3d/VFX in all fields

Hi I’m Boris Raguza, a 3D Artist/VFX worked for years in game industry where I learned everything from character modeling and animation to complex explosions and composing. Would love to try my skills in movie industry.

Fully making all shots alone from begining to end as shown in my portfolio I did whole cinematics alone for projects and teasers:
www.boristheartist.com

password: PORTFOLIO

My skill level and tools:
Expert in all and VFX 3d 3ds max for 12 years
Expert knowledge of creating photorealistic explosions and effects phenomena using FumeFX or AfterBurn
Expert in Zbrush for 6 years
Expert in Texturing and photoshop work for 8 years
Expert in After Effects 4 years composing 2d-3d
Intermediate knowledge of Nuke 2d composing, key removal etc. still learning
Beginner knowledge of XSI and Maya still learning

Searching for some freelance remote work in all fields for experience gathering.

PM me or Contact me if interested over my website.

Thanks in advance

Meet Tiko

In the year 2130, on a yet undiscovered planet, Tiko is the last remaining robot of a mechanical civilization. Machines discovered greed and hunger for power. The war that wiped this civilization lasted 50 years. Tiko is one of those lower end robots on the military scale. He was mass produced as a scout robot by Anko, a weapon company. Now that all is gone, Tiko needs to find a new way to adapt and learn from his environment…

This short marks the start of our new web series Tiko, and while initial development took quite a while (about a month), it was mainly to test different aspects of producing an animated series in short times. To start we will be trying to produced 2 episodes per months and then push it to 1 every week. And by the way all ideas are welcome. If you feel you have a good scenario for a webisode, drop us a line at info (at) caustik.tv with a subject “Tiko webisode”. We hope you enjoy it.

SSAO for Mac – loading error

Hi,

after some minor modifications on the source code I´ve succesfully compiled the SSAO Plugin using Nuke´s "Makefile". The Makefile was modified too so it uses the MacOSX10.6 SDK.

When I try to load the compiled plug into Nuke (typing nuke.createNode(‘SSAO’)) I get this error message:

"RuntimeError: dlopen(/Users/…/…/…/plugins/SSAO.dylib, 2): no suitable image found. Did find:
/Users/…/…/…/plugins/SSAO.dylib: can’t map"

What does "can´t map" mean? I´m not a c++ programmer. Any suggestions?

thomas

Rebuilding a Flame Setup in Nuke

Hi,

i’m trying to transfer a project, which was done in Flame to Nuke. So I basically need to recreate every step that was done in Flame in Nuke.
Do you guys know if there is a Flame to Nuke Guide or something that might help me out ?

Thanks in advance.

Gizmo

Need some advice (english filming project)

Hi guys,

My English filming project is due tomorrow and I still have some editing to do. I also need 2 songs, one should be (not overdone) happy and a sad song.

Here is the script, please advise me a happy and a sad song that would fit each scene.

Play:
Scene in my own house, in the morning, with my family getting ready for breakfast. Mom, dad, my brother and myself, all of the usual stuff about getting out bowls and pouring cereal, or frying eggs, or whatever, and getting ready to go off to school.

Then it shows me playing a homeless child, waking up in a cardboard box in a doorway, under a bridge, whatever, and scrounging through trash cans looking for something to eat. Cut back and forth between the two scenes, and when the happy kid goes off to school, the homeless kid goes off to a streetcorner, where he stands begging with a sign, and everyone’s ignoring him.

Thanks heaps guys

ipiSoftware for Kinect Camera creates motion capture with one camera!

Howdy Folks, Great News!

iPisoft has made a easy and inexpensive one (kinetic) camera mocap solution that requires no calibration.

First Download the 30 day FREE demo here http://goo.gl/fJXSY

Then visit my youtube channel to see the ipi mocap software demonstrated by MrBones himself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey3JN…&feature=email

Please be sure to help spread the word and tell your friends about this fun and easy to use mocap animation software.

Thanks again and Cheers:niceone:

Premultiply problems

I’ve come across this several times but not found a good solution.. I often get gaps between an object in let’s say pass A that is obscured by another object which gets rendered in pass B (so the foreground object is seen in pass B but black in pass A’s RGBA).

I try all combinations of using premultiply on the read node, or the premult node after a read node, variations with unpremult and merging the two using ‘matte’ or ‘over’ etc.

If I’d use other compositing software with the same outputs it doesn’t happen as much, or a lot less visible at least. Has anyone else come across this?

I’m outputting renders from mental ray inside maya.

Thanks!

Plugin Dev – Recompiling for new Nuke Versions

If I’m way over my head, please someone smack me into reality. (Just a quick disclaimer). I don’t have much experience in programming but I’ve been interested in plugin development for a long time. Primarily for Maya and Nuke. I haven’t so far though because of the time constraints but, more importantly, I had no understanding of where to start learning. There are resources on this forum but not for what I am about to describe:

I saw a plugin that I vehemently wanted in my workflow called SSAO (long name – Screen Space Ambient Occlusion). It’s on nukepedia with this link here

http://www.nukepedia.com/plugins/filter/ssao/

When I try to run it though, I get the infamous not a Win32 application error. I noticed that if you change the .dll to .cpp you can view the file and so you have access to the source code but I don’t know what I’m looking at, let alone how to compile it to a different (higher) version of Nuke. Could anyone specifically shed some light on how I could get this to work on Nuke 6.2? I’d love to make this a learning experience for plugin development (for me anyway).

Import script and replace all I/O paths – script help

Hi, I’m trying to figure out how to create a button that does this:

Opens up a window asking what shot number you are working on.

Once that’s done, import a script from path X or even if it’s a nuke script inside the python script that just gets created, doesn’t matter.

Replaces all write node paths according to what shot number you mentioned earlier, so if the script by default loads in X:\projectA\shot01\projectA_shot01.%04d.tga it should replace all those shot01’s with whatever you put into the window.

And that’s it. If anyone has tips or can put me in the right direction it’d be great. Thanks!

SCAD Production Design

Hello, I’m not sure if this is the right place for this but I was wondering if anyone here has attended SCAD in Savannah for production design or any of their graduate programs?

I am graduating from Drexel in Philadelphia with an accredited bachelors in architecture and i want to attend SCAD in 2012 for MA in production design but I am worried about my GPA. I started undergrad in engineering, and did not do very well so I do not have a very good GPA….it is under a 2.5. With that being said my architecture portfolio is outstanding and I have lots of time to add to it since I wont be applying until December or January.

Thanks