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Canon EOS-1D C and C500 4K – Camera Porn

triff — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:01:06 +0000

Canon just announced these too way-out-of-my-price-range beauties, cor…..

Since these cameras, the C300 and the various incarnations of video capabilities on Canon’s DSLRs have all come about, arguably, as a response to the work Red have been doing for the past five years or so on the One, Scarlet and Epic, it’ll be interesting to see how these (and Canon brand loyalty) fair against Red’s more modular approach. Those cinema lenses look mighty sexy too…

Release scheduled for Q4 2012, not that I expect it’ll make much difference to lil’ old me.

MotorStorm’s E3 2005 trailer in at #30 in GT’s all time Top 100

triff — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:42:17 +0000

This video has a pretty special place in my past because up until this point, even a bad review of a game I’d worked on, posted on a website only twelve people read was flattering. Gawd bless ya, NeoGAF…

This was the first work I did for Evolution, initially designing/building the yellow dune buggy in 3ds Max and then (having discovered I’m a bit of a render/lighting/shader nerd) getting involved in the visual side of the trailer and finally doing a full in-house 1080p re-render/comp from the delivered assets. It was was eventually shown alongside the announcement of the PlayStation 3 at E3 which was a massive, massive buzz.

GameTrailers Top 100 – Trailers # 20-41

More info over here.

And the trailer…

Physically-Based Real-Time Lens Flare Rendering (SIGGRAPH 2011)

triff — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:00:35 +0000

I’ve always been an ultra nerd when it comes to digital representations of any physical phenomenon, particularly optics and things involving light/surfaces/rendering. I’ve also got a bit of a rep for having ‘laser eyes’ and spotting teeny visual problems things that often maybe I shouldn’t Lens flares are pretty much clichÃ© #1 in computer graphics, so when this paper popped up from SIGGRAPH (which I haven’t attended now in 6 years), I was slightly surprised and, I’ll admit it, skeptical.

The maths of the refraction behind their calculations and the visual result more than satisfy my penchant for realism, if this tech is marketable as a plug-in compatible with mainstream VFX/motion graphics apps from After Effects up to Nuke, Smoke etc, and maybe even streamlined into console compatible middleware, I think they’re onto a winner.

Physically-Based Real-Time Lens Flare Rendering (SIGGRAPH 2011 Paper) from Matthias Hullin on Vimeo.

iPhone SLR Mount for Canon and Nikon lenses

triff — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 11:26:11 +0000

Gotta say I’m a little confused about these types of gadgets I’m going to take my lenses out, surely I’ll be taking my SLR too? It’s hardly an ‘in your pocket’ photographic solution which is the main time I’d be using my iPhone as a camera anyway. It’s also way overpriced and I can’t imagine why the iPhone 4 version is $60 more. because iPhone 4 owners have more money? Because they had to cover the flash at massive expense?

That said, the thought of using some iPhone software like Hipstamatic with quality optics and manual focus is mildly intriguing and I’m sure there are all sorts of innovative gadget/software combinations out there but it’s not enough to make me spend $250 on this and not a new lens or some other photography kit.

More: The iPhone SLR Mount.

Red Bull Music Academy lectures

triff — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 19:09:53 +0000

The Red Bull Music Academy has a pretty extensive library of its lectures online by all sorts of electronic artists. I missed the Modeselektor one at Bauhaus Dessau at MELT! 2010 so it’s good to be able to pick this one from London up.

In their own words: “Welcome to our huge and ever-growing video archive. This is where you can find videos of Academy lectures, from MPC-60 and s950 workouts with DJ Premier, to looking under the bonnet of some of studiolandâ€™s finest analog mixing boards with supa-engineer Russ Elevado. Start exploring hundreds of sessions and workshops from pioneers across the fields of production, mastering, songwriting, remixing, arrangements, the lost art of DJing, analogue synthesis, drum programming, and much more right here.”

Other lectures by Cut Chemist, Kieran Hebden, uZiq, Kode9, Martyn, Steve Reich, Buraka Som Sistema, Robert Moog, Adrian Sherwood…… List just goes on and on.