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fmx/08: Impressions

Photograph © Copyright by Reiner Pfisterer. Courtesy of fmx/08.

That’s me (center) attending the screening of Robert Zemeckis’ “Beowulf” (2007) on the third day of this year’s fmx/08. (I already wrote about this screening in an earlier post.) After about ten minutes or so, I moved to a now vacant seat, only to realize that the 3D effect was much more impressive there. Robert Zemeckis was present himself and gave a short introduction right before the screening.

Aftermath

Now, that this year’s fmx is over, and while I am waiting for the responses to various inquiries of mine about posting stills/images here, I suddenly find myself more and more preoccupied with “film”.

One particularly interesting site I stumbled upon today is Great Directors - a critical database, located at sense of cinema. This site covers (in alphabetical order) basically any important director from Peggy Ahwesh to Fred Zinnemann.

Another site I personally find interesting (this is basically about movies which are currently running), is FirstShowing.net.

Finally (to get back to visual fx), after reading some of the reviews about Jon Favreau’s “Iron Man” (this was via Rotten Tomatoes) I’m determined to go and see it (the English version) and share my impressions here afterwards.

Related: “Must-See!”

Progress

Thanks to the kind assistance of Aisling O’Brien at Double Negative in London, I have made first contact with Warner Bros. in L. A., and if I am lucky, maybe I’ll be able to post stills from movies such as the upcoming “The Dark Knight” (2008) by Christopher Nolan, or “The Matrix” (1999/2003).

Another rendering

This is yet another rendering I did just for fun. Modeling & rendering: Wings3D; editing: Gimp 2.2.8. I really enjoy exploring the possibilities of Wings3D with its amazingly intuitive workflow. Just like I said: All I need now is a good renderer (most likely 3Delight or Aqsis) & a program for uv mapping (applying textures).

Thinking in code


Excerpt from the ‘index.php’ template of this site

Apologies again for the sometimes weird and unpredictable behaviour of this site (basically mysterious line breaks where they should not appear, or missing line breaks; the first are somehow connected to following links, but I haven’t found out yet, how).
As long as I was using only text, everything was ok, but as soon as I started including images in my posts, the trouble began. Now I’m trying to figure out what has which effect, and I’m really tempted to writing an essay entitled “Illogical Behaviour of Computer Code”.