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My fellow, filmmaker Brian Ramage teams up with Philip Bloom (yup that’s right), to create a project called RIVEN. See the video telling what is this about, have fun, and support it if you like. Guys talk about themselves as well a dive into the story and their plans. Here is the kickstarter page for [...]
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“Animation Producer” Book Review
Posted by Leonid Karachko on July 25th, 2011
I got myself involved into early development stages of a full length CG animation project. I certainly lack experience in this field apart from possessing general producing techniques and knowledge. So I bought a book. I always do so when I wanna know or learn things in depth. Here is what I think of it. [...]
Thoughts on ‘VES Open Letter to VFX Artists’
Posted by Leonid Karachko on July 19th, 2011
A while ago VES posted An Open Letter To VFX Artists And The Entertainment Industry At Large Visual Effects Society: 2.0 Now I hear that VES is putting together the Bill of Rights for Artists. I support all of that along with many other vfx people out there. The information and the movement itself made [...]
The Kids Are All Right or How Did I Jury a Video Contest
Posted by Leonid Karachko on April 2nd, 2011
Just today’s morning I had an honor to jury a few video shows created by kids (yrs 8 to 15). They were done for the “How to make your own internet show” class organized by kyivcast.com and www.detki-monetki.biz(both in Russian) My fellow juries were Pavel Shyryaev – among everything, experienced animator, and Aleksei Dmitriev – [...]
Squint Your Eyes And Look Away. A Small VFX Tip.
Posted by Leonid Karachko on February 24th, 2011
When I was painting the picture on the left today (shut up, I’m just learning) I remembered one trick that I use from time to time in my VFX work. For this picture I had to transfer the range of tones onto paper, finding out which one is lighter or darker and how they relate [...]
Visual Effects Fun
Posted by Leonid Karachko on February 7th, 2011
I really love that joke that visual effects guys are color blind for green and blue). Now surfing through my archive projects I had some fun memories too.
Presentation Within Kinomedia Festival. Thoughts.
Posted by Leonid Karachko on November 3rd, 2010
Today I had a chance to speak in front of a student audience about how to make quality movies on a tight budget and limited resources. It was all done within Kinomedia festival and I delivered a great presentation originally created by my friend Igor Ryabchuk. So big thanks to them. I surely added some [...]
Greatest Software You’ll Ever Have
Posted by Leonid Karachko on August 13th, 2010
I’ve had opportunities to work for producers and directors as vfx artist as well as to play a role of producer and supervisor for a team of artists that worked under my management. We all know that projects get out of control once in a while. And it’s kinda OK because we work in the [...]
