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		<title>Updated Demo Reel</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ricks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just posted my new <a href="http://www.stubbysquirrel.com/motion/2010-demo-reel/">demo reel</a> on here a few days ago. It was long overdue. Looking back at my old one, it was mostly filled with random tests and tutorial-like content. I'm glad that my reel now is mostly stuff I'm proud of, and I hope new and interesting work continues to come my way.]]></description>
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		<title>2010 Demo Reel</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ricks</dc:creator>
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Quicktime Version (1280&#215;720)
Music: &#8220;Fire Eye&#8217;d Boy&#8221; by Broken Social Scene

 

Reel Breakdown (What I Did):
:06-:10 • Abstract Cloners • Personal experiment with C4D&#8217;s MoGraph module and integration between C4D and After Effects.
:10-:14 • ACU &#8211; Listeners • Planar tracking and roto with Imagineer Mocha and After Effects.
:14-:15 • NCL &#8211; Epic • Animation. Shiny Object

:15-:17 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>la Crème</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ricks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shiny Object hired me to help create some web videos for la Crème Yogurt. The gist of it was there would be 3 different scenes where the spoon, &#8220;Sterling,&#8221; was in love with la Crème Yogurt. It was tough since there weren&#8217;t any facial expressions or limbs to work with to show emotion. Plus, they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Team CoCo!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ricks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it's been over a month since my last blog post. I apologize. January has been a busy month. It started out with a trip to California for the National Championship game between Texas and Alabama, and ended with some busy weeks of work and Conan O'Brien leaving The Tonight Show.]]></description>
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		<title>A Festivus for the Rest of Us!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ricks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Festivus! Enjoy all the traditions of Festivus! The Festivus Pole, the Airing of Grievances, Feats of Strength, and Festivus Miracles!]]></description>
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		<title>The Greatest Review of The Phantom Menace Ever!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ricks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quite possibly the best review of The Phantom Menace ever! 70 minutes of humorous yet accurate points explaining why The Phantom Menace just wasn't a very good movie.]]></description>
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		<title>x264 &#8211; My Preferred Video Encoder</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ricks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have any experience with compressing videos, you probably know the h264 codec. What a lot of people don't know about is a very good alternative encoder, x264.]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Christmas!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ricks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I present to you the latest and greatest Christmas Hit, &#8220;It&#8217;s Christmas!&#8221; Having a hard time waking up? Having a bad day? Just watch this and your day will become instantly better. I think the walking scenes are the best.

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		<title>Xpresso Flicker</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ricks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I'm working on a job where I need to have a fireplace light a room. And everyone knows the light from a fire is not a constant thing, so I needed to figure out a way to have it flicker.]]></description>
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		<title>Butterfly Man!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ricks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I was working on making a butterfly at work today, I used a Figure primitive as a quick stand-in for the body. I think I&#8217;ve stumbled upon the next great superhero. Behold, Butterfly Man!


And since I&#8217;m posting screenshots, here&#8217;s a look at what I was doing last night. Gotta love Lloyd Alvarez&#8217;s BG Renderer [...]]]></description>
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