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Professional Development Newsletter: Mister Rogers Sweater (Commentary by Hedda Sharapan)

From The Fred Rogers Company Professional Development Newsletter. As you can hear on this clip from Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, there was another, more personal reason why Fred wore those sweaters. – See more at: http://www.fredrogers.org/professional/video/social-emotional/sweater-video.php#sthash.bsxdHWwW.dpuf

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Building Laravel Bundles with TDD pt. 2

We continue where we left off by finishing our filter class by driving out the functionality with test-driven development Topics: Laravel 3.2 Vim PHPUnit 3.6 PHP 5.4

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Unedited version – Boston PHP November Meetup “Web to Mobile and Back with Raizlabs”

Note: main presentation starts at about 00:09:00 after the announcements. This is the unedited version of this video. We are trying something new – in addition to sending the full edited version whenever it is ready, we are sending the unedited version very shortly after the event. This is essentially just a video of the…

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Robocop (2014) Montage (UI + HUD + Screen VFX

Throughout 2013 I led a team in developing various future-tech for the remake of Robocop. Our team was tasked with everything from Robocop’s HUD, to various futuristic screen installations throughout the film. Our all-star team brought a tremendous amount of conceptual sophistication and technical expertise to this massive project, in a film where so much…

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CCSL

Character animation is something we’ve wanted to sink our teeth into more. That said, we were more than stoked when the fine folks at Cundari came to us a second time for a Canadian Cancer Society project and it leaned towards a character-driven piece. More details and some selected visual development work here: http://tendril.ca/feed_work.php?item_ID=147 Client:…

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Health, Human Rights, and the Sustainable Development Agenda

Alicia Ely Yamin guides us through the Millennium Development Goals, the Sustainable Development Goals, and the role of changing global priorities from the early 2000s until present day. Part 3 of 3. Images used in order of appearance under license from Shutterstock.com or through public domain or Creative Commons licenses from United Nations Photo, Flickr…

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Fabric Engine: Online Alembic Animation Review WIP

This video shows the work in progress on an online animation review system build using Fabric Engine and its Alembic.IO integration. The full development progress, including design decisions as well as source code is documented on the Fabric Engine forums: http://forums.fabric-engine.com/index.php?/topic/6-alembic-based-online-animation-review/ Please provide some feedback there! -H

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The Importance of Risk Management In Policy Development

This is my final project submission for Risk and Opportunity: Managing Risk for Development course. I filmed and edited this entire movie myself using my iPhone and Windows live Movie Maker. Sources and additional reading • https://www.thedti.gov.za/economic_empowerment/docs/Inside.pdf • http://www.optimist123.com/optimist/2006/09/republicans_vs_.html • http://www.southafrica.info/about/social/poverty-040414.htm#.VrL4CPl97IW • http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG/countries/ZA-zf?display=graph • http://www.anc.org.za/show.php?id=283 • http://reports.weforum.org/global-competitiveness-report-2015-2016/

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Mezzo “RACE” VFX Breakdown | Compositing Supervisor

Mezzo received a VES NOMINATION: Outstanding Compositing in a Broadcast Program, Commercial, or Music Video Agency: Timmerman &Tan/Singapore Creative Director: Michael Tan Agency Producer: Serene Chiu Production Company: Rokkit/ London Director: Joseph Kosinski DP: Claudio Miranda EP: Dan Dickenson Producer: Luke Jacobs Visual Effects: SWAY Studio EP: Shira Boardman Creative Director: Mark Glaser VFX Supervisor:…

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Kiss (Canon 50D raw video)

Music: “Counterclockwise” by Peter Rudenko (http://alonetone.com/author) Testing 16:9 raw video on the Canon 50D with GregoryOfManhattan’s build. Follow the development at Magic Lantern: http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=5586 Shot at 1592×864 @ 24 fps – I can get about 500-600 frames. Upsized to 1920x1080p. Footage processed in ACR. Did some moire reduction with a brush on the water in…