Hasta La Motion!

Hi everyone!

I’m now in post-production on the short film I wrote and directed called "Twelve." It’s about the dating woes of a twelve inch tall man. It’s actually turned out pretty funny! Here’s a sample scene where our lead character "John" decides to give online dating a try…

http://vimeo.com/16677295

The password is peanut

(I didn’t want the video to be fully public so I put a password on it)

The composite in that scene is just a quickie rough composite for scene cutting purposes. We’re working on the finals right now.

We’re also currently trying to raise some funds for it via IndieGoGo to cover the costs of post and music licensing… mostly the music licensing. If you like what you see and can donate a couple of bucks, we’d sooo appreciate it! Here’s the IndieGoGo link: http://www.indiegogo.com/Twelve-A-Short-Comedy

And finally… here’s the link for the film’s website. It’s got some pictures from the shoot and such on there. http://twelve.iondream.com

Thanks!!
–Jud

Job Duties: Compositing
Genre(s): Visual Effects
Location: Culver City, CA/ Traverse City, MI
Start Date: Late January, 2011

JOB DESCRIPTION AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Emmy Award nominated visual effects company in Culver City, CA has immediate availability for a Nuke compositors. This individual must be available to work on-site or potentially relocate to our offices in Michigan. The candidate must have a keen eye for design, product modeling and brand experience for broadcast, industrial and film work.

REQUIREMENTS:
background, knowledge, skills and abilities required at minimum:

• 2+ years compositing experience with photo-realistic visual effects for feature film
• Nuke experience preferred
• A demonstration reel showing a strong sense of composition, light and color
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Experience regarding all tasks associated with the compositing process, including 2D tracking, matte extraction, layering of elements, paint/roto work and color grading is expected.
• Attention to detail

DESIRED SKILLS AND PLUSES:

• Ability to work under tight deadlines
• Ability to work within a strong team environment and willingness to share knowledge
• Creative problem solving skills
• Ability to perform digital matte painting is a plus
• Traditional art portfolio demonstrating traditional art skills is a plus.

Please visit our website for more information:

www.ieeffects.com

or

Please submit your CV and showreel to: jobs@ieeffects.com

Job Duties: Tracking
Genre(s): Visual Effects
Location: Culver City
Start Date: Late January 2011
Emmy Award nominated visual effects company in Culver City, CA has immediate availability for a 3D Motion Tracker. This individual must be available to work on-site or potentially relocate to our offices in Michigan. The candidate must have a keen eye for design, product modeling and brand experience for broadcast, industrial and film work.

The Tracking Artist is responsible for extracting the camera and / or the object’s motion from a live action plate to be used in a 3d or 2d environment.

Experience/Skills:

• It is essential that you have an understanding of camera and rigid-body tracking and the use of survey data when generating camera or objects tracks
• It is essential that you have experience using 3de and Maya (other manual use within tracking packages will be taken into consideration – Boujou, Matchmover, Syntheyes and Pftrack)
• It would be advantageous to have experience of 3d rotoAnimation matching a digital model to a live action plate
• It would be advantageous to have an understanding of 2d tracking using shake or nuke and have the general ability to produce low level comps to QC matchmoves, low res geometry, for line-up, shadow maps, etc for generating survey data from Image Modeller and real world camera attributes e.g. apertures, lenses and distortion
• You must be able to work well within a team environment and take direction from Cinesite’s Producers and Supervisors as appropriate
• Previous film industry experience is preferred

Along with your CV please submit a showreel demonstrating previous tracking experience. Please include a shot breakdown.

Please visit our website for more information:

www.ieeffects.com

or

Please submit your CV and showreel to: jobs@ieeffects.com

Here is my question:
I rendered every element with z depth in maya and I want to adjust the colors by z depth in Nuke.
How can I extract z depth and apply it to the color adjusting node?

PS: Nuke 6.2 seems supports Maya Iff file format and can read the Z depth from it.

This is a maintenance release of Nuke with feature enhancements and bug fixes.

Version
Nuke 6.2v2

Release Date
21 January 2011

Supported Operating Systems
• Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard” and 10.6 “Snow Leopard” (32- and 64-bit)
• Windows XP SP2, XP64, Windows 7 64-bit
• Linux RHEL 5.4 64-bi

New Features
There are no new features in this release.

Feature Enhancements
• BUG ID 15699 – QuickTime: Mac OS X and Windows now read encoding and decoding configuration options from the GlobalSettings.csv file that is also editable. This makes it easier to cope with differences between different QuickTime enabled applications. On Mac OS X, the GlobalSettings.csv file is located in the Resources directory of the application bundle. On Windows, the file is located in the same directory as the Nuke executable.
• BUG ID 15951 – An option was added on the Appearance tab in the Preferences to set whether frame numbers should be marked with hashes (#) or printf notation (%0d). Note that if you retrieve a file control’s value in Python it will always be returned in the printf notation. If you want the literal hash version, use knob.fromScript().
• BUG ID 15954 – FrameCycler now has more lookup tables included by default (Lin and Log > sRGB).
• BUG ID 15976 – Time code data is now appended to QuickTime metadata, and Write nodes use this metadata when Write Time Code is turned on.
• BUG ID 16024 – Added SGI files to the list of file types passed directly to FrameCycler for flipbooking.

Bug Fixes
etc….

Release Notes

Product Website