We hope you’ve been enjoying the Masters of the Craft series as much as we had doing it. Getting to sit down and talk visual effects with people at this level has been a treat and this week was a true pleasure as we got to talk with Pablo Helman from ILM. The fxphd.com tip of the week is from Gerard Mosley showing some great Matte Painting tricks.
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Really nice interview with Pablo…thanks guys!
p.s – The tip of the week video from Gerard seems to be repeated twice.
We are working to fix this now, thanks!
Repeat edit has been fixed, you will see fixed version as 045r in iTunes.
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?
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.
What pgill said.
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
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! 🙂
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
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.
The segment of Gerard Mosley matte painting looked very interesting, where can we see more of that ?
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
hi, guys , this is my first visit to the site, i want to know how can i to see the interview to Pablo Helman, and matte painting tricks ?
Best Regards.
Pablo.
http://www.fxguide.com/fxguidetv/fxguidetv_045/