Jim Cameron on stage
Sunday night was the annual VES Awards. This year we honored Jim Cameron with the Lifetime Achievement Award, and Ed Catmull with the Georges Melies Award.
Bill Paxton did the introduction, which was part honor and part roast (“Jim calls his parents on his birthday to congratulate them.”).
A timelapse video of my approach to solving crossword puzzles. I start with the first word I can enter and expand from there, rather than doing all the across or down clues first.
One frame per letter shot on my Canon 40D and processed in Lightroom and Premiere.
See it in HD on Flickr or Vimeo. Or even better, click the ‘HD’ option in the frame above and then play it in full screen mode.
Trino is the result of two quarters worth of work by one of my student teams at Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center (ETC). It’s a wonderfully fun game for the XBOX, and you can download it from XBOX Community Games.
Everyone on the team is graduating this Sunday, and we’re going to miss them a lot. All of them were out here in Silicon Valley for two semesters, some of them for three, so we all got to know each other really well. That cliche about ‘learning more from your students than they learn from you’ comes from having students like these.
Please check out the game!
Here’s the trailer:
Shot with my DIY intervalometer on a Canon 40D. I shot at 2816×1880 (Canon medium resolution) and panned across the image in After Effects. Still playing with output compression in AE, there are some banding artifacts that aren’t there in the original images.
Frames shot at 20 second intervals, put together here at 24fps.
Sunset from Windy Hill from Carl Rosendahl on Vimeo.
Pura Vida!
Today I received my Blurb book that I put together from our Costa Rica trip. It looks great.
It’s 50 pages long with enough text and captions to explain the trip and images, but it’s mostly a photo book.
Even though I had most of the text already written (from the blog) and the pictures were all ready to go (from prepping them for my flickr set), it still took me a full day to layout the book.
You can check it out here at Blurb.
