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closes: 28 Mar 2009
The folks over at VFX Nexus have nice little piece of code up that seems like a great all-in-one solution for keeping your VFX House in order. Aimed squarely at the indi-film and small studio market, VFX Nexus offers a nice suite of well designed tools (some in-house VFX tracking systems look like the control panel of Soviet cargo plane) that’s hosted off-site lowering software maintenance needs and enhancing communication between far flung artists and vendors. It even includes a “Knowledge Base” section so you don’t have to set up a separate wiki. Nice.
LINK to the VFX Nexus main site (make sure you check out the demo)
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I pop up books hanno sempre affascinato i bambini ma anche gli adulti, sono un fantastico modo per creare ambientazioni fantastiche e surreali.
Lo stesso effetto strabiliante viene aumentato quando ci sono le immagini in movimento o quando le pagine del libro servono come transizione per l’animazione.
Su MG ci sono stati già altri articoli che riguardano i pop up books, ma qui voglio mostrarvi il making of del film Enchanted (2007 Walt Disney).
Lo studio Reel Fx Entertainment spiega come hanno prodotto le transizioni per il film e di come sia stato difficile concepire la struttura delle animazioni.
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Il secondo video è di Asif Mian per il videoclip “Fast Cars” di Aesop Rock.
In questo caso l’animazione è a passo uno, molto più grezza e scarna, ma tutti gli effetti pop up sono stati fatti a mano e molti frames sono stati stampati e incollati sul libro che viene sfogliato.
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Director: Asif Mian
DP: Valentina Caniglia
Art Director: Asif Mian
Producer: Chesley Heymsfield
Post Production: Evaq Studio
Articolo redatto da Stefano Paron
I’m currently (non) busy transcoding footage files with Compressor on my Mac (10.4.11, 5GB RAM, 2 *2,66 GhZ Xeon) and was wondering if it is possible to force OS to use more computing power. I got around 3 GB of unused RAM, CPU work load is around 40 %.
Is this possible at all?
Any pointers welcome.
I am looking for a trick or tutorial that shows me how I can create a grayscale or alpha smoke matte from actual footage.
Imagine video footage of something, and then there’s smoke entering the screen. Because I want to put a layer underneath the smoke, I think it should be possible to extract just the smoke.
In theory, I think stabilizing the footage and using a still from before the smoke enters the screen to ‘calculate’ what is smoke and what is back plate might work. Sort of like a difference key, except the smoke is supposed to be partially transparent.
Any ideas for an approach or does anyone recall an article or tutorial about this?
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