thisiscolossal:
Meet Hal Lasko, mostly known as Grandpa, a 97-year-old man who uses Microsoft Paint from Windows 95 to create artwork that has been described as “a collision of pointillism and 8-Bit art.” Lasko, who is legally blind, served in WWII drafting directional and weather maps for bombing raids and later worked as a typographer (back when everything is done by hand) for clients such as General Tire, Goodyear and The Cleveland Browns before retiring in the 1970s.
Have a good evening
At lunch I sat down and read this. Very well written Dave. Thanks for continuing to push for more dialog. I also feel the directors are a really great place to start. Our job has always been about making wonderful images to help directors tell their stories.
David Yu:
Hi. Anyone know a script or expression to remove hot pixel noise from images or 3d renders?
A great discussion. Many great expression examples.
Pascal Campion:
1. If you are images tell a story, you are more than halfway there.
2. if your story is crystal clear, you are ninety nine percent of the way there.
3. if your stories are clear and personal, you just broke the house.You’ll notice that neither in 1 or 2 is there any mention of technique… and, oddly enough, there is still no mention of it in number 3 either. You know why? BECAUSE IT DOESN’T MATTER!!!
Let me make this clear. When you are showing your portfolios to people, you are selling ideas and personalities. Not how you handle Photoshop, or perspective. Not how you mix your colors, or how many different variations on a tree you can create. These are exercises you do in school to develop your skills that are used to create stories..which is what I look for.
Nailed it.
I have heard that artsts that come out of places like India or China have work that looks and feels similar. It is not a good sign that artists in the USA are having the same problem. Most of my job is problem solving. Only after I have thought about the problem and solved it can I push the right buttons.
I cannot blame the schools thou, most employers that are looking for insert application here want to make sure you know where the buttons are and when to use them. They are not looking for problem solvers. As a side effect they get non-starters that just give up when they run out of buttons to push. This kind of artisty also drives down rates as the thought is we are not knowledge workers anymore, we are just button pushers.
That is bad for all of us, incuding the owners of comapnies that make great art.
The company says the new card was designed based on what its clients in several different industries have been asking for from a GPU. “Our customers are trying to do one core thing: look at more data at one time and be able to interact with larger datasets,” NVIDIA Industry Executive, Media and Entertainment, Greg Estes told fxguide. “You could be an artist working in Maya, or a guy at Nissan trying to design a car, or a geophysicist looking at an oil field.”
Ian Failes:
Many recent films, TV shows and commercials owe their incredible fluid simulations and photoreal rendering to two visual effects tools – RealFlow and Maxwell Render from Next Limit Technologies. These VFX tools are the subject of fxguide’s latest interactive iBook, From Sim to Render: The Next Limit Story - now available free to download.
If you have a iPad have a read.
This sounds like good news. I am asked a lot why would you do that in Nuke. The short anwser is "I'm a nuke artist, same reason why you would do it in After Effects".
Chris Godfrey:
Baz has graciously agreed to let us release this 'before and afters' reel to show our peer group the VFX work completed on his film 'The Great Gatsby'. While this specific reel was the work of Animal Logic (as my primary vendor), in total I worked with 7 vendors including Animal Logic, Rising Sun and Iloura in Australia, ILM in San Francisco and also Prime Focus and Method Vancouver. We also ran an amazing internal SWAT team that completed over 400 shots. Congratulations to all who did such fabulous work on almost 1500 shots and especially to Andy Brown from Animal Logic who put this sequence together.
FilmmakerIQ:
Go inside the history of the travelling mattes (now called chromakey) and learn the history of visual trickery used by filmmakers from the earliest filmmakers through to the modern day.
"Perfect, shoot it and lets go home. We'll let the visual efects monkeys fix it."