Opened up the professional forums

Just a heads up, we have opened up 3 of the forums that were previously locked down and were only for ‘professionals’

* Professional Talk
* Professional Career Advice!
* VFX Supervision / Pre-Production

We hope the information now made available in these forums will be helpful to lurkers and guests on the site, as well as to beginners looking for professional advice.

Some of you know that there has been a bit of a flame war between the new school and the old school, and so if you see old schoolers giving lip please report them and you will get +++ karma

Thanks,

The team
VFXTalk

Censorship

Living in the US, censorship is something that I do not support.

http://vfxsoldier.wordpress.com/2010…cg-censorship/

Bring it on jah.

How can I do this effect?

A camera shake like this one at 00:18 seconds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRys6qfQ_oU

i remember seeing a tutorial about expressions and random in after effects, if thats how i can do this can someone point me to a tutorial? thanks

Digital Visualisering inom Svensk Film och reklamindustri (undersökning)

Hej

Vi är en grupp studenter från IAA (Industrial Art and Animation) som just nu arbetar på en undersökning om hur Digital Visualisering påverkat den svenska filmindustrin. Vi skulle väldigt mycket uppskatta om ni Svenska användare skulle vilja vara vänliga och delta i denna undersökning. Enkäten är helt anonym och era svar kommer inte att publiceras någonstans eller läsas av någon förutom av oss som arbetar med projektet samt vår handledare.

För att delta i undersökning gå till följande länk:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/L3G582D

Tack på förhand
Mvh
Rickard Didriksson

[Making of] Motion Builder in use

Hi,

Do anyone know some tittles of makig offs the movies that were Motion Builder used and discrebed the production and pipelines?

Plug-in Survey

Hi,

We are a group of students from IAA (industrial arts & animation), Sweden, currently working on a report to research the use of 3rd party plug-ins in commercial use.

We would really appreciate if you could help us by answering a short survey.

Link:
http://sv.tool.surveypirate.com/Surv…e-0097846a6dd9

If you have anything to say that’s not being brought up in the survey, do not hesitate to post it here.

Thanks in advance!

VES nominations announced

9th Annual VES Awards Nominees Announced!
HBO series “Boardwalk Empire” leads overall nominations with 5 and “Inception” leads film nominations with 4.

For a complete list, go to:

http://www.visualeffectssociety.com/

I was a nominating judge again this year, and I must say that the level of quality and artistry was amazing! The effects just keep getting better and better! To all the nominees (and even those excellent entries that didn’t quite make the cut) congratulations!

Stereoscopic Player

Hi everyone..does Stereoscopic player works on mac platform as well..
do i require any specific codecs ?
does anyone have an ideas about this ?
what are the alternatives for mac…

Funny and depressing all at once

So since this forum/site is falling apart…

Hey guys,

For a few years now, we –the members of the VFXTalk site — have formed a pretty well-established community and camaraderie where we were able to discuss pretty much anything related to our industry (even unrelated ones too). Suffice it to say, most of us want to save this "community" we’ve established (after all, it took years for it to be formed).

I firmly believe that this community we created is not bound by websites, servers, and URLs. So regardless of the webserver that hosts our discussions, as long as we’re all together and are actively participating we still have this community.

I and a few others have banded together and have moved to facebook (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=471545845432 ). With all the chaos on the VFXTalk site, the facebook group is the most feasible solution at the moment (it’s free, easily accessible, and all are equals (no VIPS). We would love to see you join us, so we can preserve our community: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=471545845432

And in case a new site arises in the future to replace VFXTalk, at least we know where to find you (i.e., on the facebook group) and send you additional info when necessary.

Lovingly Yours,
-Jay