Motion Graphics Design Census 2011 + Canada

Motionographer, Bran Dougherty-Johnson and Jake Sargeant recently posted the results of the 2010/09 Motion Graphic Design Census; the first-ever salary survey for professionals in Motion Graphic Design, Animation, Visual Effects and Film-making. This survey is designed to count everyone in the industry—from owners to interns, producers, designers and animators.
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Silke Sieler: Warm Signal

Silke Sieler is a Hamburger, Germany based motion designer currently working at Sehsucht. This is his most recent short film, his thesis dealing with nature, transformation and metamorphosis and its relation to visual music … beautiful work.

ONE DAY ON EARTH: 10/10/10 UPDATE


Last year we posted news on the One Day on Earth project, an ambitious initiative that planned to document life in every country in the world in a single 24-hour period on 10/10/10. With the help of their online community of over 15,000 members, Vimeo, the UN and 60+ non-profits, they reached their goal of having every country represented – not to mention Antarctica and outer space, courtesy of NASA. They recently launched what they are calling a “Global Video Map” from their October shoot day. It is searchable by location, topic and keyword and, as EP Brandon Litman puts it, the Motionographer community “came through big”.

One Day on Earth’s focus on partnerships, its online community and the shared nature of the archive makes this project a good example of how the global collaborations can be done. If you missed shooting on 10/10/10, not to worry, they plan to do it again this year on November 11th (11/11/11).


Below are some submissions including a couple from participants referred by the Motionographer posting. And, while the thousands of hours of footage will be cut into a feature film by the One Day on Earth team (due to be release in Sept 2011), the archive is shared by all those that participated (non-commercial use, with credit) for their own use or two make a film of their own.

Timelapse of Brooklyn, NY – Daniel DeGloria

Bondi Sea Pool, Australia – Jason Wingrove

Streets of Old Sana’a, Yemen – Husam Al-Sayed

Masquerades in Lagos, Nigeria – Olakunle Idowu

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Diego Maclean: Animator

We posted Diego Maclean’s work just a couple of weeks ago … it was so good we posted it twice; the amazing hand-drawn and roto’d The Art of Drowning. Diego has now updated with a new and quite interesting piece of animation, simply entitled Animator.

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Mauricio Leon: New work

Mauricio León is an Art Director originally from Mexico City currently living in New York. He has recently updated his portfolio with plenty of great boards, commissioned by the likes of Mass Market, Brand New School, The Mill and eyeballnyc.

Korb + Echolab: MTV Australia IDs

Loving the new IDs from Korb and Echolab for MTV Australia: MTV Hits – 10 Biggest Tracks Right Now (Director’s cut) | Ident

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Question about VFX types

Hello, I would like to know a short list of VFX types, sort by difficulty.

Ex: ( almost wrong )
1. green screen.
2. roro
3. 3D exterior
….
1x. creatures

I think the list that I need, in some case is not right, because it depends.
However I would like to know.( maybe some ebook has this info )

Thanks.

Nuke 6.2 Roto shape control point access

Hi guys, is there any way to set position for shape control points at the current frame from python? I would like to manually redefine the screen position bypassing the internal nuke interpolation.
The nuke.rotopaint.AnimControlPoint.setPosition(…) seems to have the appropriate semantics, but it does nothing.
Or maybe it is possible to define an expression for each control point position that could calculate its value at every frame?
Thanks