Quotes

And a bit of fun from work, before I go back to work, which is tomorrow. After the last show wrapped, I came to my desk in the morning and found my screens and graphics tablet covered in post-it notes from various colleagues, who had gone through the trouble (?) of assembling this fine list. It might just be a nice thing to look back to in a few years. 🙂

I don’t regret the things I’ve done, I regret the things I didn’t do when I had a chance.

FE1000
Every day

(FE1000 was one of my biggest shots, and I had all of two days to finish it. I think I would have needed ten more.)

Why Daphne?! … Why?!!

Julian
everyday at work

(Daphne sits next to me. I’ve made a habit out of bugging people sitting next to me with randomly timed questions of ‘Why’.)

Your son will have graduated from university by the end of this project.

Mei
Feb2, 2016

(Mei sits opposite me. We talked about many things Albert would already have done by the time we ended our work.)

Make this ship more invisible.

The Supervisors
Every day

(Creating an invisible/cloaked ship was part of my job. We joked about just taking the ship out completely, because it was barely visible, anyway. In the end – after months of iterations on the look – that’s just what they ended up doing.)

Fuuuuuu…

Julian
Every day

(… yeah. It’s what happens when they throw away your work.)

Let’s get fat together.

Julian to Mei
Feb 6, 2016

(Late at night, eating snacks. Mei: ‘I shouldn’t, I’m getting fat.’ Me: ‘If we keep working this kind of hours, I soon won’t have a wife to look good for anymore. Let’s get fat together.’ I’m happy to report, we both didn’t.)

Hey, let’s just shoot it on a TV screen.

Unknown

(Back at Pixomondo, Daniel and I had to come up with a look for some kind of hologram. The producers wanted to emulate the ‘Princess Leia look’. Shooting it on a TV screen and then super-imposing it onto the original plate was how we did it. It really doesn’t have any significance here.)

Why does it look like that?

Julian

(I must come across as a really confused guy.)

 Sheize!

Julian
Every day

(And angry, too.)

Die Schwaben, ich sag’s dir!

Der Schwabe

(says my Swabian colleague to me Swabian, about the Swabian director of the movie we worked on. One could say he made us Swabians look bad, but that’s probably giving him too much credit.)

Hey Mei, will you work on my edges?

Julian

(On the last two days, working on that big shot, I got a lot of help from several people. It became a running gag after that. I’ll explain the technical side of it in one-on-one sessions later this year, thank you.)

I’m creatively bankrupted.

Mei
Feb 9, 2006

(Self-explanatory and universally true.)

Uh-oh! Does someone need an intervention?

Daphne

(Whenever I would go on one of my rare but fun rants.)

Eins, Zwei, Polizei!

Scooter

(It’s telling that whoever wrote this note chose the Scooter remix over the original. 😀 )

Have a good and successful week, everyone!