Maya Composite’s Future

What do you guys think Autodesk will do with Composite? Will they just keep it bundled with Maya and 3DS Max or will they some day release it again as a standalone product?

Extn. 21

Extn. 21 by Lizzie Oxby is about one man’s desire to be heard.

Using 30fps fire for 24 fps compositing animation

I need to make some fire footage clips for compositing into a 24 fps animation.

I have a Canon powershot sx 100is
it does
640 x 480 @ 30fps

I want to film objects on fire that are moving–like a fiery arm swinging..and use the flame in compositing work…but I dont want to get a new camera just for filming fire. I was thinking of either finding a way to convert the 30fps to 24
or just cut out a few frames spaced out of 30 to get 24.
Think its doable without looking sucky?
Trying to think of the drawbacks before igniting anything…

Acropora RC 1 available

Acropora (1.0.0012 RC1) Release candidate is now available for download.

Acropora incorporates some of the latest advances in voxel modeling technology. Features include:

– A widevariety of base shapes and compound shapes as primary surfaces
– User-defined surfaces
– Voxelisation of user imported models
– Over 50+ volume modifiers
– Automatic generation of up to 15 octaves of three-dimensional noise (volumetric, Perlin and fractal)
– Extensive voxel and noise editing tools
– Extensive post-processing of meshes (tesselation, smoothing, simplification,…)
– Batch processing
– Multiple LOD support
– Export to multiple mesh formats, DDS volume textures, and raw voxel data

Additions and improvements:
– General undo function
– Improved GUI design (new Tools pane)
– Lofts & grooves (for generating spline-controlled volumes)
– Extrude & bore
– Fall-off for regions
– Added flat-bottom filter
– Added taper modifier
– Carving pen (with cube, sphere and conical chisels)
– Mesh smoothing enhancements
– Completely revamped object removal tool (for removing those unsightly polygon artifacts). Now faster and with filtering options.
– Added transforms to base objects (plane, cylinder, sphere, metaballs)
– Tool to apply walls along world-space boundaries where there is solid material.
– Manual position control of regions and geometric modifiers.
– Enhanced 3D spike modifier
– Transformations (rotation+translation) added to the following modifiers: helix, rings, wave, ripple, river/canyon, spikes, gravity well, cube, cylinder, torus, radial fingers, cone,.
– Comprehensive help file

Web: http://www.voxelogic.com

See the new features here:
http://www.voxelogic.com/index.php?…w=article&id=28
Check out the updated galleries here:
http://www.voxelogic.com/index.php?o…pose&Itemid=13

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Queuing OS X render droplets for Maya, AE, and Nuke. . .

Updated my OS X render droplet apps to queue up into terminal, so you can easily fire off AE, Maya, and Nuke renders into one terminal window and have them properly queue up one after the other.

Render Q droplets

Demo video on my site. Enjoy!

Queuing OS X render droplets for AE, Maya, and Nuke. . .

Updated my OS X render droplet apps to queue up into terminal, so you can easily fire off AE, Maya, and Nuke renders into one terminal window and have them properly queue up one after the other.

Render Q droplets

Demo video on my site. Enjoy!

Queuing OS X render droplets for Nuke, AE, Maya. . .

Updated my OS X render droplet apps to queue up into terminal, so you can easily fire off AE, Maya, and Nuke renders into one terminal window and have them properly queue up one after the other.

Render Q droplets

Demo video on my site. Enjoy!

Nuke timer gizmo

Hi 🙂

What would be the best way to create a gizmo that allows a user to start and stop a timer, to see how long it takes you to get a task done, and maybe log the times for each session. An example is rotoscoping an object in a shot. I am going through the nuke gizmo tutorial videos on their site to see if i can find a method. How would you create a custom gizmo from scratch, or would you make a group into a gizmo and start from there?

Thanks

Check out my graduation video clip

This is the videoclip I made to graduate from art school.
There’s a lot of things I’d have done differently, and some of the mistakes I’m pretty sure I fixed multiple times but apparently I kept interchanging old and new footage items.

Well it’s in the can now. Graduation done. I am now Bachelor of Art and Technology.

720p high definition on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyE3VTZlo74&fmt=22

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyE3VTZlo74

What do you think?
If you like it, please rate it on youtube, so the statistics driven youtube broadcast algorithm will show it to a bigger crowd. 😀

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Hair Conditioner

Hair Conditioner, a cool and clever commercial directed by Jonathan Gurvit.