Expedition Titanic

Firstborn teams up with RMS Titanic to create a digital/social campaign that includes a “virtual raising” of the Titanic. Amazing stuff!

Sr. 3D Generalist/Visual Effects Artist

Reports to: Postproduction Supervisor

Roles / Responsibilities

The primary focus of the Sr. 3D Generalist is the creation of original content for inclusion in Mind Over Eye contracted projects. The following is a list of the primary roles and responsibilities of this position:

PRIMARY – A thorough knowledge of all of these skills are required at a minimum

3d Generalist: 3D Studio Max 2009+ (required), Maya 2009+ (bonus)
o 2d Design
o 3d Design
o Modeling
o Fluid/Soft/Rigid Body Simulation
o Texturing/Shading
o Lighting
o Camera/Element Animation

Rendering: Must be able to render final image elements for final compositing, including multi-pass rendering of frame buffers and the re-assembly of those elements into whole compositions.
o Mental Ray (minimum)
o V-Ray (ideal)

Compositing Etc.:
o Image/Element Prep
o 2d/3d Tracking (Boujou 5, PFTrack)
o Rotoscope (Monet 3+, After Effects CS4+, Nuke5+)
o Keying
o Final Compositing (After Effects CS4+, Nuke5+)
Email reels and resumes to resume@mindovereye.com

Demo Reel settings/formats for PAL

Hi All, I have selected my work for my demo reel and I now want to build a demo reel.

This is where the problems starts:
– I have no idea what is the best format & resolution to output my work in
– best format to burn

I will be applying for jobs in the UK so I know work needs to be in PAL format.
The resolution for most of my work is 480×360 setup in Maya. Having said that I will have no problem in changing the proportions and I’m leaning towards a wide screen proportion anyway

Heres what I want to achieve:
– Widescreen format demo reel
– Does not squash or stretch if played on and older TV with 4:3 ratio instead the images will retail the proportion and you will see black band top and bottom
– Automatically plays when disc is inserted

Ideally this is the information I’m trying to find out:
– Output widescreen setting from Maya for PAL format
– What software to use for compositing
– Import, save as or export settings in the composting package
– what burning software & settings to use

Software I have access to is:
Maya
Premier
After Effects
Final cut Pro
DVD Studio pro
Toast

If anybody has created a reel in wide scroll PAL format from Maya please can you share your knowledge?

All these settings are starting to fry my brain!!

thanks

TelephoneMe

MK12’s TELEPHONEME is a mograph mockumentary on the secret powers of words.

white parts!

Hello!
I´m trying to make a 3d-projection of a forrest. But i get these white parts? I thought maybe it was a blur, but it doesent seem like it?
Help?
Thnx /Salla

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Heya all…matte/alpha problem

Hi all

Please could you all help me. I want to use the black and white picture of the women shopping as an alpha and use the cloth as a fill. From reading some posts here, I see i need to channel the black and white picture of the women into the alpha of the cloth and merge downstream…..right?

Please see my attached nk project and see where i am going wrong. There are 2 options there.

So 2 ways of doing this would be too use shuffle copy. I want to have the red background under the women with a fill there. …mine does not happen…i have tried to shuffle things around there and no luck

The second way is to copy a just the red channel like you can do with flame into the alpha channel…since the black and white has no colour the red channel is fine…Can this be done or am i barking up the wrong tree here?

Many thanks all

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nuke.PyCustom_Knob Error

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write = nuke.createNode(‘Write’)

nuke.Node.addKnob(write , nuke.PyCustom_Knob(‘knobName’ , ‘knobLabel’))

# Result: write = nuke.createNode(‘Write’)
nuke.Node.addKnob(write , nuke.PyCustom_Knob(‘knobName’ , ‘knobLabel’))
# Result: File "<string>", line 0

^
SyntaxError: unexpected EOF while parsing

nuke.PyCustom_Knob Error

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Post production –technical systems support

Post production –technical systems support
London based VFX company are currently looking for a bright, motivated all-rounder with a good understanding of computer systems, to join our Technology department, to help maintain and advance our digital infrastructure.
We want fast learners who can advance our technical Infrastructure, individuals who are comfortable supporting a busy post production boutique
Another prerequisite is an excellent knowledge of operating systems, networking, high performance file servers and rendering systems, as well as a knowledge of film and video systems.
Duties include:
· Workstation Support: directly supporting the artists in the facility, Setting up and moving artist workstations.
· Image Quality Control: monitor calibrations, projector calibrations, maintaining viewing environments etc.
· repairing faulty workstations and servers.
· workstation builds and software installation.
· Keeping accurate documentation.
· managing the machine room and other technical areas
· generally helping the Technology Department with their day to day tasks
Essential Qualities:
· Friendly
· Enthusiastic
· Pro-active
· Motivated
· Team-player
· Hard worker
Applications from recent graduates welcome.
This is an excitin g opportunity to work in the world of visual effects.
Please send a CV including salary requirements and references to:
info@u-fx.co.uk

uFX
T +44 (0)20 7268 0068


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