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VFX Geek: March 2005
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Rick Baumgartner's Field Guide to Visual Effects and Digital Media Production. Tuesday, March 22, 2005. Visual Music at LA's MOCA. Last week I went to an amazing exhibit at Los Angeles' Museum of Contempory Art called "Visual Music." Synethesia. For some, a unity of the visual and auditory senses, for others, a troubling medical/psychological condition. For Visual Music, synethesia, and attempts by artists to create it in the 20th Century, serves as a unifying element. Links to this post. If not, how do ...
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VFX Geek: Upholding Standards
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Rick Baumgartner's Field Guide to Visual Effects and Digital Media Production. Thursday, January 05, 2006. One of the reasons visual effects work is because of standardization. Here's how I see standardization in visual effects. Later when motion picture film size was standardized for a variety of true and apocryphal reasons, camera operators cranked their cameras at speeds which suited them, speeds may or may not have been replicated by the projectionist who may have been taking his or correspondence co...
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VFX Geek: The 2D / 3D Convention
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Rick Baumgartner's Field Guide to Visual Effects and Digital Media Production. Wednesday, January 04, 2006. The 2D / 3D Convention. To understand visual effects its important to understand the issues surrounding the representation of the "real" three-dimensional world on a two-dimensional surface and have that surface convey some notion of the three-dimensional world to audiences. To the enlightened Renaissance picture-maker picture-making had to be done, well, scientifically, mathematically. Motion pict...
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VFX Geek: Farewell to MONSTER HOUSE!
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Rick Baumgartner's Field Guide to Visual Effects and Digital Media Production. Thursday, December 15, 2005. Farewell to MONSTER HOUSE! So it’s time I told you all about something amazing. For the past eight months I’ve been working on a show called MONSTER HOUSE at Sony Pictures Imageworks. My role in the show wraps next week and I will move onto my next adventure in vfx. I'll write more about the advantages and risks of performance capture Sony-style in a future post. Everything has to be created. And y...
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VFX Geek: January 2006
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Rick Baumgartner's Field Guide to Visual Effects and Digital Media Production. Thursday, January 05, 2006. One of the reasons visual effects work is because of standardization. Here's how I see standardization in visual effects. Later when motion picture film size was standardized for a variety of true and apocryphal reasons, camera operators cranked their cameras at speeds which suited them, speeds may or may not have been replicated by the projectionist who may have been taking his or correspondence co...
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VFX Geek: Let There Be Light
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Rick Baumgartner's Field Guide to Visual Effects and Digital Media Production. Tuesday, January 03, 2006. Let There Be Light. The curious among us have wondered how and why we see what exists around us. Galileo, DaVinci, Aristotle, Einstein, my sixth grade science teacher Mr. Moore. So at a fundamental level, the history of visual effects is in some way also the history of humanity's understanding of light's interaction with materials, environments, characters and objects, the various visual elements of ...
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VFX Geek: To VFX or Not to VFX
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Rick Baumgartner's Field Guide to Visual Effects and Digital Media Production. Wednesday, November 30, 2005. To VFX or Not to VFX. To recap: Visual effects serves storytelling. A visual effect without a story is a "test.". If you're considering visual effects for your project, ask yourself:. 1 What story (or story point) do we need to convey? 2 Can we convey the story without images? 3 Can we create the images required without using visual effects? Remember, it called "show-business" for a reason.].
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VFX Geek: September 2005
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Rick Baumgartner's Field Guide to Visual Effects and Digital Media Production. Monday, September 19, 2005. The VFX Team Phrasebook. A list of phrases that might come in handy for people involved in producing visual effects. Here are some phrases that have helped me in the past and continue to spring to my lips. (I probably do not use them nearly as often as I should! What do I need to know? What are you working on? I need your help.". What am I looking at? What works for me is.". Avoid blurting out your ...
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VFX Geek: A Conceptual Approach to VFX
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Rick Baumgartner's Field Guide to Visual Effects and Digital Media Production. Wednesday, January 04, 2006. A Conceptual Approach to VFX. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I think it might be valuable to take a conceptual approach to the history of visual effects. For an approach that deals with visual effects techniques and methods, my favorite sources (other than from other people working in the business! Are Mitchell's Visual Effects for Film and Television. And Rickitt's Special Effects. Which also ...
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VFX Geek: Casting Your Visual Effects Team
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Rick Baumgartner's Field Guide to Visual Effects and Digital Media Production. Monday, November 14, 2005. Casting Your Visual Effects Team. There are three basic criteria for adding people to your visual effects team:. CAN they do the job? In other words: Do they have the experience and/or skills needed for the job? If not, go to the next candidate. If so.ask yourself:. WILL they do the job? In other words: Is the candidate willing to do the job required at the specified pay rate? Links to this post:.
