In a major move The Foundry have acquired the technology of Sony Pictures Imagework’s (SPI) Katana 3D lighting & compositing package. In a deal seen as a win win for both companies,
Sunday, November 1st 2009: FX School of VFX & Filmmaking is hosting a FREE Webinar on Matching Live Action with CG using Maya 2009 render pass system for Mental Ray, on the 1st of November, at 12 pm. Please register at www.fxschool.in/webinar. This free class will be held online and is ideal for 3D Artists, Compositors, Production Managers, VFX Supervisors, Instructors, and Students of Advanced Lighting, Shading, or Rendering. For further details please contact 4235 4235.
Details of the Event:
Webinar: FREE Webinar on matching Live Action with CG using Maya 2009 render pass system for Mental Ray
Where: Online www.fxschool.in/webinar
When: Sunday, 1st November, 2009
Timing: 12:00 pm
To register call: 022 4235 4235
Charges: FREE
The focus of this site is on the nitty gritty technical details that you need to be aware of when working as a 2D Compositor. That being said, we will also look at photography, animation, lighting and rendering, and many other topics which, as a compositor, you should be aware of.
I hope that by watching these tutorials, you will also become a more well rounded and versatile artist by improving your skills, and sex life. If after watching all of these tutorials you strike up a conversation with a girl and she melts when you start talking about grain matching, marry her instantly.
In the pursuit to expand our courses,
TD-College is proud to announce the release of our The RenderMan Specification in Depth course authored by Chris Armsden.Chris is a Lighting Technical Director based in Los Angeles. His tireless determination and extensive skill-set enable him to save the sanity of TD’s on a daily basis. While he currently focuses his attention on all things lighting and rendering, his interests cover all aspects of the CG industry.
The RenderMan Specification in Depth
TD-College founders believe that Renderman is one of the ultimate creative tools. It’s the most flexible and proven way to develop something visually amazing from the initial spark of an idea. Pixar’s Renderman renderer is fast, efficient, and able to handle the astonishing amount of geometric complexity needed to create today’s cutting-edge effects. The VFX and animation industries have chosen Renderman to produce the highest quality special effects – it is used everywhere by studios large and small to create spectacular graphics for feature films and broadcast television. We’re thrilled to offer Renderman training to our growing curriculum of courses.
In addition to this exciting Renderman course, we’re proud to announce the upcoming release of a pillar in our character set-up discipline: Character Set-up 1: The low-res animation rig authored by Stewart Jones. Stewart comes from
a background of sketching and making animated flipbooks. In his younger years, he realized that his obsession with making and watching cartoons could actually lead to a career.As his career progressed, he started to rig his own characters more and more, and from there he moved into setting up and rigging almost exclusively. Stu is currently working at Animal Logic as both a Character Technical Director and an Animator.
Stewart Jones
Character Set-up 1: The low-res animation rig centers around the in-depth knowledge riggers need to set up scalable and procedural characters for high-end projects, relying heavily on MEL and a bit of math. This course will teach you everything you need to know about coming up with solutions for complex characters that need to be rigged for animation. You’ll learn all the fundamentals necessary to make production proven rigs that can be used for any project. This course will show you how to rig everything from humans to creatures, and one off characters, and show you all of the steps along the way. Aimed at mid to senior level riggers looking to improve their skillset, this course will help you excel at any rigging task and push your skills to a higher level.
At TD-College we offer technical training for aspiring TD’s of the highest possible standard. TDC’s curriculum is being developed by the cream of the crop of the VFX world, directly based on the feature film pipleine of major film studios in Hollywood and London. TD-College was founded by 3 experienced professional Technical Directors. Rudy Cortes, Sr. Cinematics Rendering TD at Blizzard Entertainment Cinematics in Irvine, CA. Kevin Mannens, an effects TD at Sony Pictures Imageworks and Arthur Shek, Software Manager at Walt Disney Animation Studios. TD-College‘s goal is to provide the best training for technical directors to a world wide market by providing an exclusive one-on-one mentor system, as well as a collaborative community where TD’ism can flourish.
Hey guys, bit of a shameless plug, but Ive had probably close to 100 emails over the past few months complaining about not being able to download tutorials and bandwidth exceeded errors.
I have finally moved allanmckay.com over to a lightning fast server, with unlimited bandwidth, actually heres a quick summary of whats been updated.
Complete new redesign of website
Brand new maxscript and particle tutorials – nearly 30 FX & Dynamics tutorials available
Lightning fast server to handle all the high traffic and bandwidth consumption
New MaxScripts and industry tools
Loads of new content being updated fairly regularly
Figured Id mention it as Im sure more than few people will find this news useful!
Regards,
-Allan
– support for RED R3D files
– support for a secondary monitor as an external output device (allows users to display just the content of the safe area and mask to a secondary monitor)
– ability to control the alpha (key) output of Decklink cards
Pdplayer 1.0.3.9 is available for immediate download.
You can download the trial version on http://www.pdplayer.com/downloads.html
For a detailed feature list, please visit:
http://pdplayer.chaosgroup.com
For any inquiries regarding Pdplayer please contact:
pdplayer@chaosgroup.com
A new case study is up on the foundry’s site on using Nuke for the new Audi Q5 adverts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHHFwpmFKHg
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Nuke – Testimonials Passion Pictures Harness Nuke for Commercials  © 2009 Audi, image courtesy of Passion Pictures "The 3D space is a really impressive feature of Nuke. It feels like the 3D compositing has been built from the ground up, rather than being a tack-on. Although we have not imported massive amounts of geometry, we know we can, and it works.” says Neil Riley, VFX Supervisor at Passion Pictures. Discover why Passion Pictures chose Nuke in this case study. "We are excited by the new possibilities Nuke opens up for us. The integration into our pipeline has been seamless." |
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