Paint It Black nasce alla Nexus Productions, dai direttori Smith & Foulkes. Il video è uno spot per la Panasonic ed è completamente realizzato in 3d e giocato su tonalità monocromatiche che utilizzatate con grande abilità riescono a garantire personalità e morbidezza ai personaggi. […]
Target has good taste. By enlisting Motion Theory, the studio has left its mark on the rich history of Target advertising and embarked on a project that sets itself apart from the usual Motion Theory repertoire—creating a different approach for the themselves and a fresh perspective for the client.
In A Better Bullseye, the studio has delivered a piece that fits easily into the Target aesthetic, but remains unique. Gone are the typical Warholian graphics and pop-art visuals of previous Target campaigns; in are the good, old fashioned methods of character based advertising.
By setting the location of the spot in a factory, the piece hopes to convey the spirit of teamwork and efficiency that keep the Target brand strong and healthy. Beginning with an establishing shot of the famous bullseye, factory employees work together to fully stock the towering icon like a refrigerator. The attention to detail, as explained by director Chris Riehl, was not to be ignored:
“The team and I explored every possible detail you see from the memorable cast of characters to the host of strangely specific heavy machinery and vehicles which we hope comes through when watching the spot.”
The character design of the piece—like the Target aesthetic—is distinctively retro and in many ways, resembles the 60′s style design of Pixar’s, The Incredibles. In a production schedule described as “condensed,” the team of artists—similar to the factory workers in the spot—worked feverishly to create something high-end for a mega-mart that has a commitment to good design.
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Where is the best place to start when deciding on a concept? (Having a specific vfx shot in mind, or starting with a normal video concept and incorporating effects into it?)
I have many ideas but do not think they are realistic for a beginner or would have a real story to it. I would like to create good work that will help further my skills and start developing a vfx portfolio.
Thanks!
This is a major new release of Ocula with one new plug-in and many improvements and bug fixes.
Release Date
July 2010
Requirements
Nuke 6.0v7 or a version of Nuke 6.1 on
Windows XP SP2, XP64
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and 10.6 "Snow Leopard" (x86 only)
Linux CentOS 4.5 (32- and 64-bit)
Foundry FLEXlm Tools (FFT 5.0v1 or later) for floating licenses.
New Features
There is a new O_DisparityViewer plug-in, which lets you visualise the disparity vectors in your node tree. You can add it after any node in the Node Graph. As long as there is a disparity channel at that point in the tree, O_DisparityViewer produces a Viewer overlay with arrows showing the disparity vectors at regular intervals. For more information, see DisparityViewer on page 76.
Improvements
O_Solver
You can now add your own feature matches to the automatically detected ones by right-clicking on the image and selecting add feature. This allows you to get a good solve when there aren’t many good automatically detected matches. For more information, see Solver on page 15 and Visualising and Editing the Results on page 18.
There is a new Luminance Correct control, under Features. This matches the luminance between the two views before searching for feature matches. Where there are large differences in in luminancebetween the two views, this can increase the number and quality of feature matches found.
O_DisparityGenerator
You can now sample over multiple disparity field detail levels (different resolutions of the images). This can help to reduce errors in the calculated disparity field. There are controls for the number of samples (Number of Samples), the minimum disparity field detail to go down to (Minimum Detail Level), and the sample spacing (Sample Spacing).
There is a new Image Alignment menu with the following options:
Rectification – This is the default alignment method. The two images are resampled so that all matching pixels are on the same horizontal scanline in the second image as they are in the first.
Vertical Alignment – The two images are aligned along the y axis using a skew, but not moved along the x axis.
None – If the disparity between your stereo views is horizontal only (corresponding pixels lie on the same scanline in both images), you can select this option for faster processing. This is the same as Horizontal Shift Only in previous versions of Ocula.
The Occlusions menu has been renamed Disparity Method. A third method, Unconstrained Motion, has been added to the menu. This calculates the disparity using unconstrained local motion estimation.
There is a new Median Filter Size control. Increasing this value should reduce the noise on the disparity field. This control is only available when Disparity Method has been set to Normal Occlusions.
For more information on the new controls, see Controls on page 30.
O_ColourMatcher
There is a new Pre-blur Disparity control, which allows you to blur the incoming disparity map before using it. If the disparity map is imperfect, this can help to reduce artefacts in the colour correction.
In the Block-based Matching Mode, you can now calculate the colour correction for multiple block sizes and then blend the results together. This can help to reduce errors and make the results more temporally consistent. There are controls for the number of samples (Number of Samples), the maximum block size to go up to (Max Block Size), the sample spacing (Sample Spacing), and the method of combining the samples (Colour Correction Type).
There is a new control, Halo Correct, aimed at reducing the halo effect you can get around high-contrast edges in the Block-based Matching mode. Note that where occlusions occur this correction can introduce artefacts around edges. Another new control, Occlusion Compensate, is designed to correct these and probably needs to be tuned to your particular footage.
For more information on the new controls, see Controls on page 49.
O_VerticalAligner
If you have a pretracked Nuke stereo camera that describes the camera setup used to shoot the Source images, you can now use O_VerticalAligner to analyse the sequence and output a vertically aligned camera pair. This allows you to continue using pretracked cameras once your footage has been vertically aligned. This works in all vertical alignment modes except Vertical Skew (which can’t be represented by a camera transform).
Once O_VerticalAligner has analysed the sequence, you can see the analysis data in a Transform Matrix on the Output tab of the node controls. This represents a 2D corner pin that can be applied to the input image to create the same result as O_VerticalAligner. If necessary, you can take the matrix to a third-party application, such as Baselight, and align the image or camera there. There is one matrix for each view in the source.
For more information, see Creating a Vertically Aligned Camera Pair on page 43.
Fixed Bugs
BUG ID 9188 – O_ColourMatcher: In block-based matching mode, colour fringing sometimes occurred where there were high-contrast regions in the input images. You can now reduce this by using Halo Correct, Occlusion Compensate, and the sampling controls.
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I’ve been working on some illustrations which seem to have grown to a series I’m calling Facet. Check them out on my folio page.
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Just sayin’. Notre Jour Viendra.
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This project would require on-site work in August and September. Our studio is located in downtown LA.
Please email a link to work samples, your day rate and availability to jobs@roger.tv
hi guys ,
i ‘m new to this industry.im very much interested in this indstry.
i want to step into this industry just because of vast intrest in dng these kinda things.My knowledge in this is nothin ,xcept creating some pics logos using phtoshop,paint.net etc.i want to pusue my career in this field only.i’m dng my degree in cse.
SO PLEASE ……PLEASE…… PLEASE GUIDE ME IN A PROPER WAY SO THAT WHERE CAN I START TO ENTER THIS WORLD LYK WHICH COURSES,SFTWRES TO LEARN AS A BEGINNER,IN WHICH FIELD SHOULD I DEVELOP MY KNOWLEDGE WHICH SUPPORTS ME .SO PLEASE LET ME KNOW THE BASIC COURSES,FUNDAMENTALS TO BE LEARN IN THIS FIELD…
PLEASE….PLEASE….PLEASE HELP ME.
THANKS GUYS 4 READNG MY REQ HOPE U UNDERSTAND N LET ME KNOW WAT U THINK N WHAT U WANT TO SAY……
THANKS ONCE AGAIN
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