Christopher: What is the core focus of what Optimus does in terms of content creation? Ken Winke: Sure. So first, we call ourselves a post production house. Primarily we do post work for advertising clients, brands, and agencies here in Chicago. So that’s anything from a traditional 30 second TV spot, to something that’s more
Christopher: So thank you for making time to discuss your background and the kinds of projects that you guys are up to at Cortina Productions. I'm excited to hear about it because… it's really pretty impressive what you are creating, in particular for other national museums. Andrew: Yeah, it's a very unique kind of niche
If Zbrush and Keyshot are core applications tools to the work you do, then CPU is the deciding factor in performance. ZBrush and Keyshot are multi-threaded apps, meaning generally speaking the more hi-speed cores you have, the faster your jobs will get done. While a dual Xeon configuration can give you a speed advantage with
It may be genetic at this point with "Apple" products: beautiful, quiet hardware designed for media professionals, which makes little difference in the key metric: performance. While something of a PC vs. Mac conversation, we did want to take a brief look at the new Blackmagic eGPU pro and con, and compare it with more
THE FASTEST WORKSTATION AT THE LOWEST PRICE - OUR JULY 4 CLEARANCE! On the occasion some two hundred forty two years ago today when we announced our independence from Britain, and the quarter finals of a truly wild World Cup, I’m announcing our Summer Clearance, checking in with some of what we are working
Christopher Johnson: Great. Well, hello! Thank you for making time this afternoon Sarah to talk about your career and your creative work. Sarah: Of course! Christopher: As I mentioned to you, it’s all day guys basically doing what you do. Sarah Dziuba: I can imagine. I mean thankfully -- well not thankfully, but I get
Christopher Johnson: First off, thank you very much for taking time out to do this interview. Most of the people that we support are doing film, TV or game creation, and you’re in the live performance arena. Before we get into the specifics of that, I wanted to just start out with what your
Christopher: So I guess for starters, what was the moment? Jama: If I tell you you’ll be like, wow, I didn’t expect that. So basically started studying aerospace engineering when I was 18 or something. Christopher: Aerospace engineering! Jama: Yeah, like corporate engineer--I think it was kind of a mistake because I was told it
Jeffrey, Meats and Chad at StudioThis is Part II of our interview with Jeffrey Jasper, CEO of nphinit LLC, former CTO of New Deal Studios, and winner of Academy Award for Best Visual Effects on Interstellar. Did you miss Part I? View it here.Christopher: As I recall, basically where we’d left it is we’d finished
Part I of II: Our interview with Jeffrey Jasper, CEO of nphinit, LLC. a company doing entertainment technology development for international markets. Former CTO, New Deal Studios, winner of Academy Award for Best Visual Effects on Interstellar. Christopher: Jeffrey Jasper. Jeffrey: Hey, how’s it going? Christopher: It’s going good man, how are you doing?
