Animated Feature – Senior Creature Animator (Sydney)

We’ve evolved from penguins to owls!

Consolidating on our success with “Happy Feet”, we are now in full production on our next animated feature “Guardians of Ga’hoole”, directed by Zack Snyder. “Guardians of Ga’hoole” is a 100% keyframe animation project, containing a fascinating diversity of challenging photo-realistic animal characters, with heavy performance acting requirements.

Animal Logic attracts highly talented people from all around the globe, who are drawn both by the impressive style and quality of our work and the opportunity to live in Sydney – one of the most beautiful, cosmopolitan cities in the world. Though now a relatively large company, Animal Logic prides itself on providing artists with the opportunity to spread their wings creatively in a collaborative group environment.

We are currently seeking a Senior Creature Animator to join us on this groundbreaking project.

Key requirements of the role:

5+ years experience in animating for feature films.

A demonstrated passion and ability in animating naturalistic creatures.

High-level knowledge and proficiency in XSI would be a definite advantage, but not mandatory.

Ability to lead teams by motivating and supporting others in the group toward realising the director’s vision, while taking an active role in providing creative input and solutions.

A flexible approach, while setting and maintaining consistent high-standards within the group and staying focussed on deadlines.

A fervent desire to produce the best quality animation on the planet and to keep raising the bar!

If you are interested in applying for this position then please complete our online application form via our website at http://www.animallogic.com

Best Animation Program for Vehicles

Hi,

I’m starting to learn composting and visual effects and wanted to learn how to add 3D footage to 2D as well. For now, the only thing that I would be intrested in animating is jets, vehicles and maybe people. The two programs I’m looking at is C4D and Maya. I would use PFTrack for motion tracking and then one of the two programs mentioned. I realize the price differnce, but without the price in mind, which is the best one for my needs? (I’m on a mac)

Thanks,
Zevie

Demo Reel: David Vercher

Check out the demo reel of artist David Vercher from Spain, softwares used – Maya, ZBrush, XSI, AE and Photoshop

cmiVFX Tutorials now free

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We have opened up some of our library to the general public. All of our Apple Shake training is FREE now. Just register and watch. Not strings attached.


Just stumbled upon this great message over at cmiVFX. Thanks Chris!!

Beauty in the Breakdown.

Things are a bit busted at the moment sorry…

My Google listings seem to have been hijacked by spammers, but more importantly the RSS feed has died.

For now try using this feed, or follow me on Twitter.

Hopefully everything will be back to normal soon..

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DiskCache or not..that’s the question

Hi All,
As an AE user, I got used to having a limited ram cache, yet I was GUARANTEED to have smooth play back for whatever did cached up.

For some reason, Nuke can’t make ups it mind to Cache or not.
For example,
I have a 262 frame timeline. I watched it slowly go thru all 262 frames. Then it went around again, and again. When I stoped it and then hit play, it cached up for the 1st 100 frames. I then watched it creep along to reach the end 262 frames. When it went around(again), the cached 100 frames were gone, and it was caching all over again! What gives?

I thought disk cache is like "geometry cache" in MAYA. Once you write it to disk, it plays perfectly.

Also, I used FLIPBOOK, and it seems to do the same thing. It slowly creeped along, then when it did cached up, it statred to run out of ram.
So, I am sooo confused.
And what’s this RAID drives? Would this help me?
Thanks,
Lou

Is learning Flame a good idea?

Hi newbie here, I am currently learning Nuke. I have been doing research , just looking at a lot of vfx shops worldwide and it seems that Flame artists are in demand. I know Flame is used mostly for commercial work, cuz of its speed and such. What is the learning curve like? So far learning Nuke is not as bad as I expected and I still have to learn more. This is just an opinion for you all. Is it worth learning? Or should I just stick to learning Nuke and not worry about learning Flame?

Thanks

fxguide covers Mr. X’s vfx for Amelia

fxguide covers Mr. X’s vfx for Amelia.

brazilian designer Daniel Kusaka

Amazing portfolio of Brazilian designer Daniel Kusaka.

Eventi: Presentazione VideoSign

Interessante incontro il 2 Dicembre alle 18.30 presso l’Aula Magna dell’Istituto Europeo di Design a Milano. Abbiamo già recensito in questo articolo l’uscita di Video Sign, il nuovo libro dedicato all’immagine coordinata televisiva. Durante questo evento potrete incontrare gli autori Mirko Pajè e Carlo Branzaglia grandi protagonisti della scena italiana. la partecipazione è libera e gratuita, qui sotto l’invito.

motion_art

2 Dicembre 2009
ore 18.30
IED, Aula Magna
Via Scesa 4, Milano