My friend – and now flatmate – is developing a music show under the title of ‘Ophelia of the Spirits‘. This is a poster that I put together recently for her. There were multiple versions of the poster that will go up around Sydney and Melbourne, but this is the bare-bones version.
The world is a small place. Last year I discovered that there are two degrees of separation between me an Florian Witzel – a super smart CG guy who currently works as a technical director at the always cool New York firm, Psyop. I admire his work, which in some regards reminds me of Chris Cunningham’s work in its aesthetic, but much slicker and more refined. His portfolio has just been updated with a bunch of new clips as well as some interesting breakdowns of the construction of a few of the pieces.
Happy Birthday to me, and apparently Kevin Rudd.
Tip ‘o the hat also to Bill Murray, HG Wells and Gustav Holst.
Some fantastic photos of the Digi Toolkit (see post below) courtesy of Zoe White. You rock, Zoe!
Four new posts today because it’s been a while.
Okay, so got back to Sydney on the Saturday night and realised that Adelaide is a very cold place. Back to work on the Monday where we started working with the cinematographers for a workshop on visual effects. It’s been a very cinematic couple of weeks, actually with the Digi Toolkit and our first look at the totally awesome in-a-nerdy-kind-of-way RED ONE camera. More in a second. But working with the cine people has been great – lots of fun. Best line of the course goes to Tania; “I’m never going to say ‘we’ll fix it in post’ ever again…” Awww…
Aaron (above) and I are currently making Marden risk his life dodging cars… just because we can! Then I played a bizarre midget while Zoe played a giant. Mungo played a bigger giant (below). It was all a bit weird, really and hopefully I’ll have some pictures soon.
Now, back to this RED ONE camera – I’ll only mention it quickly, but basically this camera will totally revolutionise the film industry and we got to see a preview of it. It’s digital, 4k resolution (that’s about 12 megapixels, at 60 frames per second) and, for a film camera, amazingly cheap (~$17,000 US). For reference, the school just bought four $30,000 cameras that do 1/4 the resolution. But the best thing? We got to see a short film by Peter Jackson that he shot on the new cameras that hasn’t been seen anywhere else other than a few shows. Very cool.
Okay, that’s enough gushing for this week.