Hasta La Motion!

Requirements

• 2-3 years of experience in Commercials, Movies and CG animation.
• Highly experienced in Maya and Photoshop.
• Strong attention to detail and a good understanding of color theory, lighting and composition.
• Experience creating both photo-realistic and non-photo-realistic visual effects.
• An understanding of computer graphic fundamentals and video game art production pipelines.
• Ability to establish priorities and multi-task efficiently within a high-pressure environment while meeting strict deadlines.

2D COMPOSITOR

Requirements

• 3+ years production experience with node based Compositing programs such as Nuke and/or After Effects.
• Extensive knowledge of current compositing software such as Nuke and After Effects.
• Knowledge of various other programmes including Photoshop and Boujou.
• Working knowledge of Lighting within Maya a plus, but not essential.
• Working knowledge and understanding of studio production pipeline.
• A good eye for composition, colour, light and shadow.
• Must have strong communication skills and the ability to work within a team in our fast paced production environment.
• Must be self motivated and have a strong desire to produce the highest possible quality of work within our production schedule.
• Ability to take direction and willingness to address comments and make changes.
• Must have strong demo reel showing high level of ability in compositing shots in either an animation or live action pipeline.
• Good knowledge of Maya/After Effects software Fresher can also apply.

To apply, please send your resume, reel and reel breakdown to the address below.

LABYRINTH CINEMATIC SOLUTIONS PVT. LTD.
S # 407, Stanford Plaza, Plot No. B / 65,
Off. New Link Road, Andheri (W),
Mumbai – 400 053
Tel: 022-42176999
E-mail :- jobs@labyrinth.in

I have posted a new video to the 4Kay Story…..

Autodesk Smoke: Better keys and more with Pixel Spread!

Are you always fighting to get the perfect edges on your keys? In Autodesk Smoke, Pixel Spread is an interesting tool that can help fix these issues as well as be used in other technical and creative ways.

Pixel Spread is included in our FlameFX toolset, and is a great technical tool that allows you to address multiple issues. In this video I cover 4 typical scenarios for which Pixel Spread can be a major helper in your workflows:

1. Fixing bad edges on a key
2. Pixel based warping with a traveling alpha channel
3. Working with pre-multiplied graphics with CGI-compositing
4. Accurate pixel warping with a vector map (different from normal displacement)

Check it out at http://area.autodesk.com/blogs/discreetuk or my YouTube Channel – creativefinishing


There are many other uses of pixel spread, which I am still looking into, so I’ll keep those for another video…

Remember that all of this technology is GPU accelerated so it is very fast and the results are clean and sharp.

I hope that you’ll enjoy using Pixel Spread as much as I did when making this video… It’s really powerful!

For more information about Smoke: http://www.autodesk.com/smokeonmac

Thanks again for all the feedback. Please keep it coming…

Have a great weekend!

Regards
Grant

I’m keen to know what techniques people use when the default setting for moblur in SFX simply don’t work. I refer really to the more pronounced moblur shots which often leaves the soft edges far too exaggerated and the hard edges way too eroded. I find you can compensate for one of these but not both (well not with only one shape).

At present the method I am adopting is roto’ing initially to the soft edge (which basically leaves the hard edge hideously eroded). I then duplicate my shapes. With these duplicates I remove the moblur and give them a slight inner blur. This has the effect of bringing back the hard edge with a hint of softness to blend with the soft edge. With this method I get reasonable results.

However, is there a simpler way? If the shot demands 40 shapes then my current workflow of having to duplicate all these and fiddle with the settings is convoluted. I find messing with the moblur setting is fruitless because they apply to your shapes globally. So you may be able to line them up correctly for one shape but it puts all your others out of alignment.

(Perhaps I should mention I’m using V2.3. I don’t know if the mblur settings for v4 are improved or not).

I just wondered if people could share some of their techniques for combatting this…