Nov
26
Take your artwork Cosmic
Posted in: 1Celestial elements are everywhere in design. Demonstrates how to incorporate them into your style
Nov
26
smoke me the bear gory horror short film
Posted in: The Padhello everyone this is my first post on this comunity, so i figured i would start it off right. i have a link here tht is for this short fim my friend and i shot about a guy who movs in to this house with a friend and inds this bear bong that tells him to kill his friends. it is just a promo not near ready at all but was agerto share with eveyone so if you could tae a second to watch and leave some feed back on this ubject it would be greatly appreciated.<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/o1Ng4dYOxCk…</param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/o1Ng4dYOxCk&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>or this link, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1Ng4dYOxCk
Nov
25
List of VFX Houses In NYC?
Posted in: The Job LotHey there,
I’m about to graduate soon with a bachelors of VFX and Motion Graphics…I’m at that point where I need to start looking for places to intern.
I was planning on interning somewhere in NYC. Could anyone please help me out with a good list of vfx studios there?
I found several, but I’m sure im missing some! I’m also looking for studios that don’t just do motion graphics, but vfx as well. And if possible, vfx with after effects, although I don’t know how common that is!
Thankyou,
-Mike
Nov
25
Circus is ringleader for Grenelle spot, at fxguide.
Nov
25
Post Mag interviews Peter Jackson on The Lovely Bones.
Nov
25
Hi,
I was wondereing if anyone has worked as or knows people who work as this position and what it entails. Just looking for general info on this working in this position and perhaps where it could lead?
Thanks
Nov
25
Mother London: Plane Stupid
Posted in: directingWow, hardcore advertising that gets your attention … showing the impact of short-haul flights on our climate. Directed by Daniel Kleinman for agency Mother London, promoting planestupid.com.
Nov
25
[NEWS=”http://www.cgnews.com/wp-content/uploads/newmoon_ed_th.jpg”]22667[/NEWS]Prime Focus VFX, formerly Frantic Films VFX, has completed 175 visual effects shots for the Summit Entertainment release, “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” directed by Chris Weitz. Prime Focus contributed a majority of the film’s most frequently featured visual effects, including CG water, atmospherics, CG matte painting and environment work, and the “Diamond Skin” effect on Edward and the other vampire characters. “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” is based on the popular series of novels by Stephenie Meyer.
Prime Focus’ newly expanded Vancouver studio, which has become the VFX hub for the company’s North American operations, handled the bulk of the work on “The Twilight Saga: New Moon,” which was shot on location in British Columbia. Key effects included creating apparitions of the Edward Cullen character and custom designing the “Diamond Edward” effect, whereby Cullen’s skin sparkles when coming into contact with sunlight.
Director Chris Weitz and his Visual Effects Producer Susan MacLeod tasked Prime Focus with evolving this signature Diamond Skin effect so that Edward’s skin refracted light as if diamonds were embedded under his skin.
The Prime Focus team, led by Visual Effects Supervisor Eric Pascarelli, went through extensive look development to achieve this effect, and used as its inspiration Greek Thassos marble, a very white, translucent material with flecks that reflect light very efficiently. The team even had a slab at the office for the CG artists to use as reference.
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“Creating the diamond skin effect turned out to be a very rewarding experience.” said Pascarelli. “The effect appears many times throughout the film in several very different scenarios. It was challenging because the diamond effect appears in sunlight, whenever Edward’s already very pale skin is lit by sun, and on top of all of that brightness, there needs to be a convincing diamond-like sparkle. Film doesn’t really have enough brightness range to do this, so we had to resort to some trickery, such as lens effects, flares and light rays to give the feeling of super-bright glimmer. In addition to all of that, we needed to show the skin having a translucent glow. There was a very delicate balance of the elements that make up the effect. We used 3D particle geometry dispersed over a CG model of Edwards’ head to reflect several artificial environments in order to create the sparkles and rays. Chris and Susan loved what we came up with very early in the process, which ended up being one of the happy surprises during production.” |
Prime Focus’ Vancouver studio also collaborated with its Digital Matte Painting department in Los Angeles (headed by Ken Nakada) on recreating the movie’s Forks High School, as well as craggy cliffs overlooking the ocean and other 100-percent CG environments depicting the movie’s Washington State locale. Prime Focus also contributed CG water for multiple scenes and two elaborate time passage sequences featuring the Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) character in complicated multipart motion control shots.
For the cliff scenes, Nakada and his team designed the entire landscape using several locations in Vancouver’s Whytecliff Park as reference material. The team also provided on-set VFX supervision for MacLeod and Weitz on a greenscreen shoot at Vancouver Film Studios of a stuntman jumping 70 feet off a tower as a camera rig does a 270-degree tilt, following him from the top of the cliff until he hits water. Additionally, Prime Focus created several digital doubles and did face replacement for the actors jumping off the cliff.
Overall, a team of 45 across Prime Focus Vancouver and Los Angeles were brought onto “The Twilight Saga: New Moon.” Prime Focus’ key software packages included Autodesk Maya, Autodesk 3ds Max and Autodesk Mudbox for 3D modeling, eyeon Fusion for compositing, Prime Focus Software’s Krakatoa for particle rendering, Prime Focus Software’s Flood and Flood: Surf for fluid simulation.
About Prime Focus
Prime Focus is a global Visual Entertainment Services group that provides creative and technical services to the film, broadcast, commercials, gaming, internet and media industries. The group offers a genuine end-to-end solution from pre-production to final delivery – including previsualisation, equipment hire, visual effects, video and audio post-production, digital intermediate, digital asset management and distribution.
Prime Focus employs more than 1200 people with state-of-the-art facilities throughout the key markets of North America, the UK and India. Using its ‘worldsourcing’ business model, Prime Focus provides a network that combines global cost advantages, resources and talent pool with strong relationships and a deep understanding of the local markets.
RELATED LINKS:
www.primefocusworld.com
www.newmoonthemovie.com/worldoftwilight
Nov
25
James Trim: Aston Martin ~ Volare
Posted in: auto designJames Trim is a concept car designer … from his recent project Aston Martin Volare … “The principle concern being confronted by Aston Martin is the harmful impact their cars are having on the environment. With this in mind, the Aston Martin Volare would retain the fantastic sound and outright performance customary with that of […]
Nov
25
i was rendering my 3d architect walk through by 3d max.
but when i see the video! i got some spot in the 200 frame to 500 frame.
can any buddy help? how does i remove it.
if its image? i using stamp tool of photoshop.
is there any tools like stamp tool? which is remove that sport from video?
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