Back on October 10th (wow… two and a half weeks ago, already?!) I taught a writer’s workshop at Digital Bootcamp through Chicago Filmmakers in Action. It was a great turnout, sold out and even a little over capacity. The workshop lasted 8 hours, the first half was instruction on screenplay structure and character development. My [...]
Last night I went to the monthly Final Cut Pro User’s Group for the first time. It’s a monthly meeting of editors and motion graphic artists. They went over Mac’s Color software and some coloring techniques. Fun geeky stuff. Color is a software that intimidates me because my sense of color is pretty skewed and [...]
Today I got a chance to hang out at Chicago’s Cultural Center, an amazing building located on Randolph and Michigan, right across from Grant park. I was there for a panel called ‘Break on Through – The creative response to tough times’. Above is the skylight to the building. Paul O’Conner spoke for a while [...]
It was a first for me at MGFest09, a conference dedicated to the world of motion graphics design. I kind of stumbled upon it by chance, but am glad I did. It’s been running all week, but I got my first chance to see it today. There were some great panels from a lot [...]
