CAT385 — Visual Effects

Here they had to motion track President Johnson's head and then stage a scene where they could match the movement.

Welcome to the CAT 385 Visual Effects blog!

While assignments and grades and my tutorials will still only be found on the Blackboard class site, this blog will be used to link to valuable resources on the web and to keep us posted on the latest work in the field. (If you're not in the class, the choice and sequence of posts may not make much sense to you but, hey, what do you want for free?)

If you find something we should all know about, just send it my way. And remember that what you see on this opening page are posts from the past seven days. Click on "Older Posts" at the bottom of the page to go further back in time or, better yet, consult the Topic Index in this column to search for specific subjects.

Quote of the Week Archive

1. "Monkeys push buttons, humans push their brains."
— David Biedny, author of Photoshop Channel Chops

2. "Amateurs hope. Professionals work."
— Garson Kanin, American playwright, screenwriter, and director

3. "What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing."
— Aristotle, Greek philosopher (384 BC – 322 BC)

4. "Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves." — Alexander Clark

5. "When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer." — Isaac Bashevis Singer, novelist and short story writer

6. "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time." — Abraham Lincoln

7. "And how many other people have, after a long week of rotoing (the sheetrocking job of the post-production world), tried to roto passing taxicabs, or your bottle of beer...or spent long nights dreaming of dragging paths across counties, setting keyframes in vineyards and football stadiums, oh my god it just crushes your brain... but damn, for $500/day, I am happy to have my brain crushed... to a point." — From a roto artist named Sheldon on a post to a Tribe.net After Effects forum.

8. "If you set out deliberately to make a masterpiece, how will you ever get it finished?" — George Balanchine, choreographer

9. "Cartoons are the art form of the movie industry I learn the most from. Life is now a cartoon. We are cartoons." — Richard Pryor

10. "I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth."
— Charlie Chaplin

11. "Listen carefully to first criticisms of your work. Note just what it is about your work that the critics don't like — then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping."
— Jean Cocteau, French filmmaker, poet, playwright

12. "Strong and convincing art has never arisen from theories."
— Mary Wigman, choreographer

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Freeze Frame Effect

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Automatic Dialogue Replacement on "King Kong"

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Check this out!

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Folding the Portable Greenscreen

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Sex, Lies & Photoshop

Forrest Gump with George Wallace

Friday, March 13, 2009

Forrest Gump — LBJ Scene

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Forrest Gump — with John Lennon on Cavett

Forrest Gump—Lieutenant Dan's Legs

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