Tennant McKay – BBDO Toronto ~ Paperboy

Great animated spot from Tennant McKay for Shaw Highspeed, via BBDO Toronto; “Shaw wanted a humourous, entertaining and charming spot that was in a different realm to the previous typographic-focused pieces”. You can check out an in-depth character development/exploration and strategy and concept break-down on the Tennant site.

Best education plan

Hey guys,

I’m thinking of moving to LA and studying there visual effects (compositing, motion graphics).

What are the best places to study?

Meanwhile i’m going to do some fxphd courses.

Thanks!

Idealization

Parlare di euristica senza parlare, ma spiegare il progressivo formarsi ed evolversi di un’idea attraverso le immagini.
È questo il tema di Gianluca Sulsenti e Daniele Tomassucci per la loro audace tesi di laurea.
480 Ore di rendering per sintetizzare, ma non a parole, le varie fasi di un concetto filosofico: ovvero curiosità, fantasia, […]

Pulldownit 1.5 Released

Brand new dynamics solver which allows for the creation of fractures as well as massive rigid bodies simulations in max and maya.div class=”feedflare”
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Land in Sight

By the year of 1492, PACO the Gipsy, gets banished from Europe. Flushed in the Atlantic Ocean, PACO ends on a neverseen natural paradise.div class=”feedflare”
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Gnomon Workshop Account – All tutorials Subscription ! – $280

Hi, i’m selling my Gnomon Workshop account, with a training subscription to all tutorials.

http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/subscription/index.php

It’s a Plan 1 account, including Visual Effects & Games tutorials and Design & Traditionnal tutorials.

What do you get ?

  • Access to hundreds of hours of training
  • Instruction from Industry leaders
  • Included project files
  • Subscriptions updated with new tutorials
  • Over $12,000 worth of online training

Screenshots available, just ask by PM.

The account was bought on the 11/08/2009, so you can still use it for 6 months. I’m selling because i’ve seen all the tutorials i need. There’s a way to download the tutorials, i can give you the tip by PM.

Price: $280 / ~220€ (original price: $500)

For questions or purchasing, send me PM or antid2te@gmail.com

supercheater detector

hi guys:
Posted this a few days ago.

Funny but true:

http://3dsoul.wordpress.com/2010/05/…ater-detector/

any internships

hi i’m from Chennai. i need to know if any post production house in chennai is offering internships. it will be good if it is in chennai because i’m doing my ug in vfx at chennai.

Demo reel bumper

I know that for demo reels the norm is to have a simple intro with just name and info, but I kinda wanted to spice it up. See what you guys think.


Demo Reel Bumper from Alejandro de la Garza on Vimeo.

Reflections with distortion

Hey all–

Curious about how I might be able to pull off accurately distorted reflections on a surface like the astronaut’s helmet visor in these shots:



I’m wondering whether it’s some trickery done in 3D for the render, or of it was indeed done in Nuke afterwards. If it was composited, I’m assuming a fair amount of camera track was involved. But even after that, how do you think they got such an accurate distortion in the reflection?

Can’t wait to here from y’all! 😀
S