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Dahmer vs Gacy vs Austin
Ford Austin is relentless. Every time I speak to him he’s developing a new project, in post on another, doing some acting AND in the middle of directing the next big thing. He’s a madman. His latest feature, Dahmer vs Gacy is currently in post and I’m in for visual effects. On deck for this project: exploding windows, news graphics and LOTS of virtual blood. Google “Dahmer vs Gacy.”
What’s the Back Story?
Dedicated short film director Jeremy Lanni, the auteur of Noble Savage Productions brought me on board to provide visual effects for his new short Back Story. I will be upping the ante for his opening credit effect and providing a delightfully hellish backdrop for a character later in the film. Production starts in a couple of weeks — I can’t wait!
Trippin is Finished!
For the last year (at least) I’ve been heavily steeped in my first feature film with Deviant Pictures: trippin’. It’s a dark dramedy with horror elements that serves up real characters, a boldly original concept a puppet and a WAY freaked out drug trip courtesy of myself (visual effects director) and Wuhan Digital Media.
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Controlling a Canon DSLR from your PC…
I had a hell of a time trying to get my Canon 20D DSLR camera to interface with my computer in any way beyond simply transferring pictures. It’s possibly I simply overlooked something but it seems to me that Canon is actually making this process more difficult than it needs to be by locating the camera’s driver off of the beaten path.
See, the main issue is not getting software that, in principle, supports remote control of the camera in various ways, including shooting. The problem is getting the software to interact with the camera when its plugged in and this comes down to the driver.
Oddly, the driver isn’t linked from the drivers and downloads page that you’re likely to end up at if you start from canon.com. Instead I found it at software.canon-europe.com. Here is the link for the EOS 20D: http://software.canon-europe.com/products/0010131.asp. The driver is item number 33 for me. Also, there is camera control software around item number 12.
Happy shooting!
How I Cloned a VirtualBox Machine…
Although this may seem an unlikely place for such an article, I had to document it somewhere. At least here it *may* benefit a few other folks.
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Exporting Video +Alpha in After Effects…
The primary audience for this article are the artists contributing to a Midwest film project on which I am consulting. However, aspiring visual effects artists of all flavors may find it useful. If you do, let me know.
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Greetings and Green Screen
The primary audience for this article are the artists contributing to a Midwest film project on which I am consulting. However, aspiring visual effects artists of all flavors may find it useful. If you do, let me know.
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