CineForm goes CS5 Support (and let CS4 dust)

Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere, Apple Final Cut Pro, Avid, Canon 1D Mark IV, Canon 5D Mark 2, Canon 5D Mark 2 Video, Canon EOS 7D, CineDDR, CineForm, CineForm Prospect 4K, CineForm Prospect HD, Neo 3D, StrongMocha, canon 7D, neoscene by Thorsten Meyer on January 20, 2010 No Comments »

CineForm customers who plan to use Adobe CS5 products should get improved support with their Prospect HD/4K software. While the CS4 support has a been behind the expected support CineForm does plan to to ship Version 5 CineForm products for CS5 at the time Adobe ships CS5. CineForm may also include new features  in their CS5 version. According to CineForm all Prospect HD/4K customers will receive a no-charge CineForm upgrade to the full version of our Version 5 product for compatibility with CS5 and anybody that purchases Prospect HD/4K v4 from now on will also get this free upgrade. Details of the v5 features are not available yet. Cineform seemed to have already begun working on the integraton of their products in CS5 aftert he CS5 SDK has been released.

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The Third & The Seventh by Alex Roman

3ds Max, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere, vray by Thorsten Meyer on January 20, 2010 No Comments »

The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman

A FULL-CG animated piece that tries to illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view where main subjects are already-built spaces. Sometimes in an abstract way. Sometimes surreal. Made by Alex Roman (Madrid, Spain)

Credits:

CG: Modelling,  Texturing, Illumination and Rendering: by  Alex Roman
POST: Postproduction and Editing: Alex Roman
MUSIC: Sequenced, Orchestrated & Mixed by Alex Roman (Sonar & EWQLSO Gold Pro XP)
Sound Design by Alex Roman
Based on original scores by:
Michael Laurence Edward Nyman (The Departure)
Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (Le Carnaval des animaux)
Directed by Alex Roman
Software used: 3dsmax, Vray, AfterEffects and Premiere.

thirdseventh.com
Making Of Exeter Shot

Compositing Breakdown (T&S)

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Lju by PhotoMocha

Canon 5D Mark 2, Canon 5D Mark 2 Video, CineForm Prospect HD, StrongMocha, movie by Thorsten Meyer on January 16, 2010 No Comments »

Lju by PhotoMocha from StrongMocha on Vimeo.

Model: -Lju-
Visa: -Lju-
Photographer: Thorsten Meyer
Photos can be found here: photomocha.com/photographer-thorsten-meyer/

Shoot on Canon 5D Mark II
Software used: After Effects CS4 (Main VFX program we use)
Cineform ProspectHD (Speed up the workflow with CineForm’s fast compression)
Redgiant’s Magic Bullet Looks (used for the looks)

PhotoMocha.com
Sense of Delight

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Tim Burton Retrospective in The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

StrongMocha by Thorsten Meyer on January 14, 2010 No Comments »

The Museum of Modern Art presents Tim Burton, a major retrospective exploring the full scale of Tim Burton’s career, Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas Sallyboth as a director and concept artist for live-action and animated films, and as an artist, illustrator, photographer, and writer.

On view from November 22, 2009, through April 26, 2010, the exhibition brings together over 700 examples of sketchbooks, concept art, drawings, paintings, photographs, and a selection of his amateur films, and is the Museum’s most comprehensive monographic exhibition devoted to a filmmaker.

An extensive film retrospective spanning Burton’s 27-year career runs throughout the exhibition, along with a related series of films that influenced, inspired, and intrigued Burton as a filmmaker. Tim Burton is organized by Ron Magliozzi, Assistant Curator, and Jenny He, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Film, with Rajendra Roy, The Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film, The Museum of Modern Art.

The exhibition is on view throughout the Museum: the Special Exhibitions Gallery on the third floor features hundreds of drawings, paintings, sculptures, sketchbooks, and moving image works.

Downstairs, in the Museum’s Roy and Niuta Titus Theater Lobbies, a selection of largescale Polaroids created by Burton is joined by a selection of domestic and international film posters from his feature films, while musical compositions specifically chosen for the exhibition by Burton’s longtime collaborator Danny Elfman plays over the gallery’s speakers.

In MoMA’s Agnes Gund Garden Lobby and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, a large-scale balloon and a deer-shaped topiary inspired by Edward Scissorhands are on view.

Mr. Magliozzi states: “While Tim Burton is known almost exclusively for his work on the screen, including Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Tim Burton’s The  Nightmare Before Christmas, and more recently Sweeney Todd, this exhibition covers the full range of his creative output, revealing an artist and filmmaker who shares much with his contemporaries in the post2 modern generation who have taken their inspiration from pop culture. In Burton’s case, he was inspired by newspaper and magazine comics, cartoon animation and children’s literature, toys and television, Japanese monster movies, carnival sideshows and performance art, cinema Expressionism and science-fiction films alike.

MoMA’s exhibition draws extensively from the artist’s personal archive, as well as from studio archives and the private collections of Burton’s collaborators, and includes art  from a number of early, unrealized projects. Never-before-exhibited drawings, paintings, and film props, as well as virtually unseen films—including Burton’s 1983 live-action,  Asian-cast adaptation of Hansel and Gretel—and early student films, are on view.

Visitors enter the Special Exhibitions Gallery on the third floor through a spectacular three-dimensional monster’s mouth. Inspired by Burton’s unrealized film project Trick or Treat (1980), the entrance was created for the exhibition by TwoSeven Inc. Upon passing through the creature’s mouth on its red-carpeted tongue, visitors proceed through a corridor lined floor to ceiling with Burton’s signature black-and-white stripes, and a presentation of Burton’s The World of Stainboy Internet series plays on six large monitors. In the galleries the exhibition is organized in three sections, each in relation to Burbank, California, the city in which Burton was raised and the inspiration for much of his early work.

Tim Burton Retrospective

The film retrospective Tim Burton presents Burton’s entire cinematic oeuvre of 14 feature films, eleven of which are in MoMA’s film collection. These 14 feature films—Pee-wee’s Big Adventure(1985), Beetlejuice (1988), Batman (1989),  Edward Scissorhands (1990), Batman Returns (1992), Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), Ed Wood (1994), Mars Attacks! (1996), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Planet of the Apes (2001), Big Fish (2003), Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (2005), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)—will be screened over the course of the five-month exhibition in the Museum’s Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters, along with his early short films Vincent (1982) and Frankenweenie (1984).

Tim Burton. (American, b. 1958)

A director of fables, fairy tales, and fantasies with an aesthetic incorporating the Gothic, Grand Guignol, and German Expressionism, Burton has created a body of films marked by striking visuals, indelible characters, and a distinctive and uncompromised point of view. Organized by Ron Magliozzi, Assistant Curator, and Jenny He, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Film, with Rajendra Roy, The Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film.

Website: www.moma.org
Blog: www.moma.org/insideout
Facebook: www.facebook.com/MuseumofModernArt
Twitter: www.twitter.com/MuseumModernArt
Videos: www.youtube.com/momavideos
Flickr: www.flickr.com/groups/themuseumofmodernart/

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Avatar Postproduction Featurette

StrongMocha by Thorsten Meyer on January 14, 2010 No Comments »

Avatar Movie

Avatar is nominated for 4 Golden Globe (…so far). Avatar passed the  1 billion mark in worldwide gross in only 17 day. The Budget for Avatar was $280,000,000 (estimated). Quite a nice payback.

James Cameron’s Vision Featurette:

Samson Featurette: How it was developed and designed:

Avatar Movie

Concept Artist, Neville Page, discusses the design of the Banshee, one of Pandora’s fearsome creatures.

Ty Ruben Ellingson discusses his design concept for the AMP suit used in James Cameron’s epic new film, Avatar

A look at the world of Pandora, as portrayed in James Cameron’s epic new motion picture, Avatar:

Avatar Movie

Jon Landau, Producer of “Avatar” talks a bit about how Adobe software was used throughout the production of Avatar. Jon talks about PhotoShop, InDesign, Lightroom, After Effects (which was used on the set), Premiere Pro.

The Avatar Trailer if you did not see the movie yet:

Official Avatar Movie

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Nocturne (filmed with Canon 1D Mark IV )

Canon 1D Mark IV, movie by Thorsten Meyer on January 5, 2010 No Comments »

Canon 1D Mark IVNocturne is a video shot using two pre-release Canon EOS 1D Mark IV DSLRs in Los Angeles. Nocturne is shot entirely in available ligh. To read Vincent Laforet’s comments on the making of Nocturne, please visit blog.vincentlaforet.com. Nocture is co-directored by Stu Maschwitz and David NelsonCanon lenses used for the film NocturneEF 16-35mm f/2.8L IIEF 24-70mm f/2.8LEF 24mm f/1.4L IIEF 50mm f/1.2L , EF 85mm f/1.2L II , EF 100mm f/2.8L IS Macro, EF 200mm f/2.0L IS, EF 300mm f/2.8L IS, EF 500mm f/4.0L IS

Click here to get more information or buy the Canon EOS 1D Mark IV at amazon.com.

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Enhance, clear up, zoom in – remove the reflection

StrongMocha by Thorsten Meyer on January 2, 2010 No Comments »

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