Oct 31

Lexus Concept Render – WIP (Personal Project)

Posted in: Maya
Been working on a Lexus Concept model all day, decided I’d start a WIP thread to get some feedback on it. I didn’t model the car, I am just shading/lighting & rendering it (Personal Project to up my skillz! ;)). These are my initial steps into automotive rendering, so please be gentle.

Technical Info:

Software + Renderer: Vray SP1.5 (I think!) on Maya 2011 x64
Rendering time: Around 3-4 mins at 640X480 res. upto this point.

Critiques welcome.

Cheers.

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Oct 31

I’ld like to make a music video and I need some animation / visual effects.

Posted in: VFX Marketplace
Hi there,

I’ld like to make a music video and I need some animation / visual effects, I’ld like to share this video with you for you to understand what I mean:

Desree – Life
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5Ej_WQhKSI

This music video has butterflies flying all around the screen, and the theme I had in mind for this music video is butterflies.

It’s about a girl who’s in love and has butterflies in her belly. So to match this idea, a video with butterflies in it seems to be the logical answer.
The type of scenes I had in mind are the next:

Part 0:43 – 0:50
Just when the plane flew over, butterflies will fill the screen.

Basicly, the whole video is one big example except the part of the airplane spraying the butterflies because in my video the butterflies just appear.

Anyone!?!

The best,

Raoul G. da Silva
00447424438398

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Oct 31

Understanding test objects in pftrack

Posted in: Matchmoving Software
Hi,

trying to get to grips with this aspect of the software.

I can place them in the scene with different degress of success – what I don’t understand is the workflow of movin their corner pins between frames. Should I improve the track after this? Is it something that has to be done a few times until the test object sticks without adjusting it in different frames? And unless I am trying to align one to the grid, how should I tell if it’s depth is correct when I estimate it’s position between shots (on a door way or window frame for example?).

If anyone could provide a little info on how these work and how they fit into their workflow I would appreciate it.

cheers

gubar

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Oct 31

The Chase – A Short Film

Posted in: VFXTalk Short Film Forum
Hey guys, my name is Johnathon, and like most of you out there, I make videos.

Here is our latest release:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqgfNrt84gM

I hope you guys enjoy! Make sure you guys leave some good feedback so that I can make better videos for you guys 🙂

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Oct 30

Doomsday film, must see!

Posted in: Gallery
This is a film that I have been working on for two or three weeks. It’s free to interpret the film by yourself, like what is the thing that’s haunting the man?

The story is about a man in the future, and how the world is like.

In the description you can see what camera I was using and other things in the film.
I hope you’ll like it, please give me some critics, good and bad
Please watch 720p to see all the details.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-btyIqKC4Y

I have done everything in the film except being an actor. And I haven’t made all the music either.

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Oct 30

fusion not using all the ram

Posted in: Digital Fusion / DFX+
hi
iam new with fusion and my problem is fusion is to slow on my machine

the software only using 2gb of memory but i have 8 gb .
and its not caching on hdd
my pc
amd phenom 2 x6 t
8gb ram
ati 4770 1g hd

iam working on
windows 7 ultimate
windows server 2008

eyeon fusion v 6.1

please if any one can help i well be realy thankful:D
thanks in advance

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Oct 30

vfx technology

Posted in: Beginners Talk
can anyone tell me about any vfx technologies which is invented particularly for the need of a specific movie and later the effects could be used in other films…:
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Oct 30

visual effects technology

Posted in: Case Studies
can anyone tell me about any vfx technologies which is invented particularly for the need of a specific movie and later the effects could be used in other films…:mad:::confused:
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Oct 30

vfx and music?

Posted in: Beginners Talk
Hey,
I was wondering if you can possibly be vfx/3d artist and also know how to play instruments and create music? What I mean is can your main job be vfx and but also spend some time learning music, I don’t mean like become a star or be the best musician. Can you be good at both?
Thanks!
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Oct 30

Cameron Says No to 24p

Posted in: The Pad
Quote:

During an event in Silicon Valley this week, director James Cameron spoke to Google CEO Eric Schmidt about all sorts of topics, including the new technology he’s working on for the upcoming "Avatar" sequels.

Cameron first mentioned that new CG would have to be developed for the underwater and ocean surface scenes. He said: "We are going to see the oceans of Pandora and the lifeforms and ecosystems there, so we’ve got to do more with CG water, both underwater with the caustics, the lighting, the optics of bringing light through water and with the surface of water, which is one of the big challenges in CG."

He went on to explain that the biggest challenge he wants to tackle is increasing the frame rate of the sequel. Films are currently shot with a frame rate of 24 frames per second. His goal is to get it up to 48 or 60 frames per second, making it so that you get realistic shots at the time of shooting, rather than having to wait six months for editing.

"I want to get rid of the motion artifacting associated with 24 frame display. Because movies are way behind, they’re a century out of date," Cameron explained. "48, 60, 72, we’re looking at the efficacy of the different ones and different solutions. The projectors can do it right now, the projectors can run at 144hrz but they’re still displaying 24 frames content at 144hrz. The trick is how do you display 48 or 60 frame content, multi-flashing it, the way 3D projectors do. So that’s one little bump IÂ’m working on."

Source: Mashable

http://www.worstpreviews.com/headlin…#ixzz13qtKuzoc

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