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2011年5月1日 星期日

Your Friend Who Works in Special Effects Probably Needs a Hug Right Now

the article is from here.

and Green Lantern - Official Wondercon Footage [HD]

We can't remember who said it -- maybe Bruce Campbell? -- but a Hollywood actor defined the difference between studio movies and independent films like this: If you know what your movie's release date is before you even start shooting it, you're in a studio movie. That's become even truer over the years: Nowadays, a movie will have a release date before it even has a script. As you can imagine, that makes life incredibly stressful for all those involved with an upcoming tentpole, and today Variety gave us a little glimpse into one such group of individuals: the people at special effects houses.

The Variety article is behind their paywall, but The Playlist gets the gist of it, which is that Warner Bros. was forced to shell out an additional $9 million to pay for extra FX companies to help complete the effects for "Green Lantern," which comes out June 17. But the people Variety talked to at Warner Bros. insist it's not to fix any effects -- just to get them all done in time:

"There is no problem on 'Green Lantern,'" Chris de Faria, Warner's exec VP of digital production, animation and visual effects told the trade. "We try to add things to make the movie better until the 11th hour. That doesn't mean we're risking the movie up to the 11th hour."

This is something studios always want to emphasize when news gets out that a tentpole is rushing to make it to the finish line: "Everything is fine, nothing is wrong, we all know what we're doing, the shareholders have no reason to panic, would you like more cupcakes?" Besides, Warner Bros. are hardly the only ones rushing to hit a deadline: Variety says that one effects house working on Paramount's "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" "has gone to seven-day weeks, 12 hours a day, and canceled the Easter Sunday holiday for its [special-effects] artists."

The Variety article blames all this on the way studios now set up their big movies, valuing the release date over considerations for whether or not it's all that feasible. "So you are always chasing your tail," said Marvel exec VP of visual effects Victoria Alonso, who has "Captain America" to worry about. "You work backwards from that release date, then you add production not being ready to shoot or location complications and you shave the weeks you push from post."

We have friends who work in post-production, and we know that when they get assigned to a big movie that we won't see them for a few months before its release: Their lives are absolutely hellish as they kill themselves getting the movie done. Of late, no tentpole has missed its release, as long as you don't count the last-minute decision not to put out "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1" in 3D as was initially planned. It shouldn't be surprising, then, that big-budget summer movies often aren't very good: The studios are probably just thrilled they got the damn thing out in time.

2011年2月24日 星期四

Spaceman ICC

2011年1月13日 星期四

好萊塢傳真-視覺特效工作室驚傳倒風

好萊塢傳真-視覺特效工作室驚傳倒風


Asylum VFX Is Closing and news on fxGuide

李安台灣造黑洞 《少年Pi》吸光人才

李安台灣造黑洞 《少年Pi》吸光人才
導演李安的新片《少年Pi的奇幻漂流》在台中拍攝,工作人員超過300人,造成其他電影人才荒,據悉,目前台灣約6成以上的電影專業人員都被《少年Pi》延攬,正在拍《戀愛恐慌症》的總監林秉聿說,招募工作人員很困難,《少年Pi》像大黑洞將人才都吸光光,「台灣好的電影人才原本就欠缺,這時候找人更困難。」

大片開拍造成其他電影發生「人才荒」已非首次,《雞排英雄》將拍攝檔期訂在《賽德克巴萊》殺青後,《痞子英雄首部曲:全面開戰》也在《賽德克》拍完後接手工作人員。

據悉,李安和美商福斯對工作人員審查嚴格,從攝影師、美術、場務到助理都要提出曾參與哪些電影,去蕪存菁找出最頂尖的。其中,美術人員多達40人,其他小片連4個都湊不齊。

電影拍攝場景也壓縮,《少年Pi》以台中水湳機場做基地,其他電影要拍攝機場,只能苦等檔期或改其他打算。林秉聿說:「合拍劇帶動國片復甦是好現象,但台灣對於電影專業人才的培養訓練,政府協助電影場地的租借,都要再加把勁。」

poor Taiwan.....

2011年1月10日 星期一

2010年11月11日 星期四

The waiting in finished.... finally....finally....finally-Trapcode Particular for Nuke

看到這個CG news, 眼淚差點就要流出來了.... 感謝 Red Giant Software的努力......特此發文慶祝

The NEWS from Foundry....
and 30mins traning video from Red Giant software.....

Trapcode Particular for Nuke Tutorial v1 by Steve Wright from Hieronymus Foundry on Vimeo.

2010年9月26日 星期日

旅美數位藝術家李小鏡 2010新作品 "馬戲團" / East Gallery Taipei

旅美數位藝術家李小鏡 2010新作品 "馬戲團" / East Gallery Taipei

Art Show opening Oct. 9th @ East Gallery Taipei.
臺北市忠孝東路四段218-4號 阿波羅大廈(B棟八樓) 電話:、27527679

3D artist Mark / Sways Digital Art

Good 3D digital art works from Mark's personal websit http://www.inwheel.com.tw/my/index.html

Thanks Mark's great input and continue the profession in future....

2010年7月18日 星期日

Panasonic AG_3DA1 stereo camera out

AG3DA1
Fully-integrated Full HD 3D solid-state camcorder / U.S. List Price $21,000.00 (WoW....)

2010年6月23日 星期三

房價創天價 營建股價暗藏玄機.....

房價創天價 營建股價暗藏玄機
自由 更新日期:"2010/06/23 04:11"

據說東區一間三十年屋齡的公寓成交一坪八十萬元,這代表什麼意義?首先,買家有可能是錢太多,不知道怎麼花用,不如買下一間老舊公寓,創造話題也值得。反正老子(老娘)有錢,愛怎麼花,就怎麼花,誰管得著!

其次,這可能是刻意炒作的手法,利用政府想打房又沒膽的模糊空間,炒高房價,讓買方產生焦慮感,趕緊進場補貨,正好可以乘機出清手中囤貨。

第三,每天都有土地買賣創天價的新聞,知名豪宅一坪叫價百萬元以上,已是稀鬆平常,市場人士每天也都在心戰喊話,宣稱房價只會漲不會跌,但是營建股的股價不但未突破新高,甚至與金融海嘯前的高點還有四、五成的距離。到底是股價不認同房價,或房價帶不動股價,頗堪玩味。

第四,一坪八十萬元的中古屋,更意味著一個年輕人若是幸運在東區擁有一戶四十坪的祖產,可以賣得三千萬元的價錢,靠這筆錢一輩子就不愁吃穿了;反之,若是沒有祖產的年輕人,一出社會就注定一輩子只能當無殼蝸牛了。

最後,很多市場人士辯稱首都的房價是外國人在決定的,台北相對於香港、上海、東京、首爾,算是便宜的。乍聽之下,似乎言之成理,卻忽略了台灣的房子是有三成多的公設,其他地方幾乎都是實坪計算,還原起來,台北的房價哪裡便宜?

更重要的是,房子是要給人住的,如果一個國家的中產階級買不起房子,又恰巧這個國家實施民主制度,它的人民難道不會用選票表達不滿嗎?所以,哪一個要取得政權的政治人物會容忍房價一直狂飆,而失去選民的支持?



sigh........

2010年6月12日 星期六

Light Stage in Taiwan!

http://tw.nextmedia.com/applenews/article/art_id/32578901/IssueID/20100611
here and here....

Advanced Lighting, Rendering & Compositing

數位內容學院, 在職班新課Advanced Lighting, Rendering & Compositing

Class outline:
課程內容包括燈光原則、控制、算圖、合成。透過分析好萊塢大製作電影實例,說明如何運用簡單而有效率的方法,在大量製作時維持美術風格一致。
Day 1 (10:00~12:30, 13:30~17:00)
I. How to seeWhat is good lighting
II. How to control your light and tell the storyDifferent types of lights, cone angle, light fall off, barn door, and shadows
III. Rendering managementHow many layers do you need? More is more, or less is more?IV. How to compositing images properlyDiscuss edge treatment, color space, workflow
Q & A
Day 2 (10:00~12:30, 13:30~17:00)
I. How to work efficiently in big productionHow to keep shots consistent from different artists
II. Case study from the instructor’s demoreels Including ‘Alice in Wonderland’, ‘G-Force’, ‘Spiderman 3’ , ‘Speed Racer’, ‘Beowulf’, ‘Monster House’… ect.
Q & A
講師 Kuan Lin and his IMBD info.

2010年6月2日 星期三

2010年4月20日 星期二

2010年3月26日 星期五

Adobe CS5 is coming.....


San Jose (U.S.A. - California)Monday, 12 April 2010, 08:00:00
Taipei (Taiwan)Monday, 12 April 2010, 23:00:00

2010年1月25日 星期一

Nuke 6/NukeX 6 Released

Dam!... Foundry released new Nuke 6/NukeX 6....

Some impressive new feature (something I tested)
1: new Paint and Roto tool: much better than before and more logic ( like smear tool a lot!)
2: LenDistortion tool: good for remove lens distortion before camera tracking process....
3: CameraTracker tool: this is really hot, easy to use and you might said goodbye to other camera tracking software...