Hasta La Motion!

I friend send me this link today and I want to share it with you guys. Is pretty funny and also cruel in a way. LOL

Hello! I’m posting a link to the thesis I wrote about visual effects. It’s quite long, so I have no expectations of people reading all of it. But if you have some free time and want to read some effects theory and history, go for it!

Click here to read it! It’s a 2mb PDF.

My thesis discusses why certain visual effects films stand the test of time, while others do not. Some films’ effects become outdated very quickly, even within a year, regardless of how critically and popularly acclaimed they were upon their release. Yet others, like Jurassic Park, remain effective over a decade later. I analyzed 10 films, covering both "good" and "bad" effects films, as well as a wide variety of different types of effects films : Jurassic Park, Forrest Gump, The Day After Tomorrow, Transformers, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Brokeback Mountain, The Bucket List, Children of Men, and War of the Worlds. Through my analysis, I discuss the importance of matchmoving, compositing, controlled scale of effects, as well as the role of cinematography in visual effects, and most importantly, the critical role of story.

The thesis also includes a short history of special and visual effects, including the all-important Digital Revolution of effects films.

http://www.lazymovie.com/rotoscoping-software.html

this seems to say that silhouette is the number one for roto. I’m a noob so i just assumed that comp software had all the capability to do this, so figured i’d just learn nuke and do roto with it.

So say you used nuke or fusion or whatever, would you say that you’d STILL go elsewhere to roto? and if so is silhouette the likely candidate?

cheers.

Hi,

I’m looking to get a cheap laptop (under £400) for use at home when I come back from university. Can’t lug home the desktop ever 6 weeks!

Anyhow i don’t expect it to be the best thing in the world or anywhere close to it but i just need something that’ll let me do basic Maya/Nuke/Sillhouette and maybe a tiny bit of photoshop. Generally things in the CG field.

Can anyone recommend anything for me or will they all be equally as good (bad) at this range?

Thanks

I also posted this on the beginners’ talk forum, so my apologies if you saw this already. I submitted this reel at SIGGRAPH 2009 and got hired by Digital Domain as a comp intern a few weeks later. The reel is only part of the qualification, of course, and I realize that this isn’t the best reel ever.

Feel free to critique, etc! Always looking for feedback. 🙂

Edit: btw, I don’t know what possessed me to make this so long (stupid ego, probably), but when I get a chance, I plan to cut it down to about 2 minutes.

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