I recently completed a two-minute sequence for Teradata‘s latest version of its Data Warehouse (version 13), featuring the very significant addition of “geospatial” data sets. This feature (think GPS coordinates) allows for a whole lot of added precision, and this animation allowed me, among other things, to explore satellite imagery like I hadn’t yet done before. (more…)
Stu Maschwitz’ new DV Rebel’s Guide is chock full of the straight-forward genius that brought us such wonders as Magic Bullet film look and the recent Colorista. But sometimes it’s the little things that make for big happiness. In my case, a lot of the actual content of the Guide is cozy comfort for me; I’ve been a loyal follower of Stu’s Prolost site and a DV rebel myself since...
Finished a series of visual fx shots for the National Geographic Channel’s “Supercoasters,” a documentary by Indigo Films on the possible future of rollercoasters. In it, we used our digital imagination to speculate a coaster that freefalls from the tallest building in San Francisco, then winds through the city and ends by taking the two arches of the Golden Gate. It was a lot of fun to manipulate fantasy in...
Exhaustion of the best kind. Spent the last three days helping friend and local blogging madman Mike Curtis of HD for Indies with his part in a triumvirate of digital HD-gods. The other two geniuses of this high definition gathering were Adam Wilt (shootout director and technical uber-geek extraordinaire) and Chris Hurd (savvy producer, clapboard, and today: precision rock-thrower) of the prolific DVInfo site. I’d known Mike was planning a...