Tag Archive | Peter Jackson
Not worth Giver-ing (a damn)
Yes, I admit, yesterday evening I wasted two hours of my life watching a bad movie. With a good chunk of movies from recent years now trickling through onto free TV, I can at least catch up a little bit on things I missed, not being able to go to the cinema that much nor having […]
The Death of Saruman
I’m scared. I’m really, really scared. You know why? Just this morning on my way back from my neurologist I was pondering on the very subject of when people like Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Christopher Plummer or the very Christopher Lee might leave us, given their not being so young anymore, and alas, a few hours later […]
Broken Lens
One of my many little secrets is that I keep watching Making-ofs and Behind-the-Scenes material packed in the bonus sections of DVDs/ Blu-Rays even on awful movies like Star Wars Episode I-III since it’s just interesting from a technical point of view and understanding the process of how some films come together. That being the […]
The second Battle
Just like last year of course my younger brother coaxed/ coerced/ charmed me into a second viewing of The Hobbit – The Battle of the Five Armies and these repeats naturally offer an opportunity to study things a bit more in details and adjust one’s opinion. I maintain my position that most definitely there are […]
The Battle of the five Snoggies
Just like the last two years I went to see The Hobbit. Even in its third iteration, the HFR takes a lot of getting used to and personally I’m not taken in by it beyond that it helps the 3D stereo. The latter is actually quite good, but at the same time it sometimes quite obviously […]
Black Hobbit
Yesterday I let myself coax into a second viewing of The Hobbit – The Desolation of Smaug and alas, no good deed goes unpunished… As bad luck would have it, there were some severe technical issues with the projector halfway through, meaning the lamp went out and we only got audio. The tragedy then took […]
Sharp Hobbit
Due to my health issues I was unable to watch the first The Hobbit movie in cinema last year (but ever since enjoyed it on DVD), so it was pretty neat to be able to catch the second part on the big screen. So it was this Saturday afternoon when I went to see it […]
Hobbitses! We likes Hobbitses!
It’s Tolkien Week this week which has all sorts of weird activities around the books like people glueing on pointed Elven ears or public readings of the books. Though I’ve read several of the books several times over the years I don’t exactly share this kind of obsession, but no matter what, this stuff is […]
MIR-aculous?
As reported a while ago, Peder has been cooking up a new plug-in called MIR and now it’s finally available for your pleasure. If you head over to Red Giant Software you can download a demo, but beware, they’re dumping the whole Trapcode suite on you even if you just want this 3 megabyte or […]
High Speed Hobbit
For anything technical, there’s always the risk that you over-engineer, meaning you add too many features and options which your users probably never will use. I’m actually quite shocked to find out that exactly that has happened to the new 3D extrusion stuff in After Effects CS6. I mean, really? Separate property groups for the […]
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