Hasta La Motion!

Hope you’ll not deem this as spam: we’ve just uploaded new videos and podcasts from a special event we hosted a few weeks ago at BAFTA HQ called ‘VFX Advantage’.

I hope some people here might find it useful/interesting: http://bit.ly/VFXadvantage

There are a few case studies (the Harry Potter films, Tron:Legacy, etc) and a few VFX celebs (Gareth Edwards…) and obviously it’s all free to watch/listen to. There are also seminars on 2D to 3D conversion, as well as podcasts about budgeting/scheduling, and more.

Hope you don’t mind me posting the link here: BAFTA is a charitable organisation and we’re trying to get our educational content to as many people as possible (for that reason, it would be great if you could pass the link on to anyone you think would enjoy it!)

John @ BAFTA in London

-tell me your opinion :
DID IT GET BETTER ?
and any adivce on how to make it even better….. ?
what other mistakes did i do… ?

thx in advance 🙂

I thought it might be about time for me to actually start posting, I’ve been lurking for god knows how long…

My name’s Miguel Santana, I’m a second year student of a VFX degree at the University of Hertfordshire. I’ve done freelance work in a range of industries, from photography to shooting music videos to DOP and video editing I was also a part time generalist for over a year at a small company, doing all sorts of 3d and VFX roles along my first year of Uni.

Here’s my website/blog: http://www.miguelsantana.net

I’ve also written a couple of tutorials for the PSDTuts website, particularly this one on producing some concept art. Mind you, I’m not the best concept artist!

Here’s my Winter 2010 Reel, featuring Uni work, Personal work and Freelance work:

And a recent piece, it was a project for our course in which the guy from Analog who produced the advert gave us some plates and 3d geometry, and asked us to produce two shots each.

I’ve been having a really tough time working out what I’d like to do, but at the moment I’m leaning towards feature film compositing… So a lot of roto needed I guess!

For thumbnail purposes, I’ll attach one of my images below. It’s a full 3d scene that was featured in 3dWorld mag, 3dTotal and 3d Creative. (See the press cuttings here!)

Thanks for watching, it would be lovely to hear what you think of my work!

Retopo G makes re-topology, the process of rebuilding mesh over an existing sculpture, simple in Maya. What makes Retopo G so efficient is the Context Sensitive polygon building creation. This means almost any task can be done with the ‘g’ (repeat) key.

The goal of Retopo G is to create a fast re-topology tool that works directly inside of maya, does not require a plugin, and does not interrupt your standard modeling tools. Other benefits include a combination of surface tools to create the cleanest mesh possible, credits to the creators of for AORelaxverts, and fitVertices. Also, unlike other re-topology solutions, it is very easy to switch between multiple objects to retopo.

More Information Here

Feel free to email me regarding this tool as well. My contact information can be found on my webpage above. Let me know what you think.