RJ Shaughnessy’s Search for Werner Herzog.

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RJ Shaughnessy’s new book – Your Golden Opportunity is Comeing Very Soon – will be having a release party at Family LA this Thursday with heavy choons provided by Abe Vigoda. Be sure to check it if you live in the LA metropolis. For now, here are some photos he took of LA teens on the hunt for Werner Herzog to tide you over. rj_shaughnessssssy_00

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Producers Guild Conference

div xmlns=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtmlNeat a href=http://vfxworld.com/index.php?atype=newsid=27948summary/a of visual effects aspects to the Producers Guild of America’s inaugural a href=http://www.producedbyconference.com/Produced By/a conference being held on June 6-7, at VFXWorld./div

VFX on Twitter

Twitter Search can be a great source of visual effects information and links (try VFX for example). Inside the Hive has a list of Top VFX Twitterers To Follow. My faves are @alba, @5tu and @mikeseymour.

Miles Davis on 60 Minutes.

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Before Miles Davis left this mortal coil he was kind enough to give an interview to 60 Minutes’ Harry Reasoner. The rasp, the venom, the sly hilarity; none of them fading with age as he politely sat like a gnarled piece of bark across from the pasty establishment of 60 minutes. To his credit, Harry manages to take it well.

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Museum 2 presentation

Rhythm Hues’ Francisco Rodriguez’s will give a presentation on Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian at an LA ACM SIGGRAPH event on June 9.

Kevin Mack on Fight Club

VFX supe Kevin Mack (does) talk about the opening sequence from Fight Club, at Hero Complex.

Post interviews JJ

Post Magazine interviews JJ Abrams about Star Trek.

MPC Angels Demons breakdown

MPC breaks down its effects shots from Angels Demons.

Mapping Procedures: 3ds Max and ZBrush

Learn how to import and export between the two powerful softwares i.e 3ds max and ZBrush

Car Wheel Rotation Expression Tutorial

Learn how to rotate the car wheels according to the movement of the car using expressions in After Effects