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Alone in the Dark

games, review, video 1 Comment

A premiere here on the Promenade Blog: my first video post! And it’s a rant about the new Alone in the Dark by Eden Games. So if you can stand my voice and my thick accent when talking English then feel free to click the play button. If you prefer to read and click some links: No problemo, what is said can be read here as well. A weekend well spent…
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DISCLAIMER: No, I don’t hate the game, in fact it’s quite entertaining. But I needed to vent my anger that I am inable to handle the game controls well. And I die a lot!
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The Dark Knight

Reports, films, ranting, review 1 Comment

I just came home from watching “The Dark Knight” in the UCI Colosseum in Berlin and I have to say: What a bunchload of crap! Really? No, of course not! This movie actually seems to me as one of the best super hero movies there can be — with a sophisticated story off the beaten tracks while staying true with the fans. Read on.

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Narcissistic Machines

Computing, Random Thoughts No Comments

Now it is the third week I am living here in Berlin and it’s about five days since Lisa left and I am all alone here. And just before I asked myself whether I was homesick. And as strange it may sound, my answer is no. But why? What is it that makes me feel that way?

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Rise and Shine

Compositing, Reports No Comments
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rise|fx,
originally uploaded by Phil Strahl.

Monday was my first day of many other to come at rise visual effects Berlin as an intern. Strangely it’s exactly as I imagined it, maybe even a little boring — but hey: It’s my first week and they won’t hand me critical or very creative stuff right away because the team is a little stressed keeping a deadline for a feature film project due in 2009. I hope that I’ll be involved in stuff for the big screen myself sooner or later…

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Three Months in Berlin

Reports, ranting 2 Comments
see it at flickr

The Watchtower,
originally uploaded by Phil Strahl.

Berlin again — at last! It’s been nearly a year since my first visit to this amazing city and hence I am working as an intern at rise|fx I am about to stay much longer than last year which is great. I’ve been here only a couple of days now but I really like this city full of textures and shaders, not only for it textural qualities but also for the new way of living and working for here.
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DVCPRO-HD-MXF-QT-MOV-FCUK!

Computing, Reports, Technology, ranting, video No Comments

Working on bigger projects with people in remote places always is a hassle. Today I received the long anticipated hard disk with the blue screen shots I should be working on. I popped it into the USB port but Windows thought the device was damaged and suggested to replace it. Luckily I remembered that the person who sent me the disk was a Mac user so I tried connecting the device on some Mac and it worked. Then my data-odyssey began…

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YouTube features

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While I was spending the night cleaning up and UV layouting a scene in Maya I felt a the urge to check my mail. So I logged on Yahoo! to check whether I got some more r*0*l*e*x and v14gr4 spam mails to get rid off, usually no more than 2 or 4. but today it was different. When you have suddenly 68 new emails from one day to another in your inbox then either something great or something terrible has happened to you.

Digital Cinematography

Compositing, Reports, Technology, filmmaking, films, video No Comments

Another convention report, my apologies! I haven’t thought that I would be on so many (= two) conventions in the field of digital film in such a short span of time. But attending the Digitale Cinematographie convention this Thursday in Munich was something way out of the ordinary because a little dream never dreamed came true: Seeing my work on the grandeur of a real IMAX theater silver screen.

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FMX 08, Day Four

Computing, Lectures, games No Comments

Somehow I’ve all made it through many hours of very interesting presentations — still my spirits weakened: Four hours of sleep a day just isn’t enough for conventions like the FMX where one should be as sharply focused as a Pong-player in order not to miss anything: Today it was everything about games mostly.

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FMX 08, Day Three

CGI & Rendering, Compositing, Lectures, Reports, Technology, films, people No Comments

Today I was eager for a new Pixar poster. Who would’ve thought that I spent nearly one and half hour talking with the guys and gals from Pixar?

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