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Postapalooza event in Michigan and Indiana in October

Join us at Postapalooza 2009. If you’re interested in After Effects, Trish Meyer is teaching AE in Michigan and I’ll be teaching AE in Indiana. Jem Schofield and Mike Milkinson will be sharing their FCP Skills, as well as Craig Frankenstein and Steve Julin (event founder and coordinator).

Michigan: Thursday Oct. 15th and – Friday Oct. 16th – (Download Michigan Brochure)

Indiana: Monday Oct. 19th and Tuesday Oct. 20th – (Download Indiana Brochure)

The conference is very limited so register now!

Sponsors include Toolfarm, Noise Industries, CoreMelt, Artbeats, Red Giant, Boris Effects and more!

Red Giant Pro Keying Bundle Sale / Podcast

We are currently having a sale on the Red Giant Pro Keying Bundle, which includes Primatte Keyer Pro and Key Correct Pro. It’s an incredible deal at 50% off because they are such great tools. Primatte Keyer is designed for designers not programmers so it is very visual. There are big buttons to click and you can drag around your mouse to select the colors you want to key out and to adjust your matte, as opposed to tweaking sliders. Key Correct includes tools like Smooth Screen, which evens out your greenscreen, making your foreground easier to key, without worsening spill. Great tools! The sale is over on June 15, next Monday.

If you missed the podcast I did for Red Giant TV last month about Primatte Keyer and Key Correct Pro, check it out here. It’s not just another “here’s how to use the tools” type of video, but I get deep into keying technique with tips to optimize your keying potential.

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KAFI – Kalamazoo Animation Festival International

I will be presenting on Sunday, May 17 at KAFI at the Kalamazoo Valley Community College (room CNM 175) in Kalamazoo, Michigan, about… you guessed it…. greenscreen. I’ll be on from 11:00?AM -?12:15?PM. For more information, go to the KAFI website

Review from Sci-Fi-London

A very nice review from Robert Grant at Sci-Fi-London.

Written with the indie filmmaker in mind ‘Greenscreen Made Easy’ follows a beautifully logical path through the entire process of pre-production, production and post-production from buying or building your greenscreen (or blue, and it explains that as well) through shooting your backgrounds, lighting for greenscreen, positioning your actors, techniques for clean keys, prepping for post-production, getting rid of artifacts, different plug-ins, blending, colouring, making it believable and using CGI backgrounds.

Read it here.

Michele Yamazaki on Movie Geeks United podcast

Toolfarm’s Michele Yamazaki is a guest on The Art of Greenscreen Movie Talk Roundtable show on BlogTalkRadio. The talk centers around Michele and Jereme Hanke’s book, Greensreen Made Easy: Keying and Compositing Techniques for Indie Filmmakers.

Red Giant Software: Episode 18: Compositing Tips from ‘Greenscreen Made Easy’ Episode 18: Compositing Tips from ‘Greenscreen Made Easy’

Have a listen!

Terrific Review by Topher Welsh on his Vlog

Thanks for the kind words! Topher has a galley copy, hence, the cover is different.

Win a Copy of Greenscreen Made Easy!

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Tell us your greenscreen or keying horror story! Enter to win Professional Keying with Keylight and the book Greenscreen Made Easy. All instructions are in the video. Important: Tag your video with the word ‘Greenscreen’. To do this, go to MyToolfarm.com and upload your video and click “Edit Video” to edit your tags. Due date is Friday, April 10, 2009. Good luck!

Michele Presenting at Ferris Video Festival

I’ll be running a session on Greenscreen and Keying (mainly keying tricks) at the Ferris video Festival on Friday, April 3.

The Ferris student chapter of MCA-I is hosting its 9th Ferris Video Festival on Friday, April 3. The event begins at 10:00 AM with a keynote presentation by Angela Prater, a graduate of the program who will speak on Diversity Online. She will present the awards for the high school award winners. Following the ceremony, there will be concurrent training sessions from 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM on a range of topics including the RED camera, Animation in Video Production, Copyright Issues, Special Effects Makeup, Greenscreen tricks, Music Video Production, After Effects, the HD Workflow, and Women in Film and Television. Members of the MCA-I Mid-Michigan chapter will be among the presenters. Everyone is invited. Admission is free. The event will be held in the IRC building which shares a parking lot with the football field on the mother campus in Big Rapids, MI.

Here’s the full schedule of the breakout sessions, from 11am-1pm.

• Copyright Issues — Denise Glassmeyer, Young Basile Attorneys
• Special Effects Makeup — Dawn Butler, fxmakeupbydawn & MCA-I
• Red Camera Demonstration— Jeff Hamlin, Lansing Community College
• Animation in Game Design – David Baker, Ferris State University
• Green Screen – Michele Yamazaki, Toolfarm & MCA-I
• Women in Film and Video – Serenity Sherie, Detroit Women in Film and TV
• Music Video Production – Chavell Crofford, Vellis Productions
• HD Workflow – going Tapeless – Glen Okonoski, Ferris State University
• After Effects – Andrew Tingley, Creo Productions
• Unions in a Production Environment – William Minihan, IATSE

On Saturday April 4, also in the IRC building room 120 on the Big Rapids campus, the Television and Digital Media Production Program will host a PA Bootcamp from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM. The P.A. Boot Camp will provide more than just an overview of what is expected of production assistants on both film and video sets. MPA instructors Jax Baker and Mitch Nyberg will engage students with demonstrations, hands-on activities, form usage exercises, and give a review of set/client etiquette. Students will gain job search tips from a panel of production professionals during an informative discussion on local production companies, unions and film organizations, and the resources they offer. The training session is open to the public for $40 and for students at a reduced rate of $35. Seating is limited.

Attending NAB this year?

NAB is just around the corner, it seems. Are you going this year? Is the economy making it difficult for you to take trips like this? Is the absence of Apple and other companies a reason that you would not attend? Is it an event that you wouldn’t miss? How do the parties and things like the FCP Supermeet influence your decision to go? Please tell us your thoughts about the NAB conference. We’re curious.