An interview that I did with CG Society is now up.  If you’re interested check out some behind the scenes making of the vfx we did at Digital Domain.  Click the image below or follow this link.

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Here’s another article on Mummy 3 that I did that’s now online.  This one will be printed as well I believe.  Check it out, it’s called Step by Step: The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.

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pineapple

(pīn‘ăp‘əl)

n.

1. 1. A tropical American plant (Ananas comosus) having large swordlike leaves and a large, fleshy, edible, multiple fruit with a terminal tuft of leaves.
   2. The fruit of this plant.
2. Slang. A hand grenade.
3. A shot at Digital Domain that was as painful as passing this fruit.

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And then there was one. We’re down the final shot left to deliver on Mummy 3. It should be going out tonight at 8pm. Oh yeah baby! It’s the title shot for the film; a huge shot that transitions the film from ancient china to modern times without a cut. Almost there!

Haha, this is great. I didn’t see this coming. The Mummy 3 is being released on August 1st, and the Olympic Games open on August 8th. Both the movie and the Olympics take place in China, so a creative movie/olympic advertisement tie in has been made. Check it out.

If you haven’t seen the real trailer yet, here it is!

Yay! This show was not easy, it was anything but easy. But it’s looking great and I think it’s going to do very well. Yesterday we had a production party to celebrate; we have only 36 shots left to go! I took some photo’s, and here they are.

What better way to introduce the album than to show one of our two fearless leaders in Magenta, his most sensitive colour. Click on the image to see the album.

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While I was in Las Vegas for NAB last month, I was interviewed by Bill Desowitz, editor of VFXWorld. The article covers many parts of NAB, but on page 3, the last paragraph of the article I’m quoted. Oh yeah, I’m almost famous!

“In order to make the process work, we actually had to re-composite the left eye as well, so we did deliver both the right eye and left eye going through our pipeline,” added computer graphics supervisor Nordin Rahhali. “The main reason is to remove any discrepancies in the left eye and our reconstructed right eye. We also created effects as well; namely, rain and dust. We couldn’t raytrace those scenes: all we could was take the imagery that they had given us and re-project those, and, in some cases, where you have a very reflective surface, we had to actually recreate them by projection techniques. It’s an interesting process.”

Here’s the link to the whole article. NAB2007: Seeing Red & More Efficient Workflows

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I’m off to Las Vegas this weekend to attend NAB. I will be one of the guest speakers for the ”3D Movie Making – New Dimensions in Film Production” conference.  Check out the details and read my two sentence bio here.  I was asked for a one sentence bio for a speaker introduction so I wrote that.  I then read the other speakers bios on that website and they are paragraphs long!  Doh!

The conference is a quick one day thing, but it should be a lot of fun.  I head there with fellow Digital Domainer Dan Brimer.  I’m looking forward to speak on the future of cinema, 3D!

Nordin

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