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cmiVFX Releases SideFX Houdini Hip Tricks Volume 3 Training Video
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Princeton, NJ (May 12, 2011) – cmiVFX launches its latest training for the SideFX Houdini premiere digital visual effects animation software package. If two were not enough, we come back with the highly anticipated third, killer sibling, for the series! Following the amazing success of the first two titles from cmiVFX Hip Tricks, we bring another blockbuster release for you to master! Everything you want to know, delivered fast and furious, (as usual) through our ground breaking, ever evolving web based delivery player system. In this video, you’ll learn how to make production ready user friendly tools that will captivate your audience, time and time again. We are turning the Houdini world upside down, bringing a fresh look into its amazing tool set. As a testament to the power and flexibility of Houdini, we’ll try to keep it simple and comprehensible by encapsulating some of the higher end film techniques Houdini is famous for. If your dream is to do the impossible, Houdini is the software for you to achieve your objectives and cmiVFX is the trainer for you to achieve your inner greatness.

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Short Description
Welcome to the highly anticipated "HIP Tricks" Volume 3 video, created by CMIVFX and Varomix. A partnership like no other, this joint venture shows the true camaraderie that builds a solid CG pipeline. There is a reason that cmiVFX stands alone in the high end market…. IT’S NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART! We will work with ANYONE that has some fantastic techniques to offer… wether it is a student half way around the world, or another training company that wants to work with us on a video title. We hand pick together the brightest, most exciting people to make the best training the world has to offer. This time we get deeper and deeper into Houdini combining different techniques to get awesome results. Just sit back, relax and enjoy the show!

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Alien Crop Field Designs
Play the role of the young Alien Graffiti artist and create outstanding designs on crop fields! We`ll emulate crop field designs right within Houdini, in a simple, easy to understand lesson that any level of artist can follow. The technique we`ll learn allows you to quickly apply a lot of different effects, such as foot prints to your custom shots. You`ll be able to start using a basic text file as guide or a complex image file directly in your crop field system. This project open up doors, (or should we say celestial gateways?), to other effects related to our source material.


Making Hip Art
Hip Art is well known for its beautiful repetitions. The technique uses tons of repetition and the subtle changes to express the individual artists minds in a way that is perfect for Houdini. Taking all of this into consideration, it becomes a perfect subject for our studies. Using both Houdini geometry displacements and render time displacements, we will make some images that will open your mind to a brand new kind of experience and help add a phenomenal amount of details to your projects.

Simple Crowd System
This simple crowd system will get you started on creating complex shots for your animations in a heart beat. It has a solid, easy to understand base for you to add crowds to any scene you desire. We’ll learn how to create different levels of proxy geometry directly from the high resolution source without loosing the main shape of the character. Alongside that, you`ll learn how to add randomness to get away with having repeating actions on your characters and avoid having them looking all the same, which is a common problem with first timers when building crowd systems. We’ll also prepare our system to adopt any custom character you might want to use. You can also use instances for particles and/or delayed loading. Get your crowd shots working flawlessly with some expert tips from Varomix!

Alvaro Castañeda
Alvaro Castañeda, best known as "Varomix" is a 33 years old CG Generalist TD. He lost a little of his self back in 1993 at a Jurassic Park screening, and that totally changed his life. Toy Story finished the job in 1995 – there was no turning back!. He started his way in 3D back in 1998, first using 3ds Max, then Cinema4D and finally in 1999, he met Maya 2.0. Since then he has done CGI for print, web, TV, Film, DVD, I guess anything that has pixels in it!. He started using Houdini in 2002 shortly after Side Effects launched the Houdini Apprentice Program. He had also done on-set VFX Supervision and DOP Assisting.


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So using deadline, it’s recommended to place the render output into a server. i got a case where i have a very complex script, ussually i will ‘precomp’ at certain ‘checkpoint’ by rendering it out then read it back in and i’ll repeat this steps couple more times. Now, if i submit the project to rendermanager , the render output will be in server side. To deal with my precomp scenario, i need to copy back all the render result locally, so i can get the ‘speed’. This is a bit different compare to 3d animation, where the texture/map etc is not to critical when they have to be in the server, They’ll be needed when rendering. But in Nuke, all the read proccess is very intense, so frame by frame got read successively. So did u do copy all the render output from server back to local ? or u grab the clips directly from network which means you have a bloody fast server + lightning fast cabling.

Also how to deal with the relative path thing? do u convert all the path from all ‘read’ node into relative path or any other method ? so the render slave can get the correct path for all the media/clip etc??

Any suggestion will be great.

thanx.

We are currently in production on John Carter Of Mars, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and Captain America: The First Avenger.

* Job Title: Tech Runner
* Department: Technology
* Location: London or Singapore
* Reports To: CTO

Key Purpose of the Job

Assisting the Technology Department in supporting the Facility.

Needs To Do

* Render Wrangling: supporting the designers as they feed their work through the distributed rendering system
* Workstation Support: directly supporting the designers in the facility
* Image Quality Control: monitor calibrations, projector calibrations, maintaining viewing environments etc
* Misc: generally helping the Technology Department with their day to day tasks

Needs To Be

* Friendly
* Enthusiastic
* Pro-active
* Use Initiative
* Enjoy helping people
* Hard worker

If you are interested please apply online at www.dneg.com/jobs

We look forward to hearing from you!

We are currently in production on John Carter Of Mars, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and Captain America: The First Avenger.

* Job Title: Animator
* Department: 3D
* Location: London
* Reports To: Head of Animation

Key Purpose of the Job

An Animator is responsible for expediting high quality character/creature animation for feature films.

Needs To Do

* Work closely with the animation lead/supervisor to create believable animation with convincing performances and motion
* Be aware of project schedules and be capable of delivering work to deadlines
* Must communicate well and be willing to take notes and direction
* Must work well in a team

Needs To Know

* 3+ years CG experience, ideally within feature films
* Ability to perform visual and analytical problem solving in 3-dimensional space, including the ability to accurately interpret 3D layouts and analyse 3D form
* Ability to problem solve and predict potential problems with assigned tasks
* Thorough knowledge of Maya

Needs To Be

* Well versed in the principles of animation
* Ability to work well in a team environment
* Highly motivated
* Adaptable
* Must communicate well and be able to take notes and direction

Measures of Performance

* Must achieve set quota per week/month

If you are interested please apply online at www.dneg.com/jobs

We look forward to hearing from you!