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A couple of my friends have AppleTV’s and love them which got me thinking, why? I’ve known about the AppleTV for some time however I never bothered to even try one out. I wasn’t impressed with the maximum resolution of 720p, no record feature (as in other hard drive PVRs),…
Just a quick post. Uploaded all of the student videos from a paper I teach @ Unitec to YouTube. You can watch them all here. The Paper also has a blog if you want to post feedback; filmcad.wordpress.com. There will also be a screening @ Unitec on the 11th August.…
Just found this. Its Steve Jobs presenting a second Apple campus they intend to build to the Cupertino City Council. It’s a round low rise building with massive curved glass windows that will hold approx 12,000 employees while incorporating a huge 135 acres of lanscaped grounds. The design dramatically minimizes…
Well here it is, the official trailer for last flight, put together by Richard Thomas (also from Sunset Studios). Incase your wondering why it’s here, I shot some of it (mostly in the studio) including the first wide you see in the trailer, the low angle where she climbs up…
I got my hands on a pre-release version of Vue 9.5 and it’s got some cool new features, including: Advanced Cloud Control, Interactive Texture Placement, Localized Cloud Layers, Fast Hybrid Depth of Field, and even a Velocity Pass (great for post processed motion blur). After playing with it a bit…
This is an animation showing the creation of complex form derived from nParticles in Maya. The small lines indicate the location and velocity of the individual particles. For more information please refer to the section “Modelling with Dynamic Particles” in the paper “Digitising the Complex Form“. Note that I have…
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/21372344] This camera is a logical progression of the EX1 finally bringing the advantages of shooting video on a dSLR, to where it belongs, a video camera. Watch the video (if you haven’t already), he does a really good sell. A big feature for me, 1080 50p/60p! Removable lenses, great…
Check this out, it’s a 360 degree panorama (like Google street view) that uses Video instead of still images. It’s made by a dutch company called YellowBird who also has the longest web address I’ve ever come accross www.yellowbirdsdonthavewingsbuttheyflyto makeyouexperiencea3dreality.com If you want to have a look at the show reel…
Just started a blog for my FilmCAD Class. If your an old student by all means pop on over for a look. http://filmcad.wordpress.com. Eventually there’ll be info about e-onsoftwares Vue (a software package we use for doing all our 3d Visualisations). Links to Student work, examples of work out there in…
Late last year my lovely wife replaced my iPod touch she lost a year earlier. Wahoo. So now that 2011 has kicked off I figured I better get my digital life organised. I’ve spent a bit of time looking for apps that will help organise everything in the best possible…