Over the past like 6 months I’ve been doing quite a bit of VFX work with my After Effects guru co-director Chris Bragg. So this post will be somewhat related to visual effects and/or CGI.

For one of our scenes, I wanted to ‘turn on’ an in-frame lamp that we carelessly forgot to illuminate while shooting. I did so, and am, for some reason, inexplicably happy with how it turned it. It’s not that it was a particularly tough fix; I think it just hit me as one of those moments of realization like “Wow, I can actually do this!?” And the feeling stuck.

Anyway, you can see the shot in our film, Motam Mundi. Surprisingly, the video above isn’t of the shot in question- I’m too lazy to do that right now. Instead, it’s a little promo/teaser for a piece of software called HDR ReLight.

The app isn’t for doing what I had to do, but I recently came across it on Reddit and thought it was a pretty cool idea all the same: you shoot a (still) photo a bunch of times—with only one light source on at a time. Then, in post, it allows you to digitally brighten/dim, recolor, mix/recombine lights to completely relight the scene—from night to day, even. How nifty! lol

Even without the God-Ego comparison, this concept is so right up my alley: 1 object; 2 ‘built-in’ perspectives—with shadows (!).

Even without the God-Ego comparison, this concept is so right up my alley: 1 object; 2 ‘built-in’ perspectives—with shadows (!).

dvdp: holographic print of downtown Seattle.building heights in this hologram get up to ~25cm (10 inches). Click the image to watch the really short but even more amazing video of this in real life. I’ve said it before and you’re not going to hear me stop saying it soon: holograms aren’t just the shit, they are the future of practically all physical media. (and increasingly more so, the source model for our post-physical creations, too).

dvdp:

holographic print of downtown Seattle.
building heights in this hologram get up to ~25cm (10 inches).

Click the image to watch the really short but even more amazing video of this in real life.

I’ve said it before and you’re not going to hear me stop saying it soon: holograms aren’t just the shit, they are the future of practically all physical media. (and increasingly more so, the source model for our post-physical creations, too).

(Source: archdaily.com)

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Another quick clip/outtake from last night’s downtown graffiti shoot: go-go Jesse.