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September 28, 2010 in Filmmaking with 0 Comments

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Woot, I have entered my 1 minute short film to this Short Film Festival – here is their facebook page: the rly shrt flm fstvl. Well, it is not just my film. Credits go to the whole team; John Smith and John Werge who played their roles in Directing and filming as well. Extra credit to John Smith for handling the Tarantula and Katherine Werge for letting that huge thing crawl all over her. Gareth Richards for the Music and sound effects.
We had already entered this short film into the Skarlets competition where a RED Scarlet 8x fixed lens was the prize. We were excited that we had had a great entry that was doing well. However the RED Scarlet was delayed and the competition deadline extended a few times until the Competition website went down (the domain registration was not renewed).
One day I will win a RED Epic or Scarlet, until then I am entering every HDSLR competition I can find and saving for a Canon 550D.
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Inspiration: Mercedes Lego Airbag Productions

September 25, 2010 in Filmmaking with 2 Comments

Get airbags or a car that does not fall apart ;)

5 Filmmaking Links

September 24, 2010 in Filmmaking with 0 Comments

Part two of the video series where I speak about 5 interesting filmmaking link or articles. This week Software dominates the list:

  1. The Nuke 15 Day Fully Featured Trial

    2. Anyone has spend time on the Personal Learning Edition of Nuke will be grateful for this. I have snapped up this opportunity and will blog abut it in furture. One day NukeX will replace Shake as my Compositing tool – I am not sure how (just too expensive for me), but it will.

  2. Nuke6 8 Week Introduction Course

    3. A great 8 week online introduction to Nuke6 by Steve Wright. I wonder how many weeks the comprehensive course will be.

  3. 4 Powerful Tools for Color Correction via Final Cut Pro

    4. ChurchCreate always has great resources for creatives, here is a list of Color Correction Tools that can be used via Final Cut Studio.

  4. The new Panasonic GH2 and AG AF-100

    5. It seems that there is something cool being announced every week in the realm of cameras. This week was not exception. The Lumix GH2 came put – it has 24mbs bit rate – we are waiting for someone to hack it up to 50mbs. The AF100 is billed to be an HDSLR killer with it’s interchangeable lens. If I had the money I would get both, but the AF100 is just too expensive to kill a market owned by budget minded filmmakers.

  5. The Videography SubReddit

    6. Got the privilege of been made a moderator on the Videography subreddit. Check it out and share links please. It’s pretty much for anything camera and filmmaking related.

Nuke6: 8 Week Introduction

September 24, 2010 in Filmmaking with 0 Comments


Join Steve Wright, senior compositor and master compositing trainer for an 8 week introduction to Nuke6, the powerful new visual effects compositing program that is taking the visual effects industry by storm. It features a blazing fast 32 bit floating point workflow with full support for 3D compositing, the big new trend in visual effects compositing. While designed for compositors, this course is also ideal for 3D artists that want to understand the Nuke workflow as it is being integrated into modern CGI production pipelines.

Steve Wright has some great comp cred (like street cred but just in VFX, lol) with feature films like Shutter Island, Night at the Museum 2, Blade III, Ray, Solaris, Traffic, U-571, Air Force One. Being 20 years in the industry Steve is very good at what he does. The great thing is that he shares his knowledge and experience through lessons like this and books like: Digital Compositing for Film and Video and Compositing Visual Effects: Essentials for the Aspiring Artist. I have the latter and it is great.
The Foundry has also started to offer a 15 day Nuke trial that is completely functional. If you have had time on the Personal Learning Edition or have learned a bit about Nuke then getting started with this 15 day trial would be perfect to prepare for the course or to test out after the course.

The Foundry NukeX Fully Featured Trial

September 23, 2010 in Filmmaking with 0 Comments

The Foundry is now offering a fully featured 15 day trial. If you have tried the Personal Learning Edition then this is out of the world.
I am a Shake 4.1 user and will need to find a replacement some time, even if Shake will last (which it will have to so that my GenArts plugins get a good work out).
Interesting that Nuke has such an intricate install procedure, what with getting the system id (with a 5.2mb installer) and a license installer (5.4mb). A bit overkill of you ask me, I wonder how effective it is in preventing piracy.
The best strategy is probably to have a go at the Personal Learning Edition and then the 15 day Trial so that you don’t waste too much time on learning the interface.

Some VFX and Graphics Fun

September 23, 2010 in Filmmaking with 0 Comments

This is awesome; apart from some unnecessary cuss words near the end.
If you are a compositor, animator, motion graphics artist or editor you will love this. Non the less it is still very cool and worth a watch.

Money Money Money – “Gettin’ Money With a Mouse and a Wacom Pen” from Brad Chmielewski on Vimeo.

The most Awesome Timelapse Montage

September 22, 2010 in Filmmaking with 0 Comments

Wow.

Timelapse Montage from Mike Flores on Vimeo.

What is HDSLR

September 21, 2010 in Filmmaking with 2 Comments

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Is this the new era of filmmaking or is it just a temporary storm that will pass away? One thing that is for sure is the fact that HDSLRs are enabling the masses to jump into the waters of HD filmmaking. But what are they jumping into?

HDSLR in a Nutshell

HDSLR is, in a nutshell, a Video capable DSLR. With DSLR being Digital SLR and SLR being Single Lens Reflex. Click those links to find out more and stare at diagrams.

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3D Short Film: The Solo Adventures 3D

September 19, 2010 in Filmmaking with 0 Comments

well, a stereoscopic short film ;)
To view 3D video on the internet, you will need those red/green glasses of old – you know, back in the day of Jaws 3D. I am pretty sure that this will change as display adapters and computer LCD screen begin to take on features needed for better 3D.
I am beginning to wonder how I can get some stereoscopic short film put together.

The Solo Adventures 3D from Daniel L Smith on Vimeo.

5 Filmmaking Links – Goes Video

September 18, 2010 in Filmmaking with 0 Comments

The weekly filmmaking links series post has gone video. Providing a more personal approach, I hope that I can provide an interesting 3 – 5 minutes. Please tell me what you think. If you have some guideline and suggestions I will be happy to hear and apply :)
Below the video the 5 links that I mention are listed.

  1. Nikon D7000: Camera Road Test With Chase Jarvis
  2. Nikon D7000…is the Canon monopoly finally being challenged?
  3. The Panasonic AG-AF101 intro video and global premiere
  4. Apple updates QuickTime for Windows, Pro Applications
  5. Welcome to the new planet5D HDSLR news aggregator!
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