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RIP Cinefex Magazine???
Feb. 23rd, 2021 03:22 pmhttps://twitter.com/cinefexNOW/status/1364282780490682369
If there's no rescue for this publication, it will indeed be a sad day for movie makers and the people learning those arts.
VFX Logistics and YouTube Archeology
Aug. 9th, 2019 07:59 pmhttps://dewline.dreamwidth.org/960887.html
Evidently, I wrote up the entry before I made the jump from LJ to Dreamwidth. It involves issues of "no-fly" zones complicating visual effects work on major motion pictures that probably require 3D scans of the cities' architecture. I'm just wondering which of ILM's videos on YouTube I'd have been linking to that inspired the 2016 entry that I wrote.
VFX Logistics
Apr. 22nd, 2016 10:18 pmLooking at this for a few minutes...
It gets me thinking about the logistics for location VFX work that would be needed for some of the projects I hope to see on the big - or small - screen before I die. Classic version of Northguard, as originally created by Mark Shainblum and Gabriel Morrissette, with the story set in Montréal, maybe. Or, going back to Marvel for a moment, a story featuring the classic Canadian-made Alpha Flight set in Ottawa or Toronto or Vancouver (or, hopefully, some combination of the three cities). Or any version of Captain Canuck...
The filming restrictions in play in NYC for Avengers' purposes, or in Washington for use in The Winter Soldier, would be applicable to some extent here. Ottawa being a national capital, with all the issues that go with that, you couldn't not expect some of the same hurdles ILM and their partner/competitors had to deal with on those productions.
I may revisit this train of thought. Not sure where to take it yet.
VFX: Water Depiction as Science and Art
Dec. 28th, 2014 07:46 pmBattleship may not be the best SF/naval combat movie ever made, but the work that goes into visuals as done by the likes of ILM and those who've come along since then never fails to impress. Living out in the prairies when I first started reading about their work when the company was called "Apogee", I was tempted to shift my ambitions from cartoonist to VFX worker. Severely tempted. Which may explain why I put myself into student debt for eight years to take animation at Algonquin College. Computers were just starting to have an impact at that point and Babylon 5 was about to prove that such tech was a viable way of Getting the Job of the Moment Done...
ILM Leaving California?
Feb. 12th, 2014 08:48 pmhttp://www.hollywoodreporter.com/behind-screen/star-wars-leads-ilm-launch-679678
Much as I like the idea of ILM spreading more work around to the rest of the planet (including to friends and friendly acquaintances in Vancouver), the idea that they might leave California behind...disturbs me deeply. It strikes me as Offensive on some primal level.
Just saying.