Author: jasonrmsmith
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First HAB Adventure
It was November before we got around to our yearly mancation – with this years goal to launch a camera into the Stratos. We simulated the flightpath to land in the centre of the Black Rock Deserts 1 million acre expanse to maximise chances of recovery. (This was actually our second choice target. After a…
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Color made easy.
Five awesome tools that make our lives a lottle easier. Coolors Coolors is an intuitive application which allows us to generate color combinations in a simple way, share palettes, and even export them to different formats like SVG, PDF, or SCSS.
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Star Wars – An Iconic Introduction
I think this might be my favorite Star Wars photo ever. To this point, movie text and credits had been shot similarly since film began, and yet a simple camera tilt and it becomes something else entirely. Iconic. Synonymous. Photo’s like this just make me smile.
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Seoul #1 – SICAF
Last month I was honored to spend 10 days in Korea as an international juror for the Seoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival, a six-day festival held in the Myeongdong district. Firstly, I should take the opportunity to say how impressed I was with the organization’s attention to detail and hospitality; from the minute I arrived in the country I…
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The Corridors of Lucasfilm #4 – Howard Anderson Optical Printer
Not much is known about he Anderson Printer before ILM purchased it from Paramount Pictures in 1975. It had been used for compositing for Cecil B DeMilles The Ten Commandments in 1956, and shots for Alfred Hichcock’s North By Northwest in 1959. The printer fell out of permanent use as the VistaVision format waned. VistaVision…
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The Corridors of Lucasfilm #3 – The ILM Kodak Scanner.
In 1995 ILM was awarded a technical achievement award from the academy of motion pictures for the development of the Trilinear High Resolution CCD Digital Input Scanner, commonly known at ILM as the Kodak Scanner, and at Kodak as the ILM Scanner. The evolution of the digital scanner was a joint effort, beginning with concept…
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Brand Allegiance – Victorinox Aesthetics
So my allegiance to Victorinox wasn’t a conscious decision. When awarded a holdall for 5 years service at Electronic Arts, little did I know that experiencing something so well engineered would ensure the Swiss brand become a first choice for practical, on-the-go gear. Hunter Mach 1 Watch I’ve only ever seen one of these for sale, anywhere – and…
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The Best 3 Albums You’ve Never Heard.
So the beautiful thing about Spotify is finding great new music. And if there’s one thing better than finding an awesome album that’s new to me, it’s finding an awesome album that’s new to everyone. I spent a while looking through my (relatively small) library of Spotify albums and found three which – despite being go-to albums for me –…
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s2013 Pre-Conference Round-Up.
There’s a lot out there now to give a good indication of what you can expect to see at this years conference, and it’s looking like a pretty awesome 40th Anniversary. Schedule at a glance. Advanced program pdf. The Computer Animation Festival Trailer Dailies Preview Art Gallery Preview Real-Time Live! Teaser Emerging Technologies Trailer Technical…
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The 2013 Animation Festival Jury is done!
What an amazing weekend with an incredible group of people. The official write-up is now on the SIGGRAPH Blog. My prior connection with some of the Jurors was tenuous. I’d met Norman Badler briefly while speaking at UPenn and caught a John Frame exhibition at Portland Museum of Art last January. Infact, the only significant…
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