Episode 7 - The Metacast - It’s Labor Day! - Tim’s Vermeer - A Meat-Based Raytracer

* We talk about getting our podcast up and running, Tim's Vermeer, and the trials and tribulations of starting a new job

* And working while sick and how stalwart that is of us VFX workforce
* HipChat is our behind the scenes tool for collaboration

* We’re not cool enough to use Slack

* Obama addressed the nation for Labor Day

* …and appealed to lawmakers to create paid sick days nationwide
* California does have a part-time workers sick day policy now!

* Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland
* "Working for the credit” … still doesn’t pay the bills
* Day After Tomorrow
* Van Helsing
* A little insight into the dark magic of how credits are doled out
* The Tim Ferris interview with Robert Rodriguez is pretty insightful 

* Segue mastery is demonstrated

* …and then botched by PJ forgetting Tim Jenisen’s last name! So sorry!

* Tim’s Vermeer 

* Official TGR Recommendation: See this documentary! #vfxcanon
* The execution of art verses technical mastery - is there a difference?
* Vermeer was a 17th Century Dutch Master of painting that was seemingly ahead of its time 
* Optical aberrations explained 

* Bokeh 

* David Hockney book Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters 
* My Kid Could Paint That
* Camera Obscura 

* Santa Monica’s Camera Obscura 

* Spoiler alert — Remember - DO see this movie!

* The likely technique explained

* Our money is on this being a correct conclusion

* Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain 

* Mort Drucker

* High level discussion of crafting a movie vs animating creatures
* Behind the scenes on Jurassic World - mocapping dinosaurs
* Spielberg's Moving Master Shots

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