Aug 06

Interview: Shynola and “Strawberry Swing”

Posted in: Animation, chalk, coldplay, General, interview, london, music videos, shynola

shynola-interview
“We never claim to be original, just rigorous.”

So says Chris Harding, one of London-based Shynola’s four founders, in our interview with him about their recent music video for Coldplay’s “Strawberry Swing.”

Despite the disclaimer, Shynola’s body of work—especially their music videos—have inspired thousands of fans worldwide with their innovative visuals and compelling narratives. Motionographer’s Lilian Darmono and James Wignall went deep with Chris about the process behind “Strawberry Swing” and touched on Shynola’s development over the years.

Read the interview

Posted on Motionographer

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Aug 06

String for getting the node name?

Posted in: NUKE from The Foundry
Hello all.

First of all, I am new at Nuke and Compositing. But I am learning a lot here. Thanks for that.

My question is:

I have in my Node Graph, a series of nodes that are image sequences (clips), and I want to render them all into .mov files. So what I did was:

I added a write note to all of them indicating where I want to save them and giving all the specifications.

My only issue is, as there are a LOT of write nodes, I am having to rename the destination file in each one of them. Is there a way to add a string to the file name where nuke will name the file equal as the node?

For example:

My write node has this information on the file field:

/Volume/hd/clips/clip_001.mov

Can i add something like
/Volume/hd/clips/#getclipname#.mov

Cause it would make my life MUCH easier.

Thanks !

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Aug 06

VFX supervisor

Posted in: Demo Reels!
Please vist my website and tell me what you think of my stuff.

I love to hear opinions about my work.

Nice to meet you all

Dan Tomer
VFX supervisor

www.dantomer.com

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Aug 06

Faction Creative : New work

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New work and reel up for Faction Creative: Faction is a boutique-style studio in Vancouver, Canada that specializes in creating seamless visual effects for film, television, and the gaming industry. (thnx Mark!)

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Aug 06

Psyop : Peugeot ~ A Perfect Day

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Psyop’s latest directorial project: Peugeot ~ A Perfect Day. (thnx Shannon!).

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Aug 06

Vetsch Architekture ~ Earth Houses

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Earth house architecture by Peter Vetsch: Vetsch Architektur … “Compared to traditional residential houses built on the ground, the aim of building an earth house is another: Not to live under or in the ground, but with it.”

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Aug 06

VARIOUS 3D & 2D VFX POSITIONS

Posted in: The Job Lot
A London based studio is currently recruiting various positions for the expansion of its long-form VFX broadcast TV department.

Positions include:

FX shot TD’s – (Maya / XSI)

Senior CG Leads – (Maya / XSI)

Modelling / Texture artists (Maya / XSI)

• Must be proficient in creating photo-real assets and environments
• Previous experience modelling organic objects/terrains from photo real reference and concept art
• Develop multilayered hi-res photo-real textures for use in multi-pass rendering
• Procedural texture writing experience a plus
• Optimization of UV’s for maximum efficiency
• Experience with normal mapping, displacement techniques
• Excellent knowledge of Maya / XSI, Z brush, Photoshop, Crazy Bump
• Previous experience in film / games / broadcast TV essential

http://www.smoothdevil.com/index.php?page=job&job_id=884

closes: 4 Oct 2009

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Aug 06

GOD’S PREY TAKES DESERT SPIRIT JOURNEY.

Posted in: Clothing, fashion, Gallery, God's Prey, Psychedelic, Sean Reveron

36The thick, humid, NYC, summertime dumpster batter that is soaking us down from head to toe on the daily has created a longing lilt for the west. Yesterday we threw it up for Warriors of Radness’ beachy ‘tude and now we’re taking a spirit journey through psychedelic rock and sand with God’s Prey. What looks like Sean Reveron and Megan McRae’s tribute to Jodorowsky, Joshua Tree, and the epic peyote scene in Young Guns is better served to be thought of as a uniform to wear while postulating in a peyote haze on the edge of a cliff and calling your “horse” “dog”. We don’t know where to get it as of yet but we guarantee that our zipcar is going to look like it was time traveled in with a naked indian when we return it to the parking garage.

D_MAGIC

S_PONCHO

S_LSSHIRT

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Aug 06

VFX / motion designer

Posted in: Freelancer Listings
Hi!
My name is Ivan. I’m a media compositor and motion graphic professional with wide experience.
My demo – http://www.vimeo.com/2704490
My CV – http://butafor.emurse.com
I have above 6 years of experience in post-production, compositing, motion graphic and broadcating design.
About five hundred tv ad, fiction, documentary and presentation films, animation and 3D cartoons was made by me. I won few prizes and diplomas in animation and video design competitions and festivals.
I’m guru in following software:
compositing and motion-design: Adobe After Effect, Avid DS Nitris, Eyeon Fusion, The Foundry Nuke, Apple Shake, ParticleIllusion.
3D: Maya, Bouju, RealFlow, Vue.
Editing: Premier, Edius.
Design: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Corel Draw, Adobe Illustrator.
I’m graduated as a Master of Computer Science with CG specialization. So I can write scripts on Maya MEL, Adobe ExtendScript language and other languages using in CG.
Now I’m working as international freelancer and looking for outsourcing partnership with high-level production team. Also I can consider the offer about location change to anywhere from.
Best, Ivan
E-mail: Butafor@inbox.ru
ICQ: 278329080
QQ: 582647131
Skype: butafor_0
YM: butafor@ymail.com
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Aug 06

2.5D Shadows

Posted in: NUKE from The Foundry
I cannot remember the shadow casting hack to project shadows from a card in 3D space. Could someone remind me on how to do this?

I remember that it is a second projection camera doing the work.

blast.

Thanks

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