Archives: February 2012
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Time for Life
6 commentsWe get pretty caught up in our motion graphics and VFX. It’s hard to find the satisfaction we get from our work, from anything else in life. But I’m here to tell you, there’s a lot more out there. I’m blessed to be a husband and father, but only because a few years back I [...]
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Talk to Red Giant
17 commentsNext week, the entire Red Giant team will be getting together for our annual company meeting. We’re a virtual company with people in NY, Utah, Ottawa, Halifax, Oregon, California, the UK and more. We regularly communicate with each other, via Skype, iChat, gotomeeting.com and through some older tech called the telephone. But there is no [...]
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Old School vs. CGI
No commentsThis amazing short film made me sad. I don’t find most CGI creatures to be all that realistic or scary, but as a kid, I remember those rubber mask monsters being terrifying, even when I could see the zipper going up it’s back. End of a Scarer from Chris O'Hara on Vimeo. Animated graduate film [...]
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When it comes to Genres, Embrace What You Love
1 commentLast week, thanks to Josh Diamond, I saw this fantastic video, called Space Stallions on YouTube: What’s so great about it is that it feels authentic from a storytelling perspective – at least within the aesthetic of 80′s cartoons. Visually, the characters were a little to obviously 3D with toon shading, but outside that, it [...]
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Good Robot
1 commentPart of my job at Red Giant has me looking through the content on Vimeo to see what people are working on. It’s how I find great user stories and great people to work with. But also how I find inspiration – often from people who are still in school, working on student projects. Students [...]