3D head tracking

Hi.
This is my second try on the Terminator Eye Effect.
I tracked my head in SynthEyes and composite in After Effects.
Please tell me what you think about it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mblOdiY6UtI

btw: A tutorial will follow for everyone who is ineterested…

DD’s Steve Preeg on Button

The Amazing Effects Of Benjamin Button, an interview with Digital Domain Character Supervisor Steve Preeg, at The Huffington Post.

Online MFA [visual effects] degree

I’m wondering which schools offer online diploma study for visual effects and animation ?
I studied graphic dsign, and I want to do my master on visual effects, however, I’m not sure about the goods/pros/cons about an online class.

I found academyart has online classes, but I could not find any information about their admissions.

Needing help.

HD Encoding Recomendations, what I should use?

Hi everyone

I was wondering if you could help me to solve a tricky mistery, at least for me, I’m about to distribute an animation to a couple of friends and maybe other people, I made the video in HD(1080p), rendered, compossed and edited. Now I have a uncompressed format from the video, but I don’t know what kind of codec or tools, I need to make it playable to almost averyone who has mac or pc without the lossing of so much quality, I plan to burn the video as a file and if necessary add the right tools to be seen.

What is what you suggest that I should use? I heard something about H.264, MPG4, Divx, Procoder, Rhozet Carbon Coder, Cinema Craft Encoder,among others, but it is harder to take a good decision, What I would like that my friends experiment when they put the CD/DVD inside their computers, is an ease of use, and a good quality video and playback, I will burn 2 or 3 diferent formats maybe.

I really hope that you can help me or suggest something to me,

ok cya, nice day and best wishes for 2009 year!

Five in Two Thousand and Nine.

> Quicktime H.264
(11mb)
> iPod Compatible
(7.4mb)
> Watch in Flash
(6.4mb progressive)

Channel Five’s sizzle reel for the year ahead shows off the networks import heavy programming line up for 2009, accompanied by the Ladyhawke track ‘Magic‘.

DOF match

I want to learn how to match the added 3d elemnts’ DOF with the footage’s.

I’m using C4D and AE.

Full CG (first expierence)

Well, I decided to start my first full cg fotorealistic shot (or 3-5 shots). I watched a many BTS from diferent studios and I think – “Wow, this shot looks pretty, may be I can create something like this!” And I want to lern new (for me) software, like XSI and VUE. So, this is my first models, which I was created in XSI (my hero is train) and VUE (for Environment). All that I have now, was created for previz. After my previz, I will start to setting up all scenes for final compositing.

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resizing source for 3d card

hi there Nuke magicians,
this is my first post here although I’m reading through this forum for a while.

When I’ve built a complex script with more then 50 cards (PSD layers as source through Project3D node) I’ve decided that I have to scale-up (extend left, riht, up & down) my source file ’cause I need a wider shot. Now when I reload PSD layers back, they seems to be moved out of it original place (actually scaled down to fit original bbox).

I suspect it’s something connected with pivots and formats and reminds me to what would happen in 3d app (texture would conform to 0,1 uv range).
When I had a similar scenario with AE 3D layers everything worked fine when reloaded back.

Basically, what I’d like to have is everything in place on cards as originally, only extended in all 4 directions same like in PSD file.

I tried to use crop and bbox node but it wouldn’t help me.

Is there a quick fix without re-doing the whole comp from begining?
Can someone explain me the concept of format in this case, please because I’m quiet new to Nuke?

nesh

how to connect mocap data to mesh?

hi there
it’s complicated to explain this problem if you look at the video you will get what i mean
thank you..

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The Old Steeple

Any feed back for a rookie like me is greatly appreciated! I had quite the time tracking and stabilizing this shot. I ended up using 2 stabilize notes and 2 SmoothCam (on lock) Notes to get it still enough. I used Shake and Blender.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKt3NmI2hag

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