The Senate Visual Effects Adds Soho Facility

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Studio Celebrates 10 Years in Entertainment Industry

The Senate Visual Effects, a boutique London-based studio, has announced expansion plans coinciding with its tenth anniversary in the entertainment industry. The facility, which began as an independent group of artists working on the award-winning series Band of Brothers, has transformed into a well-established company best known for creating digital environments that enhance


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MAYA vs 3ds MAX for future

Hellou guys… im new here and i would like to ask you some questions. Day by day i realized that 3ds max is so huge, even with those plugins like REAL flow, Thinking particles, and etc etc… and its hard to walk with the time… Im learning 3ds max now for 3 years and when i came to my work where im now. There are MACs with mayas… i opened it and i felt it some sort easier than a max. Even the particluar system was better (my opinion) in one word i was suprised that was so confortable. But the point is… I liked both of these but i dont know what would be better… Should i throw away my knowlage of Max and start everything from beging with maya or just ill wait and autodesk will sometimes create an Mac version of 3ds max?
The advantage of maya is that compatibility with both OS… but 3ds max i felt much complex.
Is there any comapration site with cons and pros?:confused:

Chaos Group to show new developments and trainings @SIGGRAPH 2010

Chaos Group will be in full force at SIGGRAPH 2010 in L.A. This year the company is planning booth presentations, a public event and an exclusive V-Ray training with CGschool. New developments including V-Ray RT for Maya and Phoenix FD, an outstanding new grid based simulator for smoke and fire, will be presented. The hype this year is clearly GPU rendering, a demonstration of V-Ray RT on GPUs will amaze with unprecedented speed and flawless workflow.

Chaos Group Booth 612
SIGGRAPH Exhibition floor 27th-29th of July, 9.30-6.00 pm
Live demonstrations by well known artists, real-world V-Ray production workflow discussions by experts in the Architectural, Automotive, Film and VFX industries, and a demo reel showcasing some of the best work in 3D are just some of the highlights at this year’s Chaos Group booth.

Chaos Group Public Event
SIGGRAPH, Room 518, 2nd floor: 29 July, 3:30pm to 6:30pm
Following the tradition of previous years, Chaos Group will host a SIGGRAPH Public Event again for all V-Ray fans, users, resellers and partners.

The Best of V-Ray: An Exclusive 8-hour Live Training
SIGGRAPH Room 518, 2nd floor: 28th July, 10:00am to 6:00pm
Chaos Group and the CGschool will be offering an 8-hour thorough training event called “The Best of V-Ray” that covers various issues including speed, detail, and noise in renders, animation techniques for static and non-static scenes, practical lighting of exterior and interior scenes, etc.

More at www.chaosgroup.com 😎

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Urgent Required

Hi All,

We have immediate requirement of compositors. Just forward your resumes to the below mail id.

This is K.Anil Kumar from Ticklebug Creative Studio Pvt Ltd its a VFX company in Hyderabad. We currently have exiting oppurtunities for experience and freshers .Compositors , Animators and Concept Artists as well as rigging and dynamic artists .You can send me the latest show reels with updated resume .

Requirements:
Strong problem solving skills and a good eye required.

Ability to work in a collaborative environment, taking direction from the Sequence lead(s), CG Supervisor and feedback from the Art Director and Director as necessary.

-Bachelor’s degree in Art, Fine Art, Illustration, Graphic Design, Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Thanks!

Contact:
K.Anil Kumar
+91 9849729252
anil.kumar@ticklebugstudio.com
info@ticklebugstudio.com

Ticklebug Creative Studios Pvt Ltd.

2010 Demo Reel

Here’s the link

http://vimeo.com/13146366

Here is my latest Demo Reel. Let me know what you think. I was trying something new with it. Its a little long but I like it. O and it takes a bit to buffer Ill need to encode it at a smaller size.

Jeremy

Beyonce iPad Finger Painting

It is a digital painting of the performer Beyonce, produced using only one finger and the new Apple device, iPaddiv class=”feedflare”
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Short Film: Gul (Flower)

Gul, a young girl, is awakened by her mother\’s dying breath. She struggles to recall her past. A child\’s view illustrates confli…div class=”feedflare”
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Jellyfish Pictures and America: The Story of Us

Jellyfish Pictures and America: The Story of Us

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America: The Story of Us is one of the History Channel’s most
popular series, telling the story of how the United States was
invented. To help showcase many years of history in only a 12 part
series, Jellyfish Pictures realised several sweeping ‘transition’ shots
to link stories together. Here’s my interview at fxguide with Jellyfish creative director Phil
Dobree and visual effects supervisor Hasraf Dulull.

Survey data in PFTrack to facilitate set fitting?

Hi,

I am wondering if someone could shed some light on the workflow of incorporating the Survey Data feature in PFTrack to facilitate the set fitting process later in 3D program.

I have an interior scene that is already calibrated in ImageModeler and with proxy geometries built and locators placed on specific positions in Maya.

I then 2d track user-features in the positions corresponding to the locators.

User-features are then added into Survey Data window. The SurveyX, SurveyY, SurveyZ are fed with corresponding locators 3d position read out from Maya.

I make sure in every single frame, there are 6 survey points presented according to the User Guide.

I then solved the scene with only these survey points. The scene is solved in about 1 sec but the solution is terrible with out of whack scene orientation. The camera path shown in the perspective view seems close to what it supposes to be, but upside down. (Use Z-up is disabled in the Preference)

Here are couple screen cap of the solved scene and Survey Data window setting.


Any tip or comment will be really appreciated as I have been spending a week or so trying to incorporate survey data into this matchmove…..

Thanks,
Jason H.

Darling

Prepare to be taken to the planet of the apes, in the typical role reversal situation, but Bollywood style.