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Had a pretty good day yesterday, finished up another quick snippet from a Video CoPilot Tutorial (trying to do at least one a day) as well as got more work done on setting things right in the shop/studio/green screen room.  The latter is slow going because I have so much to clean and get rid of but I am making progress.

The most recent shot I did was very satisfying in that I have reached a level of facility that everything just flows, which is where I need to be.  I am not going to get work doing tutorials though, which is why the green screen room is so important going forward.  At the same time they provide a way to exercise my VFX muscles, learn more and most of all THINK.

The latter can be a curse though because I am very adept at doublespeak and that can lead to downward turns.  So as I am working away at my videos I try and keep an open mind and not get too impressed with myself and what I am doing.  I have to "readjust" my timeline and remind myself that I am no longer staring in rapt awe at somebody from ILM, hearing about how this new fangled doo-hickey called motion capture is gonna revolutionize film and remind myself that the iPhone 6 has build in slo-mo, image stabilization and more memory than the CRAY XMP had at Digital productions. I need to remember that kids in high school learn motion tracking before they master algebra.

Still, here's yesterday's shot for your perusal.