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	<description>It&#039;s Shiny!</description>
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		<title>Shattering an Hourglass in Houdini</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Several months ago I supervised a project called Speak and May the Plague Take You. This short film required some surrealistic imagery of giant clocks smashing into the ground, including an hourglass. After wrapping the project, I wrote this technical breakdown because I tend to forget everything. Since glass shattering is a somewhat common effect but not necessarily simple [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.unusedbagels.com/?p=218</link>
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		<title>With Strings Attached Breakdown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With Strings Attached is a 3D animated short film by graduating senior Jerika Melgar in which I was tasked with rendering, editing and final exporting. Upon reviewing the set and shots, my head was flooded with ideas for cool lighting. Consequently I proposed to relight the project in addition to my other tasks. This was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.unusedbagels.com/?p=192</link>
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		<title>More Macros!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More photos with the ossim macro lens. It makes literally anything look interesting.



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		<link>http://www.unusedbagels.com/?p=187</link>
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		<title>Tilt Shift and Macro Lens = Fancy Toys</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We rented a macro and tilt shift lens. Had lots of fun recording video with the 5 and 7D. Photos by Dan, myself, Dave and Carrie.




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		<link>http://www.unusedbagels.com/?p=178</link>
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		<title>And Now for Something Completely Different: Album Reviews</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are very few artists with whom I endear so much trust that I will purchase an album without even previewing it. dZihan &#38; Kamien were one band, along with dZihan&#8217;s wife, the singer Madita. D&#38;K&#8217;s distinctive blend of Austrian/jazz/turkish/lounge music was ever-present during my youth in high school and early college, informing a lot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visual Effects Breakdown &#8211; Speak and May the Plague Take You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A two minute breakdown of shots created by Stephen Withers for the film &#8220;Speak and May the Plague Take You&#8221; dir. by Cody Duckworth. Creating the surreal falling clocks and hourglass vfx required extensive dynamics work in Houdini as well as a large amount of roto and comping.
Practical elements, including water and falling leaves/debris, were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>16mm vs Digital Comparisons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On The Magic of Film, Alex shot with his 16mm camera on black and white reversal, in addition to shooting on the Canon 5D Mk II. The film wasn&#8217;t developed in time for the bumper contest, but it came in recently and I decided to put together a cut using only the film footage.
The differences [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.unusedbagels.com/?p=138</link>
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		<title>Color Corrections</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having just completed The Magic of Film bumper, here are some color correction comparisons. The footage had all been converted from the native h264 to ProRes 4:2:2 for easier editing, however, both compression methods started to break down the farther I pushed the colors; this is where RAW video would *really* be nice. The algorithms [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.unusedbagels.com/?p=129</link>
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		<title>Greenscreen on the 5D</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Continuing with the coverage of the 5D shoot, here&#8217;s a greenscreen element we shot a few days ago. The setup was ghetto; a portable screen, filled with wrinkles,  in the living room. On any other camera, the wrinkles would have caused problems down the line in compositing, but because we were able to put a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.unusedbagels.com/?p=124</link>
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		<title>Magic of Film Shoot &#8211; 5D Camera Screengrabs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having completed a shoot on the Canon 5D Mk II two days ago, I still stare with glee at the footage, amazed by the quality. Even though the project, a bumper for the SCAD Film Festival Bumper Competition, is not complete yet, I though I&#8217;d share some captures, straight from the camera.
After shooting on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.unusedbagels.com/?p=113</link>
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