Check out this interview with some of the crew from Percy Jackson to see what we did on the show! Hydra, water works, and lightning!
I received a nice addition to the Aruna Hobby Collection yesterday.
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Can you believe it's March already? Wow. Two exciting months into 2010. I had a small number of donations for the month of February, and am sending out The Art and Science of Digital Compositing to Marc L., from PA! Thank you, and the three other donations for the month of February. I've decided to keep the donations open, but I won't be prize giving until the end of the year, I think.The month of February was an experiment!
Work is progressing slowly on my current show. This is a summer release, so I'll be working for a while up to its release in August (I think?). Slow and steady, for now! Did you all catch Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief, in theatres now! It was a decent kids flick, a little more sunshine than a Harry Potter film, since that franchise has taken a turn towards the dark side. Percy is a little more sunny. Who knows if it will have a sequel, but that's the hope, I hear. VFX were good. Everything seemed to tie together well. The shots that I worked on include a couple of the Hydra breathing fire shots directed at Percy (but not the waterwall stuff), as well as a decent chunk of sky replacements while the crew is up on the Empire State Building. Trivia: NY is all CG projection for a majority of the shots. The big stuff that I worked on was the water exploding sequence on the rooftop with Luke and Percy. One was the initial water explosion and the subsequent helicopter pan of the water around its environs. Environments were, again, projection within Nuke.There's a lot of detail that I put in that you can't see on one viewing, which is a shame! Once the BluRay comes out, I'll be putting those shots up for your scrutiny. The interns that we had last year are credited in the final roll at the end, which was great to see!
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Recently I've changed a little about how content on this blog is displayed. I've removed links to reels and the bio and filmography, and while the content is still available if you bookmarked the specific page, there is better, more recent content located at the root structure, which is located here. I've also decided to add a Paypal donate button, which will help run the site (It costs about 300USD/yr to run this thing, with all the bandwidth that I use). I also have an idea to give back to you loyal readers and those who donate. My idea is to give an item away to a lucky person with the funds of the complete donation for the month. This item will be physical in nature, maybe a book if the funds donated are small, or a software package or larger electronic item if the funds are larger.
Don't be misled, all content on the site will remain freely accessible! From the Tips of the Weeks (which I need to get back to creating), to what professional artists are doing in the vfx industry.
So on this note, for the month of January which has just passed and I didn't have any donations (of course), I am giving away a new copy of The Art and Science of Digital Compositing: 2nd Edition! Eligible entrees are any donations to the digitalGypsy fund for the month of February. Donations can be of any amount. Funds received during the month of February will help decide what I give away to a lucky contributor at the end of this month! So you get two chances to win something this month! I'm going to try this for the month of February and see how it goes, and hopefully I can have small prizes given away during the year and at the same time, keep digitalGypsy up and running for you guys and girls.
