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Ian Smith, CG Supervisor at SideFX walks us through Project Pegasus (learning tech demo showcasing Houdini workflows with Unreal Engine 5). Explore non-destructive, procedural content generation in gamedev and how different tools can be used to create detailed open-world environments. Ian talks about software strengths and emphasizes how indie developers can leverage Houdini for fast and dynamic world-building that doesn't require lots of manpower.

Check out Project Pegasus and improve your Houdini skills: https://www.sidefx.com/pegasus/ 

Read the article on 80.lv: https://80.lv/articles/ian-smith-on-becoming-an-artist-houdini-s-new-project-pegasus/ 

Ian’s socials:
https://www.artstation.com/iansmithartist
https://www.youtube.com/@iansmithartist/videos
https://twitter.com/iansmithartist 

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NATHAN FARISS

• https://www.hello-napalm.com
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RECOMMENDED BOOKS

• "Anatomy for the Artist", Sarah Simblet
• "The Animator's Survival Kit", Richard Williams  
• "Architect's Data", Ernst & Peter Neufert

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Amy Feitelberg, Photo Creative Lead at Square, and formerly the former Photo Director of Outside and Los Angeles magazines, plus a founding Curator for Images For Humanity — a photo charity supporting Ukraine.

Check out her tasty tearsheets and background on Amy’s portfolio site. Seriously, she’s worked with everyone.

This is Part 2 of my interview with Amy. Start with Part 1, or you’ll be confused and miss out on lots of good stuff! The following notes include references to both parts, fyi. Don’t miss the links at the bottom, to follow along at home with visual aids.

I’m your host, Neil Binkley, Founder of The Personal Photography Project. We are a resource for art producers, photo editors and all creatives to discover photographers (and their licensable images) through their personal work.

We touch on so many different brands and publications (many of which she’s worked at, or knows the creatives):

• Square (and The Reader, it’s in-house publication)
• Apple
• Outside magazine
• Los Angeles magazine
• The New York Times Magazine
• New York magazine
• INQUE magazine
• Aphotoeditor

My gosh, we bring up so many creatives, photo editors, photographers and artists — most of whom she’s hired or worked with):

• Mary Ellen Mark
• Carlos Serao
• Frank Ockenfels
• Laurie Kratochvil
• Kwaku Alston
• Herb Ritts
• Jill Greenberg
• Andy Anderson
• Rob Haggart
• Dan Winters
• Emily Shur
• Art Streiber
• Arem Duplessis
• Matt Willey
• Landon Nordeman
• Daniele Gasparini

In our discussion today, Amy and I talk about many things. If your podcast app shows chapters — well check ‘em out, because I added them! Otherwise, here’s a list of topics discussed, plus you can click on the timestamp to jump to that part of the interview (but OF COURSE, you’re listening all the way through the episode…):

[00:00:00] Amy Feitelberg Intro

[00:03:26] What is The Personal Photography Project?

[00:04:38] What Does Amy Do at Square?

[00:11:37] Licensing Photos (Trends)

[00:16:18] The Anonymous Nature of Her Work 

[00:19:10] Looking at Personal Work As A Hiring Consideration

[00:24:05] How NOT to Get Hired by Square

[00:26:48] Print and Email Promos

[00:29:18] Coming Up With Ideas For Personal Projects

[00:32:36] Where to Send A Print Promo These Days?

[00:38:16] Portfolio Reviews

[00:40:07] She's Founding Curator at Images for Humanity, which Supports Ukraine

[00:45:41] We Live in a Photo Community

[00:48:54] BONUS: Us talking about podcasts that we like

This and much, much more.  

Links to What We Discuss:

[FYI: some podcast apps — I'm looking at you, Apple — cut off these show notes  before the end. You can see all of the shownotes on apps like Spotify or Overcast. OR, on our website: https://www.tppp.photo/podcast]

• Amy’s portfolio site, which includes great tearsheets and colorful work samples from Square, Outside mag, Los Angeles mag, and more
• Square’s colorful branding
• Square’s The Reader, an in-house magazine
• The Personal Photography Project, which I founded this year as a website for showcasing photographers’ personal work
• Neon Alleys, the photorealist CG project, by Daniele Gasparini, that stood out to Amy on our site
• Rob Haggart and his influential Aphotoeditor photo blog
• Jody Quon’s job listing (she’s Photo Director for New York magazine)
• Images for Humanity, the photo charity supporting Ukraine that involves an amazing list of photographers — and you can buy their prints! An actually meaningful, last-minute Holiday/Birthday gift idea?
• Print is Dead, a podcast about the magazine industry. Interviews with Arem Duplessis, Dan Winters, and other editorial luminaries.
• Matt Willey, former Art Director at The New York Times Magazine (look at all of his amazing cover designs!), Founder/Art Director for INQUE, a boutique literary magazine, ,typeface designer, and Pentagram partner. Can you tell I’m a fan?
• Smartless podcast
• Heather Elder’s “Dear Art Producer” podcast
• The Photo Banter podcast, by Alex Gagne
• Eyeball, a photo podcast by John Loomis
• Workbook Radio podcast
• Bonus link: Entertainment Weekly letterhead post about Amy, with lovely hand-drawn illustration by the always-entertaining, former Photo Editor, Michele Romero

Photopod is the official podcast of The Personal Photography Project. Check out our photographers’ personal projects!

See all Photopod episodes by subscribing on your podcast player of choice (Apple, Google, Spotify, what I use (iPhone recommended only): Overcast, etc.), or at www.photopodpod.com.

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Also feel free to drop me a line with questions and ideas for future interviews!

This episode of the podcast features a demonstration of Kubrick, a new product developed by the co-founders of Seyhan Lee, Pinar Demirdag and Gary Kepke. They are joined by Aaron Altmark, a producer at XR Studios, who serves as the launch partner for Kubrick.

Watch an exclusive demo of Cuebric on YouTube: https://youtu.be/cA3ZXywf8u0

The guests discuss the origins of Kubrick, which was developed as a tool to quickly create images with generative AI for virtual production. We also talk about the potential impact of AI on the future of content creation and its potential to disrupt the job market in film, games, and immersive media. Pinar Demirdag, co-founder of Seyhan Lee, emphasizes that it is more valuable and important to educate people about AI to overcome their fears and misconceptions than it is to compete with machines. She also shares her personal experience of discovering her own power as a human being and how being afraid is a choice. She encourages people to understand their uniquely human qualities as artists and to make the choice to continue working with traditional methods or to adapt new technologies. The conversation also touches on the possibility of using AI to optimize certain jobs, such as providing backgrounds for films, but also stresses that there will always be a place for handmade, complex work.

Gary Kepke, co-founder of Seyhan Lee, mentions that they are working on a "choking mechanism" to improve the silhouettes created by the tool, and that they have received feedback and input from XR Studios and Aaron Altmark in the development process. They also discuss the possibility of using Kubrick for pre-visualization and mock-ups in a remote setting, with the possibility of working on the tool on a laptop from home. The conversation also touches on the integration of AR and XR technologies, with Aaron Altmark, producer at XR Studios, discussing the standard pipeline for content creation in the XR industry and the time-intensive nature of the workflow.

Greg Teegarden, Emmy-nominated VFX Artist from Digital Domain takes us behind the scene of producing high-quality visual effects for DC’s Black Adam and other big-budget movies. Greg also talks about the future of VFX and the place of AI & real-time rendering tools in it.

Greg Teegarden is a Digital Effects Supervisor for Black Adam movie
Visit Digital Domain’s website: https://digitaldomain.com/
Check out other Greg’s works: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0853811/?ref_=fn_al_nm_0

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Get your work noticed by some of the biggest and best developers, publishers, and studios in video games today.

This video is sponsored by Xsolla, a global video game commerce company with a robust and powerful set of tools and services designed specifically for the video game industry: http://xsolla.pro/8023

Amy Feitelberg, Photo Creative Lead at Square, former Photo Director of Outside and Los Angeles magazines, plus a founding Curator for Images For Humanity — a photo charity supporting Ukraine.
Check out her tasty tearsheets and background on Amy’s portfolio site. Seriously, she’s worked with everyone.

This is Part 1 of 2 episodes interviewing Amy. Start with this one! The following notes include references to both parts, fyi. Don’t miss the links at the bottom, to follow along at home with visual aids.

I’m your host, Neil Binkley, Founder of The Personal Photography Project. We are a resource for art producers, photo editors and all creatives to discover photographers (and their licensable images) through their personal work.

We touch on so many different brands and publications (many of which she’s worked at, or knows the creatives):

• Square (and The Reader, it’s in-house publication)
• Apple
• Outside magazine
• Los Angeles magazine
• The New York Times Magazine
• New York magazine
• INQUE magazine
• Aphotoeditor

My gosh, we bring up so many creatives, photo editors, photographers and artists — most of whom she’s hired or worked with):

• Mary Ellen Mark
• Carlos Serao
• Frank Ockenfels
• Laurie Kratochvil
• Kwaku Alston
• Herb Ritts
• Jill Greenberg
• Andy Anderson
• Rob Haggart
• Dan Winters
• Emily Shur
• Art Streiber
• Arem Duplessis
• Matt Willey
• Landon Nordeman
• Daniele Gasparini

In our discussion today, Amy and I talk about many things. If your podcast app shows chapters — well check ‘em out, because I added them! Otherwise, here’s a list of topics discussed:

• She's My First Post-Pandemic Interview
• Taking Rob Haggart's Job
• Aphotoeditor blog
• How She Finds Photographers
• Authenticity in Branding and Advertising
• Photography Vs. Illustration Vs...
• CGI
• Branding Vs. Magazine World (and how she's navigated BOTH)
• The Value of Storytelling
• Why Are Magazines Failing?
• Leaving the Editorial World
• The Reader: A Magazine Built for a Brand
• Magazines Without Ads
• City and Regional Magazines
• Can You Swear On This Podcast?
• Copyright Issues
• This and much, much more.

Links to What We Discuss:

• Amy’s portfolio site, which includes great tearsheets and colorful work samples from Square, Outside mag, Los Angeles mag, and more
• Square’s colorful branding
• Square’s The Reader, an in-house magazine
• The Personal Photography Project, which I founded this year as a website for showcasing photographers’ personal work
• Neon Alleys, the photorealist CG project, by Daniele Gasparini, that stood out to Amy on our site
• Rob Haggart and his influential Aphotoeditor photo blog
• Jody Quon’s job listing (she’s Photo Director for New York magazine)
• Images for Humanity, the photo charity supporting Ukraine that involves an amazing list of photographers — and you can buy their prints! An actually meaningful, last-minute Holiday/Birthday gift idea?
• Print is Dead, a podcast about the magazine industry. Interviews with Arem Duplessis, Dan Winters, and other editorial luminaries.
• Matt Willey, former Art Director at The New York Times Magazine (look at all of his amazing cover designs!), Founder/Art Director for INQUE, a boutique literary magazine, ,typeface designer, and Pentagram partner. Can you tell I’m a fan?
• Bonus link: Entertainment Weekly letterhead post about Amy, with lovely hand-drawn illustration by the always-entertaining, former Photo Editor, Michele Romero

Photopod is now the official podcast of The Personal Photography Project. Check out our photographers’ personal projects!

See all Photopod episodes by subscribing on your podcast player of choice (Apple, Google, Spotify, what I use (iPhone recommended only): Overcast, etc.), or at www.photopodpod.com. Also feel free to drop me a line with questions and ideas for future interviews!

The Super Motion Collective talk to Haz Dulull, co-founder of Hazimation, VFX sup, producer, and director. Haz later worked in Hollywood writing and pitching screenplays to pursue his dream of making movies. Haz shares his amazing journey from rotoscope artist in visual effects (VFX) to supervising and producing big shows, to now creating a self-funded feature animation called Rift. Like other short films Hazimation has produced, Rift is shot using Unreal Engine.  

HaZimation is a micro-studio, with a team led by Filmmaker HaZ Dulull , developing & producing feature films, tv and video games based on their propriety pipeline utilising Unreal Engine. The studio is also co-founded by Producer Paula Crickard a veteren in the industry. HaZimation develops their own IP / content but also co-productions with other studios /producers on IP they love in animated feature films, series and video games cimematics.

The Studio is built up of a small team of creatives, unreal engine artists & game developers, the team is currently in production on various animated feature film projects and video games all leading into the Metaverse.There's also advice in the podcast for anyone looking for a job at Hazimation !

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The team gets advice on previs, storytelling and what goes into making an award winning short film in Unreal Engine 

Originally from a Yorkshire mining community, Martin moved to London and became an animator over 15 years ago. Now a film visualisation supervisor, he has helped create huge action sequences for blockbuster franchises such as Jurassic World, Marvel, Fast & Furious, James Bond, and the DC Universe. His credits also include THE LITTLE MERMAID, ALADDIN, 1917, and THE WHEEL OF TIME. He has been writing screenplays for years, and in 2021 his true-crime drama DEAD MAN’S HILL earned a “Reader Recommended” accolade on The Black List. He has recently completed production on his fifth - and most ambitious - solo CGI animated film, PRAZINBURK RIDGE, a 10-minute long sports-slash-war drama created in Unreal Engine using cutting-edge virtual production techniques.

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Barton and Kevin discuss the various ways he prepares for his Pro Ultimate Frisbee matches and individual competitions to make sure he shows up at his best.  During the interview, Kevin explains the unique aspects of the sport of Ultimate Frisbee and how he got involved back in college.  Later in the interview, Kevin talks about the http://www.Hyrox.com competitions he participates in as well as CG Games, which he won top honors back in 2016.   He is now the Director of CG Games for Camp Gladiator and helps make sure the competition achieves it's goal of being for top athletes and people wanting to participate but not compete.   

For more information on CG Games, visit: https://campgladiator.com/cggames

Kevin and Barton mentioned using the Whoop Band for monitoring strain, sleep, and recovery.  if you would like to try out the Whoop Band 4.0 visit: https://join.whoop.com/20115DA1

For more info about Mantra Labs' Hydrate, visit http://www.GoMantraLabs.com and use Promo Code "MINDSETFORGE" at check out to save 25% on your order.   (make sure you select one time purchase instead of auto-ship)

How to connect with Barton:
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 Email Barton: bgbryan@gmail.com
 Text 512-296-1374

Join the Mindset Forge Premium membership
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Let's be 1% better each week by Forging a Powerful Athlete's Mindset

Email: Barton@bartonguybryan.com

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Use this link to get a 30 minute discovery call scheduled with Barton regarding the Team Bryan Wellness Concierge Fitness Program
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My 3 Top Episodes of the first 100:

7 Essentials to Building Muscle after 40
3x Olympic Gold Medalist Brendan Hansen
MMA Strength and Conditioning Coach Phil Daru

In this interview, Ally shares her "runaway bride" story with Barton about trying out for American Gladiator the TV show on her wedding day.  Ally's perspective on taking chances, making the most of an opportunity show up in fabric of her stories.   Through out the interview,  Ally's mindset of going all in and following her heart for adventure are a reminder of how its not too late to do the same. 

For more information about Ally, follow her on Instagram @allykdavidson

To watch her compete in  American Gladiators back in 2008,  click here: https://youtu.be/nZXbUAFYEYU

Watch Ally's winning Obstacle Course Race to win American Gladiators: https://youtu.be/F5mI0Rx9vuA

Find out about Camp Gladiator outdoor Bootcamps  http://www.campgladiator.com

How to connect with Barton:
Barton on Instagram @bartonguybryan
or Email Barton: bgbryan@gmail.com

Join the Mindset Forge Premium membership
$3 / month (Donor Level) 

$150 / month (Platinum Level)  for Personalized Fitness Coaching: ($50 off when you email Barton and mention the episode)

 https://themindsetforge.supercast.com

Email: Barton@bartonguybryan.com

Website: http://bartonguybryan.com

Use this link to get a 30 minute discovery call scheduled with Barton regarding the Team Bryan Wellness Concierge Fitness Program
https://calendly.com/bartbryan/conciergecoachingcall

My 3 Top Episodes of the first 100:

7 Essentials to Building Muscle after 40
3x Olympic Gold Medalist Brendan Hansen
MMA Strength and Conditioning Coach Phil Daru

“CGI is like fast food. You can get great fastfood but you can also get very bad fast food. Very much a hit and miss”. – Ed (Founder of Suuuper Anime podcast)

This question comes amid a lot of negativity from the anime community around CGI in AOT and CGI in general. Is the negativity, cynicism and apathy warranted? Or does CGI deserve a chance in anime? 

Discussion notes  

• What’s our thoughts on CGI in general? Yes or No!
• Have you seen any anime with CGI?
• Did CGI add anything to the anime?
•  Is CGI the future of anime?
• Is it anime, if it’s done in the style of CGI?
• Could you watch a pure CGI anime series?

Refer a friend and get rewarded - https://refer.fm/suuuperanimepodcast 

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Dear Listener, join me and a few cups of wine as I sit with Esteban Covo, for what is officially “The Drunk Episode”. Meet Esteban who is co-founder of Magic Hammer, a CG animation studio in Merida and is also part of the Donia Way dynasty! Listen in as he talks about how his upbringing empowered his curiosity and confidence to explore, learn and launch his very own CG school at the age of 18. Esteban also shares the many love stories that are playing out in his family including his very own to a childhood friend. I really enjoyed this conversation and will re-listen to it whenever I want to fill my room with laughter and cheer. Join in.

Magic Hammer  

Donia Way 

Follow Esteban on instagram @esteban_covo

Jonathan Pylant is the regional president for Camp Gladiator and when he started there were only a handful of trainers and workouts and now they have over 4000 Locations in 350 cities with more than 1000 Trainers and 300,000 customers. Jonathan has a very interesting journey where he traded in his corporate suit for an outfit with a little more mesh. We talk about how CG has grown, how they deal with competition, Jonathan’s leadership style, tips for working in the same company as your spouse and much more in this episode.

In today's review episode, Tim gives his SPOILER FREE thoughts on the last Star Wars film in the Skywalker Saga The Rise of Skywalker and the "nightmare" musical Cats! 

Lighting Up The Marquee is available wherever you listen to podcasts! Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play & Stitcher. Be sure to check out our Facebook page Lighting Up The Marquee & our Instagram page @lutmpodcast! To stay connected with us, shoot us an email at lightupthemarquee@gmail.com! Send us questions, comments, ideas, etc. 

Thank you for everyone who has listened! Whether you have been listening since the beginning or just discovered the podcast, we appreciate you all! Be sure to like, rate subscribe and review Lighting Up The Marquee!

The robots are coming, and they're coming for our hard-earned jobs.  AI, in one form or another, has been around for a while; it's getting smarter, it's getting faster, and in the foreseeable future, we wager that it is only going to get better at doing what it's always done: help artists do better work in less time.  In this episode, we talk about the ways that we expect AI will (and will not) affect the face of the visualization industry.

It's happened to everyone, you present a masterpiece to your client, only to have them ruin it with a dictionary's worth of changes.  In this episode, Mike and Chop get to the bottom of why, and more importantly, what you can do about it.