A 3D printed desktop figurine as a leaving present for a colleague that worked on this film asset. This is how I made it and all the source files… … More Interstellar display (Seeeduino-based)
I got intrigued about Adobe Premiere’s analytics tools. In particular the Waveform and Vectorscope displays. They usually just show the brightness, distribution and saturation of colours in an image. But is this a one-way lane? I got curious and wanted to create images inside these analytics tools. … More Unusual displays: Lumetri Scopes
How can we improve limb deformation? We will look at some standard methods first and then build a split joint method that maintains the original chain length. Includes Maya scene files and Bifrost nodes. … More Better limb deformation (Bifrost setup)
What does a poleVector actually do? Instead of showing how to set it up or the underlying math, I want to give an intuition what is going on under the hood. … More Rig Fundamentals: PoleVector
Learn how to automatically validate your Maya Python scripts with GitHub Actions and unittests. … More Continuous Integration for Maya Scripts
A little brain-teaser, which is pretty useful for lip-zips in Maya. … More Fake graph intersection
I designed and built a wooden arcade from scratch. This post is to share my CAD files/plans and insights I gained from this project. … More Wooden Arcade
Yep. This blog is still alive. And since I am not “home” anymore, I better be postin’ ma updates! I will now write in English – I think most will understand and the ones that don’t quite yet want to learn it (right, Mama? ;)). So, VERY quick recap: I came home from Vancouver Film … More It is all backwards.
Hallo allerseits! This might be the last post before I leave Vancouver – maybe I’ll switch to English afterwards to tell everyone from VFS once in a while what I’m up to.. But for now: Deutsch. Die Reaktion auf meinen Abschlussfilm war ganz schoen ueberwaeltigend. In den 12 Monaten, waehrend deren ich Tag fuer Tag … More Home, bittersweet home.
ENDLICH! Mein Bike ist wieder fahrtuechtig. Nicht die erwartete News? Mist! Na gut, dann mehr vom Demoreel: In der Zeit zwischen letztem Hand anlegen und der heutigen Abschlusszeremonie gab es noch einige Kleinigkeiten zu geniessen, wie zum Beispiel eine Colorcorrecting-Session mit einem Mentor und unserem Editing-Spezialisten. Interessant zu sehen. Auch, wie viel Verbesserungspotential in dem … More Voilà!
Mischa Kolbe 