Hasta La Motion!

RenderQ is a drag and drop render queue app that will send Maya, After Effects, Nuke, and Shake renders to Terminal and queue them up for easy and efficient local rendering..

RenderQ

How much do CG artists make? Like the ones who model the scenes, or animate the characters/objects?

Are they freelancers or contracted employees at a studio? Both, I would assume, but what is the benifit of being a CG artist?

Just a little teaser and interest check for a simple little app I am working on. A drag and drop render queue system for After Effects, Maya, Nuke, and Shake, and possibly more in the future. (Any app that supports command line rendering should work).

Simply drag and drop multiple project files or scripts onto the droplet, even if they are of different types, and the app will automatically determine how to submit them and render them within Terminal in a queue. It will display clear messages in Terminal on which renders are currently active, when the started an finished, and even custom render finished sounds for when the queue is finished!

It really is a tool currently meant for local use on single workstations or as a tool to make multi-machine rendering easy to manage for individuals or small teams with multiple workstations. Just using built in screen sharing in OS X and a tool like this it should be extremely easy to manage renders across multiple systems.

More info and a demo video is coming soon. As I said, just wanted to see if this is something people would be interested in so feel free to post or contact me if this sounds good. It will likely be free but a lot of work went into this tool so if you happen to download this in the future don’t get stingy with those donations!

Hi Guys,
Does anybody of you know how to use a Normal Pass in Nuke?
Any help will be really appreciated.
Thanks

I have been looking for a DVD that shows how visual effects are used in movies today and how visual effects have developed over the years. Kind of like a behind the scenes dvd which uses well known movies as examples and show the most common techniques like greenscreening, rotoscoping, matchmoving, CG and so on. Not a tutorial based dvd, but more like an extensive behind the scenes or a documentary. Does anyone know if such a dvd exists? Recommendations?

Thanks!
Torigo