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Cameron on dimension…

Mr Rogers — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:41:53 +0000

There is a great interview in Variety with James Cameron and his perspective on 3D films (pun intended). Of course, what he says is quite convincing, and salient. I met him once. He made some convincingly salient points then too. Via Daring Fireball, via John August.

Lovely

Mr Rogers — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:04:51 +0000

It is always interesting when you take a diversion from concentrating on "visual effects" and go see what other people are doing with graphics technology. In many ways, the SIGGRAPH conference is a yearly fix of all things interesting, but you have to stop working to get there, and residing outside of the US doesn't make it any easier. The alternative time-sucking solution, is web surfing. Sometimes you come across something which really gives you a jolt. The work Robert Hodgin does is clever and beautiful:

Solar, with lyrics. from flight404 on Vimeo.

He uses Processing, an open-source programming environment for graphics and audio. See their exhibition space for more examples of what can be done. Robert Hodgin has a bit of his stuff on that page too, and great explanations of how the software was used (Birds/Flocking). I've become quite interested in procedural animation of late, and have been wondering what we can do with Massive (and a bit of time) to create some visualisations. We've done a bit of stuff on films using Massive to create things other than crowds (like traffic, pedestrians, etc); so another logical step would be to use it with some input data to drive different aspects of it... hmmm... music clip anyone? With the right input data, I am sure you could make something quite special.

More RED

Mr Rogers — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:07:28 +0000

RED announced the following new cameras, which I am sure will be dissected and analysed (and changed) over the next year or so. Release in 2009: SCARLET – 3k resolution, supposedly under $3000; 2/3 sensor; fixed lens 8x T2.8 zoom. http://www.red.com/nab/scarlet. More information here. And a off the floor video via Videomaker: EPIC – 5k [...]