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FIE LLC is proud to announce the immediate available of EPI Book 1: It’s Complicated. The EPI books are a series of short illustrated novels, akin to a TV series or comic book. Each book moves the story along incrementally … Continue reading
Interview in Cinefex article on “The Tree of Life”
I did an interview for “The Tree of Life” article featured in Cinefex issue 128. This article is really the best and most comprehensive look at what we did and how we did it. Unfortunately, there is no free on-line … Continue reading
Presenting “The Tree of Life” to The Academy
The awards season earlier this year was a very tense time. I never felt comfortable posting about it because I didn’t want to toot my horn too loud. It was all a little too big. This past January, I was … Continue reading
Iron Man Released
Iron Man finally hit threaters and so I finally get to talk about it in the open, and what I did on it. If you watch the credits, under Pixel Liberation Front, you’ll find me crediated as Brad Friedman, Technical … Continue reading
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Rolls and other rolls
Most CGI riggers are taught about a thing called a forearm roll. It’s in many books. Someone likely teaches them some kind of simple way to build it into their rigs.
They think they’ve got it. But when it goes through production, it breaks. And usually, they then put in a switch to “turn it off” so that animators can fix/animate it manually.
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