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Tag Archives: artist
Appropriate the super organism
October 13, 2012 ~ 7:30 AM After DOG then what? What do I want to do? FXPHD and widening my horizons, knowing what i don’t know VFX supervisor course, turns out I am naturally doing what the big kids do … Continue reading
Posted in Daughter of God, organization, people, plan, practice, production and post, real life
Tagged alien, artist, contract, fxphd, grow up, hire, supervisor, VFX, vision
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Holy something!
My dog, have I done a lot of work on this project or what?! In three words, yes, yes and yes. You know things are getting interesting when you wake up and have to babble ideas into your recorder because … Continue reading
Posted in Daughter of God, organization, plan, practice, production and post, protocol, real life, research, workflow
Tagged artist, book of dog, contractor, mayan calender, prop, talent
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Alone
This is mine and mine alone. It’s a gray and windy day… ominous, foreboding. I am worried that perhaps I’ve taken acted hastily in hiring contractors before I knew exactly what my objectives were. How much of this could I … Continue reading
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Tagged artist, budget, contract, contractor, credit card, estimate, finance, freelance, projection, roto, spreadsheet, trace
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Assembling a VFX crew
As VFX director for DOG I continue to learn how to assembling and managing a remote roto crew. Here I review past lessons and my vision for the now. My first attempt was in May and after several false starts … Continue reading
Roto ramping up
April 2, 2012 I’ve identified the Essential tasks and have assembled a core roto team – this week is the shakedown cruise. I’ve got two interns and two contractors and am interested to see how much progress we make this … Continue reading
Posted in budget, Daughter of God, people, plan, production and post, real life, research, software, technique, time, workflow
Tagged ae, After Effects, artist, clock, contractor, DOG, essentials, mask, nuke, rate, roto, task, vector, workflow
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Ecosystem
In a June 26, 2011 post on Michigan Movie Makers, I blithely asserted that the regional production community is an ecosystem. I wonder – what was I talking about? Does the metaphor actually provide any movie making insight or advantage? … Continue reading
Posted in people, production and post, projects, real life, research
Tagged artist, aspire, audience, ecosystem, enthusiast, entrepreneur, movie, movie making, process, producion, profit, story, student, vision
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V 0.9 Trickster Pictures SFX reel
This is for my extended inner circle of creatives, both producers that might have a micro budget and/or good things to trade and artists that might have a wild idea or fancy getting hired to help. Please upgrade your browser … Continue reading
Front row epiphany
It’s 4:00 am, and I’m up in the loft listening to the rain and the ghost furnace. The house has a hydronic heating system, but the furnace / boiler is toast and needs to be replaced. The wood stove is … Continue reading