Flash Graphic Designer

Looking for a Flash Graphic Designer with experience in animating in Flash.

Must have 2+ years experience

Immediate availability

We are located in West Los Angeles. This is an in-house position.

Please send resumes to: jobs@9k9.com

Visual effects Oscar race changes course

roto shapes linked to 3d objects

Lets say I have an animated object that was rendered from the 3d dept. moving around the frame, X & Y only. I want a pass that I can hook a roto shape to, so that my roto shape sticks to the movement of my animated object.

Would a position pass allow me to do this? Some other type of pass?

Thought about linking a 3d tracker object, and rendering that out, then tracking that marker in Nuke, but would like a more integrated workflow, if possible.

Any ideas?

DEM images for mountain ranges

Im working on a personal piece and i need some realistic mountain ranges.

I’ve been looking into DEM images to use as a base for background mountain ranges, but was wondering if anyone had a link or any resources on this subject??

Specifically stuff geared more towards vfx and motion pictures. I’ve found a ton of stuff from government and satellite websites.

Anyone else use this stuff ? Is it worth looking into for mountain ranges and terrain??

What to put in showreel?

Hi. I started to work on my showreel, and I hope I can jump into industry with it. And Im wondering what shots I should focus on. Lot of you guys here are in industry, so I would like to ask you what vfx houses expect from a junior compositor or roto reel? What they want to see?

I believe that Im not going to impress anyone with explosions, or bullets stuff, so I was wondering about focusing on multiple layer and more complex composition, or they care more about easy composition and watch how clear it is? And what about roto? Does reel with for example surfer on water is valuable then running dog? Or it doesnt matter at all?

And last thing. I liked the walking paper giants in The Mill showreel for example, so If I lend this idea and put similar dudes in different city footage ofcourse, is this a problem? Will they look at it and say "bah its stolen from The Mill, thats bad" ?

Sorry for big amount of question, I dont expect answer on everything point by point tho. Just a little push in right direction, because Im really confused about this. And ye, I tried to search about this, and I found lot of great and helpfull posts, but nothing really specific. I know from this site that I should put in best shots, keep it short, etc.

Thanks ,)

3D all-rounders (SoftimageXSI)

A Canadian based studio is looking for experienced 3D all-rounders (SoftimageXSI) for a contract beginning immediately and ending early March 2011. Bound by its innovative nature to be a talk about film of 2011, this project involves many virtual environments and a unique signature. A specialization in lighting is an asset. Candidates should have a minimum of 3 years experience.

http://www.smoothdevil.com/index.php?page=job&job_id=1477

30 Nov 2010

Microsoft Kinect Depth Map

Visual Effects Program “Mocha” & “Streamers” Demos @ Dec. 8th LA Post Production Grou

Come and finish off 2010 with a BANG by learning about great VFX and Visual Cueing programs that can help you be more creative and productive in the new year! The Los Angeles Post Production Group will meet on December 8th at 7pm at the Stoner Recreation Center in West Los Angeles.

We’ll have Senior Product & Sales Specialist, Joaquin Pecheur presenting mocha v2 and the soon to be released mocha pro. Mr. Pecheur is a senior compositor and VFX artist with 12 years of experience in feature film and broadcast post-production including projects such as Fantastic Four – Rise of the Silver Surfer", "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" and "G-Force 3D".

Mocha has earned a reputation in Hollywood and throughout the VFX industry and has quickly become the industry’s most popular and powerful stand alone tracking and roto station with over 25,000 registered users worldwide. One lucky winner will be going home with a full mocha license ($1095, $499 upgrade).

Technology for Foley Recording, Dialogue Replacement and Scoring:

We’ll also be welcoming Streamers’ Developer Sean Dougall for a tour of the new features in Streamers v3. Figure 53’s Streamers (figure53.com) offers an inexpensive, streamlined solution for running video, clicks, streamers, and punches, all in one software package with no special hardware or third-party DAW required.

Meeting will be held at:
Stoner Recreation Center
1835 Stoner Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90025

As always, there will be time to network, enjoy light refreshments and a chance to get lucky at our amazing monthly giveaway! This month we’ll also be giving away an Adobe Premier Pro CS5 to brighten up the holidays!

If you would like to attend, please RSVP at rsvp@lappg.com.

Membership is free – drop an email to membership@lappg.com and tell us who you are.

For more information, visit us at www.lappg.com and join us on Facebook!

node.Inputs help

hello fellas,

is there a way to get the inputs of a node by name not by number? like the scanlineRender node inputs would be: cam, scn/obj, bg, since i am having trouble connecting nodes by the numbers. from my testing it didnt work like
node.setInput("cam", node). so i guess the onlay way would be to say something like (fantasy syntax):

ScanlineRender.input (1) = "cam"
ScanlineRender.input (2) = "scn/obj"

is there a way to get to get the inputs like that? i find the inputs are hard to controll, since there are many hidden inputs and those numbers are not comfortable to work with.

for any help or hint i would be thankful,

greetings, jaden

VFX artist and Softimage generalist looking for projects.

Hi,
This is the link to my showreel.
I´m hiring new projects.
Regards,
Carlos Vega
Barcelona
Spain
CG Artist

http://blogdecarlosvega.blogspot.com/