Sep 03

Arno Salters for Raid the Radio

Posted in: arno salters, General, In Camera effects, live action, radio the radio, stink

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One our favorites, Arno Salters, just dropped this Paris-shot, low-budget banger for General Elektriks to lighten the mood on your Friday. The piece employs a few lo-fi, surreal effects including a clever “stereo-camera rig” built by DP Thomas Letellier. The music transmission device was inspired by the work of sculptor Jean Tinguely.


Band – General Elektriks
Song – Raid the Radio
Label – Quannum/Discograph

Director – Arno Salters
DP – Thomas Letellier
Art Director – Mahi Grand
Producer – Sandrine Paquot
EP – Greg Panteix @ Stink France

Post House – Nightshift Paris
Post producer – Mathieu Hue
Editor – Benjamin Favreul
After fx op – Nico Chambon

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Sep 03

MECHANISM DIGITAL: NOW PLAYING IN TIMES SQUARE

Posted in: Your News
New York, NY – Advertising continues to evolve as new technologies emerge. Traditional billboards, for instance, are no longer just big posters hanging from a wall. Currently, financial services pioneer, Prudential, is looping a proprietary video created by animation studio, Mechanism Digital on a 40 foot by 40 foot digital billboard atop Two Times Square, directly across from where the ball drops on New Year’s Eve.

Mechanism Digital worked with Prudential to convert their iconic “Rock” logo into a sleek and glossy 3D structure. The animation in Times Square takes the viewer on a ride through the nooks and crannies of the 3D icon. Around every corner, float shiny 3D words describing Prudential’s services. As the camera zooms through the end of its travel, it pulls out to reveal the gleaming Prudential logo.

The digital billboard is a 40 foot by 40 foot square Daktronics LED video screen with a resolution of 512 x 512; not the standard specs of the average film or television production. Lucien Harriot, owner of Mechanism states, “We really enjoy contributing to new technological formats. It keeps us up-to-date with ever-changing innovations in communications, and allows us to spread our wings across a wide range of media.”

About Mechanism Digital:
Established by Lucien Harriot in 1996, Mechanism Digital is an award winning digital production studio and a leading provider for feature film, commercials and episodic television in New York City. Mechanism’s creative vision, decades of experience and structured

CONTACT:
Deborah Roth
Mechanism Digital
514 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011
(646) 230-0230
Debbie@mechanismdigital.com
www.mechanismdigital.com

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Sep 03

Animated OBJ sequence

Posted in: NUKE from The Foundry
Hey guys,

Anyone know how to sequence a series of OBJ’s in Nuke 5.2? %04d and #04d only return errors saying the file doesn’t exist. So I’m driving everything using a simple [frame] expression. But I’ve seen a few threads about doing just this thing, so I know there has to be something simple I’m missing. Though I can’t find any options for it in the ReadGeo! Anyone know what I’m doing wrong?

Thanks a bunch,
Doug

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Sep 03

wanted: Flame on Octane / Octance 2

Posted in: Buy, Sell or Trade!
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Sep 03

Fusion 5 for sale w/Monsters (upgrade to FU6)

Posted in: Buy, Sell or Trade!
It’s time to sell my seat of Fusion 5.
Here’s what I’ve got: Floating license of Fusion 5 (5 nodes). & the full set of Monsters plugins. (floating license, I believe 4 nodes).

With some upgrade pricing and license transfers this can easily be brought up to Fusion 6.
From what I can tell, the cost to bring the seat of Fusion 5 up to current subscription status for Fusion 6, is $695, plus a license transfer fee of $195.
There also may be associated costs to bring up the render nodes to FU6 as well (I’m not sure, though). You certainly can purchase this as just a single seat of Fusion and not worry about the extra nodes. Basically with this price, the render nodes are being thrown in for free (same with the Monsters Plugs)).
Here’s eyeon’s pricing page:

http://eyeonline.com/Web/EyeonWeb/Buying/PriceList.aspx

Whatever the case, I’ll certainly work between the buyer and eyeon to make sure all associated upgrade costs are known up front before the transaction is completed.

price:
$2000.00 (via paypal)
So, this means that after upgrade and licensing costs, you’re getting Fusion 6 with the Monsters plugins, for under $3k.

feel free to ask any questions.
pm me here, or email at: mike@beckmanvfx.com
thanks,
-mike

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Sep 03

My Favorite Cool New 5.2v1 Features that aren’t in the spotlight

Posted in: NUKE from The Foundry
Ok, so R3D support is awesome (though really, I’d still rather work with redlog DPX files, raw r3d means a really, really big file, probably). LUTs are cool, new viewer settings cool…

but my favorite new features, that aren’t garnering a lot of attention:

Colorlookup just got a lot better. The source target point system is fantastic for color matching two plates very quickly.

Shake-like nodal additions. Finally, finally! If you hold down Cntrl/Command with a node selected, and select a new node, it overwrites your selected node. Alternately, holding down shift will branch out another node from your selected node. I missed these two features a lot!

Good times. Life saver right now cause I have some hefty RED projects.

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Sep 03

Crazy Silloutes Effect Video Tutorial Free Source File to Download

Posted in: After Effects Tutorials
In this awesome tutorial we will cover the following topics. 3D Layers layer Modes Camera Animation After Learning these Techniques you can advertise your blog or website in real style. Enjoy!!!

Click Here to Watch the Tutorial

Click Here to Download the Source File

Click on Youtube Video to Watch the Trailer of the Tutorial

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Sep 03

Fusion 6 dosent show some video in loader window

Posted in: Digital Fusion / DFX+
I have problem with my fusion 6 in this software i am not enable to load some footage actually its loading but not display in both loader it will display like attached image & this problem also bothering with poly mask tool specially this problem appear when i load 608×256 size video & when i scale or resize any video its distort all the video. can any one tell me how to solve this problem. its my hardware problem ? or any thing else well my system hardware is AMD phenomX4 with 2GB of RAM & Asus M3A78-EM mother board with inbuilt GPU & all video working fine in fusion 5.2

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Sep 03

Set Constant node image size

Posted in: Nuke Plugins & Scripts
Hi,

I want to set the image width and height of a Constant node using Python. Is there an easy way to accomplish this?

Thanks in advance.

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Sep 03

Do give your openions….

Posted in: Demo Reels!
This is my first try in matchmove/roto nd compositing…..
do lemme know ur suggestions/openion.

link: http://www.vimeo.com/6401550

your experience will help me to improve and enhance my my knowledge as well….

thanx..

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