Feb 09

Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World – Visual Effects Style – Coke Advert

Posted in: Gallery
Hey Guys,

Im Currently Studying A British Extended Diploma In Media At College.

For Our Advertising Module We Had To Produce A 30 Second Advert For Coca-Cola ‘Classic’.

I Decided To Make A Visual Effects Heavy Advert In The Style Of Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World.

Link To Finished Product:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM62VXD0aTo

Any Creative Criticism Would Be Much Appreciated

Also If Anyone Has Made A Scott Pilgrim Style Visual Effects Test Or Video I Would Love To See Them

Cheers,

Jon

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Feb 09

Mag Feb-Mar 2011 Issue Released

Posted in: 1

CGArena Ezine new issue is available for free download for all the registered users. Download your copy now.

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Feb 09

still testing

Posted in: matte painting
test
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Feb 09

Camera target & depth

Posted in: Digital Fusion / DFX+
Hi,

I have a problem and i would like to know how it can possible to link target camera with the focus camera prameters.
So when i would want to move the target, an auto focusing was created. like 3D software.

Could you help me,

Thx,

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Feb 09

remove reflection

Posted in: NUKE from The Foundry
I was handed a plate today that is 453 frames of two people behind a pane of glass. The tripod is reflected on the glass and in front of the two characters.

my task is to remove the tripod as best I can. What would be the best approach that doesn’t involve painting the tripod out of every frame?

this shot also needs to be finished today!

I have tried:

Isolating large areas of the frame and doing a color correction, cranking the contrast to darken the shadows, this is successful to a certain point but not a perfect solution, you can still see the tripod slightly. Also, it makes the shot too dark and contrast-y if I push it too far.

The next idea was to roto the arms, torsos, etc. etc. from the characters and do an individual color correction on each shape, same problem there, I can’t push it too far.

I’ve attached a screenshot of the problem. does anyone have an idea of how to handle this problem quickly without any rotopaint? Thanks in advance.

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Feb 09

Lens un-distortion with no cropping of original plate?

Posted in: NUKE from The Foundry
Hi everyone,

Bear with me because I use Fusion for my day job 😉

At the moment I am trying to go through an undistortion pipeline to use for match moving and the integration of CG elements.

The Nuke Lens distortion node does a very good job of undistorting a plate using a lens grid but is there any way to stop it cropping the output image and just overscan instead? (black BG with bent edges of frame, see pic)

The reason why I want to use Nuke to undistort the plate instead of my match moving program is that its a lot more accurate, syntheyes does not take into account distortion being off centre (which it is) or multiple types of distortion in one frame.

Hope someone can shed some light on it for me 😀
Thanks guys!

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Feb 09

Stardust: Adidas/NBA

Posted in: Animation, Design, directing

Stardust just finished a two spot campaign for Adidas/NBA. The brief was to create a unique, stylistic journey using the thoughts of Dwight Howard and Derek Rose. The Agency, 180 LA, asked Stardust to explore any and all options to bring it to life, and to consider multiple illustration styles to find the one that […]

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Feb 09

HelloHikimori: New Site and Reel

Posted in: cg, Design, Interactive, Motion

HelloHikimori is an independent design studio based in Paris with cross-discipline expertise in graphic design, digital and motion graphics. The studio was founded in 2004 by Nathalie Melato and David Ronhel. HelloHikimori`s clients include Orange, Diesel, Perrier, L’Oréal and Paco Rabanne. The studio is a creative partner with agencies such as Ogilvy Paris, McCann […]

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Feb 09

Liquify in Nuke

Posted in: NUKE from The Foundry
Hi.

There is this nice Liquify Brush in After Effects, which distorts the pixel based on the brush painting.

Is there something similiar in Nuke?

Thank you very much!

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Feb 09

GreenSODA tv Episode 006 :)

Posted in: Maya
Episode 006 is now live!

GreenSODA tv is a VidCast that covers relevant maya tutorials posted around the web. Other topics such as scripts, interesting websites, short films, twitter users… are also covered.

Be sure to comment or contact me if there is anything specific you’d like to see covered. At this point GreenSODA tv is kind of an experiment so dont be afraid to make ANY request at all! 😉

You can now subscribe via iTunes to get the podcast version.

THIS WEEK ON GreenSODA tv

TUTORIALS

maya 2011 the basics of the 3d fluid container

how to use lights in v-ray for maya

getting a tron glow in maya using mia_light_surface

baking ambient occlusion maps using maya

maya multi-node camera set-up

using v-ray for maya fast sss

maya 2011 vapor 3d fluid container tutorial

SCRIPT

rockGen mel script

WEBSITES OF INTEREST

Inspiration

ILM – Industrial Light & Magic: Creating The Impossible
Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5 – Part 6

Making of: Cadbury’s Spots vs Stripes

dono demoreel 2011

Iron Baby Video – Making of

Fstrech

TWITTER USER

Anthony Filice @anthonyfilice

GreenSODA tv – Episode 006

Contact me via GreenSODA or Twitter

Alex

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