Using MentalRay Proxy

In this video tutorial you will learn how to use Mental ray proxy to decrease your rendering time and enhance your work in large s…

3Delight for Softimage 3 Released

Now compatible with Softimage 2011, this new release brings further support for ICE technology (Volumes, Strands and Particles).

ARRI

interesting tests >>>http://vimeo.com/17627567

Psyop’s toy story cleans up

Psyop’s toy story cleans up

SomethingsLurkingfinal

A roomful of anxious toys face the dangers of domestic dust in ‘Something’s Lurking’, a Psyop spot for LG’s Kompressor Elite vacuum cleaner. Here’s my article at fxguide in which lead 2D artist Nick Tanner gives an in-depth look at how the spot came together.

Mac Graphics Card Upgrade Question

I have a MacPro 3,1 with a geforce 8800GT in it…the card is starting to show its age. The only upgrade cards Apple has available is the GT120 which is worse than what I have, the ATI 5770 which is a lot better, and the ATI 5870 which is a LOT LOT better.

Anyone have any of these cards that could make an informed suggestion…or maybe even someone that knows of a PC card that works amazingly in a Mac? I have read that the ATI 6970 will run on Bootcamp but not on Mac side….so that would be great to have the added support in Windows…but I really want the power Mac side too…but the 5870 is a 2 year old card and at this point pretty outdated.

Also if anyone knows of a way to force Mac to work with a better card, like the 6970 or preferably an Nvidia card I am all ears!

alpha merge problem

Hi everybody,

I’m pretty new to node compositing, I was trying to composite some fumefx with debris, rendering it separated from smoke.
I thought that using a matte material on debris (that rotates around the fume) was the good way to do it, but when I started merging channels in fusion I had this problem:

and this is the correct alpha from the beauty pass, with debris and fume in the same render:

I hope someone can help me with this problem 🙂

Thank you in advance,

Matteo

Autumn 3D cartoon (maya)

hi all!
this is my first work posting here on vfxtalk.
it is not as good as the works here,but i would like u all to see it and tell me where i can improve.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEbX6hhglOk

regards
vj

Some Of My Tests

Combine backpacking with vfx-work? (India)

I’m having fleeting thoughts about backpacking in India for a few weeks this summer and I thought it would be really cool to combine that with doing some vfx-work. Not for money, but for experience.

So my question is how hard that would be.
Is it legal to do that with a turist-visum
Is it hard to get a temporary vfx-job (a few days)
Do they employ foreigners
etc
etc

I’m a 23 year old swedish compositing student, and thus have no real world working experience. But I’m perfectly capabale and willing to do rotowork.

BEST THREADS OF ALL TIME LIST – MUST READ

Ask the Freelance Artist:
http://www.vfxtalk.com/forum/ask-fre…st-t21054.html

Ask the Junior Artist:
http://www.vfxtalk.com/forum/ask-jun…31.html?t=4331

Ask the Senior Artist:
http://www.vfxtalk.com/forum/ask-sen…st-t20910.html

Good discussion of rates in US/CA/UK:
http://www.vfxtalk.com/forum/salary-…ry-t18102.html

And then Aruna’s vfxwage.com thread. Not so much for the thread, but for the link to vfxwages:
http://www.vfxtalk.com/forum/vfxwages-com-t17424.html

What to do when you don’t get paid (Varun’s Post is the solution to this thread):
http://www.vfxtalk.com/forum/do-if-e….html?p=135259

Batch Nuke Rendering (Mac):
http://www.vfxtalk.com/forum/automat…pt-t10297.html

And Good ol’ Andrew with his magical render scripts of awesome:
http://www.vfxtalk.com/forum/renderq….html?p=141053
http://www.vfxtalk.com/forum/drag-an….html?p=126547