Hafen
An den Landungsbrücken raus
dieses Bild verdient Applaus
— Kettcar
Naja…
…war bestimmt metaphorisch gemeint von denen.
Karoviertel
Das Karoviertel ist hübsch und voller Graffiti. Viele kleine Läden und Essgelegenheiten. Auch viele Familien. Und Yogastudios. Yogastudios noch und nöcher.
Es ist schon dabei, gentrifiziert zu werden, was nicht nur mit Vorteilen verbunden ist…
St Pauli
Job in Hamburg für 4 Wochen. Behausung: Wohnklo, rustikal, St. Pauli
Muss man nicht nach Shanghai jettten für’n bisschen Abenteuerurlaub 🙂
Fotos von bunteren Ecken im Viertel folgen 🙂
Object Removal Video Tutorial
My next video tutorial for Fusion is online. It’s about removing objects (a shadow in this case) from a shot using a 3D matchmove, some scene geometry and automated white-balance matching. You can download the complete project and footage as well. Yeah, it’s a home video of mine but the technique has proven valuable on various shows already.
It can also be easily transferred to Nuke.
Related to this: freezing cameras for projection setups just got a whole lot easier with this script.
Also slightly related to this: on some other blog I’ve found a link to these vintage VFX educational videos. The whole thing has an 80s air to it but the names of the presenters should ring a bell 🙂 Well-known gurus like Ron Brinkmann and Stu Maschwitz are among them.
Marslandung
Morgen früh um halb 8 unserer Zeit landet mal wieder ein Mars-Rover auf dem roten Planeten. Die Landetechnik ist diesmal wegen des Gewichts von “Curiosity” mehrstufig und in der Tat auf den ersten Blick ganz schön waghalsig. Noch dazu geschieht alles im Blindflug, denn die Funksignale brauchen angäblich fast eine Viertelstunde zwischen Mars und Erde.
NASA – die händeringend besser finanziert werden wollen/müssen – macht einen auf extra coole Marketing-Kampagne. “Seven Minutes of Terror”:
Mal sehen ob das Ding am Ende heil ankommt oder ob es ein Milliardenschrotthaufen sein wird. Ich bin gespannt.
The Dark Knight Thumbs Down
Christopher Nolan’s supposed masterpiece finale is a dud. A movie so stupid it’s insulting.
I used to scoff at those guys who seemed to remember every plot hole in movies they’ve watched. Reading their reviews or the fake scripts at the-editing-room.com is funny but I think “wow, that never struck me during the movie, the mood was right and the action covered it up, these guys really have no life”.
Not with The Dark Knight Rises. It’s just full of god-awful plot holes and one deus ex machina after another. It just ruined the movie for me.
Bruce Wayne goes from geriatric to Ninja using a handy knee gadget he had lying around in his lab. Then he gets almost beaten to death but then gets his spine fixed by a slap on the back from a cave doctor somewhere in a generic Arabian country and – boom – after some bench pressing he can jump again like a world class athlete.
All of Gotham City’s 3000 cops are trapped in the sewers for three months. After they finally get out, they are clean-shaven and are wearing untarnished uniforms.
The film’s big surprise plot twist at the end is surprising only because it’s the most random thing the scriptwriters could think of. And thinking they didn’t do much. Every girl in the film (that’s 2) gets to be a love interest. To make up for the lack of estrogen, there’s the most amount of man-tears a mainstream action movie has had so far. Bruce Wayne, his butler, even the bad guy… they all get to bawl when they are confronted with their childhood memories.
Seriously, how can that movie get an IMDB score of 9.0? Don’t tell me that action movies have always had these plot holes. What else does that film have left? Fist fights? The most non-aerodynamic flying machine ever seen on screen since the Jetsons? A nuclear mushroom cloud that looks comped in like from an AfterEffects tutorial?
Meh.
