Chris Caliman’s Showreel
Schönes Showreel von Kameramann Chris Caliman.
Noch besser ist aber sein Making Of von der Plakatkampagne “Raus mit der Sprache”, die kürzlich in den Städten zu sehen war. Es ist stylisch und meilenweit weg von “Wir hatten noch einen am Set mit ner Kamera für’s Making Of ” 🙂
Portfolio Update “Wir Sind Die Nacht”
Hi there, head over to bildfehler.de for a few stills from a vampire movie I’ve worked on last year.
Fusion Macros Video Tutorial
I’ve finished another tutorial. Learn how to create macros and spice them up with custom controls:
Final Fantasy Stop Motion
Remember, when kids played with their action figures instead of creating an awesome 8 minute stop-motion battle sequence full of VFX?
Also, here’s a look behind the scenes.
Scripting Tutorial
I’ve recorded my very first video tutorial:
It introduces Fusion’s scripting console and describes basic commands to create and modify tools and handle file names.
Took me 3 evenings to record it and cut the 45 minutes down to 15. I hope you like it 🙂
The Final Answer to All Lens Flare Plugins
Raytracing lens-flares through a model of an actual lens. Fast enough for real-time use!
Matthias B. Hullin, Elmar Eisemann, Hans-Peter Seidel, Sungkil Lee: Physically-Based Real-Time Lens Flare Rendering. In: ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 30 (4), 2011 (Proc. SIGGRAPH).
On Stranger Tides
Pirates 4 is in cinemas. I’ve worked on a couple of shots including a sequence of 3 shots at the climatic end of the movie. Unfortunately, the credits of our crew of about 20 artists had to be reduced to a single line of “additional vfx” to make room for the 200 Hawaiian drivers that were employed on set. Bummer.
What about the movie? Well, boring most of the time. The stereo 3D in the first half, where a lot of fast-paced sword fighting happens, is annoying and blurry. The glasses really dim the picture as well. Gorgeous matte paintings every once in a while but no properly motivated characters or dialogue to give them a reason for being in the movie. A good laugh every 20 minutes but Johnny Depp’s queer routine got old in part 2 already, and in “Stranger Tides” he seems to have realized it himself.
The movie is great for people who get excited by the mere image of pirates doing pirate-y stuff. Most of us leave that stage behind at age 14.
