Category Archives: CGI

Camera, but virtual. 

VFX Unions: Scott Ross Vs. Scott Ross

 

3D Ethics–Imagine Imagina 2010

Officially, it is designed to create a shared ‘operating manual’ for all product developers and users, defining the context, aims and criteria for the use and representation of 3D data. In reality, the ethics tool is aimed to create an authorized use for a ‘3D OK’ logo, so that if you hire an architect (for example), they will certify that all the drawings that they create will originate from other 3D  OK derived documents. The docs will have metadata associated with it, and if the project is 3D OK, all the metadata will say 3D OK as well.

In an age when anyone can bring data into Google Sketch-up, it is clear that professionals need an ethical framework in territory management, that 3D data can allow realistic digital mock-ups to be created with a policy for implementation. Thus, communication, public consultation and project management tools  can be relied upon as they correspond to actual sites and that can be used in urban, countryside and transport infrastructure projects. This helps put governmental bodies on a par with corporate levels of funding, which helps bolster long term planning for communities.

The link is only in French:  3DOK.org

A horrid english translation can be gotten at Google. The originators expect to have official German and English documents in é weeks from the signing.

Hubble Commander Altman with Dykstra, Deschanel

Deschanel, Dykstra at Academy – June 29, 2009

Director of photography Caleb Deschanel, ASC (The Right Stuff), and visual-effects supervisor John Dykstra, ASC (Star Wars), will host “Astronaut as Filmmaker,” a discussion about the close relationship between NASA and motion pictures, on July 14 at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences’ Samuel Goldwyn Theater, 8949 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, at 8 p.m.

Panelists will include Commander Scott Altman, who recently returned from a mission to the Hubble Space Telescope that he and other astronauts documented with digital and Imax 3-D cameras.

Tickets are $5 and can be purchased online at www.oscars.org or in person at the box office. For more information, call (310) 247-3600

Taken from the ASC Website at: Deschanel, Dykstra at Academy

3-Strip Technicolor before Black Narcissus

Designing for 3-Strip Technicolor – July 7, 2009

Director of photography John Hora, ASC, will join visual-effects artist Harrison Ellenshaw and production designer Tom Walsh to discuss “Designing for 3-Strip Technicolor” prior to a screening of Black Narcissus (1947) at the Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, on July 26 at 5:30 p.m.

The program is a special presentation by the Art Directors Guild. Alfred Junge won an Academy Award for art direction for Black Narcissus, which was his final collaboration with Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Jack Cardiff, BSC, also won an Academy Award for his work on the picture, which is considered a landmark in color cinematography.

Tickets are $10 for general admission, $8 for senior citizens and students (with current school ID), and $7 for American Cinematheque members. Tickets can be purchased online at www.fandango.com or in person at the box office.

For more information, visit www.americancinematheque.com

To see the original news release, Clik Here: ASC: The American Society of Cinematographers