Not for the mass public, but this was a more streamlined way to show if off to a bunch of my friends.

http://vimeo.com/34646676

I was lucky enough to be able to get nice high quality versions of just about all the shots that I worked on for last years, well this years if your in Europe & the UK, The Muppets. And with the breakdowns that I had access to I put together a showcase piece that shows off my work.

This is long, 8+ minutes, so not really for a "this is the kind of things that I've done" reel, more for a "these are the Muppets shots that I got to work on" piece.

Hope you enjoy.

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Sure, first week back from the break and were off on the ironic foot of once again having to work the one day of the weekend that the recording is scheduled.
Ah well.

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Jake Lloyd wrote:

specifically Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous, 'Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo' and Schindler's List.

(extended editions)

What would be really trippy is if they managed to line up in any of the comments, in a Wizard of Oz / Dark Side of the Moon.

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I'm sure I'll see you in person WELL before then, but sooo count me in for the extravaganza, It will be a blast.

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Depending on my work schedule, I am really intrigued to try and get to this years bake off, if only for the experience.
I'm torn, on this years list as well, so it will be interesting to see what results from the screenings & the final voting.

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Beverly Hills, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 10 films remain in the running in the Visual Effects category for the 84th Academy Awards®.

The films are listed below in alphabetical order:

“Captain America: The First Avenger”
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2″
“Hugo”
“Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol”
“Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides”
“Real Steel”
“Rise of the Planet of the Apes”
“Transformers: Dark of the Moon”
“The Tree of Life”
“X-Men: First Class”

All members of the Visual Effects Branch will be invited to view 10-minute excerpts from each of the 10 shortlisted films on Thursday, January 19. Following the screenings, the members will vote to nominate five films for final Oscar consideration.

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dkcecil wrote:

I got mine a few days ago. Real busy with work but I plan on watching it over break. I'm looking forward to seeing it!

Seconded, I have it sitting on my TV waiting for me to get more than a "tired after work time to crash" evening to sit an enjoy it.

This is going on the list for the holiday week off along with Tinker, Tailor & Tintin, of movies I need to see.

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I'll admit to being one who's initial exposure to the Lord of the Rings & the Hobbit wasn't actually the books, which as an avid reader looking back is admittedly odd, but the original animated Rankin/Bass feature.

I jury-rigged my dads stereo setup to take the vcr's audio out, and made myself an audiotape of the whole thing, to enjoy the music that was made from the books songs.

As such, the moment of the songs appearance just took me back to those days, and definitely took the trailer where it needed to go for me to strike a nerve.

I will agree that they were really trying to fit a large amount of things into a relatively short trailer, the callbacks (or would it be call-forwards) to set pieces of the LOTR films in one or two spots was a little on the nose, but workable.

Overall, I am excited. I had been trying to avoid much of the hype, as it is still now a full year away, but ... damn it.

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I thought I would just chime in on this, I haven't really put my thoughts together but ... here we go.

I started in my local theatre programs, and went on to a local state school's film program to start, but after 2 years realized that the theory of the first year that I loved, made way to hands on that I had already done, and was forced to do again. And it wasn't taking me where I needed to go.

From there I went home and worked full time for a couple years saving up, and then went to Full Sail, the eternally divisive school of the net, that a few others here have attended. I didn't go for film, but rather the computer animation program, and to be honest got a good result.

I wanted to do well, and have a good career at the end, so I put in the time and effort, and graduated 2nd in my class. I say that even though it was a relatively small graduating class.

I did well, and there are those that I know of that also did well coming out of the program, but wow the # of people that either fell behind and dropped out due to lack of understanding of what the jobs actually entailed or just lack of skill was impressive.

Out of my graduating class, I would feel confident in saying possibly 25% or so have landed what I would call jobs in the industry. A larger percent is back at the school as lab instructors, or such, or doing freelance gigs and tangentially related fields, but ... yeah.

It was the epitome of the "you get out, what you put in" kind of environment, if you goofed off and just did the bare minimum, well ... yeah you might scrape by. If you did the extra effort and applied yourself to refine your skills, or ask the questions that needed asking for your understanding, then you did much better.

That is relatively cliche, but it is for a reason.

Just random stream of consciousness thoughts on the subject sorry for rambling.

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Ok, how could I NOT post this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgAlQuqz … e=youtu.be

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“Sweep the leg”: Watch the entire 1983 The Karate Kid movie rehearsed, scene by scene

http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2011/1 … gle+Reader

Not a direct embed, but this just cry's out to be watched.

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I don't disagree with the core of what Dorkman said, Frank Oz-less Fozzie was the one voice that really jarred me a bit, but overall I think my inner Muppet fan was just to happy to see a respectful revival and not another "lets to Wizard of Oz with the star of the month and Muppets" that it completely won me over.

Not to say that I don't think some of the pacing was a just bit off in a few places, not sure if it was the editing something more in the script, and some of the DI that was done (specifically noticed as it was on a few of my shots) seemed a bit hamfisted and out of place.

As to the original question ... there is an abundance of older Henson to expose a child to if you don't want to try and throw them right into the new movie, but ... I think a lot of the original show as GREAT as it is might go past some of the kids these days. The variety show format lends itself to the option to pick and choose some of the guests that might appeal, for a "best of" that could be gone back to and expanded upon if the interest was there. But when it comes down to it, I say start with "The Muppet Movie" it truly went along with the core plotline of introducing each of the core Muppets in their own vignette and you get to see them interacting at a level that most fans will agree is hard to match.

But overall I am really happy that it is out, both as a viewer and fan of the Muppets, and as someone who got to work on it.

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Ok, that is a lot of win right there, right up there with
http://bilder.filmstarts.de/r_760_x/medias/nmedia/18/84/37/16/19783700.jpg

Which is sort of cheating as it was an official joke image.

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LOL, no not working on that, but when you realize that most shows if they have any effects shots, it will end up being car driving shots.

A 30 minute sitcom will almost never do a fully involved visual effects shot, for any number of reasons. Time, budget, just doesn't make any sense for the concept. But you will invariably get a few two people in a car going somewhere shots, and someone had to sit and do the driving comps.

Most of the time they end up being good, and every now and again they just ... don't. It probably goes back to the point that is made a lot of, if you have a small sample size it's easier to get them all better, but when you expand the sample size exponentially to cover that many projects ...

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Tiny Zarban will leap up at you and you'll never see him coming, respect the Tiny Zarban.

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So I sat down while waiting for some renders today and did some quick math.

It ends up that on Muppets I worked on 30% of the shots in house, and then rolled right over into Underworld 4, where I am currently (in what has to be cosmic irony) working on 29.5% of the shots.

It makes me feel a little better in understanding why I can be so exhausted when I get home at night, and why I am now really looking forward to the week back East for thanksgiving, away from computers almost entirely.

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Just loaded up the Intermission page, and saw this text up at the top of the page.

Warning: include_once(analytics.php) [function.include-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/content/92/4141092/html/intermission/index.php on line 62

Warning: include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening 'analytics.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/php5_3/lib/php') in /home/content/92/4141092/html/intermission/index.php on line 62

Thought you should know.

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http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/paranorman.html

Ok, this looks fun.

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I was mainly pointing out the scarcity of people population wise, based on Teagues statement indicating that his hometown was teeny tiny.

For comparison, this is where DIF is recorded, well hard to get a "LA" read on that site, so I'm generalizing to the Burbank are.

http://www.city-data.com/city/Burbank-California.html

And I was more looking at just the population size, and racial breakdown, but wow there's a lot more data there than I noticed at first.

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Still only 20 minutes in, but thought that I had to comment on the "small town" discussion tangent.

http://www.city-data.com/city/Heath-Massachusetts.html

This is where i grew up, I think I beat Teague.

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LOL, no worries.
So I actually get to relax for most of the day then ... I'm honestly not sure I know what to do with myself for that much time away from work right now.
Ah well I'll remember eventually.

And I'll pass along a HD tomorrow night then.

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We looking at Sat or Sun this week, I know there is something on the books non-DIF related on Saturday night, but thought I would see what was what.
Just got the "take saturday, but we will need you on sunday, at least for a little while" talk, so figured I would check in.
Cause you know, I've got a HD just itching to get dropped off.

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One addition on the about pages might be a "Show" tag in the cast listing, so that you can get back to the general "about the show" without reloading the overall about page.

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http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2011/10/pbensembleew.jpg

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/im … mbleew.jpg

Thread resurrection, I just saw that this was taken in one of those magazine retrospectives, and thought it had to be shared.

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So I get to replace my Geekza episodes that cover the same movies! cool.

pity i cant seem to get a full weekend, my first day off in weeks, and it has to be Saturday not Sunday.