August 2011
WatchSTRP Festival 2011-teaser by HEYHEYHEY and Bart Hess
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“Look at the prick captured on video mugging the injured Malaysian student. Watch...”
– Charlie Brooker
on the London riots
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“Jobs’s greatest creation isn’t any Apple product. It is Apple itself.”
– John Gruber on Jobs stepping down as Apple CEO
The Business Reasons Why VFX Artists are being... →
If you can get through the typos, it’s a pretty nice overview of the past five years (barriers to entry at their lowest, increase in competition, dwindling prices)
The basic theory that the employees should not finance bad management, be responsible for the increase in the numbers of change orders or get squeezed to maximize profits is totally true. The artists have no chance of making...
Currency And VFX « VFX Soldier →
On how the falling US dollar indirectly makes it more expensive for US studios and facilities to send VFX work to other countries:
Whatever the reasons behind this method [of quantative easing], it’s an incredibly effective tool. The alternative is much worse: Countries that have adopted the Euro such as Spain, Portugal, Greece, Italy, and Ireland are unable to engage in such a practice...
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“But in cinematography, forget DSLRs, forget film, forget everything – it’s all...”
– Matthew Libatique, ASC on shooting with a Nikon consumer DSLR, via.
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The High Price of Looking Like a Woman - The New... →
On how pumpers pray on the desperation of the transgendered :
Ms. Quispe, an Ecuadorean immigrant who came to New York at age 9, was determined to get the curves that would make her look more feminine. But she lacked health insurance or the money to pay for surgical procedures that would provide them; they can cost as much as $70,000. So she tried something else: she went to a so-called...
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“In order for us to truly create and contribute to the world, we have to be able...”
– Maria Popova
An Open Letter To Andy Serkis →
Well, spit the fire
Tim Borelli:
Performance capture is the digital capture of a performance of an individual actor, to be later applied to a digital character. Yet according to you, “…there are two parts to the process. The first part is capturing the performance. Only later down the line do you start seeing the characters being painted over frame by frame using pixels.”
First,...
