Category: Organization

The beauty and all the other layers

A very interesting paper about pipeline optimization from Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg. Using newer rendering techniques could help reduce environmental impact, but also reduce iteration time, which is a key factor in…

The bike frame : statistics and flexibility

Right now there is a lot of hype around LLMs for good reasons : they can provide great help and their capacity to convince you, whether the output is right…

Colorboration pt 2 : the machines

In the previous episode, we’ve seen that there were many people with different views on the production process. From a purely technical stand point, let see how we can transport…

Colorboration pt1 : share the colors

Color management is all about collaboration: even if you’re by yourself, you want your different softwares and devices to show something consistent across. In the colorboration series of articles we…

Would you let the trainee grade your movie?

I was listening to this great Team Deakins podcast episode where Roger Deakins and partner James interviewed the amazing Joachim “JZ” Zell, vice chair of the ACES project, founder of…

The Band

Long ago, when I was a teenager right in the middle of nowhere, I wanted to start a rock band. It was ambitious, it was the early nineties, and I…

Management in creative environments

Herding cats, that’s sometimes how it feels when you deal with a bunch of creative people and try to make them work on one project together. But it’s really not…

My Rugby Philosophy

Teamwork is a difficult exercise, because things never quite work as planned. Obviously if you have a “traditional” job you just have to follow your job description, and just say…