Hasta La Motion!

We have recently finished production on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and Captain America: The First Avenger.

We are currently in production on John Carter Of Mars, The Dark Knight Rises, Total Recall and Snow White.

* Job Title: Effects Technical Director
* Department: 3D
* Location: London
* Closing Date: N/A
* Reports To: Head of 3D
* Direct Reports: N/A

Key Purpose of the Job

Through complex problem solving, using both Maya and Double Negative’s proprietary Voxel based render system and custom pipeline tools, creating VFX for film.
Needs To Do

* The position of FX Technical Director requires someone with a thorough knowledge of 3D Computer Graphics, with several years of experience in a similar role working on broadcast or film projects.

Needs To Know

* Full knowledge of Maya (Mel and Houdini knowledge a plus)
* Effects animation experience
* Familiarity with pipeline issues
* Experience in producing effects such as smoke, fire, clouds, water, steam and explosions, plus experience with particle 2 rendering voxel based systems
* Minimum of 3 years demonstrable experience in effects work on feature films
* A good general TD BG is desirable

Needs To Be

* Pro-active
* Technically adept
* Team oriented
* Adaptable
* Able to take direction

Measures of Performance

* Delivery of required content, on time
* Continuous improvement

Please send applications to Alice Tuxford at 77 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, W1D 5DU.

If you have any questions please contact jobs@dneg.com

We look forward to hearing from you!

into the following:

Final Delivery Video Format & Illustrations
– MPEG2, 1920x1080px
– 50p
– I-Frame only
– HP@HI
– CBR
– CBR
– 40Mbit
– Closed GOP
– GOP<15
No audio is required for these animations

So far we keep getting this error:
MPEG2 encoder: Invalid video horizontal size(1920)/vertical size (1080)/frame rate(50.00 fps) combination.

if i convert it with 25fps it works fine but not with 50fps?

Can anyone help?

I am searching an efficient solution for creating decent looking smoky fires on tree trunks/twigs appeared in foreground and background for a war-zone type of shot. I pull a still frame from a FXPHD term intro video to better describe the effects I am after: Basically small smokes here and there, and smoky fire on tree trunks.
I’ve searched some possible solutions for that include (I put the concerns from my perspective):
1. GenArts Monsters GT
2. Tracode Particular for Nuke
3. particles in NukeX 6.3
4. Maya fluids: highest learning curve and probably take longer to render?
5. pull keys from stock footage: most fire stock footage with dark background has no smoke in it, whereas live-action smoky fire on wood can be difficult to pull a clean key?

Since I have no experience in any of above, I am wondering which approach would be the most efficient one with little learning curve that creates descent results of fire and smokes effects?

Please, any comment is very welcome!

– Jason