwilson:
Hey all,I'm working on building out a small render farm for a brand new facility. As such, I have some ability to install a render manager of my choice.
At this point, I've narrowed it down to either Deadline or Qube!. At risk of starting a religious war here, do people have a preference? Is there another product that I am entirely overlooking?
-n
Think the new iMac could serve as a stand-alone 3d workstation if I had to make a living off it? - Polygons, Pixels & Paint →
Dave Girard:
I think the speed would be fine if you got the top of the line one with the decent GPU but I wouldn’t trust an iMac’s enclosure for extended rendering.
Apple is hoping they can give us what we want in a new workstation. Right now the MacPro is not up to the task and Nuke has out grown it.
Vfx Is Work
@VFXSoldier @mikeseymour @scottsquires @DrScottRoss @VFXG @VFX_RANT #vfx Switch from games to film, but things seem so shaky. Advice?
@mtthwjhnsn76 @VFXSoldier @scottsquires @DrScottRoss @VFXRANT Do what you love, work with people smarter than U, prepare for it to be hard
This is correct. If it's worth doing its going to be hard.
Prolost - Blog - Watch Me Light Up the Room →
Stu Maschwitz:
I have a rather crazy methodology of working in Lightroom’s Develop module that uses hundreds of custom-made presets. I’ve been wanting to share it with y’all for a while now, and this seemed like a great way to do it. I hope you can come!
If your a Lightroom user and in SF, whats stopping you.
Effects Corner: DD cutting wages, VFX Union update →
Scott Squires:
Those working at DD in Venice would have no idea that their company would go into bankruptcy and acquire new owners.Those working at DD had no idea they'd be asked to reduce their wages out of the blue while working on a project.
Nukes Color Management Demystified →
Scott Squires Via Twitter:
If you have a difficult time with understanding colorspace, this may help....
It's not taught Maya class.