Apr 05

Smoke Trail for school in need of a critique please

Posted in: Community Critiques & Reviews
Hello Everyone,
I am new to the website and VFX in general. I am actually working on a project for school where I need to create a smoke trail. I have my first round of testing pretty close to done, but I need a critique on it. What I am trying to achieve and I am finding it difficult to do so, is to make the trail go on for longer but with out it dissipating to fast.

Here is the effect i am going for it starts at 3:49 where the smoke trail comes out from voldemort
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-Qm27bhaYw

Here are my renders that I have done
First render-
http://vimeo.com/10684605

Second Render-This one I cut down the animation and slowed down the movements
http://vimeo.com/10691676

Thank you all for the help/critiques in advance it is greatly appreciated.

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Apr 05

Parigi, interno notte

Posted in: Animazione 3d, Motiongraphics, Stranieri

La Gaîté Lyrique è il nuovo punto di riferimento parigino per le arti e le culture digitali. La suggestione del luogo, un teatro ottocentesco abbandonato da vent’anni, e le tematiche dell’innovazione visuale alla base del progetto, sono stati gli stimoli forniti dalla direzione artistica al giovane regista francese Yves Geleyn per la realizzazione di un cortometraggio promozionale che suggerisse le coordinate all’interno delle quali si muoverà il centro.

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Apr 05

Career advice

Posted in: Professional Career Advice!
I’ve not done much with my life… kind of drifted through my late teens and now i’m 23 turning 24 this year.

However I’ve really want to get into either animaton or VFX but am I too old to go back and study and still have a successfull career?

And if I was too go back and do a course, what options would I have? (Living in the United Kingdom).

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Apr 05

nuke to max

Posted in: NUKE from The Foundry
Anyone to know any way to export a cam from nuke and then
import it in max?

I only know export it in cham format, so next Max can´t read it
this format.

Thanks a lot,

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Apr 05

time warp.!!!

Posted in: NUKE from The Foundry
hi
i used o-flow ,F_kornos
and did some time warping,nothing complex simply wanted a smooth transision from my normal frame rate to 400X but both have problems and o-flow even jump some frames backward.!!
i’m sure my curve doesn’t go a bit down in its way.! so how could this happened.!?:scorching
and F_kornos have a vary bad sin like speed up-down(very slightly)
where i put it on 400X all the way that is should be linear and no change in speed.!!:eek:
:confused:
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Apr 05

Rounding values in MEL

Posted in: Maya
Hello,

say I have:

float $pos[3];

at the moment I’m rounding the values as follows:

(floor ($pos[0] + 0.5 )
(floor ($pos[1] + 0.5 )
(floor ($pos[2] + 0.5 )

That gives me int’s but I want say 3 decimal places and the last value rounded correctly – any tips ?

Also, what is the syntax so I dont have to type out the line three times ?

(floor ($pos[] + 0.5 ) – didn’t work like I thought it might

What are the tricks ?

Kind regards 😉

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Apr 05

Making of Cadenus and Vanessa

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Apr 05

DVD: UDK Lighting and Post Processing

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Dave Prout and Jim Magill go through Lighting and Post Processing in UDK. Together they use over 27 years of combined exp.div class=”feedflare”
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Apr 05

Prime Focus achieves 2D-3D conversion

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Prime Focus accomplishes the first 2D-3D conversion for Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures in a record breaking time of 8 weeksdiv class=”feedflare”
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Apr 05

Interactive playback script for dynamics

Posted in: Maya
Hi, im loocking for interactive playback script for dynamics, i cannot find it. i think this script was on this forum or on the 3dbuzz forum but i cant find this script on both forums ;/ .
if this helps : when script is addet to the shelf have an green triangle icon 🙂
can someone share this script ?
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