Hasta La Motion!

Stickboy, An Opera in Three Acts Music composed by Neil Weisensel Libretto by Shane Koyczan, based on his book, Stickboy Late last year, Shane Koyczan and Vancouver Opera asked if we’d like to partner on a brand new opera. We had never worked with projections, long-form animation, or live performance (not to mention opera!) before, so of course we said: yes please! Ten months later, our work is being projected over three massive screens, illustrating over 40 background settings and dark inner-workings of the main character in a 2-hour long stage performance called Stickboy. You can see it live in Vancouver until November 7, 2014 (visit vancouveropera.ca for more info). Animation Credits: A collaboration with Shane Koyzcan and Vancouver Opera Creative Direction: Leah Nelson, Jorge R. Canedo Estrada & Henrique Barone Producer: Teresa Toews Art Direction: Jorge R. Canedo Estrada Concept and Storyboard: Jorge R. Canedo Estrada, Henrique Barone & Leah Nelson with help from Rachel Peake & Shane Koyzcan Design: Henrique Barone, Lucas Brooking, Jorge R. Canedo Estrada, Gergely Wootsch & Shawn Hight Animation: Jorge R. Canedo Estrada, Henrique Barone, Shawn Hight, Nicholas Ferreira, Marisabel Fernandez Animation Montage: Voiceover: Shane Koyczan Music: Hand Covers Bruise, Reprise by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Edit: Jorge R. Canedo Estrada

Winter is coming, and this year it’s bringing some hot and tasty white cocoa refreshment along with a bevy of nonsensical cuteness. Thanks to the folks at Leo Burnett for letting us get our winter flavorscape on. Directed by Buck Executive Creative Director: Ryan Honey Executive Producer: Maurie Enochson Associate Creative Directors: Jenny Ko, Steve Day CG Supervisor: Doug Wilkinson Producer: Billy Mack Production Coordinator: Kaitlyn Mahoney Storyboards: Morgan Schweitzer, Vincent Lee, Marcus Park, Susan Yung Design: Jenny Ko, Yuki Yamada, Susan Yung, Gunnar Pettersson, Ken Gunn Lee, Joe Mullen Cel Animation: Kendra Ryan, Kyle Mowat, Eric Cheng, Laura Yilmaz, Craig Yamamoto, Ben Conkin, Song Kim AE Animation & Compositing: Nick Petley, Simon Ekstrand Appel, Anthony Madlangbayan, Zach Eastburg, Esteban Esquivo, Jake Portman, Ariel Costa 3D Artists: Wing Lee, Florent Raffray

Unfortunately, this *live* commercial is fouled up…bad camera work, Betty Furness being caught with script in hand, and a poor script to start with. But imagine how many live commercials they made in a year, and most of them largely flawless. It was rare that a commercial ended up as fouled-up as this.

This is a long commercial, but there were only three commercials in the hour-long program I took this from. A commercial promoting the self-defrosting features of the Westinghouse refrigerator. This commercial aired live on CBS on 13 August 1951. It aired over 60 years ago. Discuss.

Mon 27th Oct 2014 | News

FXHOME has announced that the latest version of its cutting-edge video editing and visual effects software, HitFilm 3 Pro, is now available for pre-order from hitfilm.com for just $299 (£229), ahead of its release at the end of November 2014.

HitFilm 3 Pro is a post-production revolution, combining high quality editing tools, 3D compositing, 3D object rendering, an industry leading particle simulator and an expansive toolkit for advanced colour correction and grading, all in a single product. Over 180 fully customizable visual effects are included plus 130 plugins for use in Sony Vegas, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro X and Motion.

From films to documentaries, commercials to music videos, HitFilm 3 Pro has features for beginners and experts alike, combining depth and complexity with an intuitive simplicity. Modern filmmaking requires you to be an editor, VFX artist and colorist at the same time: HitFilm 3 Pro gives you everything you need.

New in HitFilm 3 Pro is a redesigned editor and interface, 3D textures for particles, auto-tracking masks, OpenFX support, 3D fractal particle shapes, 3D camera projection and professional de-noising. Over 20 new effects include 3D wireframe, heat distortion, auto volumetrics and more. Background proxying for complex VFX and a 16-bit OpenEXR pipeline make HitFilm 3 Pro an exciting choice for rapid, high quality post-production work.

The redesigned editing timeline gives users access to all the tools they need including slip, slice, ripple and roll edits, audio meters, keyframing and a new trimmer for fine control. Filmmakers craft projects in the fast, non-linear editor and can switch between multiple 3D compositing timelines as easily as changing tabs in a web browser.

HitFilm 3 Pro includes Academy Award-winning planar tracking from Imagineer Systems, providing mask tracking and 3D camera solving. Sony Vegas users can render HitFilm projects directly on the Vegas timeline. 64-bit architecture and GPU acceleration ensures the best performance across a wide range of hardware.

Filmmakers can generate thousands of particles with HitFilm 3 Pro, all of which are fully customisable in true 3D, from fleets of spaceships or swarms of creatures through to swirling snow, driving rain or thick dust and debris from an explosion.

Videos, images, 3D models and particles can all be combined in a unified, 3D compositing environment. All elements are rendered accurately in relation to each other, making it easy to construct incredible scenes inside a single application.

“HitFilm 3 Pro is the best product we’ve ever created and is the result of two years of intensive development. Since we set up back in 2001, FXHOME has stood for supporting the next generation of filmmakers,” explained Joshua Davies, FXHOME founder and CEO. “With HitFilm 3 Pro, we have created a compelling combination of power and price, putting professional visual effects and editing software in the hands of students, indie filmmakers, educational institutions, VFX studios and YouTube creators; in fact, anyone wanting power, choice and value in one package.”

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