New Cinesite website

Cinesite has a new website featuring some nice info and shot breakdowns, such as in this technical showreel.

CGSociety covers 9

From Rag Dolls to Riches, the story of Shane Acker’s ‘9’, at CGSociety.

ATI Eyfinity – Multi Display Technology

Eyefinity having the ability to connect multiple monitors to your graphics card and create an extreme native resolution

Making of Junk Tree Paradise

The idea was kids who survived from the destruction of world war III and found the beauty and hope in the world

Inside Warehouse 13

Keyframe Digital Production is an animation and visual effects studio taking on the special effects for the new Syfy series

Channel Nine says Welcome Home.

> Quicktime H.264
(39mb)
> iPod Compatible
(14mb)
> Watch in Flash
(9mb progressive)

Channel Nine has again refreshed itself, this time with the tagline ‘Welcome Home’.

There use of the Black Eyed Pea’s track “I Gotta Feeling” comes hot off the heels of CBS doing the same thing, but I guess that’s the price you pay for using overly predictable Top 40 music in your promotions.

For more from the new look check out this.

How much to charge for freelance VFX

About me: I’m finished my schooling but I haven’t gotten a job yet so I don’t have any industry experience, but I am working on a reel. Recently I got a job from a small media company, to do some editing and basic compositing. After meeting up with them I was told I was recommended for some comp work on a short film they are producing (body part removal, and colour correction are all I know about right now.) As I have never done any freelance work of any kind I am curious to know what I should be charging for this work.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

3D Artist/Modeler

Hello,
I’m looking for a paid freelance job. It doesn’t matter if its on a long period or small period. Please take a look at my portfolio and contact me.

http://rustyhawkdevianart.deviantart.com/gallery/
http://razvanstanciu.daportfolio.com/

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quicktime pro compressions

I’m in the process of getting my new online, and I’d like to use Quicktime pro to compress my reel since that’s what I have.

I tried the h264 compression but that comes out washed out as many of you are probably familiar with. I tried the alpha blend 100% then straight alpha trick but it doesn’t work. Does anyone have any good quicktime settings they would like to share?

I render my reel straight form Premiere pro 2.0 as an uncompressed quicktime kicking in at over 3 minutes at a whopping 3.8 gigs. Yeah… I can haz compression plz? Preferably without the wash out look? Other than that h264 looks awesome!!! I just don’t want my shots to look nutty.

Although I’m told the file is fine, and should look normal in VLC, it’s quicktime that has a problem… the only issue is I post up quicktime time files so most browsers will use quicktime and nothing is solved.

Thanks for any help.

(oh, I’m looking for quicktime only solutions. I’m not using vimeo or any other video file hosting website)

‘MEH LOVE A COME DOWN…PON SOMEONE.’

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Poirier’s new Karnival mix put us on to the new Demarco single, “Love A Come Down”, which inadvertently introduced us to Swagger Man (a Lee Perry look alike who “helps” women when they are having “trouble”). This video is so bad in such a cheesey modern way that makes it soooo good ’cause you know Jamaicans are singing “Meh love a come down…pon someone” as they dagger innocent passersby from the rooftops all day and night.

Click here to view the embedded video.