Archive for 2014
Welcome to DOG
Introduction to the DOG world, all the characters, then both backstory and instant whirl wind tour through quixotic vignettes. #1, #2, #3 tunnel approach #7 Joe standing in secret installation. Signage – This Hideyhole® espionage command center is currently cloaked by the nuclear waste repository scenario, a durable, all weather glamour that provides an effective…
Read Moresurveillance pollen
The spiders or nano cameras are like tiny grains of pollen, once they drift into place they are static. What they lack in mobility they gain through sheer ubiquity. We are seeing the world through these cams, that’s why the shots are mostly static. Suggests and interesting treatment for stabilizing the hallway shot, and having…
Read MoreDefining workflow
So this is just a bit of musing. I need a more comprehensive and fluent workflow to do the compositing. A proven and methodical approach. I need to be able to break apart the roto into hair and other, then feather unique areas, apply an s_edge_blur (is that the best?) and s_refine_matte. Complicated shots where…
Read MoreThe quest to master in AE
Export XMLs from extended version and reference movies, rebuild the timeline in AE, revise and complete comps, render out a test master. That’s the goal, to prove I can do what the Rebel DV guide suggested all those years ago, master in AE. As of today July 29, 2014, we can’t. Something is amiss somewhere…
Read Moremodular projects
The master project is a compilation of modules, building on the paradigm of the relief boxes, which are imported into the master (or currently the middle changing sequence) and then only one comp for each box is replaced and older versions can then be deleted. as we assemble, list what’s left to do 0005RM Christina…
Read MoreAllison Kraus
The American musical genres – bluegrass, country, jazz, broadway musicals, hip hop. I can’t remember the rest of the ideas, but bluegrass in science fiction musical is great. Thinking of Allison Kraus performance, so much more alive than say Bela Fleck with his string quartet, all reading from their scores.
Read Moremask integrity
asked for help to repair mask integrity on creative cow but folks there don’t seem to understand what I am asking for. So researching mask integrity utilities and workflows. http://aescripts.com/pt_opensesame/
Read Moreroto requirements
Points shouldn’t roll, but remain with feature landmarks. For instance, if a point is at the edge of the hairline, it should remain there as the head turns, and not migrate down the forehead or into a hat. This allows that spline to easily be isolated for an appropriate hair feather and the surrounding splines…
Read MoreShort movie scripts
Guardians, Norm Sherman, drabblecast.org Episode 5
Read MoreThe universe of boxes
June 14, 2014 mediatronic summary. A computational granule is a simple computer that can transmit, receive, process and store data, enclosed in a capsule that can either absorb or reflect energy, primarily electromagnetic (light) and to a lesser degree kinetic (pressure waves or sound). A surface becomes mediatronic when sprayed with computational granules suspended in…
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