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Ironing out the little problems can make it so companies can avoid big disasters. Recorded: January 31, 2007

Catmull appeared at the 2007 Entrepreneurship Conference at the Stanford Graduate School of Business

Ironing out the little problems can make it so companies can avoid big disasters. Recorded: January 31, 2007
Related Article: http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/headlines/2007entepreneurshipconf.shtml

Catmull appeared at the 2007 Entrepreneurship Conference at the Stanford Graduate School of Business

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NFXPlugins contains nodes ranging from Transformations, Filters, Color operations such a tone mapping, and other misc operations. NFXPlugins also includes numerous nodes similar to ones found in Apple's Shake compositing package, either because Nuke doesn't contain a standalone version as the one found in Shake or for the simple purpose to help Shake users transition to Nuke.

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Guerilla Render — Similar idea as Katana for "in-comp" rendering & shading —

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Unplugged 20: John Montgomery | Motionworks

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This made me laugh: "Shhhhhhhhh. shhhhhhhhh. I’m telling you: your voice, my ears. A bad combination." —

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