fireapple films: We Miss You

“We only protect what we love.” WE MISS YOU is a social campaign that deals with our relationship to earth. Our aim is to get people back in touch with nature. Produced and Directed by Fireapple Films, three German film students who lost touch with nature, creating WE MISS YOU is […]

Ronda: Taste it

Taste it; Development of a graphic package for a 2011 travel and food program by Ronda, and Argentinian animation studio. Great illustration/animation work.

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Skittles: Newlyweds … feeeeel the rainbow (NSFW)

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Zookeeper: An animal get together

Zookeeper: An animal get together

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Imageworks visual effects supervisor Pete Travers delves into the challenging world of working with real animals and creating CG ones for Zookeeper, in this fxguide Q&A. Includes a making of clip.

Luma Pictures – Lighter

Lighting Artist

Luma Pictures is looking for Lighters

Luma Pictures is an artist centric feature film VFX studio located two blocks from the beach in Santa Monica, California. We maintain a unique culture with an amazingly talented staff and are always on the lookout for exceptional people for full time and project positions.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
– Lighting look development for integration of CG elements into Live Action
– Lighting look development for full CG shots
– Creation of tools and scripts to facilitate workflow
– Develop methodologies for reduction of render time and improving quality of results

QUALIFICATIONS:
– Artist must know Maya and MentalRay extremely well
– Understanding multi pass 3D compositing required
– Knowledge of Renderman or Air a plus
– Artists must be able to take direction and work in a team focused environment, good communication skills are a must
– Strong time management skills and extremely organized.
– Solid work ethic and a positive attitude in the face of challenging situations.
– Los Angeles Residents or willingness to relocate preferred • Relocation assistance may be available subject to negotiation

If you think you fit the bill and want a quick response, upload your reel/portfolio and a shot breakdown to www.lumapictures.com. If you prefer to send hard copies, you can submit a resume, reel, shot breakdown and cover letter to:

Attention: Recruiting – Lighters
Luma Pictures
1424 2nd St
Santa Monica, CA 90401

Submitted materials will not be returned and no phone calls please.
www.luma-pictures.com

Modern Warfare 2 Style Text Effect

Hi!

Basically, I am putting together an action movie that based around secret intelligence and Russian terrorists so I thought it would be pretty neat if I could make the location titles that introduce the location work in a similar way to some of the Modern Warfare 2 titles. Essentially, the text starts of in cyrillic then the letters change to English characters to show what they mean. It doen’t matter how they transition and I don’t really mind if it is just a random bunch of Cyrillic characters, although it would be nice to use the proper text I have had translated.

Anyone got any ideas on how this could be achieved? I realise I will have to use a text offset but I am unsure how to use it effectively enough. If someone could give me a step-by-step guide it would be highly appreciated. Here is a clip of the kind of text I am talking about:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHdzU-hFgow

Luma Pictures – Lighting/Comp TD

Sr Lighting/Comp TD

Luma Pictures is an artist centric feature film VFX studio located two blocks from the beach in Santa Monica, California. We maintain a unique culture with an amazingly talented staff and are always on the lookout for exceptional people for full time and project positions.

Luma is on the hunt for an experienced supervisor who has a substantial track record of leading teams technically and artistically through complex visual effects for film. A great eye and steller problem solving skills are a must.

Extensive production experience in all the following areas: layout, animation, modeling, texturing, rigging, fur/hair, cloth, effects, lighting, and compositing. Must have an exceptional eye for taking shots from conception to final.

Evaluates the creative requirements of a project, determines their technical implications, and makes high-impact operational decisions.

Expected to be attentive to emerging industry technologies and production techniques, and determines practical applications for these advancements in order to improve production.

Strong aesthetic sense; demonstrates ability to make creative and aesthetic judgment calls quickly and under significant pressure..

Ability to manage time and balance priorities, often amidst the pressures of busy, deadline-driven production.

Ability to communicate effectively with a wide variety of personalities, both written and verbal.

– Must understand anatomy and perspective
– Proper modeling and texturing techniques
– Knowledge of rigging
– Complex shader network design and setup
– Lighting, rendering and optimization
– Capable of executing complex multi-layered comps
– General compositing knowledge inside Nuke

Ultimately, the successful candidate has extensive production experience, the ability to identify both current and potential technical challenges, and the ability to command high-level technical strategy across a potentially large (feature-film) production team.

Do not apply if you do not meet all the criteria above.

SUBMISSIONS:
If you think you fit the bill and want a quick response, upload your reel/portfolio and a shot breakdown to www.lumapictures.com. If you prefer to send hard copies, you can submit a resume, reel, shot breakdown and cover letter to:

Attention: Recruiting – Sr Lighting TD
Luma Pictures
1424 2nd St
Santa Monica, CA 90401

Submitted materials will not be returned and no phone calls please.

Need Help to make

hi guys,

i am trying to make gradient tool in nuke but i don’t know much abt scripting part so i need help to make gradient tool but problem is i need gradient same like a "eyeon fusion" so anybody can help me to make same gradient like fusion? thxs

i try this

{
Tools = ordered() {
Gradient1 = TexGradient {
CtrlWZoom = false,
Inputs = {
Gradient = Input {
Value = Gradient {
Colors = {
[0] = { 0, 0, 0, 1, },
[1] = { 1, 1, 1, 1, },
},
},
},
MaterialID = Input {
Value = 1,
},
},
ViewInfo = OperatorInfo {
Pos = { 671, 210, },
},
},
},
ActiveTool = "Gradient1",
}

but when i enter in nuke i got this thing error

{
Tools = ordered() {
Gradient1 = TexGradient {
CtrlWZoom = false,
Inputs = {
Gradient = Input {
Value = Gradient {
Colors = {
[0] = { 0, 0, 0, 1, },
[1] = { 1, 1, 1, 1, },
},
},
},
MaterialID = Input {
Value = 1,
},
},
ViewInfo = OperatorInfo {
Pos = { 671, 210, },
},
},
},
ActiveTool = "Gradient1",
}
# Result: File "<string>", line 2
Tools = ordered() {
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

[ask] Ctrl C gives PC Freezing

hello,
im wondering why if i try ctrl C, nuke suddenly freezing, same if i press ctrl X,

anyone can help?

thanks