Greyscalegorilla Podcast

Show Notes:

NAB 2020 has been cancelled

Office Space

The open office plan is a disaster - Chicago Tribune

Shawn Astrom

Major projects are split quarterly into 90 day chunks

Monday morning meetings

Why Synchronous Isn’t Ideal For Remote Work - Medium

Tips to Working From Home - Greyscalegorilla

How Doist Makes Remote Work Happen - Doist

Tools We Use:

• Google G Suite - Business Operations
  • Gmail
  • G Drive
  • Meet
  • Docs
  • Sheets
  • Slides
  • Calendar
• Slack - Chat
• Notion - Project Management, Knowledge Base
• ToDoist - Personal Task Lists
• Chrome Remote Desktop

Tools We Have Used or Other Companies Use:

• Discord
• Asana
• Trello
• Monday
• Dropbox
• JIRA
• Microsoft Teams
• LogMeIn
• Frame.io

• Guest - Jeremy Stuart, Professional Colorist
• Tutorial - Why Should Cinema 4D Artists Learn ACES?
• Andrey Lebrov ACES
• Getting to Know Aces Training Series - Greyscalegorilla Plus
• Color Grading - What is ACES? - Michael Maher
• CG Cinematography by Chris Brejon

In this episode, the team talks to School of Motion founder and all-around extraordinary human being Joey Korenman. Listen to them talk about updates Adobe is working on for After Effects and Photoshop, popular new tools like Procreate and Cavalry, and the benefits of online education versus a traditional school.

Both Joey and Nick Campbell also share insights to entrepreneur-ism and the challenges they face as leaders of growing companies. 

• Adobe Max
• Billie Eilish
• Vampire Weekend
• School of Motion AE 17.0 Tutorial
• Blackmagic Design Fusion
• Nuke
• Learning new software podcast
• Procreate for iPad tool of choice for illustrators
• Sarah Beth Morgan Illustration for Motion course
• Cavalry
• Blender
• Ordinary Folk
• School of Motion Manifesto
• Jorge "JR" Canest
• Mark Christiansen VFX for Motion course
• Maxell Tape commercial
• Zack Lovatt and Nol Honig Expression Session course
• Explode Shape Layers AE plugin
• Flow AE plugin
• Amy Sundin Executive Producer at SOM
• EJ Hassenfratz is working on a new 3D class
• Alaena VanderMost came on as COO and ran all operations
• Scaled up support team / student experience
• Scaled up marketing team under Caleb Ward
• Additional producers and technical product team members
• Offload work to people who are experts in that area
• Listen to alumni about what they want
• Step back and not micro-manage
• Motion Hatch
• Motion Design Masterminds
• Greyscalegorilla Plus
• Online education
• Chris Do The Futur podcast on paying for traditional education
• Student loans are the only type of debt you can't get rid of (Social Security is garnished for student loans)
• Seth Godin
• If people don't invest in a course, they tend no to finish it
• School of Motion Squash and Stretch tutorial
• schoolofmotion.com

In this episode of the Greyscalegorilla podcast, the team catches up after the holidays. Hear them talk about movies, shows, and their favorite gifts. Take a listen to the latest in industry news from around the mograph world, and finally hear about some tips and tricks to help you stay motivated during the cold winter months.

Show Notes:

Big and Rich

Big Audio Dynamite

The Mandalorian

The Witcher

Jack Reacher

Jack Ryan

John Wick

Making John Wick Titles with Amador Valenzuela

Up

Big Bird Singing at Jim Henson's Funeral

Captain America: The First Avenger

Iron Man

Iron Man 2

The Avengers

MasterClass

Penn and Teller

Ken Burns

General Magic the Movie

The Imagineering Story

You

The Mandalorian Behind the Scenes

Unreal Engine Real-Time In-Camera VFX

Jon Favreau at Siggraph

The Declining art of the DVD commentary

RiffTrax

Mystery Science Theater 3000

Fellow Pour Over Kettle

Heated Back Massager

Commercial Baker's Sheet

Light Kit Pro 3 Coffee Maker

Chad's Dieter Rams Instagram Post

Dieter Rams Documentary

Ten Principles for Good Design

Modern Surface Material Collection

Cinema 4D Color Picker Tutorial

Intro to Arnold in Greyscalegorilla Plus

School of Motion End of the Year Podcast

New School of Motion Website

Joey Korenman Podcast Interview Coming Soon

NAB 2020 - April 18 - April 22

MoGraph Meetup

HappyLight Sad Lamp

Toon Shader Tutorial

Apple Mac Pro

Tesla Cybertruck

MKBHD Mac Pro Video

Mac Pro Cinebench Score

Baby Yoda Model

Arnold is the Most Versatile Render Engine for Mac and PC

Redshift adds C4D Noises and Nodes

Russ Gautier - Going from Cinema 4D to Houdini

Guest - Russ Gautier

Greyscalegorilla Plus Introduction to Houdini

Perception

Black Panther

More Perception experiments for Black Panther

Trevor Kerr

The Martin Agency

Flash

VCU (Virginia Commonwealth University)

Be very fast, very efficient, and very organized

Look for opportunities to take things further

Georgiy Gosha Kuznetsov

Hue & Cry

Magnus Hierta

Andrew Prousalis

Man Vs Machine

John LePore

Alias PowerAnimator

Maya

3ds Max

Cinema 4D

Houdini

Simon Holmedal

Simon Fiedler

SideFX Houdini Training

Danil Krivoruchko

Think Procedural

The CG Wiki

Greyscalegorilla Plus Introduction to Houdini

• Interview - Barton Damer on Building the Studio You Want to Work For
• Interview - Zachary Corzine on Pushing the Limits of Cinema 4D
• PC Problems Podcast
• AVA Direct
• Puget Systems
• Boxx Systems
  • Boxx Apexx A3 - Mike's New PC
  • AMD RYZEN 9 3900X Processor (3.80GHz) 12 Core
  • 64GB DDR4-2666 (4 - 16GB DIMMS)
  • 1.0TB SSD M.2 PCIe Drive
  • NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080Ti 11GB
  • Windows 10 Pro 64-Bit
  • BOXX Premium Support
• Learning new software
• Learn tools that help you create what you want to make - Chad on learning Substance
• Learning has to be a full commitment with a goal or problem to solve
• Ignore program shaming
• Price reduction and the many options of software to learn
• Let us know what you want to learn down in the comments below
• Mike is deciding between an After Effects deep dive vs DaVinci Resolve + Fusion
• Nick wants to learn Houdini
• Chad wants to learn Unreal Engine
• Rebirth made in UE4
• Quixel creates real-time photoreal cinematic “Rebirth” in UE4
• Adobe Max
• Allegorithmic's Substance is Coming to the Adobe Creative Cloud
• 3D Design and Motion Tour (Atlanta + Denver) - 25% off with code GSG3DMT 

• Already Been Chewed
• A Skater Turned Designer For NIKE, VANS, MARVEL and More
• Celebrating 90 Years of Mickey Mouse When You Can't Show the Mouse
• Do you really need a producer?
• Building your own studio.
• What do you want artists to know?
• Freelancer Must-Have Traits
• Attitude, reliability, communication, able to follow directions
• There is a skills gap between really talented 2D explainer motion graphic artists and high end macro-shot Houdini artists.
• It's getting harder to find a good generalist that can do animation and compositing
• The siloing of styles is great for specialists, but they are not as employable as generalists
• MoGraph Meetup at NAB

• MANVSMACHINE
• Dungeons and Dragons
• Trevor Kerr (Greyscalegorilla Guide to Redshift)
• NAB Presentation
• California College of the Arts
• Ubisoft
• Greyscalegorilla Tutorials
• Render Tests on Instagram
• NBA Cavaliers Trophy
• Matthias Omotola
• Personal presentation at NAB
• Joe Ball
• Brendi Wedinger
• Bryan Plust
• Aaron Covrett
• Fields
• Field Forces
• Procedural Systems Training

Links - http://bit.ly/2MiYgBf

October 31, 2019 is your last chance to get Greyscalegorilla Plus introductory pricing

Welcome Todd Blankenship to Greyscalegorilla

Andy Needham R21 Podcast

Amador Valenzuela John Wick 3 Podcast

3D Design and Motion Tour - Use code GSG3DMT and get 25% off tickets

Half Rez 8 Titles by Boxfort

Blend Titles by Gunner

School of Motion Manifesto

PC Issues with ENERMAX Liquid Cooling System

Modern Surface Material Collection

Greyscalegorilla Plus - Intro Pricing Ends October 31, 2019

Changing the Color of Textures Tutorial

Plus - 'Procedural Systems,' Everyday Material Collection, and Houdini training

Which renderer is right for you?

Arnold CPU and GPU