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Happy holidays, everyone! For all you broke filmmakers, writers, artists, and other people with more heart than money, here's a free way to spread good cheer to charities and start the new year right. CauseWorld is an iphone app where you direct sponsors like Citi and Kraft to donate money to the charity of your choice just by walking into a store. Here's a story on it. Pretty sweet, huh?
Susan Ee
www.feraldream.com
To celebrate Anne-Marie's birthday and the holiday season, we had a sugar-cookie-makin party at our house. The kids all decorated the cookies and it was great fun. I think more toppings were consumed than not, but they still managed to stick A LOT of stuff on top of the cookies. I think this offends Brian's purist preference when it comes to sugar cookies as he just wants the cookie and the frosting (I know this because I find all the toppings brushed off into the sink as he's eating them)- but I don't care because the kids had a blast putting them together. Here are some pix from the day:
Owen had an All School Sing-Along on his last day of school before break. The whole school also got to wear jammies for the day, which Owen thought was the coolest thing ever. Reese and I went to watch the sing-along which was very cute.
Check out the story of the guy who made a YouTube video for $300 and landed a $30M deal with Sam Raimi's Ghost House Pictures. He put up the video on a Thursday and by Monday, he had a bidding war going for him. Pretty cool.
Here's the video:
1) He bought premade 3D models of a robot and a spaceship. You can buy this stuff for pretty cheap over various 3D model sources on the Internet. Actually, you can get a lot of this stuff for free--it just depends on whether you find the model that works for you. He then duplicated and animated them in a 3D program like Cinema 4D, Maya, 3ds Max, Lightwave, etc. If he's a desktop creator, he may have used a program like Adobe After Effects to combine the live video with the CGI. It may have cost him $300 to make the movie, but there's a good chance that he needed about $10k worth of gear to bring it all together. That's assuming it's all done on the cheap with a desktop or three (the render time has to be horrendous for something like this--he would need to work in parallel).
2) He bought a collection of premade explosions. This stuff can be cheap or expensive, depending on where you get it. The explosion that impressed me the most is the domed building. Either he bought one premade (you can sometimes buy a 3D model that comes premade with an animation of it exploding), or he had to make the model of the building (which you can do with the 3D programs listed above), then create an animation of it exploding. If those buildings are not actual models of the buildings in Montevideo, then I'm less impressed. But I'll bet it is.
That animation looks professional. What strikes me as odd is that the green screen of the kid with the robots behind him is not perfect, which tells me that maybe he doesn't do that kind of VFX for a living. But the 3D stuff was great. Getting that kind of smooth motion and explosion action takes some practice...unless he bought it premade. But $300 is not a lot, even in Uruguay, so I'm guessing he had to make at least some of that himself. Very nice work.
3) If he was using After Effects or some such program, he can duplicate actors into a crowd, or maybe he managed to get a lot of people to act for free with no food (feeding a crowd that size would eat his whole budget up in no time). He can also create fog.
The water splashing, and the dust puffing when the robots stamp their feet are nice touches, and probably not easy to do. The camera work is great too because it not only increases the tension, it doesn't let you look too closely at the CGI, which is very important for suspension of disbelief. He got a lot of things right beyond the technical stuff.
Overall, it's great, and he obviously put in a lot of work. Kudos to him. What's strange to me, though, is that so many studios would come to him and offer up so much money over a cool video that had...um...no story. Maybe 2012 did so well (biggest box office hit in the history of both India and China) that they figured stories are overrated (and so darn hard to get right!) so long as you have engaging destruction. Well, they may be right, up to a point.
Susan Ee
www.feraldream.com
Yesterday in London, UK Google launched a massive advertising campaign for the Google Chromium Chrome floss free libre open open-source browser project !
Chromium aims to build a
safer, faster, and more stable way for all users to experience
the web. The Chromium site contains design documents, architecture overviews,
testing information, and more to help you learn to build and work with
the Chromium source code.
STOP PRESS and now on the front page of The Stylist and The Shortlist too !
Nokia OVI already has 70m users and is aiming for 300m by the end of next year ! Now Vodafone is trying to get a slice of the mobile social media cake by launching Vodafone 360 !
I wonder which will be first to 500m members and when ?
frappr is now platial
frappr is now platial
Apparently the real Google Ubuntu Chromium OS is based on Ubuntu and not on OpenSuse ! And the official download is only available as sourcecode which you have to build-it-yourself ! So by implication any other ISO or VM downloads that claim to be Chromium OS are possibly spoofs or fakes !
- http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/building-chromium-os
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxBuildInstructionsPrerequisites
- http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/chromium-os/building-chromium-os/build-instructions
- http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs
- http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/getting-dev-hardware/dev-hardware-list
Thanks to Alan Pope for alerting me to the spoof ISO i downloaded last week !
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