Tuesday, May 06 2008 9:50 PM
First Day at FMX
Well, yesterday was my first day at the FMX. At first I didn't really knew what to expect, but it turned out to be great. I attended a lot of presentations about VFX, which is something I want to learn more about. It really opened my eyes on where the professional level is at the moment and what kind of difficulties they come across.
The first really eye opener presentation was from DuranDuboi Studio. They worked on movies like "Asterix and the Olympic Games", "Hitman", "His Majesty Minor" etc. As a student it's really fascinating to see how a professional post production studio works.
The presentation that followed them was the company "L'Est". As I understand it they coordinated the different post production houses that worked on the VFX for the movie "Asterix and the Olympic Games". The presentation also showed some of the problems that VFX brings. Directors think that everything can be fixed in post production. One of the examples he showed was when they work with blue screens to extend a set. In some shots they had to go into post production because the shot showed a little bit of the blue screen, just a little corner. This could have been easily avoided by just moving the camera, the set extension didn't brought anything extra to the shot. I thought it was a bit weird that directors don't really care about those things even though they know that it cost them more money.
The presentation I liked the most was given by Glenn Entis (Chief Visual and Technical Officr, Worldwide Studios, Electronic Arts). He gave a personal view on 30 Years in CG. So why was this such an eye opener to me? Well, I have a thing for giving presentations. I'm quite shy, but I do like giving presentations. It's scary to stand in front of a lot of people, but so satisfactory when you do a good job. Giving presentations is not what I want to do for a career, but while I'm still at school I want to be better at it.
Glenn Entis keynote blew away all the other presentations that I saw up till that point. It was a bit like the keynote's I see Steve Jobs give on the internet, who I also find very inspiring. Now, when you read this, it may seem that the presentation was crammed full with animations and all and that I enjoyed the keynote more than the content. But that's not the case. The keynote was quite simple, but instead of using a lot of text, he used a lot of images. Images that were there just to support the things that he was saying. His text was short and clear. His background was just black, which worked so well on that big screen. Cause the projector didn't filled the whole screen, so using black as a background gave the impression of using the whole screen and also put the focus more on the items displayed on screen.
But let me talk a bit more about the content hehehe. Well, one of the points he made was. You can't give fun without having fun. So when his team worked on "Band of Brothers" he let the team play with tin soldiers. This brought the fun back in the team and was also a cheap and quick way of setting up the levels. Making fun and doing what you the things you love is something that you should strive to achieve.
Alex Laurant keynote was also impressive to me, simple and clean. He talked about his move from film to the game industry. How people think that games will turn into movies, but that they are wrong. Games are the new media and sometimes more complex than movies.
I'm gonna stop now, cause I'm quite tired. I had no ideas that watching keynotes would be so exhausting. But the brain is active all the time, it's like a sponge, absorbing all those wonderful stories, analyzing what's been said and then getting inspired in a creative way. A lot of brain processing is going on. Yesterday I felt so tired, that when I got back in the hotel I fell a sleep immediately. I'm writing this in one of the conference rooms during a break.
I'm pretty sure tonight there won't be a lot of writing.
SexySammy
Wednesday, May 07 2008 12:57 AM
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Hoi SamSam, toevallig ging ik even kijken en zag ik je blog. Tof dat je het zo gaaf vind. Ben ik blij om te lezen. groetjes, Benno
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