Short Film: Pixels

New York invasion by 8-bits creatures ! PIXELS is Patrick Jean’ latest short film, shot on location in New York.div class=”feedflare”
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Bobby Bring Dragon to Life For GIFF

[NEWS=”http://www.cgnews.com/wp-content/uploads/dragon_thumb.jpg”]24976[/NEWS]Swedish digital production company Bobby created an incredible piece of animation for the 2010 Göteborg International Film Festival at the start of the year. ‘Dragon’ is a special short produced as an intro and played before each and every film screened at the festival. After a total of approximately 800 plays, it received a great deal of attention and was appreciated by the GIFF crowds.

Dragon is a collaboration between Bobby and festivals agency SCP. The idea grew from the GIFF logo which is a full grown dragon, and was inspired by the 1960’s foetus photos created by the Swedish photographer Lennart Nilsson.

“In the beginning of the film we wanted to get a nice underwater feeling, with anemones and corals. When we first get a glimpse of the foetus the feeling should be that it is a human and the surprise comes when we show the wings and the whole dragon” explained Bobby animator Richard Blank.

The first challenge was to design the dragon foetus within its surroundings and the Bobby team used different animal foetuses, including crocodiles and birds, for reference.

It was essential that the foetus appeared believable and not plastic or artificial, so the animators worked hard to create a sound sub surface scattering, whilst keeping the render time down. Depth of field was also important to ensure a macro feeling to the piece.

Z-Brush and 3ds Max were used for modelling, all animation was created in Maya; rendering was produced using V-Ray, compositing with Nuke.

About Bobby
Bobby is a digital production company that helps leading brands and agencies to develop and visualize communication ideas for film and interactive media.Bobby consists of designers, directors, artists and producers with a strong focus on motion media.

About Göteborg International Film Festival
GIFF is the biggest film festival in Scandinavia, and with audience figures of over 200,000 each year, is one of the largest events in the annual festival calendar. GIFF offers a film and seminar programme alongside concerts, performances and parties; and encourages new talent with two exciting international competitions: The Dragon Award and The Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award.

CREDITS
Creative Director/Director: Fredrik Swerin
Concept: Tommy Östberg (SCP)
Shading/Compositor: Richard Blank
Animation: Richard Blank & Fredrik Swerin
Modeling: Thomas Feiner
Particles: Anders Håkansson

RELATED LINKS
www.bobby.se
www.giff.se

modo 2 Day Course – Dates Announced

Luxology have announced the dates of their ‘Accelerate with modo’ two day introductory course. Delivered by their very own expert trainer, Andy Brown, this course is a great way to learn modo straight from the experts. The event is held at Escape Studios, London on 2-3 June. Find out more: * http://bit.ly/aW2uwa

How Do They Color Correct Like That?


It looks like most of commercials these days use the same color correction preset 🙂
I’ve noticed this photo on deviantart, it looks same. So I’m curious. Ho do they achieve this kind of look?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wctaw7IP0y4
http://www.reklam.tv/player/PlayerPu…CC352B2E568DCC

WS vs mac pro

Hi everybody, I’m pretty near to buy my new WS and everything was clear of what I had to buy, but…

Lots of people in the 3D and video comping world use mac.
I was thinking some epecs like this:
DELL 7500 2x Xeon 5540, 2xSAS HDD, quadro 3800 (or GTX 285), 12gb RAM. It costs about 4000euros.

Then, my doubts are:

Do I have to think about buying a Mac pro intead of a WS (dell for ex.)
I use 3D Max, Nuke, AFX, photoshop…

Thanks a lot.

Technical reel

Hi guys,
This is my rigging/technical reel. Everything is self produced, except where indicated.
Thanks for watching!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz9d94T_-M0

Stereoscopic Conversion Artists

StereoD LLC. is currently looking for artists.

JOB DESCRIPTION AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Work with other 3D Depth artists to efficiently satisfy expectations
• Make timely corrections to work when required
• Take creative direction from leads and/or Stereo Supervisor
• Additional duties as require
REQUIREMENTS:
• Excellent working knowledge of software packages such as Nuke and After
FX.
• Excellent understanding to related technical terminology
• Good working knowledge of Windows production environment
• Excellent artistic ability/aptitude
• Ability to understand/interpret the creative requirements in order to create an accurate representation of stereoscopy.
• Good understanding of practical film making techniques
• Accredited Post secondary school compositing course or equivalent
• 2-5 years of experience in VFX industry or equivalent education.

Please apply using link below: http://creativeheads.net/jobseeker/J…&navkey=search

hair help!

now i just do some test about the hair ,and where i can find some Valuable documents.

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Computer recommendations to run Nuke, also how does render farm work?

Hi what are some computers, and specs for computers to run Nuke 6 and later comfortably, I’m talking about for PCs here, some breakdowns on Mac computers would be helpful if you want as well.

If anyone can do breakdowns of a few different setups with their costs, cpus, ram, specs etc, that would be great, giving the cheapest but usable solutions vs the most expensive, thanks. Also is a raid recommended?

Also some specs on a render farm computer or computers would be great, and how does one set that up? Do you need nuke installed on all computers?

Thanks.

VFX challenge 402 WIP: Through the looking glass

This is the storyboards for the first scene of this challenge. We also have a rough model of what the attic will look like. Our vision for this is to have sunlight appear through the top window over the mirror creating an atmosphere of seclusion/mystery. We will post more as we work to keep everyone updated with our production.

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