Hasta La Motion!

Aug 15

New to industry – advice needed

Hi folks,

I realise you must get this a LOT but I could do with your help/advice. I graduated in BSc Design Tech and I am looking to move into the animation/visual effects industry. I have done a lot of research over the past 6-12 months and I’m adamant that I have made the right decision. I went to Siggraph 2011 in Vancouver and asked a lot of questions, got a good understanding of what is expected from me but I have a few more and wondered if you could help…

1) it seems that everyone wants to see a portfolio/demo reel regardless of your experience. I want to apply for a runner/PA position as I see it as a great way to learn, whilst working in the industry. Does anyone have any suggestions on which sites make good portfolios? If you have any other advice re the portfolio, please share.

2) I recently applied for a position as a runner at MPC and they wanted someone with experience using UNIX/Linux (to which I have none of either). I am enthusiastic and eager to learn but I am not sure which application would be the best; Fedora, Ubuntu, etc. Also, would you suggest buying a book or registering on a course?

3) I already completed an ‘Intro to Maya’ part-time course that taught me the basic principles of Maya but I was wondering what you would suggest doing next, I want to practice using the software by working on tutorials but I am struggling to find basic tutorials (which include the necessary part files – for FREE). Again, any advice would be much appreciated.

Thanks again to anyone who takes the time to read and reply to my post.

Andy

Aug 15

Cache woes with Nuke 6.3v2

Posted in: NUKE from The Foundry

Hey guys,

Is anyone else experiencing, like, major cache issues? I haven’t had this problem before 6.3v2, but I’m not sure if it’s just me, or if it’s a memory issue (which I upgraded, recently) or disk issues (I just bought an SSD to serve as my OS disk, but all my caches are on a RAID)…

Pretty much, what’s happening is, every so often, in the viewer, the frame will start to render, and then at an indeterminate point, it’ll just fill the rest of the frame with some other frame, randomly. And then, once that’s cached, the frame is stuck like that. I have to go to another frame, clear my disk cache, clear my buffers, update my buffers, reload my read node, and go back to the frame in question… and if the frame needs to re-render for any reason (scaling in the viewport, changing a parameter, etc), I have to cross my fingers and hope it doesn’t happen again… because, more often than not, it does.

And it’s not just one particular frame that this happens to – it can happen to any frame, from any sequence, from any location on any drive. And it’s not just in the viewer – I’ve rendered precomps that end up with corrupt frames. It happens with a clean install of Nuke, no plugins or gizmos or python scripts. It happens eventually after I reboot. It happens whether or not I lay a diskcache node on. It happens regardless of whether I’m using aggressive caching. It happens with image sequences, quicktime movies, and raw red footage. It happens without warning. It happens regardless of viewer bit-depth, or whether or not I guide Nuke to utilize the GPU. It. won’t. stop. happening.

But… I’ve searched around the internet, and I’m beginning to think that this happens only to me… so… not totally sure if it’s Nuke or what. But I’ve been troubleshooting this crap for the past week so frequently that I’m barely getting work done, and I am really – really – really frustrated.

Anyone? Wanted to check to see if anyone else was having issues before bothering The Foundry.

Aug 15

plugin for camera shake? quake?

Posted in: The Pad

I see it in rap music videos all the time. Anyone know a plugin that does it?

Aug 15

Storyboard artist needed

Posted in: VFX Marketplace

Hi, i need storyboard artist for my production company. focussin on ad commercials primarily. Shud hav out of the box creativity and drawing skills with gud knowledge of angles, composition, camera movements, Stagin and character design. will be paid for his work- Pls.email at priyankacreationz@gmail.com

Other aspiring and experienced 3d , vfx, animators and editors are welcome to hone there creativity by working for my projects on assignment basis.

Aug 15

weareflink: BMW ~ Flow

Posted in: art, cg, Design, directing, vfx

[update] Please note, Mutabor Design is the creative agency for BMW Flow. Some great auto projects to see on their site.
Hamburg based weareflink directed and produced this spot for BMW … great example of generative art in advertising.

Aug 15

Facility-List

Posted in: The Pad

Hey guys

a couple of month ago I had an idea while browsing my link-list for a little website listing vfx-facilities in more graphical way. I posted that a while back on a different board and it grow since then…

Facility – List

So, if you guys have any suggestions, I would be more than happy to hear them!

Aug 15

Realistic skin shader

Posted in: 3DS Max

Hi guys check out 3d max mental ray realty skin shader,Finally i got skin shader tut from youtube, i recreated shader adding some advance settings to look more realty.