Hell hath no fury like a parent who is required to have 5+ different apps and websites for their kids’ school activities.
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Cameron Kerr
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I help make TV shows. Post Production and Software Development with a focus on VFX, Editorial, Technology and Pipeline. Former Compositor and two-time Emmy Nominee.
📍 Toronto 🇨🇦
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Does anyone have a great iOS app for the #olympics ? Preferably one that isn’t plastered with ads and is actually nice to use?
Winter Games 2026 is nice, but has so many ads. I’d pay to remove them but there isn’t an option.
The official Olympics app has an awful user experience.
On set I spoke with the cinematographer for this episode, Zoe White. She mentioned how she really wanted to match as much as possible to the lighting from the original shot, particularly out the window and through the curtains. I just ended up stealing those parts of the frame from the original plate and reusing them. The camera department perfectly matched the dolly move from the original shoot which made it easy.
🧵 The End
Q: What did we do?
A: Rebuilt an exact replica of the hospital set on one of the stages and put a green screen out the window. Recast a new baby and reshot those shots. I was brought onset for the reshoot because I was going to be comping the shots. A previous shot with Aunt Lydia passing in front of frame was turned into a transition shot between our original shoot and reshoot on the replica set. We had the original dailies as reference for framing & timing and Ann Dowd (Aunt Lydia) nailed it.
A: Rebuilt an exact replica of the hospital set on one of the stages and put a green screen out the window. Recast a new baby and reshot those shots. I was brought onset for the reshoot because I was going to be comping the shots. A previous shot with Aunt Lydia passing in front of frame was turned into a transition shot between our original shoot and reshoot on the replica set. We had the original dailies as reference for framing & timing and Ann Dowd (Aunt Lydia) nailed it.
Q: Can you adjust the original baby to make it look more sick or replace it with a CG baby?
A: The actor was holding and interacting with a moving baby of a certain size, putting a smaller baby in her arms would mean we’d need to adjust Janine’s arms & body as well. Baby and Momma digi doubles were too expensive and time consuming.
A: The actor was holding and interacting with a moving baby of a certain size, putting a smaller baby in her arms would mean we’d need to adjust Janine’s arms & body as well. Baby and Momma digi doubles were too expensive and time consuming.
Q: Why not recast the baby and reshoot?
A: Months had passed and not only was the hospital location no longer available but it was a different season outside. The swirling snow wouldn’t be there and the bare trees now have leaves.
A: Months had passed and not only was the hospital location no longer available but it was a different season outside. The swirling snow wouldn’t be there and the bare trees now have leaves.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@tvaziri/115986738253088128
Here’s a frame from one of my favourite shots to work on that hits many of the reasons @tvaziri wrote about.
S02E08 of The Handmaid’s Tale.
In the story, the baby was supposed to be sick and malnourished, but the baby that was originally cast was quite jolly and looked well fed.
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Lukas KubanekSparkle, the third-party update framework for Mac apps originally created by @andy_matuschak, is celebrating its 20th anniversary.
“A lot of things come and go in Mac history, but it’s pretty amazing that this module is still so relevant 20 years later.”
One of the things I had no idea how to handle (and was heavily influenced by some Claude conversations) was how many network calls to run simultaneously. The #Autodesk Flow Production Tracking API has some good batching support for CRUD operations but not for uploads. I detect whether the user is on wifi or wired connection and make my call from there. There’s no rate limiting on the API and everything seems to be pretty fast in production, so… all good? 🤷
I’ve been quite impressed with the performance of AVAssetImageGenerator for Cutlist. Even on much older hardware, it breezes through thumbnail generation. I used to run a similar thumbnail generation task inside of Foundry’s Nuke, and it was nowhere near as fast.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/avfoundation/avassetimagegenerator
