MPC Vancouver seeking Senior Compositors!

MPC Vancouver is one of the world’s leading post production facilities creating high-end digital visual effects for the television and feature film industries.

We are seeking Senior Compositors for our current project.

Senior Compositor
Primary Responsibilities:
• Tackling the compositing of shots effectively
• Briefing junior compositors when the dividing of shots into tasks (e.g. roto-scoping) is required
• Delivering final shots that are creatively and technically excellent

Skills and experience
• At least 4 years of experience with Shake
• Strong film showreel.
• Good understanding of photography and film, and how the interactions of light, lenses and film emulsions make up the image.
• Some understanding of the whole digital film pipeline, from scanner to film recorder.
• Ability to take direction and structure working practice so that design changes can be efficiently made.
• Desire to learn from others and to take on increasingly challenging shots.

To apply, please send your resume and reel to mpcvancouverrecruiting@moving-picture.com

When will CG stop getting better?

(people always ask when Olympics records will stop improving, I wonder why they never ask this one?)

Human/sentient emotions are really hard, but when will Hollywood be able to do anything besides that, indistinguishable from reality? Also, they need to use people with more spatial intelligence, they’re great at rendering and sound but their camera paths, pfft, I could do better. Really, it took you until 2001 just to do the Pearl Harbor bomb?

Script to animate Flag blowing in the wind?

Hi guys,

Im looking for a way to go about animating a flag (basically an image on a 3d card) in the wind,
is there a script that will create a realistic animation or is is best to animate by keyframe with a deform?

thanks guys.

-Cr0ss

September Post covers VFX films

div xmlns=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtmlThe a href=http://www.postmagazine.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=63930E9D02644EC9A127AF67602DA756nm=E-Newsletterstype=Publishingmod=Publications%3A%3AArticlemid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F791tier=4id=E643F39345B9492597EC15C566A1E541September 2009/a issue of Post magazine has articles on emG-Force, Inglourious Basterds/em and other recent films./div

Embassy District 9 podcast

fxguide podcast interview with The Embassy about the exo-suit in District 9.

L.A. Based Compositor

***Available Immediately***

Proficiencies including Fusion, Shake, Nuke, as well as knowledge of AE, Combustion, and both Linux and Unix operating systems.

Experience/Credits include:

The Bad Penny (2009)
The Box (2009)
The Invention of Lying (2009)
Town Creek (2009)
The Time Travelers Wife (2008)
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)
The Ugly Truth (2009)
17 Again (2009)
The Spirit (2008)
Jumper (2008)
City of Ember (2008)
The Burning Plain (2008)
W. (2008)
Henry Poole Is Here (2008)
Hairspray (2007)

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/myprofile?trk=hb_side_pro

IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2709369/

Reel:

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

Buamai

Random image collection greatness Buamai

python node creation

I’ve been looking through the python docs for nuke and it doesn’t appear clean cut to whether its possible to create entire custom nodes using the python nuke interface and not c+.

also the nuke python docs seem to be missing a lot of objects…

is it possible to create a custom node using python?

thanks

dom out.

3D Equalizer V4b2 Available


Today beta2 of 3DEqualizer4 Release 1 has become available. The new*features are:

– Stereoscopic calculation
(camera & object point groups, survey & survey-free points, zooming & non-zooming projects)
The interocular distance, as well as vertical shift can be adjusted by the use of 3DE4’s
Parameter Adjustment Window. This is very helpful for optimizing deviation and for
analyzing problematic projects.

– Image Controls Window
– New export filter script for 3DS Max
– A lot of minor bug fixes and improvements

For more information : http://www.sci-d-vis.com/ (PLE is available)

Fuel TV : MachoTailDrop ~ TIFF

Fuel TV’s experiment MachoTailDrop has been selected for the Toronto International Film Festival, premiering September 11, 2009, directed by Canadian wirter/director Corey Adams. “‘The film is the product of the FUEL TV Experiment, a program that we launched in 2004 to help find and nurture talented young filmmakers from within action sports,” says CJ Olivares, […]