Hasta La Motion!

http://www.burrows.info/job/cgi_artist.pdf

CGI Artist

Burrows is one of the UK’s leading through-the-line Creative Marketing Communications companies and an integral part of the
Y&R/Wunderman worldwide partnership and a WPP company. With a strong blue-chip client list and a track record of success
spanning more than thirty years, Burrows 3D animation studio – Burrows ‘Nvisage’ – is currently seeking a CGI Artist to join
their dynamic Essex-based team.
The successful candidate will possess exceptionally good 3D skills, blue-chip client experience and will also be proficient in
Photoshop with the ability to produce photo-realistic stills.
In addition, knowledge of Rhino, Combustion, Render Drive, Brazil and Final Render would be advantageous.
You will also be keen to work on technical subjects, particularly automobiles, so any experience and engineering knowledge in
this field will also be a distinct advantage.
You will work with a great team on your own initiative, producing animation and hi-res renders for print and interactive. Burrows
NVisage has been the subject of many magazine articles both in Europe and the US, so you know that you’ll be working at the
cutting edge of 3D technical animation.
The hours for the role are 9am – 5.30pm Monday to Thursday and 9am – 5pm Friday, forming 37 hours per week. The
Company operates a flexible start time policy.
This role requires overtime, sometimes at short notice, to meet deadlines. All applicants must hold relevant status
documentation to work in the UK/European Community prior to applying to us.
For information regarding employee benefits at Burrows see Careers/Benefits.
Where creative sparks fly.

To apply for this exciting opportunity, please forward your CV with a covering letter, noting your current remuneration package to:
Jayne Richardson, Human Resources Manager, Burrows, The Burrows Building, 5 Rayleigh Road, Shenfield, Brentwood, Essex CM13 1AB,Tel: 01277 246663Fax: 01277 246778 email: burrows_careers@burrows.yr.com
web: www.burrows.info

Animated in Maya, rendered in 3Ds Max

Thanks for watching.

http://www.vimeo.com/7740840

Hello everyone, I’m new here and this is my first post so here it goes.
I’m working on my final for my Intro to Vfx class at the Art Institute of Las Vegas. What I want to do is shoot a friend of mine walking across a green screen, then I’m going to stabilize the footage in AE, key it, then export the frames of her walk cycle to photoshop, throw some filters on it to make it look hand drawn, print out each frame, rotoscope it by hand on a lightbox, then scan it back in and comp it in AE so that the actress starts out hand drawn and when she passes by a large object that obscures her she becomes real on the other side.

My question is, where in the world can I find a green screen long enough to catch several walk cycles at a time? Our blue room at school would only be long enough for maybe 5 or 6 steps at most. I’ve thought about shooting her against the sky, but in order to do that I would have to probably be at the top of a parking garage, shooting from a low angle. I also thought about rearranging the whole living room to set up a large green screen, but my girlfriend might not appreciate that too much. I also thought about building a portable green screen and having it track her as she walks, but it would be almost impossible to get all of her with it, so i’ll be rotoscoping masks on feet if I do that.

Is there anything I am missing? any tricks for shooting green screen elements over a distance of about 30 or 40 feet on the quick and cheap?

Also, I’m not sure how i’m going to go about framerates at this point. I think I want to animate on 2s but i’m not sure how that will be effected if the comp is running at 30fps. That’s just going to take some experimentation on my part though.

Thanks in advance guys!