Save 25% on all Dover Studios Maya Training Videos

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For a limited time save 25% on all Dover Studios VFX training videos. The sale runs until July 25, 2011 so be sure to take advantage of the huge savings on our great training videos. The discount will be applied automatically to your order during the checkout process.

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About Dover Studios
Dover Studios, Inc. was founded in 2000 by brothers, Andrew Hazelden and Russell Hazelden, to provide professional Maya training for visual effects artists working in the film and television industry. Visual effects artists have relied on Dover Studios Maya training videos for years to help them meet the challenges of learning new skills. Satisfied customers around the world include students, freelancers, visual effects studios, universities and businesses.

Dover Studios visual effects training videos are specifically designed to help artists advance their skills in a way that is flexible, convenient, and affordable. The VFX training videos are available as direct downloads from the Dover Studios website enabling artists to learn new techniques right away and at their own pace.

NUKE & NUKEX 6.3 NOW SHIPPING

What’s all the fuss about?
NUKE & NUKEX 6.3 is The Foundry’s BIGGEST EVER release of NUKE, bringing improvements and additions which expand the parameters of traditional compositing. NUKE and NUKEX are designed to enable artists to stay within the software for longer, saving round trips with other departments and arming them to tackle compositing challenges in new and efficient ways.

The new tools include 3D Particles (X), Planar Tracker (X), Denoise (X), NEW Spline and Grid Warping, performance improvements, Audio Scratch Track, User Presets, Displacement Shader, 3D Projection, Customisation enhancements and Deep Compositing.

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Great Voice-Over production !

If anyone ever requires a professional voice-over, contact Greg at www.gregsthevoice.com ! From web animation voice characters, to business training narration – my facility can assist you.

Clients including: NISSAN, Best Western , TNT -Television , and more !

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PipelineFX to Exhibit at Siggraph 2011

Los Angeles, CA July 6, 2011 – PipelineFX, makers of Qube!™ – the leading render farm management software for digital media creation, announced today their presence at Siggraph 2011 in Vancouver, BC August 9-11, 2011 in booth #962.

PipelineFX will demonstrate version 6.3 of their Qube! render farm management software which extends their current "Smart Farming" technology track. "Smart Farming" describes a system for render farm management that delivers the power of pipeline data through integrated charting and reporting, automated labor intensive render farm processes, and integration with other digital media infrastructure packages. Smart Farming has been adopted rapidly around the world and is powering many of the leading VFX, design, post production, broadcast and digital media education programs render pipelines.

Qube! 6.3 includes license usage charting, graphical dependency improvements, multi-level job priority submissions, in-application submission for C4D, dynamic allocation for Houdini, a new ARTISTVIEW GUI and enhanced integration with Shotgun Software.

"I am excited that we are exhibiting at Siggraph for our tenth consecutive year," said Richard Lewis, CEO of PipelineFX. "Vancouver has always been a major customer market for us and we look forward to re-connecting with our customers and resellers, as well as meeting new digital media professionals."

For more in formation, see the SIGGRAPH website: http://www.siggraph.org/s2011/

About Qube!™ and Smart Farming™:

Qube! is an intelligent, mature and highly scalable render management solution that can be quickly integrated into any production workflow, and is backed by world-class technical support. Smart Farming delivers intelligence to production pipelines by providing business-critical insight into render pipelines, maximizing investment in rendering infrastructure and automating manual processes. Qube! works out of the box with all leading content creation applications and is truly cross-platform with all software components available on Windows®, Linux®, and Mac OS®X operating systems.

About PipelineFX:

As the leading provider of intelligent render farm management solutions for digital content creation, PipelineFX provides software, support, consulting and training services worldwide. Over 500 customers across film and visual effects, post production, broadcast, design, games and education include BaseFX, BBC, Cinesite (Europe), Digital Domain, Electronic Arts, General Motors, Herman Miller, L.M.U., Laika Studios, Lockheed Martin, Method Studios, NBC, NHK, Pratt University, Procter & Gamble, Rainmaker Entertainment Inc., Reel FX, Smoke & Mirrors, South Park Studios, Arc Productions (formerly Starz Entertainment), Technicolor and Telemundo. PipelineFX is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA, and has offices in Honolulu, Portland, Austin, Las Vegas and Vancouver.

For more information, please contact Richard Lewis, CEO of PipelineFX: richard@pipelinefx.com, Ph: 808-685-7823, 1000 Bishop Street, Suite 509, Honolulu, Hawaii, 96813, USA.

“5Ters – Castle of the Dark Master” VFX film tackling global warming

A motley group of freelance computer wizards, consultants, a techno-savvy scriptwriter and a passionate animation director, backed by an adventurous producer – that is what it has taken to create "5ters – Castle of the Darkmaster", With as many as 1600 stunning visual effects shots.led by director G Venugopal, the Noted artist and animation director. The film has been scripted by another leading member of the same team, Vijaylakshmi NS, with the riveting Visual effects supervised by Vaseem Ashar.

http://5ters.blogspot.com/

Creating Sand in 3ds max

Hi Guy’s, well if anyone can help me out with opinion about creating sand in 3ds max. i wanna create a scene where sand is falling through a container

Demoreel 2011

Hi everyone:

Just to let you know the link for my Demoreel 2011
I’ll keep updating it in the next weeks and doing tweaks for
the rest of them.

www.carlosvfx,com

Thanks

Cinesite wins vfx work for World War Z

Cinesite wins vfx work for World War Z

London, UK, June 28, 2011 – Cinesite, one of the world’s leading film visual effects houses, has been awarded a significant amount of shots on the upcoming Paramount Pictures film World War Z. Directed by Marc Forster, and starring and produced by Brad Pitt, the film is based on the post-apocalyptic horror novel by Max Brooks and is due for release in 2012.

Ten years after the human victory over the worldwide zombie epidemic referred to as World War Z, Max Brooks (Pitt) scours the world collecting the stories and experiences of those who have survived the conflict that almost eradicated humanity.

Cinesite visual effects supervisor Matt Johnson will lead Cinesite’s work on the film, working closely with production visual effects supervisor John Nelson whose credits include The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Iron Man, I, Robot, The Matrix Revolutions and The Matrix Reloaded.

“We’re very excited to have been awarded such a significant portion of visual effects for this highly anticipated movie,” said Antony Hunt, managing director of Cinesite. “With our work on Battle: Los Angeles and Generation Kill, we’ve proven our ability to create scenes of epic destruction and realistic character animation. We can’t wait to do it again for World War Z.”

Additionally, Cinesite are on the look out for talented artists to join their expanding team. The list of current job roles can be found at www.cinesite.com/jobs.

About Cinesite
With one of the largest and most comprehensive facilities in Europe, Cinesite’s visual effects team has the capacity and creativity to produce all manner of effects, both digital and physical, for feature films and broadcast projects of all scales. Their award-winning team of highly talented visual effects artists take filmmakers’ ideas and turn them into spectacular cinematic reality.

Cinesite is currently working on Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (Warner Bros.) and John Carter of Mars (Disney/Pixar). They’ve recently completed work on Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (Disney/Bruckheimer) and X-Men: First Class (Twentieth Century Fox).

For more information please visit www.cinesite.com.

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Mayans vs. Reptilians

Imagine a war between a reptilian army and the Mayan civilization. This is what our short film is about. We need your help. Please check out our kickstarter project. Help us kickstart. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/humafilms/pleiades

Every little bit helps.