Da Verona arriva Void

Una nostra lettrice, Gaia, ci segnala l’agenzia in cui lavora… Void e noi scusandoci del ritardo per la pubblicazione gli dedichiamo un intero articolo 🙂 sperando anche di far cosa gradita a tutti voi che siete sempre in cerca di novità dal panorama italiano. Void è nata formalmente all’inizio del 2009, ma era già nei cuori e nei desideri dei soci fondatori almeno da un paio d’anni […]

Interview with One More Production

The latest viral video to pique the interest of the CG community, Pixels by Patrick Jean, has now hit nearly 3 million views over at DailyMotiondiv class=”feedflare”
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Making of Nightfall

This project is based on the work of Spanish architect D. Joaquín Torres A Study of Architecture-zero, created in 3ds maxdiv class=”feedflare”
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“Aeton Hybrid Engine Spot” – The progress

Hi Vfxtalkers i will be on car commercial spot , a group project for my reel.It will be like an old rusty car making way on the road and then gets inside a “Hydro Shop” and get fixed with ” Aeton Hy200 ” engine and then the car’s rips of the rusty coat and emerges a bright shiny car within powered by the Engine.Wll be using a premodeled mercedes A class.

I will be posting every update i do on this project , i have made some test comps so i am posting them. All done in in Maya and composited in Nuke.

I just want to have some realistic visual effects on this as this is going to be my first visual effects group project.

Will be glad to have any kind of comment from you all. Thanks 🙂

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MEL: Adding Commas to Numbers in print messages

I wanted to know if there was a way using MEL to add commas to long numbers in print messages. Sometimes I’m getting attributes for things that are long, like particle counts, and it would be much faster and easier to read if there were commas.

Example…

MEL prints: 938475689
I want it to print: 938,475,689

Any info will be appreciated.

Thanks

Amateur AE Artist Needs Feedback on First Reel

Hi, I’m an amateur After Effects artist who’s considering looking for entry-level compositing or roto work and I was wondering if I could get some feedback on my reel:

http://vimeo.com/11698874

I’m out of work right now and I couldn’t support myself with my last job (as a part time cashier–about minimum wage), so I’m considering applying for entry-level vfx jobs (but not freelance work; I’ve had bad experiences). I’ll be located in LA.

I realize that my reel isn’t nearly up to the high standards of most industry professionals, but I figure one has to start somewhere. Any advice on improving my reel or entering the industry would be very much appreciated. And if my reel isn’t remotely competitive…well, let me know, I can take it. Better to know now than spend countless hours applying for jobs I’ll never get.

Thanks!

Afanasy: Nuke Network Render

CGRU version 1.1.0 released.

http://cgru.sourceforge.net/

Key feature:
"Nuke network rendering"

It is an ability to send to network render several Write-nodes in a single job.
Afanasy gizmo provides Write-nodes dependency description. You can connect Afanasy gizmo to several Writes or to another Afanasy gizmo, this will describe rendering order.

For example we want to render Back, Key, Final(which depends on Back and Key) and Preview(which depends on Final):

This connections network will produce a muiti-block job with needed frame dependency:

Each Preview frame will wait the same Final frame to be rendered. Each Final frame will wait the same Back and Key frames.

This is useful on ‘heavy’ scenes.

Full documentation:
http://cgru.sourceforge.net/afanasy/…c/afanasy.html

Kin

New site for the Microsoft Kin. I’m liking the type and graphic/sketchy aesthetic.

Anyone from sony imageworks,chennai

hi..i would like to know how to apply for a job at sony imageworks ,chennai.. i’m a fresher.. should i mail my resume and showreel or should i submit it to the HR personally ?

Rotoscopy help

Please clear my following doubts in rotoscopy

1) How do i roto hair ? i have read about people using keying ..is it effective ?

2)How do i divide rotos on a character ? should i use a single roto for the head or should i separate the hair and the face?

please give me other tips and techniques as well, which u think might be useful to a beginner like me..thank u;)