Nice article on Kick-Ass

Prksng – Designer David Hsia

The talented Mr. Hsia aka Prksng launched his beautiful new site.

2010 Emmy Nominations announced

You’re best off viewing them nicely formatted on the Emmy website:
http://www.emmys.com/nominations

Or, you can view just the VFX one courtesy of fxguide:
http://www.fxguide.com/qt/2626

Quote:

Outstanding Special Visual Effects For A Series

Caprica • There Is Another Sky • Syfy • Universal Cable Productions
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation • Family Affair • CBS •
Stargate Universe • Air • Syfy • Produced by MGM
Stargate Universe • Space • Syfy • Produced by MGM
V • Pilot • ABC •

Outstanding Special Visual Effects For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special

Ben 10: Alien Swarm • Cartoon Network • Cartoon Network Studios
The Pacific • Part One • HBO •
The Pacific • Part Five • HBO
Virtuality • NBC •


Blu.

BIG BAG BIG BOOM – the new wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Marcelo Petrella

Marcelo Petrella is an L.A based designer/director/animator who has done some great work for FOX, NASCAR, GATORADE and several others: www.marcelopetrella.net Watch his latest Reel.

2 track points as 1

hi, i am using pf track to find a good tracker and i wasn’t still able find any good track. i tried user feature track but got nothing. then i used auto track. now i have found 2 points. 1 with information of the first half of the video and 2nd with information of the next half of the video. is there anyway i could export these points to be used as 1 track in nuke?? if not then i really could use some alternative suggestions?? 🙂

Sindre Moen

Sindre Moen is a 19 year old Norwegian illustrator/designer with plenty of great work to see on his updated site: www.sindremoen.com

Softdistortion VFX01 WIP

Still working away at this project and having a great time!
Had some questions (from other places) about the props in this live shot we were testing for VFX integration with our CG robot.
http://softdistortion.com/VFX01journal/

Thought I would add it to this forum…might have some info people will find of interest.

The main visor prop is a old AM/FM headset we picked up for $4.
The radio circuit board was cut out an the batteries and on/off switch were wired to some blue LEDs. A wire was fed through the antenna to light one of the LEDs and a rubber grommet was put on the LED bulb to make it look more complex.

The suit is made of those disposable paper coverall suits used for painting etc @ $5 each.
We used 2 and cut them up to make the jacket/pants and also boots and a face mask.
T-shirt heat transfer sheets were used to make the BIOdivision logo green material on the front of the suit.

The safety glasses @$6 are the type with a little LED light on the front.
We reversed the light to shine on the actors face, and specifically eyes. I think this adds some beautiful visual contrast…especially on closeups with the eyes looking right into the lens.

The flashing lights are LED strobe lights @$2 each form a dollar store. We put them on the ground and later when I was shooting free hand, I thought, lets put 2 of them on the tripod head. Turned out pretty cool looking I think!

These strobes are and amazing find for the price. They have a circuit that allows the strobe feq to be adjusted over a large range.

We picked up 5 and one has already been stripped of it’s circuits and use on another really cool prop that I’ll show in near future.

imo this is the type of thing we need to get good at to optimize time and costs. You can’t buy and build something like that strobe circuit for $2!

timeline question

HI, Ok,..I know it’s a real stupid question but…
For some reason, today only, I ran into a problem between Mocha V2 & Nuke.
I think nuke starts on 0 and Mocha starts on 1.

So my question is, how do you set Nuke’s timeline to read frames at 1?

Thanks,
Lou

DaVinci Colourist

A Toronto based studio is Looking for a DaVinci Colourist to work on a brand new DaVinci Resolve setup. Must have 5-10 years of experience in a DaVinci 2K or Resolve environment. Work will be focused on Episodic Television.

Position can be Part-Time or Full-Time.

http://www.smoothdevil.com/index.php?page=job&job_id=1381

closes: 4 Sep 2010