Category: tech
Creativity Inc.
A few great quotes from the excellent book by Ed Catmull, Creativity Inc. “There is nothing quite like ignorance combined with a driving need to succeed to force rapid learning.” “Believe me, you don’t want to be at a company where there is more candor in the hallways than in the rooms where fundamental ideas…
Let’s make a blockbuster
Making a major blockbuster movie takes a lot of work. How much?
Academy Award for OpenColorIO
At this year’s Academy Scientific And Technical Achievement Awards show, OpenColorIO was among 19 other winners. If you haven’t heard of OpenColorIO, it’s a color management framework that makes managing color for cinema and video much more straightforward for engineers and artists alike. It’s been adopted by most of the major 2d and 3d applications for our business…
Academy Award for Katana
This weekend the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded Steve LaVietes, Jeremy Selen and Brian Hall an Academy Award for their work on Imagework’s Katana. Not surprisingly, it was a fantastic night.
Stereo Workshop
Last week a number of the supervisors from Imageworks took a few hours to get hands-on with the latest stereo rigs and equipment…
Aperture: Stuff I’ve Learned
After a few days playing with a trial version of Aperture I’ve learned a few things. I’m a long time user of iPhoto and Picasa. More recently I’ve been testing Lightroom and Aperture and I’m starting to consider a full-time switch to Aperture. Here are some of the things I’ve needed to learn. Deleting Photos…
