Colin Doncaster

Tag: vfx

Career Paths…

It’s very easy for companies to be complacent about their employees and all too many are falling into the trap of thinking that ‘it’s an honour to work for us’ and in an industry largely driven by contract employment it becomes a slippery slope.  Rather than harbouring talented individuals there’s a trend of burning them [...]

Off the map…

I’ve succumbed to the demands of work and haven’t been able to do much more iPhone development.  My iPhone contract is still being set up with Apple although the application has been approved for sale in the AppStore.  I’m trying to be patient, but it’s a little frustrating – I’ve been told it should take as much [...]

Red Baron VFX

There’s an interesting VFX compilation video from the folks at Pixmodo who’ve recently completed the work on the german film Red Baron.  Great work guys!

Ramsay’s VFX Studio

I’ve never worked in a kitchen, restaurant, or even a food stall. I can’t claim to know what goes on behind those doors, but from what I’ve witnessed I feel I’ve come up with a pretty good observation on the parallels that could ( or should? ) be drawn between working in a Kitchen and [...]

That Slippery Slope

I’m standing at the top of a precipice staring down a slippery slope. Much of my day is spent dealing with ‘cutting edge’ visual effects which in layman’s terms means very non-realtime computer graphics. Granted, the size of the data sets we are dealing with would bring hundreds of PS3′s to their knees ( one [...]