I added a video I recently edited for South Eastern Studios to my video portfolio.

About South Eastern Studios:

South Eastern Studios allows you to shoot in HD in front of a green screen while inserting a 3D virtual set into the background all in real-time, all camera moves, zooms and depth of field interact with the 3D background without the use of position markers on the walls.  So in short, you can go in, shoot your production and walk away with a completed spot with no computer compositing work required afterwards.  They also have a video switcher so you can switch between their 3 HD cameras during the shoot.

The best part is that they are located in Vero Beach, Florida so you can schedule some relaxing in the sun after the shoot instead of slaving away in front of the computer compositing your shots in post.

Watch the full video presentation here:  South Eastern Studios – Realtime 3D Virtual Sets.

We stayed at the Vero Beach Hotel and Spa and The Caribbean Court during our visits in which we had an amazing time.

Here are photographs taken of our trips there: South Eastern Studios, Vero Beach, Vero Beach Hotel and Spa and Caribbean Court Hotel

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My good friend Bart Harrison sent me this link of Paolo Ciccone’s video tutorial: After Effects Exporter for Blender.  This well produced video demonstrates on how one can export a 3D animation from Blender to Adobe After Effects you can get the exporter here, just click on download project files.  Even though you can do compositing inside of Blender, there are many of us that are used to working in After Effects being that it has been an industry standard for many years, so we tend to stick with what we know best.

Some of you may have noticed that I am a big fan of the blender toolset, a few of the reasons are: that it is free by being open source, available for most computer platforms, it has a huge fan base following, over the years I have seen this product grow at an incredible speed by being open source you pretty much have the world helping develop this software, and this one tool can do 3D animation, physics, modeling, compositing, video editing, and even video game creation just to name a few, oh and did I mention that it is FREE to download !

You can also find more of Paolo’s blender tutorials here: http://library.creativecow.net/tutorials/blender.

Visit his website at: http://preta3d.com/ and http://paolociccone.com/

Thank you Paolo for taking the time to create these tutorials.

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transformation from Andre B on Vimeo.

The theme of this study is the mechanical transformation, a change of the form. The 5 items that have arisen here, fall back in form and process of change on analogies from nature. A sphere, the simplest geometric shape that we know, serves as a starting form.

If you would like to learn more about the Blender the free opensource animation, compositing, video editing toolset visit www.blender.org

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A fantastic way to market a movie by keeping the audience involved in the production process and in turn making one feel part of the movie making experience.  Durian is being created by the Blender Foundation and the software that is being used to create this movie is all free by being part of the open source community and available to anyone as a free download.

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The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.

Fullscreen it, please.

A FULL-Computer Generated 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.

Credits:

CG

|Modelling – Texturing – Illumination – Rendering| Alex Roman

POST

|Postproduction & 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

Done with 3dsmax, Vray, AfterEffects and Premiere.

http://www.thirdseventh.com/

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I watched District 9 last night and I have to say, it was an amazing movie.  The visuals were dead-on realistic.  This a movie also did a great job in using art to reflect very powerful issues occurring in our world in a very subtle way.

District 9 is directed by Neill Blomkamp, written by Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell, and produced by Peter Jackson, the producers and crew decided to shoot using the digital Red One camera, as well as some Sony EX1 and EX3s. The location for the movies’ District 9 was an actual impoverished neighborhood from which people were being forced to relocate to government-subsidised housing.

The story is adapted from Alive in Joburg, a 2005 short film directed by Blomkamp. District 9 is inspired by historical events that took place in South Africa, during the apartheid era.

District 9 Official Website and Movie Trailer : D-9.com.
More Trailers at the Apple Website : District 9 at Apple trailers
For more information on District 9: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_9

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I found this awesome site by Kiel Figgins – Animator.  The website is clean and very informative, it also has a great FAQ Section for anyone trying to get into the industry.  Kiel has also had the great opportunity to work with amazing companies such as Shilo and Pysop

Check out his 2009 Animation Reel:

or on his site: Kiel’s 2009 Animation Demo Reel.

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