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To Some of the Games I’ve Loved Before

Scopique January 23, 2020

What got me thinking about this? Oh! Yeah, I saw some folks talking about Fractured today, which is an MMO that I had heard of but know nothing about. The same can be said for Ashes of Creation, and a few others…

Cameras, Crop, and Lenses — Why the Full-Frame Standard is Confusing

Scopique January 22, 2020

I have been spending a lot of time learning about the mechanics of photography now that I have my new G7 camera. As with a lot of hobbies, there’s technical knowledge — how stuff works — and practical knowledge — what you…

Cancel Culture in TV & Streaming

Scopique January 17, 2020

I woke up this morning thinking about Travelers. I loved Travelers. It was an amazingly well constructed story about people from the future sent back into the past in order to nudge events that would hopefully result in a different outcome…eh…in the…

School, Online, and The Value of Instruction

Scopique January 17, 2020

In my quest to “make a movie”, my eternal struggle with motion graphics and VFX, and an understanding of my addiction to learning, I fired up a new video series this morning on cinematography. Like a lot of the video series that…

Please Silence Your Phones For This Announcement

Scopique January 15, 2020

I figure that if I were to chart my interests over time — the number of them, the intensity of focus — the resulting graph would represent less of a calm and gentle slope and more of a straight and vertical slash…

Counter Culture; Mining Our Own Business

Scopique January 9, 2020

Counter Culture I have been dropping images and text on Twitter about it, but don’t think that I’ve mentioned here that as a result of the sale of my father’s house, we are upgrading our kitchen. Well, it started as the kitchen,…

A New Camera

Scopique January 6, 2020

Adding yet another hobby to the pile, I am now the proud owner of this baby: So, here’s the shortest version I can compile. When studying VFX, there’s a lot of jargon thrown around that’s shared between cinematography and photography, which I…

Element 3D for After Effects

Scopique December 31, 2019

Rounding out 2019 I spent some collected money on one of my long-term wishlist items, Element 3D from VideoCopilot.net. E3D isn’t a 3D modeling program. You can import 3D models in OBJ format, can lay down some primitives like cubes and cylinders,…

Shadow.Tech Remote Game Streaming

Scopique December 27, 2019

With all the opinions floating around regarding upstart game delivery systems like Google Stadia and Microsoft’s Project xCloud, it’s easy to overlook Shadow.Tech, a streaming service that’s been around for a few years and which actually offers the kind of experience that…

Creativity

Scopique December 13, 2019

I had originally written a totally different post, but while out getting lunch I was conversing with my most ardent fan (myself) and realized that in pursuing this topic out loud, I wanted to take a different approach. Creating is a calling.…