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I know, I know I’ve been so busy the past time, actually I was so lazy to open a window and start posting something :P For the past months I’ve been working as a production coordinator at Caviar for nearly a year, I also produced several TV Commercials and Photoshoots. A few months ago I focused entirely on my studies at Animation Mentor, studying 3D Animation was for a long time a dream to me, and thanks to God I’m realizing this dream now, I started my studies on September 2008 and its considered a 18-months Diploma program on character Animation. Consisting of 6 classes, the pace gradually increases on each class. Recently I finished Class 1 : Basic Foundations on December 19th 2008, and I must say it was by far the best experience ever ! Many thanks to my mentor and all my classmates who not only supported me but also were a part in making my experience an enjoyable one.

This is my showreel for Class 1, its a collection of my assignments from my first class at Animation Mentor, the online Animation school. My mentor was Jon Collins who worked at ILM, Blue Sky, Pixar, where he worked on Pixar’s Finding Nemo and Wall-E, and right now he’s animating on the upcoming movie “UP”.

And to those who are new to animation, this was all done on a frame-by-frame basis, it takes time but its fun in the end :)

Hope you enjoy it as much as I have animating it :D

- Ahmad

Just to see to what extent a Father would push for his disabled son … They both competed in over 950 races including the Ironman Trialathon.

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Message: For all our fathers out there, we wouldn’t be what we are now without you …

Source: Men’s Health

45

I recognized 45 countries in 5 minutes, I missed a lot of known countries, so how did you do ?

كل عام وانتم بخير!

happy new year everyone !

First of all Eid Mubarak everyone, im finally back to blogging.

According to this article it says the Steven Speilberg (Director) has refused to shoot the 4th Indiana Jones sequel in digital format, instead he’ll be shooting in Film. George Lucas (movie Writer) insisted to shoot on Digital, he’s one of the pioneers of digital filming btw – but steven Speilberg joked saying that he is the last person in Hollywood still cutting the film negatives.

My take is that the gap between film and digital is getting very close, most digital films add grain effects just to match the grainy film look, before the dynamic light range of whites/blacks holds better in film, but today Digital has proven to capture more dynamic range than film. It’s hardly makes a difference to a the average guy/gal to notice what format the movie is shot in,. Spielberg learned the old-skool way of cutting film negatives, and still insists on making movies that way – he didn’t use an Avid system yet (one the most popular Non Linear systems) But at least he could’ve used easier methods, new tools because the technology is advancing.. he’s an old-fashioned guy for sure .. I’m with George on this one – ma 3endek salfa ya Steve :p

Format wars and debates are always happening and won’t stop so soon. As I see it, what matters in the end is the story, and what someone has to tell and say.

عن أبي هريرة رضي الله عنه قال: قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم : ” من صام رمضان إيماناً واحتساباً غفر له ما تقدم من ذنبه ” رواه البخاري ومسلم

Abu Hurayrah (may Allah bless him) reported that Allah’s messenger (peace be upon him) said ” Whoever fasts during the month of Ramadan out of sincere faith, and hoping to achieve Allah’s satisfaction, then all his past sins will be forgiven”

I Hoping for all muslims a happy month, I’ll be back after eid.

I was testing the Panasonic HVX200 last week, and while looking at the footage I’ve shot, I came up with an idea to quickly edit a portion of it in Final Cut Pro..

I named it Under The Sea, shot in High-Definiton 720p …

Starring:

ClownFish

Shrimp

Fox Face

Technical:
Mac: iMac 24-Inch 2.16Ghz, 2GB ram, 256mb graphics

Camera: Panasonic HVX200

Sofware: Final Cut Pro 6

Song by: Alen Menken © Disney

It’s shaky in some shots, coz Im holding it in my hands, the thing is really heavy

Link (File Size: 25MB): http://www.ahmad.tv/videos/Unda-Da-Sea.mp4

Enjoy!

Back from holiday :) I want to start blogging again on filmmaking, let’s hear your ideas on topics you would like me to write about during the following months ..

تعلمون أنه ما عندنا سينما محلية والفن محصور ما بين المسرحيات اوالمسلسلات، وفي بعض التجارب السينمائية لكن برأيي فاشلة ..

انزين تخيلو معاي هالسيناريو …

محاولة جادة في عرض فيلم كويتي في السينما، يتمتع بالخصائص الآتية:

١. قصة متميزة ليست متكررة فيها قيمة مضافة (اخلاقية، اجتماعية ..الخ)

٢. جودة انتاج عالية – من حركات الكاميرات الى الإضاءة والصوتيات .. الخ

٣. تميز في أداء الممثلين

وكان التنفيذ عالي المستوى، والممثلين كويتين ومو بالضرورة معروفين

هل تتوقعون عمل مثل هذا ينجح في السينما أو لأ ؟ وليش ؟

ودي اسمع رايكم بكل صراحة.

Check this site, it’s a classified list in Kuwait. Currently it has 4 sections, starting from Real estate, For Sale items, Jobs and ending with the Forums. It’s still new, but I’m sure it has potential.

You only need to setup an account and then your ready to post.

Update: as one of the posters mentioned, posting to urood doesn’t require to open an account. You can press the “post to urood” like and start putting on ads. – thanks Al-Mughrabi !

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