The Molecule breakdowns

Visual effects studio The Molecule has some great breakdowns on its website, and some blog postings about the vfx for Rescue Me here.

Correct Setup Cam Projection

Hello everybody,

I have a question about camprojection with nuke. I have a 3D model of an city, now I exported every building as an obj seperately and projected on every a texture from an psd file, then put every projectnode seperately in a scene then a rendernode, then merged them everytime with an over together. My question now is how do I get the Z-Depth from the whole city? Is there another way to merge all the files in one scene and lay them one over another, or does every projection need their own rendernode?

cheers

stephan

smooth out pan

Hey guys,

I have some footage of a short pan I shot the otherday…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJnjl3Wg1XA

My problem is that the pan is not a very smooth motion, what would be the best way of smoothing the shot out?

Thanks,
Chris

Heineken Walking Fridge contest

Hi guys,

We (Randy and I) joined a dutch competition for Heineken.
Target: “Make a follow up of the original walking fridge commercial”
Theme: “Summer”

Unfortunately we could use the camera 7 days before the deadline.
So we had only 7 days production time.

Day 1: Modeling and animating the fridge
Day2: Filming (shot with a Canon HF S100)
Day3 till 6: Compositing
Day 7: Rounding it up. Stress Stress Stress. Uploading crashed 3 times. Uploaded the
commercial one hour before the deadline!

It’s mostly mattepainting and greenscreen.

Here is the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V_mg…layer_embedded

Well let me know what you guys think of it!

Later,
Maarten

i want to know what does it mean:(

hi guys
i want to use nuke and i used to after effects but i saw some nodes they are shuffle or something else what does it mean in after effects or nevermind after effects how to use these nodes in nuke..
thank you..

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Water dripping

Hello,

I’m pretty new to RealFLow, so I have one question for all of you:
How can I make water dripping in regular intervals – one drop every 3 seconds, which then hits a solid surface?

Thank you for your help!

Display problem

hi there…
my workstation has a display problem for 64bit maya either it’s 8.5,2008,2009.
Windows xp
professional 64 edit
2003 version,service pack 1
Intel(r) core(tm)2 quad cpu
Q 6600 @2.40 ghz 1.98gb of ram.
NVIDIA 9600GT graphic card…:confused:

telephonic interview

Hi friends i have a telephonic interview on next week… what the question are asked and how i get ready for that.

Basically im from india this is my first interview from Foreign Countrie.. so give me some sugges…

maya

hi

can any one give links of spirts

Export failure from PFtrack 5.0

Hello everyone.

I did a matchmove in pftrack 5.0 which turned out fine. I orientated, added and positioned grids and boxes… Everything looking good, making me happy.

Now I get export failure messages, and, well: it doesn’t export the move.

For the track I used User Features and Guided Autotrackes – as I said before: I am happy with the result – and my export choices are Lightwave, Nuke and After Effects.

Nothing works.
Lens distortion worked, tracking, solving…fine.

Any ideas why pft is failing to export? Unfortunatly it doesn’t say anything else.

All answers are appreciated.

-Michael