Effects Corner: What’s the solution? →

Scott Squires:​

Finding problems with proposals and criticizing is the easiest thing a person can do. How about people actually make suggestions of a solution?

 

I'll bite.

How about California enforces there own labor laws. How about the people who start there own visual effects companies follow the rules.

This really is about rules. Rules are set in place because some idiot doesn't have common sense. And the state or country has to say "sorry you can't enslave people, so here are some rules to follow".

It's easy to say what should be done after the fact. Anyone can do that. It's what we are going to do going forward.

I had a little birdy ask if we hated the studios. I said no. It's not the studios fault a vfx house agrees to the terms.

Where and When

Michael B. Johnson:

The thing about Pixar is that they know when to give notes and when not to.

How many times have you walked out of a review only to be given notes just because someone had to have something to say.

I have written about this before. Notes, it separates the men from the boys. It's the men that take notes and make there work better. It's the boys that get all butt hurt and storm off. But here's the flip side to that coin. Defend yourself. If there is a reason for what you did explain why. Don't just sit there and say go ok.

Shots are bid, but know body knows till your trying to key a wet great green screen, rain and lots of atmospherics. The QuickTime compression helped hide, well all of it.

You hide all kinds if things in the madness because that's what's required. Make sure it fits the scene. That means AB it. Compare color, and density. Ask yourself all the questions. Most of all review your renders. I have watched to many artists have render errors ruin a review.

Just because you can fool the eye doesn't mean you should do it badly. Remember everyone knows there is a problem, most just don't know why.

A Moon Rise Over Los Angeles as a Time-Slice, Time-Lapse, and Animated GIF →

Michael Zhang:​

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based photographer Dan Marker-Moore pointed his Olympus OM-D EM-5 and a 100mm lens (equivalent to a 200mm in 35mm terms) at his city’s nighttime cityscape and photographed the rising of a full moon.

 

I like how the color temperture changes as the moon clears the smog. Wait, that isn't color temp.

Fancy Monkeys - Scruffy Thinking - Scruffy.TV →

Scruffy.tv:​

On this special That Scruffy Post Show Kanen sits down with Stu Maschwitz and Merlin Mann on their second visit to the show! They discuss delegation, dealing with email and to do lists, assistants, and working hard to make being lazy possible. Does it get better than that?

 

Some very smart stuff in here. Have a listen.

Photog and Kayakers Risk Life, Limb and 3rd Degree Burns on an Active Volcano →

DL Cade:​

Socci and the kayakers paddled around and walked over molten lava flows as the surf instantly turned the background into clouds of water vapor. It wasn’t the safest endeavor, but it certainly made for a series of extreme kayaking photos the likes of which we’ve never seen before.

 

Some would say this is not smart. I think its awesome.