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Iron Sky – Day 136
Thursday afternoons are always a bitch, but we have been having a bit of fun here as well. We watched TeraNova last night…. Yeah ok. Who did the green screen keying on the shot with buddy from avatar and the ex-cop dad guy looking over the settlement about 2/3rds into the show? How those shots made it into the show… well I don’t know…Really… Come on Spielberg. At least the Dinos looked ok. I would have done a few things differently in comp on them, but they looked pretty good.Read More
Iron Sky – Day 132
It’s Sunday so things are kind of casual here at the office. Luke, Samuli, Lee, Mark, Tuomas and I are here by ourselves as we just continue to truck through shots as quickly as we can. Our director wasn’t able to make it on Friday as he was sick, thing is we have all been sick – with the mysterious exception of Samuli… hmmmm…. It’s some kind of conspiracy I swear. 🙂 Regardless of near death experiences at the hands of whatever cold virus keeps mutating here in the officeRead More
Urban Pad2 Viral Marketing Campaign!
It seems the original viral marketing campaign that PMG did with Messiah has caught on with another vendor. This time its for Urban Pad version2 from Gamr7.com. For 29 bucks you can get cities at your finger tips, IF they meet their goal for sales at that price by October 2nd. If they don’t they will refund everyone but I think this one is going to meet its goal as well. Could be very handy for something I have in mind down the road. The product exports to FBX andRead More
Iron Sky – Day 130
We get a visit from our director today. Weee. In other more exciting useful news after spending the week constructing and breaking out shots we have put ourselves back onto a decent schedule that is starting to stabilize. Hopefully our visit doesn’t blow all of that out of the water. Today’s a day for checking renders, saving out camera motions for the Nuke people (sad, they should have used fusion, but noooooo, everyone wants to be trendy and use nuke… because its… better? ah no, because it’s trendy and theRead More
Iron Sky – Day 125
It’s Sunday here again in Tampere, Finland where myself, Luke and Tuomas are at the Energia VFX production offices continuing on with shots for Iron Sky. This next week or two is all about render, render and more rendering. We need to deliver a whole stack of shots by the end of two weeks from this past Friday in order to stay on schedule. Thankfully all of the work and time that we have done and spent fixing everything that we now have our hands on that originally came toRead More
Iron Sky – Day 119
We made a lot of progress over the weekend on several fronts. First off as I stated in my post from Saturday all of the ships have been given an overhaul texture wise for resolution, noise reduction and general load speed boosting across the board. Second, it seems we now have our first batch of truly “locked” shots that we can begin to ram through. We have currently about 19 shots that we can take to final immediately which will go in after what we have in the cue currentlyRead More
Iron Sky – Day 117
It’s Saturday again and Luke and I are here in the office on our own for the afternoon. He’s actually doing laundry back at the flat that production has rented for some of the guys. Must be nice to be able to do laundry in your own place let alone your own building. I have to haul mine over to Luke’s flat and then dry it here if I want to wear anything. Outside of laundry getting done we made a lot of progress this week despite some delays andRead More
Iron Sky – Day 112
Ah yes, Mondays. Not that it makes ANY difference with respect to me or most of the other guys on the LW team, its just another day in a collection of days that tick away way to quickly. Still its nice to see some progress here over the weekend. Finally it seems that a couple of the Maya guys are “getting it”. One of them was here all day sunday and part of saturday and that’s encouraging. Luke was lucky to get some time off to get back to theRead More
Iron Sky – Day 109
Luke has the weekend off to attend a wedding of his brothers. I unfortunately missed my brothers wedding a couple of weeks ago. Sorry Dave, I wish I could have been there, but if you want to catch up on what I have been doing then here is a video showing us at work. Luke and I had been working for about 3 days straight at this point, so we both look like hell. Luke is doing his best impression of Shaggy from Scooby Doo in this video and I’mRead More
Iron Sky – Day 108
It’s now September 1st, and we have about 75 days to complete all our shots for the film. This week has been very busy with last minute previs touch ups, texture re-works on various craft and doing some general house-cleaning while we get ready to receive a locked VFX cut of the show and begin the fun work of hammering out the shots through lighting, pyro, breakout and render and then to a large degree comping shots as well. None of this ‘scares me’ but I am concerned about renderingRead More
Adobe gives Apple another kick in the teeth.
Looks like Adobe is putting the thumb screws to Apple in a way. They have been offering some amazing deals on their production bundles as of late. If you have the money and you have been thinking about it, you can’t really go wrong with a deal like this. Especially with new AE to LW and back helpers like AELink (available here on Liberty3d.com!) http://blogs.adobe.com/sforde/2011/07/01/50-off-cs-5-5-production-premium-or-premiere-pro/
Iron Sky – Day 105
It’s now well past midnight and I’m here making one last preview in the last big push over the next 24 hours to complete all of the previs for the show that we are responsible for so we can get it to our editors in Helsinki. This is critical in the process as most would expect. Now the real challenge will be to get that VFX locked edit back to us ASAP with as little “too many chiefs” factor involved so we can get to the next stage of theRead More
New Nexus2 Expansion – Refx.net Releases DubStep/Electro Vol.1
Those crazy kats at ReFX.net are back at it again – this time another massive collection of extremely popular (but not pop!) dubstep and electro dance/trance/tech house sounds ready to drop into Nexus 2 and go. More details here about this expansion including a video showing what each sound is in the audio demo as it’s played. I will certainly be picking this one up!
Iron Sky – Day 102
Saturday has again appeared and its almost the end of the month. For us its just another day while the rest of the crew has a “weekend”. Wow, must be nice to work only 9-5 and let a bunch of other people pick up the slack, pulling 12+ hour days 6-7 days a week, weeks and months on end. Bitter? No, I’m used to these kinds of schedules and working hours because well frankly that’s what is expected of someone working on set for a film and generally in postRead More
Liberty3D HD Workstations Discussed with 3DTV.com
I recently did an interview with 3DTv.com about our new line of 3D workstations built by Shuttle Computer USA. You can read more about it here. http://www.3dtv.com/news-reviews/3d-workstation-anyone.php And here for part two. http://www.3dtv.com/news-reviews/3d-workstation-anyone-part-2.php
Iron Sky – Day 99
Thanks the feline gods for “live action plates”. Joy! Ok now onto other things. Tuomas is busy here working on APSing the surface of the Moon which is working to a certain degree after he’s put together a 46K (yes, 46,000 pixels) map of the moon surface pulled from NASA to apply to our moon. Awesome! The trick is getting it to render as the total ram count for the image and the object once subdiveded per pixel per poly is right to the wall on the 16GB machines. CouldRead More
Iron Sky – Day 96
I’m in the office early today after having to take the weekend off due to a very sore throat. While I am not 100% and I have been asleep most of the weekend the show must go on. I came in for a few hours last night and found Mark just about to head out after a long day doing “moon stuff” and Tuomas and Luke continuing on previs for the show. There are so many things that are “gaps” in the edit right now that leaves massive question marksRead More
Iron Sky – Day 91
It’s become increasingly clear to me that the production doesn’t not have enough render power on hand currently to deal with the amount of shots we have remaining to complete. I have a plan to deal with this, and I’m not freaked out or anything, but the reasons are a bit upsetting. They (the shots) have become more complex almost daily and their number and to a certain extent a lack of “commit or die” factor and for some strange reason is still not fixed and locked. This is dueRead More
Iron Sky – Day 88
We are now joined by Mark Hennessy-Barrett who comes to us from the United Kingdom which is still smoldering from riots and rude yobs. Mark will be taking on a sequence of shots in the film that are very important to the story and will also lend a hand in other areas. This is good because we needed the help. We are lucky to have him on board and I’m happy to finally meet and work with him. Should be cool 🙂 Lee has made a huge amount of progressRead More