Jan 20

Maya EXR handling poll within Photoshop

Posted in: Maya
Sorry – this is a crosspost from CGSociety. I am looking to get a better idea of people’s opinions on Photoshop’s EXR file handling and it’s fair to say that Maya users are probably the most frequent users of the EXR image format. So I’m asking users here to tell Adobe how you want EXR transparency handled by default. Do you want the alpha data for renders set as layer transparency or as a separate alpha channel? The current default handling is to embed the alpha in the transparency (apparently, this is closer to the actual specification of the format) and there is the other behaviour (as an alpha) is optional with a plug-in:

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/883/cpsid_88310.html

Any comments are helpful. thx

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Jan 20

Rhythm & Hues Studio – Visual Effects Production Assistant

Posted in: The Job Lot

Two time Academy Award winner for Achievement in Visual Effects and three time recipient of the Scientific and Technical Achievement award, Rhythm & Hues is uniquely poised for the demands of the highly competitive visual effects and character animation industry.

At the heart of Rhythm & Hues’ success is its more than 20 year commitment to creating quality entertainment in a quality work environment.

A few current and upcoming feature projects include amongst others, "Hop", "X-Men: First Class" and "Life of Pi".

POSITION: Visual Effects Production Assistant
DEPARTMENT: Features

POSITION SUMMARY
The Visual Effects Production Assistant position plays an integral role in the successful organization of our feature film productions.

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Attend dailies and take review notes.
  • Communicate with multiple departments within VFX pipeline.
  • Liaison with craft services to oversee client meetings and food preparations.
  • Overseeing show schedule and coordinating multiple meetings.
  • Production runs and deliveries to multiple locations as requested.
  • Other general office duties as needed.

REQUIRED SKILLS / EXPERIENCE

  • Must be detail oriented, highly motivated and able to work in a fast-paced environment with challenging deadlines.
  • Must be experienced in Filemaker Pro and Excel.
  • Technical knowledge and aptitude preferred
  • Interest in a career path in Visual Effects strongly desired.
  • Ability to work overtime as needed.
  • At least 6 months experience specifically in Visual Effects Production mandatory.

Qualified candidate please submit a copy of your resume and cover letter to recruitment@rhythm.com with "re: Production Assistant" in the subject line

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Jan 20

programming, distribution

Posted in: Maya
not sure if this goes here but it’s maya related. a friend of mine is a programmer, does a lot of renderman stuff, so we’re thinking or teaming up to create shaders and tools for renderman and maya and mental ray in the future.

I am not a programmer and he has never creating anything for sale so we are not sure how licensing will work as far as protecting the software, i.e. serial numbers/node locking and making sure it will work with renderman and maya.

If anyone can point us in the right direction or knows how to do this, we would appreciate any info.

Thanks

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Jan 20

District 9 dropship sequence

Posted in: Work in Progress (WiP)
Hi everybody!

I’am a student at Lost Boys Learning and we are currently working on our UFO Project.

Therefore i wanted to create a work in progress thread about it.

My UFO Shot will be the Dropship sequence of district 9.

I created a previz animation with the low res plate and a rough model and animation. ( BTW. the dropship is coming out of the ground)

Also i finished modeling the dropship.

Starting on the textures today.

I’m gonna keep this thread updated frequently.

If you have any questions critics or comments please feel free to respond to this thread. Input from other artists is always highly appreciated.

Greetings

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Jan 20

Rocks Rain using Pflow & Rigid Body

Posted in: 1

In this 3 minutes video tutorial, artist will show you how he created the falling rocks from the sky and break apart when touched …

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Jan 20

are my exrs scanline or tiled…?

Posted in: NUKE from The Foundry
is there a tool to check/view my exr files..?
i also like to know the bit depth…
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Jan 20

JJ Kim

Posted in: Uncategorized

JJ Kim updates her site with lots of sweetness for your eyeballs.

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Jan 20

Looking for VFX Supervisor

Posted in: VFX Marketplace
Looking for a VFX supervisor who can help achieve an effect similar to the one in this commercial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpRnV…eature=channel

The shot needs to be approx. 1.5 seconds. While I am by no means a VFX expert, I have studied it quite a bit to get a better understanding form a directorial standpoint. My guess right now is that the shot I need will require 3d animation, compositing, and hopefully a match move, however the MM isn’t mandatory.

As this is a spec commercial, I obviously can’t pay much(approx $1000), and I hate to promise future work because the world just doesn’t work according to promises in our industry. However know this, I am looking for a collaborator and someone I will work with repeatedly on future projects.

A quick bit about me: I mainly work on docu reality series for the likes of Discovery Channel, TLC, and Travel. I am in the process of making the transition more into commercials and music videos.

Please let me know if you are interested.

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Jan 20

relighting 2.5D

Posted in: NUKE from The Foundry
Hi,

I have watched the dvd from digitaltutors about 2.5D relighting in nuke

I have tried to redo it on a simple scene and I have some problems

the edges of the objects are not cleans, there is a little outline around the objects.

in the dvd, the instructor said to render pointworld pass and normal pass aliased and apply 2 matrix afterwards in nuke.

i did that too but it seems that doesn’t work for me.

I’ve also tried to render with antialiasing and no matrix but it doesn’t work neither.

is anybody have an idea of what I can do to fix the edges

here is the script if you guys want to check

http://www.digitaledge.be/tmp/NUKE_RELIGHTING.rar

thanks for your help

-SeB-

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Jan 20

Convert To Editable Poly

Posted in: Houdini
Hi there,

I’m trying to figure out if it’s possible to convert displacement map into poly mesh using Houdini?….I’ve seen it done in Max with convert to editable poly, but can’t seem to figure out how to do it in Houdini or find if it’s even possible….

help?

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