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Carsten Kolve's Blogschmog: April 2006

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A place to showcase my professional work in vfx, post tutorials, share cg software and impress you with my cooking skills. Poseidon, Wolfgang Petersen, 2006. Warner Bros asked MPC to produce a full cg trailer for the remake of "The Poseidon Adventure" - showing the capsize of the Poseidon in a continous 1.5 minute underwater shot. Unfortunately the full trailer was never shown in complete - however many parts of this massive shot were used in the promotional trailers. Posted by Carsten Kolve. Poseidon, W...

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Carsten Kolve's Blogschmog: Australia, Baz Luhrmann, 2008

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A place to showcase my professional work in vfx, post tutorials, share cg software and impress you with my cooking skills. Australia, Baz Luhrmann, 2008. More info here: VFX World. Cattle extension and environment shot breakdowns: RSP. Posted by Carsten Kolve. Saturday, March 7, 2009. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I like ponies, long walks on the beach and movies with Steven Seagal. View my complete profile. All software provided here is not free. It's best to donate to your national office.

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Carsten Kolve's Blogschmog: March 2008

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A place to showcase my professional work in vfx, post tutorials, share cg software and impress you with my cooking skills. Special Effects: The History and Technique. You can now find a small interview with me on crowd simulation in the second edition of Richard Rickitt's excellent book Special Effects: The History and Technique. Posted by Carsten Kolve. Monday, March 24, 2008. 10000 BC, Roland Emmerich, 2008. There are nice articles about the production: FX Guide. Posted by Carsten Kolve. It's best to d...

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Carsten Kolve's Blogschmog: November 2008

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A place to showcase my professional work in vfx, post tutorials, share cg software and impress you with my cooking skills. The Ruins, Siggraph One Sheet. For everyone who would like to have a peek at the one-sheet for my Siggraph 2008. Talk during the "Rigging outside the Box" session, here is the link to the pdf "Large Scale Foliage Animation for The Ruins. There is more material available for everyone with an ACM. It details the same system I presented at the Digital Media Festival 2008 in Sydney.

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Carsten Kolve's Blogschmog: 10.000 BC, Roland Emmerich, 2008

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A place to showcase my professional work in vfx, post tutorials, share cg software and impress you with my cooking skills. 10000 BC, Roland Emmerich, 2008. When MPC started pitching for work on 10.000 BC, I was asked to start the development of a long-hair and fur pipeline named "Furtility". I worked on the software design of the system, developed a prototype and implemented hair dynamics solutions using the testcase of a charging mammoth. There are nice articles about the production: FX Guide.

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Carsten Kolve's Blogschmog: Australia, Siggraph One Sheet

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A place to showcase my professional work in vfx, post tutorials, share cg software and impress you with my cooking skills. Australia, Siggraph One Sheet. Here the one sheet for the presentation Dan Bethell. And I held at Siggraph 2009 in New Orleans: " Venomous Cattle For Australia. Posted by Carsten Kolve. Saturday, November 21, 2009. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I like ponies, long walks on the beach and movies with Steven Seagal. View my complete profile. All software provided here is not free.

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Carsten Kolve's Blogschmog: June 2005

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A place to showcase my professional work in vfx, post tutorials, share cg software and impress you with my cooking skills. Batman Begins, Christopher Nolan, 2005. Custom tools to control the flight motion (eg. guide curves, flow fields and obstacle detectors) helped the Shot TD's to direct the bats, artificial live techniques (like the well known flocking behaviour) added additional variation. Numerous companies worked on Batman Begins, more about the production here. Posted by Carsten Kolve.

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Carsten Kolve's Blogschmog: March 2007

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A place to showcase my professional work in vfx, post tutorials, share cg software and impress you with my cooking skills. Hopefully it will make it easier and faster to create more advanced solutions using Maya’s embedded scripting language. Common matrix, vector and double math functions (all available on an array basis, too). Animation curve and shader sampling. Mesh and instancer queries. Please read the documentation. Check out the most recent version of the source code. Posted by Carsten Kolve.

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Carsten Kolve's Blogschmog: Special Effects: The History and Technique

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A place to showcase my professional work in vfx, post tutorials, share cg software and impress you with my cooking skills. Special Effects: The History and Technique. You can now find a small interview with me on crowd simulation in the second edition of Richard Rickitt's excellent book Special Effects: The History and Technique. Posted by Carsten Kolve. Monday, March 24, 2008. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I like ponies, long walks on the beach and movies with Steven Seagal.