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I wanted to carry about the Foundry Nuke videos with me on my ipad, for easy reference, especially when I’m at work. "But what about watching them on the Foundry website while at work?", you might ask. Hey, I’m glad you asked that! It’s becoming more and more common to have the internet SHUT OFF at your machines at work. "But what about using your laptop, or even ipad and use the company WIFI?". Hey, another good question. And again, more places seem to not want to offer wifi to their artists. Thanks Pirates. You’re making our lives a lot more difficult. And sometimes, just sometimes, I want want to review a video at a coffee shop. So there.
Back to the subject. I tried a test video on the VLC app on my iPad, and it couldn’t handle it. It was slow and choppy, and scrubbing was impossible. CineXplayer can only do divex movies, and the default Movie app (which is connected to itunes) can only do movies that are "compatible" with the iPad specs. Just for the hell of it, I dragged and dropped a foundry quicktime into itunes, but it won’t sync onto my ipad.
It’s looking like handbrake is becoming my only option. The only problem is I hate handbrake with a passion. I hate converting video. I hate how long it takes. I hate how my conversions always end up bigger than the original. I hate how I suck at it. I just hate it.
Then, I remembered the app Goodreader can also handle videos. I’ve thrown a couple clips onto that, but never considered using it as a full on video player. It served me mostly as a PDF reader. The main reason I never considered using it for media was because there is no thumbnail capability. So I throw on a few foundry videos, and BOOM. They play. Beautifully. And I can scrub.
So there you have it. You got an iPad? You want to carry Foundry tutorial videos along with you. Goodreader is your man. Just drag and drop. No conversion needed.
1) Go to film school.
2) Build a demo reel.
3) Shop it around.
4) Wait.
But, there are many other ways in as well – non-traditional educations, a happenstance meeting in an elevator, lying/cheating/stealing your way into that job. Some of these stories can be inspirational, hilarious and morally questionable 😉
The point is: There are many ways into this business. As a result, it’s hard to give definitive advice on what a newcomer should do to get noticed, or land a job. No two stories are quite alike, and based on the personal emails I got (on a previous story I posted), I think that hopeful applicants would benefit from some war stories of getting into the biz, and the weird twists and turns that got us through our careers.
I posted this story on a different thread, and it resulted in emails asking for more. If this thread gets some traction I’ll embarrass myself with other anecdotes.
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‘The Software Simulator’
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When I first started out there was much less competition, but also less opportunity. Access to the professional machines and production software (stuff we now take for granted) was virtually impossible. I got my first job working as a junior, junior, junior ‘nobody’ in a post house. The people who had access to the "3D machines" were very protective of their territory. I felt completely shut out from the world I wanted to be part of. It was like an exclusive club for which you needed to know a secret password, and I didn’t. I was so very close to it, yet stuck behind the velvet rope.
Information was hard to come by in those days, but I got an Accountant to give me the name for the local hardware/software distributer. I called him and offered to work there for a week for free, in exchange, I got one night to learn on their demo computer. One night … what was I thinking?
So, I put in my week of cleaning the warehouse and filing papers, and then came my career-changing night. How did I spend these precious hours? – Not sitting at the machine. I stayed up all night, and photocopied all of the manuals (there must have been 10-12 big books). Then, I went home and cut out all the menus, taped them up and pretended like I was actually using the software, manually. Yes, I learned how to use it without ever having used such a machine, or software.
I practiced (at home, secretly) until the day we had a imminent deadline, and the 3D guy was not able to come in. I got my break, and somehow muddled my way through.
I’d like to say that the rest is history, but it was only the first chapter of many. In fact, I’m trying something new right now, and have no idea where it will take me.
Sometimes you get noticed, and sometimes cut your own trail.
I am new in after effects.and i right now i am doing a animation for mouth of pumpkin. with a voice over.i just wanted to know that how to animate the mouth of pumpkin .i dont know how to stretch and squeeze the mouth of pumpkin.or any other way to make them speaking…is there any solution…where i can just move the edges of mouth and make it animated using AEIOU.
My English is bad..but hope you get understood.
Thanks
I would like some general opinions or advice on tackling such a project as I’ve never done anything like this.
I’m thinking that I would have to do some stills of the imagery first to get the timing and then fire out some sort of timecode on to it so I could work on the clips in smaller sections before I stick it all together, right?
Like I said, any advice or tips are most welcome.
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