After working for several years and being a freelancer for around seven years i decided to get myself some further education. I´m almost completely self taught, that’s why I thought it would be challenging to be in another environment, besides working on projects. So I joined a postgraduate program called digital Art and Compositing at the Vienna Film...
Read Moreanalogue film in a digital age – an archival perspective
It was right at the „golden age“ of digital intermediate, when we started our digital film restoration cooperation between the Austrian Film Museum, The Austrian Film Archive and the Austrian Film Gallery. Digital intermediate (DI) is called the process where Films get shot on analogue film, then they are scanned and processed digitally (editing,...
Read More3d camera tracking course material
I was asked to hold a course about 3d camera tracking at the SAE Institute Vienna: The practical course was focused on Pftrack by The Pixelfarm Now i´m offering some of the course material for free download: -a quickstart guide for pftrack, just the basics, that will get you on track quickly -a general overview on various topics concerning 3d tracking,...
Read Moreleap of faith – the general specialists tale
One of the beauties of working with film is that already in it´s early stages it developed into a collaborative art form. Producing a film consists of a series of specialized tasks, where it makes sense to split the work into different departments, the classical ones being director, lighting, director of photography, camera assistants, production, editing,...
Read MoreIBC und color grading Workstation:
Unfortunately this post is only available in German Ich war mit einem Kollegen auf der IBC, der größten europäischen Messe für Video / Film / Postproduktion. Der Grund für unseren Besuch war ein für uns geeignetes und leistbares Color Grading System zu finden. Zur Auswahl standen für uns: – Autodesk Smoke und Lustre – Avid DS –...
Read MoreWhere´s the backplate?
Classical situation: A character has to disappear, the scene is shot, some days later they realize: “Where is the backplate??? Oops, we forgot.” That´s what happened, so it was necessary to recreate the Background just with Photoshop and no further Reference. So i´ts paint and clone, reusing several parts of the image, add stuff color it and...
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