May 29

Six of ONE. Half a dozen of the other.

Posted in: one hd, Sport, sports, Ten Network, Videos: Idents

> Quicktime H.264
(3mb)
> iPod Compatible
(717kb)
> Watch in Flash
(598kb)

> Quicktime H.264
(5.2mb)
> iPod Compatible
(1.4mb)
> Watch in Flash
(1mb)

> Quicktime H.264
(2mb)
> iPod Compatible
(1mb)
> Watch in Flash
(504kb)

> Quicktime H.264
(2.9mb)
> iPod Compatible
(770kb)
> Watch in Flash
(690kb)

> Quicktime H.264
(5mb)
> iPod Compatible
(688kb)
> Watch in Flash
(537kb)

> Quicktime H.264
(5mb)
> iPod Compatible
(1.4mb)
> Watch in Flash
(1.1mb)

Ahh sports.. Yep, it’s that thing I know nothing about, and the reason I’ve never been any good at inter-office small talk. That said, I do genuinely feel like I’m missing out something and wish I was able to appreciate it.

The closest I get to it is an episode of Sports Night, and that’s about as smug as you can get, and unfortunately for its nothing people want to discuss around the office.

But enough about my problems at work. We’ve got six beautiful idents from ONE HD, displaying the grace and beauty of sports, avoiding the crass and overly graphic take some other sports networks adopt.

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May 29

Exporting Camera Data from Shake to Maya

Posted in: Apple Shake
Dear members,

I checked out a new Andrew Kramer tutorial yesterday called 3d Ledge:
http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/3d_ledge/

He’s using a Script for AE which extracts a single 2d Track to Maya or 3ds Max Cameradata. Quiet useful I think. Is there anything similar for shake?

Cheers,
Michael

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May 29

VFX composite workflow ?

Posted in: Beginners Talk
I’m doing some tests here and I’m having some problems.

Converted into a short video sequence of images, I tried a variety of formats including TIFF, TGA, exr, etc. ….

Everyone had different color from the original video, the quality seems to keep the same but the problem is color.

Maybe my workflow wrong.

First I took the video and cut and made the final cut after mounting everything sent to the color and did the color correction, final cut pro after I sent back there I left in media manager and I ordered a copy to create a reference from the same project but cut with the files in separate movies, hence I got the scene that needed to compose and converted into image sequence, I used the compressor to do this and tried mpegstreamclip and the same problem when I convert color images in sequence.

Another thing I’m thinking about is to surrender after composing.

I have a file in Quicktime ProRes (LT), convert to image sequence, open in Nuke and I needed composition, and what format I can export?because I have to send back to the final cut to finalize it with audio, transitions and everything right.

What better way to work without losing quality and do not need to be recompressed the file?

If I make composite in nuke without converting to image sequence, the. Mov in ProRes even after I export in ProRes again? This does not lose quality?

thks

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May 28

pxTools – the complete package for Nuke

Posted in: NUKE from The Foundry

Hello people of the vfx world!

We know of all of the blogs that have different gizmos, all of the artists the give their python out, and the tutorials that are out there. Sadly, these things are never connected the way we want them in the world of production and learning.

In comes pxTools.
What is pxTools? It is a single community-driven toolset that standardizes plugins, and not in the give-us-your-money way.

The main aim of pxTools is to support itself. When you use a gizmo, and theres a bug, theres a place to report it. When you need help with said gizmo, theres a button linking you to a video tutorial. When you watch said tutorial, its presented in a standardized way.

A full release of pxTools will come out twice a year. Why? Because a tool in pxTools may be good, but somebody may come along and make version that is GREAT. This introduces a propellant to keep pxTools alive: competition.

Contributors to the pxTools project will have individual artist pages and the ability to have direct donations per tool. So when your tool is released in pxTools, you have direct exposure to the industry professionals using the tools.

There are already a lot of artists involved and lots and lots of neat tools and tomfoolery ready to be released. Panels, sample scripts, gizmos, python, tutorials and all sorts of things will be released with each new version. (Grooveshark, nukeChat, lots of other neat things as well.)

Whats left? You!

If you want to get involved with the future of pxTools, email pxtools@gmail.com

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May 28

RealFlow Wisdom Blog

Posted in: Realflow
Hi all!
I would like to share my personal technical blog. By now is not very atractive visually and there are few posts but will be more in the future as much as work let me post.
http://rfwisdom.wordpress.com/
Comments and opinions are welcome.

J.

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May 28

Rise of The Rebellion : Star Wars Fan Made Web series

Posted in: VFXTalk Short Film Forum
Hi folks,
I’m a amateur film maker and amateur motion graphics artist from Turkey. i’ve been working on a star wars fan made web series for 4 years. and finally i ll release the first webisode. There will be 6 webisodes and each webisode will be publish monthly.
i’ll be glad if you check out the trailer and webisode 1. and leave me your feed backs.

www.riseoftherebellion.com (web site)

http://vimeo.com/11782328 (direkt link of webisode 1 )
http://vimeo.com/10671449 Direkt link of the trailer.

About Project : Rise of the Rebellion is a fan made web show, made in Turkey. Its completely non – profit production. It’s not sponsored or authorized by Lucas Film Ltd. The purpose of the project is sharing the love of Star Wars myth with the fans around the world.

Synopsis : Story is set up in the era between episode 3 and 4. Newly formed Rebel Alliance seeks opportunity to gather supplies and information about Emperor’s “ULTIMATE WEAPON” . In the meantime last remnants of the Jedi hide in outer rim planets hoping Emperor’s oprression will never find them. In the course of odyssey 2 rebel spies travel with faithfull friends,to an Empire occupied planet Eison where they meet new allies,alien creatures and evil machines.

Executive Producer / Director : Can Akdağ

Visual Effects supervisor : Batuhan Çokmar

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May 28

Giddy Up

Posted in: music video, nsfw

A NSFW parody of a 70s childhood classic.

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May 28

groovisions

Posted in: Design, illustration

Formed in 1993, Groovisions is a Tokyo based graphic studio active in a variety of media including art, publishing, merchandise, interiors, fashion and web. Their projects include producing CD packages, music videos, visual identities, signage, art direction and editorial design for magazines.

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May 28

Morteza Najafi

Posted in: cg, Design

High quality 3D modelling, animation and design from Turkish 3D designer Morteza Najafi. “His page includes a relatively small list of works, but theses works trace the development of a designer heading in a professional direction. Morteza Najafi was able to develop his own unique style, and today he is a successful and popular specialist […]

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May 28

Buck: Sherwin-Williams “Bees”

Posted in: 3d animation, Buck, character animation, General, sherwin-williams

Poppy Flower, Poinsettia, Stolen Kiss, Electric Lime… the passion in a paint swatch. Check out “Bees”, Buck’s second spot for Sherwin-Williams. If you missed it, watch the first spot and read our interview with creative leads Orion Tait, Benjamin Langsfeld, Joshua Harvey, and Motionographer’s Jon Saunders.

For this round, the creative evolves toward a fuller, bolder narrative with ambitious bees and landscaping. The message? You, too, can have a colorful hive, people. This campaign is really smart, and so are the creatives at McKinney who’ve let Buck do their character and story thing with color swatch sweetness.

Buck is currently working on the third spot for this campaign. Stay tuned.

Posted on Motionographer

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