Jul 21

The Foundry gain access to 3D paint technology

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Hi

Some more great news from our team regarding adding Walt Disney
Animation Studios proprietary 3D painting technology in MARI

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Paint 3D offers some of the industry’s most advanced aspects of paint and texture creation technology. Paint 3D is also the original development ground and authoring tool for Ptex, Disney’s revolutionary open source texture mapping system that eliminates the need for UV mapping and efficiently stores hundreds of thousands of images in a single file. This represents the first time Walt Disney Animation Studios has commercially licensed its proprietary animation software to an outside company.

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read more here

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Jul 20

Student Film Festival

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Hello

I am setting up an student film festival accepting applicants from all over the world to be shown in a public London cinema.

We’re looking for the best and most diverse films from a variety of backgrounds. If you think you might be interested. Please visit the website:

www.filmlabfestival.co.uk

Thanks 🙂

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Jul 20

Lagoa Multiphysics 1.0 – Teaser

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Jul 20

wierd ‘compression’ artifacts

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I gotta pull keys from this footage which is apparently off a RED camera, transcoded and submitted as 10bit uncompressed MOV files @ 1920×1080. the red channel is not great and the blue channel looks awfull – it seems as there is compression going on, have a look and tell me what you think, its making matte extraction more painfull than it needs to be, does this look compressed or what?

I know its a bit of a hassle downloading the file but I’d appreciate your input

(hopefully the attatchment worked)

Attached Files
File Type: rar aSHOT14still.rar (8.14 MB)
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Jul 19

Composite

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So do you guys think Autodesk will release Composite as a standalone. Would be nice.
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Jul 19

VIP account – no response/no access

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First off, I enjoy the community here at VFXTalk.com, but I’m really concerned about the ‘VIP’ area.

I wanted to help support the site so I dutifully sent in my payment for access to the VIP area but have yet to receive said access. I have PM’d both Hugh and Jah, still no response. I’m starting to wonder if the VIP thing is just a bit of a scam.

Apparently, I’m not the only one who has paid for access to the VIP area and not gotten it. It seems some have gone weeks or months without getting the access they paid for.

I can understand a certain lack of response from administrators if they’re running the site as a hobby and just don’t have time to deal with it at the moment… BUT… once you start taking money in from users, it becomes a business and you have a duty to respond in a timely manner.

–Jud

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Jul 19

Windows 7.. what to do..

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the time has dawned, when i am but forced to embrace the inevitable. im but forced to move to a os im not that happy with.. but want your views on it..

been using winxp64 for a long time without any cause for complaint, but now must migrate to Win7 because of this whole CS5 thingy and the addition of new hardware.

my primary production software would be Nuke and Aftereffect cs5 working with mostly DSLR and Sony XDCam footage (and an occasional film scan). Hardware on the compers station would be a i7 980x /16G memory/2BX4 raid 5/ 470GTX for mercury playback.

my questions are as follows

1) Do compers use Windows7. and if so, how successful is it…
2) In the inevitable situation of having to use Win7, are there any things i need to know about setting up win7 without running into complications mid project.
3)other useful information ??

thankx again..

rasika

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Jul 16

About the industry.

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Greetings! First time poster, long time reader. I am from Canada, 21 years old and looking forward to starting a career in Visual Effects(Compositing). Being that I frequently visit this site for information about the industry, I have realized that it is difficult to enter and maintain employment and that it has outsourced a lot of its work to other countries. Luckily one of those countries is Canada. I have heard that VFX workers are often treated poorly in the USA… little job security, long and hard hours for income that almost seems to be less than worth it. What I was wondering was, what is this industry like for Canadians? Do they have a different approach and a better structure for this to be a desirable career choice? Is there an increase in job oppourtunities and will this remain consistant? If anybody can tell me anything about what the industry is like up here in the North I would most certainly be thankful and I can stop hesistating on beginning my lessons on compositing!
Many thanks!

Matt Healey / Healeywood

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Jul 16

Spielberg Hates Us :'(

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Quote:

Steven Spielberg has blasted modern movies packed with CGI – insisting hi-tech effects have become "too special".

The legendary director helmed 1993’s Jurassic Park, which received widespread acclaim for utilising revolutionary technology to create realistic dinosaurs.

The movie led the way for film-makers to use computer-generated imagery – but Spielberg is adamant many modern pictures contain too many effects.

He tells Empire magazine, "There’s so many tools we have now in the toolshed and it’s just a matter of individual choice of how we use these tools. I frankly think that special effects are becoming too special. There are too many special effects in all these movies today. It means that the movie starts on a special effect, ends on a bigger special effect, and the middle is the same special effect."

http://www.imdb.com/news/ni3339044/

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Jul 16

What, and who, are visual effects anyway?

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I recently called Jeffrey Okun, a well-respected visual effects supervisor and Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Visual Effects Society (VES) to tap his brains about the state of the visual effects industry and all the wonderful technology that is fundamentally changing it at a startling pace. Jeffrey, of course, has been around since the early 1980’s and has supervised effects on many big films, including Ed Zwick’s work on “The Last Samurai” and “Blood Diamond,” among others. He’s currently in Vancouver, supervising on Catherine Hardwick’s upcoming “Little Red Riding Hood.”

Jeffrey, of course, has a deep passion for promoting the art and artists of the visual effects’ industry, and like many folks, he’s concerned about their welfare and future in a radically evolving industry on a financially unstable landscape. Rather than spending much time on technology, Jeffrey wanted to discuss what, exactly, it means to be a visual effects artist in the digital era in an increasingly globalized business. The people he calls “unsung heroes” and, sometimes, “migrant film workers” are getting caught up in, according to Jeffrey, “the opposite of the democratization of the artist. We are becoming less valued and getting less rights.”

Continued and audio:
http://provideocoalition.com/index.p…When:03:11:18Z

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