Why the hell am I doing this job? Becoming a producer and VFX supervisor.
There is a point in everyone's life, where you look back at the last few months, years, or - depending on your age - decades, and ask yourself: Why the hell am I doing this? I am a producer and visual...
View ArticleWorld's first side-by-side ARRI ALEXA and RED MysteriumX camera test
For our current film, Roland Emmerich's "Anonymous", we just finished up three days of camera testing with the ARRI Alexa prototype and the RED Mysterium X.
View ArticleFilm vs Digital or: Why we need to innovate
Marc ponders the question why we need to innovate, and must not keep the status quo.
View ArticleShooting HDRI
Marc talks about shooting stills to create High Dynamic Range Images (HDRIs).
View ArticleBluescreen vs Greenscreen - How to choose
Marc explains the difference between bluescreen and greenscreen (except for the obvious, that is). And why and how do you choose green over blue?
View ArticleWhere are the standards? How come the film industry is always behind in...
How come that every cheapo 100-Dollar point-and-shoot digital still camera automatically records EXIF data (metadata) about lens size, F-Stop, etc., and I can put any autofocus lens on every 500-Dollar...
View ArticleThe value of information
At this moment I'm using my Ipad to write this blog, my Windows7 workstation at the office to finish and upload it, while I'm checking my mail on my Android phone. We have an internal Wiki, a second...
View ArticleProtesting for Visual Effects
Visual Effects workers finally took to the streets in a protest march during the 2013 Academy Awards. But is their message clear?
View ArticleDoes technology fail us?
Based on a recent interview Bill Desowitz did with Wally Pfister (Transcendence), Marc ponders the question whether technology actually fails us.
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