Archive for April, 2009

Happy Birthday Star Wars Nerd- It’s the cake that made the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

If you laughed at the title of this post you will defiantly be jealous of my VFX geek-tastic Birthday Cake. A handcrafted, custom baked and iced, full scale replica of the Millennium Falcon (from the movie Star Wars, maybe you’ve heard of it). I can’t quite figure out what is more nerdy, the fact that I grinned and giggled like an 8 year old boy at the sight of the thing or how much the other VFX dudes in my office wished they had one of their own.

LINK to Hansen’s (the company that made the cake) Cake Diaries blog

Thanks to L.E. for the pix


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Retro-Hack – The Gallerie Abominate

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

Nowadays aspiring your visual effects artists have a lot a resources that weren’t available in the old days (like 1990-2000) Fancy modeling,animation and rendering tools had yet to hit the market in large affordable numbers not to mention the lack of decent CG training on-line or otherwise. One side effect of all this is that the bar is set so high that something that was once a staple of the industry is near extinction.

I’m talking about truly awful imagery created on a computer.

There was once a digital shrine created to hold those works that had transcended from just bad to sublime. It was called The Gallerie Abominate an offshoot of Richard Morris’ Maya resource site.

It was a place you could always count on for a laugh and to gain small comfort in the fact that there was always something out there worse than what you you were doing. The archive hasn’t been updated since 2001 but it’s still worth more than a few chuckles.

LINK to The Gallerie Abominate Archive


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“3d Guy” Blows His Stack

Monday, April 13th, 2009

Ever get sick of being referred to as a “3d Guy”? Well if you have you may enjoy an open letter rant posted on cgpov.com. It’s got some gems including.

Please do not ever again refer to us as “3D guys, THE 3D guy” or the particularly nauseating “3D Guru”. It’s dismissive, degrading, and just sounds f**king dumb.

The fun continues from there.

LINK to the whole rant

(via Eric Alba)


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Look Ma, I’m King Of The Nerds! – My Fringe VFX Interview

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009


The folks over at Sci Fi Scoop were nice enough to interview me about the effects work I’ve had the pleasure of working of for J.J. Abrams’ series Fringe. Not only did they write up a nice little piece, but also posted a recording of parts of our conversation along with a nifty slide show. Check it out, and try not to get too mesmerized by my droning vfx blather.

LINK to the full Fringe article


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