Hasta La Motion!

Jan 31

Using MentalRay Proxy

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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…

Jan 31

3Delight for Softimage 3 Released

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

Jan 31

ARRI

Posted in: The Pad

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

Jan 31

Psyop’s toy story cleans up

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Psyop’s toy story cleans up

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.

Jan 30

Mac Graphics Card Upgrade Question

Posted in: Hardware & Tech Talk

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support in Windows…but I really want the power Mac side too…but the 5870 is a 2 year old card and at this point pretty outdated.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!

Jan 30

alpha merge problem

Posted in: Digital Fusion / DFX+

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

Jan 30

Autumn 3D cartoon (maya)

Posted in: Gallery

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

Jan 30

Some Of My Tests

Posted in: Work in Progress (WiP)

Here is a few of my tests. I am new to after effects and am learning day by day as i go. Let me know what you think 🙂

Jan 30

Combine backpacking with vfx-work? (India)

Posted in: The Pad

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.

Jan 30