Just Wrapped up my First Ever Full on Articulated Roto shot. It took about 22 hours of work which is Quite a bit of time but since it was my first shot ever and there was quite a bit of learning and starting over involved i figure it came out ok this is the first part to my roto demo reel and my first step towards getting a job at a major vfx shop.

First Attempt at Rotoscoping
Tracking Done With Mocha For After Effects
And Rotoscoping In After Effects

This is a 1080p shot full screen it for all its glory

Hello Just updated my REEL and figured i would share with my fine 2 and a half followers that have stuck with me threw thick and thin enjoy.

Register Today for the Online Launch of Adobe CS5 i am so exited for AE and PR to be 64bit native. They are going to reveal all the features April 12 stay tuned for more updates as they come

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So i Finlay watched James Cameron’s Avatar In IMAX 3D over the weekend, It was hard to get tickets i was trying since opening week the line was about two hours to get in the theater but i broke throe and sat 3rd row center, one of the few really good seats. The movie Was visually stunning. The 3D was so well implemented and not over used in a ‘in your face’ kind of way like the amusement parks do just because they can. i am not a movie critique so I wont go into details i will simply say that the movie was amazing and Mr Cameron is a visionary. now that we got that out of the way the minute i steeped out of the cinema i was obsessed, i had to know how? and with what ? and by whom ? all of this marvel was created so after some VFX research i found a bit of info i figured if some one out there was as impressed about this movie as i was maybe they will appreciate this.

The VFX Show Podcast on AVATAR is a must [hear]

Avatar’s VFX Master: Weta Digital’s Joe Letteri interviews [here]

FXGuide Red Center : on the Cameron 3D camera [here]

For thous of you with much nerdiar tendencys like myself the movie was screened using RealD in Imax this wiki is very informative on the subject. Cinefex , the world leading print resource for anything VFX has a very in depth looks at this masterpiece you can pick up a copy (print or digital) [here]

that is all i got for now i will keep at it and will inform you when i come across new information

on a side note this probably wont ever happen but if Mr. Cameron ever reads this id like to say :

“Hello Sir, i wanted to tell you to keep making epic sagas that changes peoples lives and you have changed my life in siginficant way also if you happen to be hiring for the next bigest movie of all time i am your man. “

Good news: Apple has released a Snow Leopard update that fixes a number of problems customers have reported. The Photoshop team has been helping Apple test these fixes and can confirm the following improvements:

Affecting multiple versions of Photoshop:

• 50654: When opening and saving, applications–including Adobe applications–may sporadically crash
• 51230: Images don’t open when dragged onto the Adobe program icon in the Dock

• 51220: Crash or program error occurs when using Menlo font in Photoshop and Premiere CS3 and CS4

CS4-specific:

• 51764: Only one image opens when many are dragged onto Photoshop’s icon
• 51278: Cursors don’t display correctly in Photoshop CS4
• 51339: Editing in Photoshop CS4 fails from 64-bit Lightroom in Mac OS X 10.6
• Cannot drag from Safari onto Photoshop icon (and other application icons) in Dock to open file

I have  been suffering from all the mentioned above issues since i updated. I am glad the finally fixed it so far i have not had any more problems