Hasta La Motion!

A vfx studio located in downtown Toronro has an immediate opening for a mid-senior level technical director to work on an exciting full 2D to 3D conversion of a live-action Hollywood feature. This is a 4 week contract position. The ideal candidate will be familiar with VFX production processes and pipelines.

The ideal candidate will have:
– Proven experience in the feature film production techniques and pipelines.
– Thorough understanding of VFX techniques, technologies and processes.
– Authorized to work in Canada and we have a preference for people currently living in Toronto.
– Outstanding communication skills.
– Intimate familiarity with the production processes at various visual effects companies.

http://www.smoothdevil.com/index.php…ob&job_id=1452

closes: 29 Nov 2010

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How to take occlusion shader for a Fluid shape in maya.

Photoshop Matte Painting Techniques
High Definition Training Videos for the Visual EffectsIndustry

Princeton, NJ (October 4th, 2010)- cmiVFX releases New Photoshop Matte Painting Training Video. This tutorial is designed to teach the basic concepts of a photo-based, digital matte painting. Masking, color correction, image manipulation, digital painting, 3D object creation within Photoshop, layer organization, and file preparation for animation/camera projection will all be covered in detail. cmiVFX breaks down each tool one by one with fast and easy chapter references designed for even faster muscle memory. cmiVFX continues to deliver the training and content you need, quickly, efficient and affordably. When it comes to high end CG and VFX training, there is only once choice… cmiVFX! This video is available today at the cmiVFX store for aSpecial Introductory Price!

Photoshop Matte Painting http://www.cmivfx.com/productpages/p…Matte_Painting

Concept
Everything starts with an idea. In this chapter, we are going to start with a basic sketch and work our way up using reference photographs and color correction tools to create the basic feel of the painting. A very quick and loose process, the idea of this step is to create a solid starting point. We will be looking for relevant photo references and elements to be used in the main painting, and roughly piecing them together to get the general idea on paper.

Groupings
Time is money. One of the most important things while working in Photoshop with hundreds of layers, is organization. By organizing your layers in a logical way, you will not only make your own life a lot easier, but you will also work much faster, and help the artists working down the pipeline find layers quickly and easily. This translates directly to productivity, not to mention sanity. Afterward, you will never need to use "right click" to find a specific layer among hundreds again!

Sky’s the Limit
The Sky is the limit, and masking will get you there. Learn masking techniques to extract complex shapes from photographs. You will learn how to extract a city skyline from a cloudy, low contrast photo, in 2 minutes or less. Then we will learn to quickly clean the mask of unwanted elements and add details directly to the buildings and incorporate the sky and shoreline into the snowy scene by painting.

Ships Away
Multiple techniques will be used to mask the ship and remove it from its background. We can then paint in elements that were impossible to save with the mask and begin the process of actually incorporating the ship into the scene by painting on snow and ice. We will also look at the 3D tools built right into Photoshop to put together 3d shipping containers from scratch

Layering
Now we have to clean up our PSD file by organizing and merging down layers where possible. The purpose of a matte painting is to be added to a live plate or to be animated. Naturally, for that we need to send it to camera projection or to compositing. Since we anticipate other artists accessing and working with this file, we need to prepare it in such a way that makes everything easy to find. We will flatten and rename the layers, organize by planes, apply filters, etc. Then we’re ready to send to composite.

Compositing
Bring it to life! Here we will go over the final After Effects project to show how the animation and camera were created. You will be able to get an idea of how the project is set-up and what is needed to bring a matte painting to life as a 2D animation.

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I am doing some roto in Nuke and I’m not too sure if these edges look like they’re supposed to. When I look at the edges after the premult, they stand out like they’re including too much background. Is this because the object being roto’d is quite dark and the background is a lot lighter, therefore the blurred edges will naturally be slightly lighter than the core of the object, making them stand out in the premult?
Then when I look at the premult over grey, it looks quite normal.

Should the edges in a premult over black, look the same (or almost) as a premult over gray, or is it inevitable that the edges over black will have more contrast to the black background colour, which makes them stand out more? :confused:

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