The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
–G.K. Chesterton

May this little candle light helps embrace the pain in one’s heart from the misfortunes exist the world.

Argh! Colour ~~~ Same picture file, multiple colours (I only have two monitors myself to test with)
Top: View on my MacBook Pro
Bottom: View on my xxy brand slave monitor

Lesson learned:
Don’t move picture between monitors of different colour settings simultaneously when working on rendering and colour correction. Only move the image to other monitor when it looks right in one of them…

Nice to have:
A VERY awesome monitor, a decent monitor acknowledged by the general public, and a VERY crappy monitor to work with at the same time.

Colour setting to use:
Unfortunately, sRGB is the big bully by default for most applications, so most of the time, I work with sRGB.

And for the web:
Probably best to use ‘save for the web’ option in Photoshop, since it has a rather complicated module under this option when it convert the colour information to a web-friendly version without overkill the actual colour on your raw file.

This is what I have accumulated while working with images. Let me know if you have better tips for me when working with colour!

(Side note: If you really want to know about the science behind colour in applications, I recommend the book The Art and Science of Digital Compositing 2nd Edition by Ron Brinkmann. It has a whole section on this topic.)

Thanks Jason for spreading the coolness of gadgets and the love of art and science!

This is by far the best one I have seen so far. I think it is more realistic than the one by Sony in Madrid and the BMW one in Singapore.

NuFormer – Samsung, Amsterdam, May 2010 – One take from NuFormer Projection on Vimeo.

A place where I keep track of where I can find resources in Mental Ray.

Jamie Cardoso Mental Ray Blog
German Mental Ray Forum
Mental Images

If for whatever reason you need to open a file saved from a newer version of Maya than yours, just do the following:

1. Open Maya
2. File Open –> Option box
3. check ‘Ignore Version’