Tracking Marc: Compositing

Protesting for Visual Effects

mweigert — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:09:15 -0800

Visual Effects workers finally took to the streets in a protest march during the 2013 Academy Awards. But is their message clear?

Where are the stardards?

mweigert — Mon, 31 May 2010 00:39:39 -0700

How come that every cheapo 100-Dollar point-and-shoot digital still camera automatically records EXIF data (metadata) about lens size, F-Stop, etc., and I can put any autofocus lens on every 500-Dollar SLR camera out there, and it does the same, but the 20/50/180,000-Dollar (or the I'm-so-expensive-you-can-only-rent-me) digital film cameras don't have that?

Bluescreen vs Greenscreen

mweigert — Sun, 02 May 2010 04:43:26 -0700

Marc explains the difference between bluescreen and greenscreen (except for the obvious, that is). And why and how do you choose green over blue?

Shooting HDRI

mweigert — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 03:33:00 -0700

Marc talks about shooting stills to create High Dynamic Range Images (HDRIs).

Why we need to innovate

mweigert — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:43:34 -0700

Marc ponders the question why we need to innovate, and must not keep the status quo.

ARRI ALEXA and RED MysteriumX camera test

mweigert — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:03:54 -0800

For our current film, Roland Emmerich's "Anonymous", we just finished up three days of camera testing with the ARRI Alexa prototype and the RED Mysterium X.