Jun
27
Yekpare is a representation of the 8500 year story of Istanbul, presented as a video projection shown on/at the Haydarpa?a Train Station. The work of Deniz Kader and Candas Sisman at Nerdworking.
Jun
27
New comp reel
Posted in: Demo Reels!Just cut a new reel. Got some Narnia trailer shots, Mr Fox and Where the Wild Things Are stuff on there.
Enjoy!
Compositing Showreel Tom van Dop July 2010 from Tom van Dop on Vimeo.
Contains work from:
Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader (trailer shots)
Fantastic Mr Fox
Where the Wild Things Are
Virgin Channel TVC
Comedy Channel TVC
Jun
27
The visual effects of The A-Team
Posted in: 1The visual effects of The A-Team
Director Joe Carnahan’s re-imagining of the popular 1980s TV series The A-Team
sees the renegade soldiers taking on a more modern mission. Overall
visual effects supervisor James E. Price looked to both practical and
digital means to achieve the characteristically crazy and high action
stunts made famous by the series. Check out my article at fxguide where we drill down on some of the major FX
sequences from the film.
Jun
27
Speedshape’s CG car for Lexus ‘Dark Ride’
Posted in: 1Speedshape’s CG car for Lexus ‘Dark Ride’
For a sneak peak of the not-yet-released Lexus CT 200h, director James
Brown created an interactive adventure called ‘Dark Ride’. With the
help of visual effects from Speedshape, users take on the role of the
accomplice to Lexus driver Tony and must get the secret car – unscathed
– from the Nevada desert to Los Angeles. Here’s my interview at fxguide with Speedshape vfx supe
Connor Meechan about his studio’s CG car work.
Jun
26
First of all – I have never used Nuke, and probably won’t in the future. But I work at a company that has some Nuke compositors, and I’m trying to brainstorm ways to make our process more efficient.
So here is the example and the question:
I have two renders from 3D, one of a sphere and one of a cube, both which live in the same 3D scene. From this particular angle, the sphere is in front (e.g. closer to the camera) of the cube, and partially overlaps it. But from other angles, the cube will be in front of the sphere and overlap it.
For our particular final 2D deliverable, we need to deliver the sphere and the cube in different layers (think Photoshop), however, the area where the sphere overlaps the cube must be "cut out". So the sphere would be whole, but the cube would have, say, a half-sphere cut out of it.
What I am hoping to do is render a depth pass (e.g. floating-point grayscale image indicating distance from camera) for the sphere and a separate depth pass for the cube. Then, my hope is that we can use Nuke to determine for pixel 1,1 (just making up terms here…) the sphere is closer to camera than the cube, and thus "keep" the sphere’s pixel and delete the cube’s pixel.
So essentially, Nuke would have to be able to determine from the depth passes which pixel is closer to camera, and then keep or delete the corresponding pixels in the main render.
My question is if this functionality exists in Nuke today, or if you are aware of that functionality in a plugin, script, or other custom code. Or even if it seems viable to try to write it ourselves.
Let me know if you need clarification of the example above – I’ve kept it very basic. In our actual deliverables, there are thousands if not millions of these operations in a single still frame – so please don’t respond by marginalizing the question (e.g. "Just mask it in Photoshop…") because the example is so simple…
Thanks a bunch.
Jun
26
First Compositing Reel
Posted in: Demo Reels!Hey everyone…
Just graduated from Full Sail University, this is my reel from the last 4 months at school. Comments and critiques are always good 🙂 It’s embedded and it’s also on my website.
Jun
26
Job: VFX teacher, TA and Intern – China
Posted in: 1Senior Teacher of Visual Effects
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Jun
26
Job: Intermediate 3D artist – Cambodia
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Jun
26
Job: VFX Lighting Artist – Canada
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