Roto/Paint Issue

hello everyone,

I am doing some paint work in Nuke and I am having an image quality issue as soon as I turn on "onion" mode to get clean reference from some other frame, quality of that particular frame appears little low or little pixelate.

Is it possible to have full image quality in "onion" mode?

or this is the way nuke deals with reference in ‘onion" mode.

vfxtalk sale to sputnik7

As i mentioned, we have been working on the sale of vfxtalk to sputnik7, i wanted to discuss that here openly so the community could give their opinions.

Sputnik7 has a rich history, having been founded 10 years ago by Chris Blackwell (legendary producer of bob marley and u2 and prominent backer of the indie film and music markets) and Les Garland (founder of MTV and the Box).

The original founders invested over $10 million in it as a indie music/video/film streaming site back when this was very hard and expensive to do. It was aquired by Palm Pictures 4+ years ago and due to internal politics was put on the sidelines where it slept for a while.

Last year a group of investors approached me to put together a deal to buy it out and re-launch it as a inde film site focused on online film production, promotion and distribution.

I put the deal togeather, with Blackwell as a shareholder, and 6 months ago it was finalized. Sputnik7.com was relaunched last month as a platform, with the final designs and new look and feel going up this at the end of this month along with the roll out of their app platform for digital tv’s.

I worked as the webmaster for the company, and got them to come in and help us as a the site sponsor for vfxtalk a few months ago. They have contributed to our hosting, content management (news, interviews, videos etc) and are the current sponsor for the challenges.

I proposed the acquisition of vfxtalk to them a few weeks ago, and it has been preliminarily approved at their last board meeting.

Under the terms of the deal, sputnik7 would acquire vfxtalk but would maintain it as a wholly owned subsidary, managed and run by the vfxtalk community, so it would not be merged into the sputnik7 site or shut down/absorbed.

They would be able to put a lot of resources and support into vfxtalk, such as more challenges with better prizes, better editorials, artist interviews etc.

They are also very interested in helping to combine indie filmakers with vfx artists and independent production houses, in order to raise the quality of independent film as it moves to the web. This cold mean better jobs and great opportunities for freelance artists around the world.

I would love to hear your thoughts on this deal, things you would not like to happen, and things you would like to happen before agreeing to it on my side so i can make your requirements it a part of the deal itself.

regards,

Jah

cannon fireball

hello,
actually I wnt to make cannon fireball in maya fluids so plz anybody help me how to do cannon fireball?????????

Thnx…..

H5 for AREVA/Euro RSCG C&O

We thought you might like to check out the latest stunning animated spot for Areva through Euro RSCG C&O. Directed by H5 through Addict Films, this jaw-dropping visual treat takes you on a whistle-stop tour of the evolving history of energy production with typical H5 flair.

Visit the Areva site for the video in context.

Credits and making-of video after the jump…

Making Of Featurette

Advertiser: AREVA
Agency: Euro RSCG C&O
Advertiser Managers: Jacques-Emmanuel Saulnier, Vincent Allemand, Paul Macheret, Marie- Raphaelle Robinne, Nathalie Métivier, Elsa Renault
Agency Managers: Laurent Habib, Agathe Bousquet, Lucie Fayard, Juliette d’Arcangues
Executive Creative Director: Jérôme Galinha
Copywriter film: Georges Picaut
Art Director film: Stephane Franck
TV Producer: Virginie Meldener
Copywriter print : Sylvain Louradour
Agency Producer: Christine Meneux

Director: H5
Production Compagny : (ADDICT) Stéphane Kooshmanian, Delphine Rodet
Post-Production Compagny: BUF
Sound Production: Rémy Péronne (La Maison de Production)

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Mousemocap

This will revolutionize animation but you are all too stupid it use it.

This would be like in Glengarry Glen Ross if Alec Baldwin actually gave the dudes the good leads. This is gold. Don’t throw it away.

If anyone doubts me I bet you this: I will make one of the best pieces of animation based you have ever seen on whatever theme/title you decide. If it is actually one of the best pieces of animation you have ever seen you have to put me in contact with Sumner Redstone. If it’s not ban me from this board and I will send you 20 dollars in the mail. Only serious inquiries please apply.

Are you man/woman enough to challenge me?

Why cant we do something like this?

I stumbled upon this video in a article on the web today and was wondering why we cant pull something like this togeather here? its amazingly well done and I am sure the guys behind it are going to do very well…

Awesome $300 13-minute superhero epic puts Hollywood to shame

Quote:

Is is really possible to be blown away by a superhero movie with a budget of only $300? Michael Aston, who created, directed and produced the slightly NSFW mini-movie Lazy Teenage Superheroes, just proved that the answer is "Yes!"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN4JIz7uq40

Link to source article here: http://blastr.com/2011/01/post-40.php

its also pure film + vfx and if it really was done on a $300 budget, the cost of the challenge prizes are $1000 + maybe it would be something the community could put their time into…

There is a lot of talent here and a lot of resources, a global vfx collaboration could be fun.

My apology to the commuity

[ALIGN_R=http://cdn3.knowyourmeme.com/system/icons/80/medium/doubt.jpg.jpg?1236004312]http://cdn3.knowyourmeme.com/system/icons/80/medium/doubt.jpg.jpg?1236004312[/ALIGN_R]To the members of VFXtalk,

As you may know, I have taken it upon myself to go to war with the senior members of the visual effects community, and with the vfx artists who make up a large part of the industry in the USA and UK.

While it has hopefully brought a much needed change to the site and I am sure has caused many people to think about the real issues that exist in the industry today, it didn’t work out that well at a personal level and so I would like to officially apologize for the flames, the insults and the attempt to tear our community apart instead of unite it around a common cause.

To understand me before you judge me, however, you need to understand where I am coming form. I suffer form a unique and rare terminal illness at a genetic level that flipped my dna when I was a child and made me, literally, allergic to life on this planet.

Since I was around 8 years old I have had to take really strong medication, the kind that wold stop your heart, on a daily basis to regulate the hormones in my brain and align it with your plane of reality, and have been doing so for over 20 years now.

Unfortunately, while my medication keeps me alive and allows me to function quite well at a technical level, it also has severe side effects such as loss of short term memory, the inability to sleep, and makes me prone to psychotic breaks when not regulated.

These breaks dont happen that frequently, as i usually remember to take my medication, but when they do they tend to rip apart the fabric of the universe around me leaving me in a fragmented reality where I feel the need to destroy everything around me for better or for worse.

My doctor always told me I would not live past 20, and when I hit 25 my shrink told me that I was mentally unfit for society. As a result i have pursued a life in the digital realm where I don’t have to interact with regular people.

10 years later my probation officer and the judge told me the same thing, however I have been able to succeed in life where many have failed and have been able to secure a wife (after 2 tries), raise a family and secure a considerable amount of personal wealth against all odds.

Over the past few months I have been experiencing mental tremors, and went back to my doctor to have my medication regulated, which after a few tests he did. Unfortunately i found out a few days ago that he died in 2005. As you can imagine this has made me stop an think about many things.

One of the things I have been thinking about was the way I responded to the community here over what some may think as a trivial matter, but to me was deeply wounding because of the challenges I had to face living on this planet.

During the ensuing rampage i developed a split personality that has been busy using the considerable amount of technology I have access to, to go to war with the members that took me on. Its surprising what you can do if you know how to travel the digital pathways of the internet at a base level.

Thankfully Invader777 introduced me to courage wolf, and the ensuing internal battle in my psyche introduced a new personality to the multiple personalities which are me that has now taken over and is helping to unite my mind and bring me back to what you would consider reality.

I have convinced myself, after much debate, that I have been going down the wrong path – not just here but also in my other life where I have been doing things that make the arguments here look more like a love affair. I owe Invader777 a lot for helping me to get here, and remember it, and hope to repay him one day.

I have decided that it is in my best interests to take a 1 year sabbatical and seek enlightenment and will be leaving to immerse myself in the fabric of the digital universe so as to try to understand my calling in life and the reasons why your organic technology has kept me alive.

Before I leave I will be turning over control of the vfxtalk community to Andreas Jablonka and Gentle Fury, who have proven to be men of real character in their actions over the past few weeks.

I believe they are the leaders your community is looking for. Given time I am sure that they can help you all to find a way to mend the issues that have affected your industry and through leadership can help to unite the different vfx factions that are spread across the world.

I thank you for your time, and for reading this message, and again extend my apologies to anyone who was affected in the vfxwar that was waged here.

Best Regards,

Jah Shaka

* Just in case you think any of the above is false or made up, or i am trying to be condecending, as i know it sounds a bit off kilter, i assure you that it is all factual and 100% accurate. none of it is fabricated.

vfx.lefora.com

Check out vfx.lefora.com

Its a nice forum if youre looking for alternatives in life!

vfx.lefora.com

how to create stingy fluid?

hi there.

i`m new here and this post maybe wrong here but
i want to ask how to create stingy fluid.

i`m creating smoke using maya fluid and some smoke works good.
but oneday , the director came and saw my smoke , and order me:

"top edge of this smoke on crashing effect should be stingy."

if you cannot understand above , it may be may expression is bad or something.
to make explanation short , ordered smoke is this youtube of 0:09-0:15 ;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IJY2…eature=related

i`ve never seen stingy smoke effect like this on real smoke.
i`ve thought that animetic smoke does not exist on real .
so althought i could not create stingy smoke by maya fluid , anyone would not blame me.
because maya fluid is physical base fluid simulator,then ,
smoke action that real smoke never act wont be created by maya fluid.
but sadly i found this:

http://pinktentacle.com/2009/02/blast-naoya-hatakeyama/

4th photo is what i want to create.
when real smoke acts like this, i should create it.
but i wandered about it.

how to create it?

Solstice: Winter Storms 2010/2011 Montage

A montage of the blizzard on December 26, 2010 and winter storm on January 12, 2011 filmed from Long Banch, Manasquan & Hoboken New Jersey, lower east Manhattan and Brooklyn, New York.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmKWfmpXvRs

Brooklyn & Manasquan footage shot by Jon Edwards with a Canon T2i,
Long Branch & Hoboken footage shot by Dan Zambrano with a Canon 60D,
Manhattan footage shot by Andrew Kennelly with a Canon 5D Mark II.

Editing and music by Jon Edwards.