Comments on: fxguidetv: Pablo Helman and Matte Painting Tip http://www.fxguide.com/quicktakes/fxguidetv-pablo-helman-and-matte-painting-tip/ vfx, mograph, and production news Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:41:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: pgill http://www.fxguide.com/quicktakes/fxguidetv-pablo-helman-and-matte-painting-tip/#comment-487 pgill Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:00:25 +0000 http://www.fxguide.com/?post_type=quicktakes&p=20306#comment-487 Angus...i reckon the matte painting tip is from fxphd...in case you don't know it is the same team as fxguide. I have to say I was a member for over a year and the classes are absolutely top class. I highly recommend them. Mike keep up the good work (as has been asked on many occasion, where do you get the time/energy?)...and thanks for listening to us punks with our opinions! paul Angus…i reckon the matte painting tip is from fxphd…in case you don’t know it is the same team as fxguide. I have to say I was a member for over a year and the classes are absolutely top class. I highly recommend them.

Mike keep up the good work (as has been asked on many occasion, where do you get the time/energy?)…and thanks for listening to us punks with our opinions!

paul

]]> By: Angus http://www.fxguide.com/quicktakes/fxguidetv-pablo-helman-and-matte-painting-tip/#comment-486 Angus Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:44:32 +0000 http://www.fxguide.com/?post_type=quicktakes&p=20306#comment-486 The segment of Gerard Mosley matte painting looked very interesting, where can we see more of that ? The segment of Gerard Mosley matte painting looked very interesting, where can we see more of that ?

]]> By: Miltos http://www.fxguide.com/quicktakes/fxguidetv-pablo-helman-and-matte-painting-tip/#comment-488 Miltos Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:21:04 +0000 http://www.fxguide.com/?post_type=quicktakes&p=20306#comment-488 Mike, what you are doing is great and i love the fact that you know what you are talking about when you ask a question. It's just that the last interviews could really benefit from some BTS footage or even just footage from the shots/movies they were talking about. Since you are doing this huge effort to get in contact and film those guys i felt as if it would worth it to go the extra mile and manage to 'dress' the interview with their art so we associate their thinking with the final visuals. You should in no way feel unappreciated. Those interviews have the potential to be pure gold and become a reference for all in the industry. It would just be sad to miss this opportunity that you have created. Thanks for everything you have produced until now. Mike, what you are doing is great and i love the fact that you know what you are talking about when you ask a question. It’s just that the last interviews could really benefit from some BTS footage or even just footage from the shots/movies they were talking about.

Since you are doing this huge effort to get in contact and film those guys i felt as if it would worth it to go the extra mile and manage to ‘dress’ the interview with their art so we associate their thinking with the final visuals.

You should in no way feel unappreciated. Those interviews have the potential to be pure gold and become a reference for all in the industry. It would just be sad to miss this opportunity that you have created.

Thanks for everything you have produced until now.

]]> By: Mike Seymour http://www.fxguide.com/quicktakes/fxguidetv-pablo-helman-and-matte-painting-tip/#comment-481 Mike Seymour Sun, 07 Dec 2008 04:43:40 +0000 http://www.fxguide.com/?post_type=quicktakes&p=20306#comment-481 Thanks Clark. To a certain extent it is my intention in the new year to do more 'professional/high end' stories on fxguide next year. I personally want to see more hard core compositing stuff and I want to make sure we service you guys correctly. I think some of the tech stuff we have done recently has been intelligent and worthy. But maybe some of it could merit a more in depth angle. We do try and stay at the sharp end of vfx and we never want to dumb it down for the lowest common denominator. Next year represents ten years of the three of us sharing our tips, insights and stories. We'd like to think that over that time we have gotten better. I can say that this industry does nothing but excite me. I am here, at work on a Sunday, working on some test for a film /HDR thing we want to do - and while I'd like to be out walking my dog with the family- I do love this, and I have been having a ball researching HDR Color warping and stuff today. I know that all three of us remain committed to the site as the day we started it. So I never mind if you guys post that we screwed up or could improve. We take note of it all. If you guys never showed up and never downloaded - then we'd stop. As it is, we have now millions of page views a MONTH. And we serve terrabytes of data each month. Still we really do think we can improve - we really do think we can do a whole lot better, and I swear we are not bored !! :-) Again thanks for the second post. Mike Thanks Clark. To a certain extent it is my intention in the new year to do more ‘professional/high end’ stories on fxguide next year. I personally want to see more hard core compositing stuff and I want to make sure we service you guys correctly.
I think some of the tech stuff we have done recently has been intelligent and worthy. But maybe some of it could merit a more in depth angle. We do try and stay at the sharp end of vfx and we never want to dumb it down for the lowest common denominator. Next year represents ten years of the three of us sharing our tips, insights and stories. We’d like to think that over that time we have gotten better. I can say that this industry does nothing but excite me. I am here, at work on a Sunday, working on some test for a film /HDR thing we want to do – and while I’d like to be out walking my dog with the family- I do love this, and I have been having a ball researching HDR Color warping and stuff today. I know that all three of us remain committed to the site as the day we started it. So I never mind if you guys post that we screwed up or could improve. We take note of it all. If you guys never showed up and never downloaded – then we’d stop. As it is, we have now millions of page views a MONTH. And we serve terrabytes of data each month. Still we really do think we can improve – we really do think we can do a whole lot better, and I swear we are not bored !! :-) Again thanks for the second post.

Mike

]]> By: clark http://www.fxguide.com/quicktakes/fxguidetv-pablo-helman-and-matte-painting-tip/#comment-480 clark Sun, 07 Dec 2008 04:31:34 +0000 http://www.fxguide.com/?post_type=quicktakes&p=20306#comment-480 hey mike..sorry for the tone..i do appreciate your time, finding, grabbing these guys for an interview. At least i saw the guy who created my "the fx shot" (war of worlds - car scene)..I really wanted to hear more about that shot..really so bad :) Anyways Waiting for new year new faces new breakdowns. About interruptions..you can interrupt him or even threaten him if he doesnt give away some secrets. You are doing fine...i m just having a bad day and i ll watch again war of worlds once again for Pablo! :) hey mike..sorry for the tone..i do appreciate your time, finding, grabbing these guys for an interview. At least i saw the guy who created my “the fx shot” (war of worlds – car scene)..I really wanted to hear more about that shot..really so bad :) Anyways Waiting for new year new faces new breakdowns. About interruptions..you can interrupt him or even threaten him if he doesnt give away some secrets. You are doing fine…i m just having a bad day and i ll watch again war of worlds once again for Pablo! :)

]]> By: Mike Seymour http://www.fxguide.com/quicktakes/fxguidetv-pablo-helman-and-matte-painting-tip/#comment-483 Mike Seymour Sun, 07 Dec 2008 04:04:24 +0000 http://www.fxguide.com/?post_type=quicktakes&p=20306#comment-483 Thanks for your comments. Clark: Sorry you did not like the interview, thanks for the comments. Not sure what you meant about bored? Actually it is a lot of work - but I get that you did not like the episode and we'll try and serve up more hands on stuff - with less interruptions from me ! Pgill: Yes we getting footage for some of these guys is really hard but point taken we will try and get more breakdowns and visual pieces especially in the New Year. I guess my take out is you'd like more hands on stuff - and specifics. We'll work on that. Mitos: What I said to Pgill. Is that everyone's opinion? I guess I can see your point and we will try and be more hands on with problem solving. I will also do audio only more for those eps that dont need to be video. So thanks for the comments. We read them all and we appreciate you taking time to post. Mike Thanks for your comments.

Clark: Sorry you did not like the interview, thanks for the comments. Not sure what you meant about bored? Actually it is a lot of work – but I get that you did not like the episode and we’ll try and serve up more hands on stuff – with less interruptions from me !

Pgill: Yes we getting footage for some of these guys is really hard but point taken we will try and get more breakdowns and visual pieces especially in the New Year. I guess my take out is you’d like more hands on stuff – and specifics. We’ll work on that.

Mitos: What I said to Pgill.

Is that everyone’s opinion? I guess I can see your point and we will try and be more hands on with problem solving. I will also do audio only more for those eps that dont need to be video. So thanks for the comments. We read them all and we appreciate you taking time to post.

Mike

]]> By: Miltos http://www.fxguide.com/quicktakes/fxguidetv-pablo-helman-and-matte-painting-tip/#comment-482 Miltos Sun, 07 Dec 2008 03:47:26 +0000 http://www.fxguide.com/?post_type=quicktakes&p=20306#comment-482 What pgill said. What pgill said.

]]> By: pgill http://www.fxguide.com/quicktakes/fxguidetv-pablo-helman-and-matte-painting-tip/#comment-485 pgill Sun, 07 Dec 2008 01:33:31 +0000 http://www.fxguide.com/?post_type=quicktakes&p=20306#comment-485 its probably obvious to you guys but i think that lately the tvpodcasts do not really benefit from being visual...if this episode had been of the audio podcast variety we would not have lost anything. It would be cool if you could actually show breakdowns of the shots/sequences being talked about in context with the interview...and then the best bit was when he spoke of "solving the puzzle"...yes please tell us how the puzzle was solved, thats surely the point of fxguide...then you have a worthy tv production! i guess there are a million legalities to jump through to do this though. shame. its probably obvious to you guys but i think that lately the tvpodcasts do not really benefit from being visual…if this episode had been of the audio podcast variety we would not have lost anything. It would be cool if you could actually show breakdowns of the shots/sequences being talked about in context with the interview…and then the best bit was when he spoke of “solving the puzzle”…yes please tell us how the puzzle was solved, thats surely the point of fxguide…then you have a worthy tv production! i guess there are a million legalities to jump through to do this though. shame.

]]> By: clark http://www.fxguide.com/quicktakes/fxguidetv-pablo-helman-and-matte-painting-tip/#comment-484 clark Sat, 06 Dec 2008 23:35:25 +0000 http://www.fxguide.com/?post_type=quicktakes&p=20306#comment-484 nice interview?? are you kidding me...the guy wanted to talk about something he is getting interrupted brutally. then ...whole interview goes like this..did you work with it..you work with him?...oh yes...pointless interview with a really nice romantic guy who has lots of to tell...and angie's crazy fake-romantic introduction.. what happened to you guys? you got bored already? nice interview?? are you kidding me…the guy wanted to talk about something he is getting interrupted brutally. then …whole interview goes like this..did you work with it..you work with him?…oh yes…pointless interview with a really nice romantic guy who has lots of to tell…and angie’s crazy fake-romantic introduction..

what happened to you guys? you got bored already?

]]> By: Jeff Heusser http://www.fxguide.com/quicktakes/fxguidetv-pablo-helman-and-matte-painting-tip/#comment-479 Jeff Heusser Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:28:28 +0000 http://www.fxguide.com/?post_type=quicktakes&p=20306#comment-479 Repeat edit has been fixed, you will see fixed version as 045r in iTunes. Repeat edit has been fixed, you will see fixed version as 045r in iTunes.

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