Jan 01

demo reel intro 08

Posted in: Work in Progress (WiP)
Just working on a new demo reel intro. I’d like some opinions on it as showing it to my friends only gets a “wow, cooool” response, and no constructive comments, haha.

Here’s what i’m looking for in terms of feedback:
• Flow – Does everything seem like it flows into each other? Every different camera movement seem to smoothly transition into the other?

• Legible – Can you read any of that text in there?

• Length – Too long? Too short? Just perfect?

• Style – Do you think its a little flashy? Lame? Cool?

• Any other critiques you’d like to add are also appreciated

Known issues: At around f163, there seems to be a problem with calculating motion blur and seems to flip out for a frame. I’m working on that.

Thanks, and looking forward to any feedback on this.

Attached Files
File Type: mov Output_LowREZ.mov (6.42 MB)
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Jan 01

Using ZBrush and Apple Shake?

Posted in: Beginners Talk
Does anyone know what kind of export from zbrush would be best to bring it into shake and composite it?

For example, I sculpt a building in zbrush and want to place it in a scene with shake. let’s just say the camera is stationary.

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Jan 01

1 Min Abstract video

Posted in: Work in Progress (WiP)
hello , on this video i took some old projects i did in after effects and blended them together to make this short video .



LifeType Abstract from LifeType on Vimeo.

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Jan 01

WIP needs ur comments/reviews

Posted in: Realflow
hey guys
ive been workin on liquid sim for d first time from last few days
the following link is a result of what ive been able to acheive
its def not water ive kept it bit thick (juice) plus its just a grey render for the time being
but i need to know where iam goin wrong as i want to improve on it before going for final shader development and lighting

so please comment

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

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Jan 01

My new short film – Plastic kills

Posted in: VFXTalk Short Film Forum
:thumbsup: Hey guys me and some friends made this movie Plastic Kills…it’s more of an advertising film…:D
Enjoy and Comment please:):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4j6qQ6A7Po

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Jan 01

Network shared storage

Posted in: Hardware & Tech Talk
Hi,

I need some with this question:
What is the best system to share footage for four comps workstation??

SAN, NAS, DAS? witch raid, and what connection?
Fiber? iSCSI? Gibabit cat6? or ePCI direct?

The four workstation usually do composition with HD or 2k footage on tiff sequences.
I need to know how delivery that data more faster has possible.

Anybody know and help me?

Thanks for advance!

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Dec 31

.edl files and nuke

Posted in: NUKE from The Foundry
Hi people,

I’m a new Nuke user and I would like to know if there is a mean for importing .edl file in it.
I’ve already try the "Import Sequence" in the Read node but I get this error "syntax error in expression "AX + C": variable references require preceding $".

Thanx.

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Dec 31

Color grade render issue

Posted in: NUKE from The Foundry
Hey everyone-

New to the board here and I have a weird issue with rendering files out. Everything is pretty straight forward. I have my footage, a reformat node, a grade node and then a color correct node.

No matter what I have tried the footage is coming out looking a lot darker than it should. It actually looks completely unchanged…Any thoughts? I think I am missing something here.

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Dec 31

Apres la Pluie and other Gobelins shorts

Posted in: General, Students

Another stunning list of student work has just been released by the french animation school Gobelins. My personal favorite, Apres la Pluie seems to be beyond the work of students. Credited to a few students by the names of Charles-André Lefebvre, Manuel Tanon-Tchi, Louis Tardivier, Sébastien Vovau, Emmanuelle Walker, this is an animation that any studio would be proud to execute. Gratifyingly different than most animation out there, this follows an aestetic closer to Tekkonkinkreet than a Pixar movie..this is no easy task. There are a couple making of videos that show the depth of research and exploration that went into this film.

Not to be forgotten though are the other films, which all display the amazingly high standard that Gobelins has for it’s students. Another great animation worth seeing is California Love.

Apres la Pluie making of:


“Après la pluie” / Making of / Manuel Tanon-Tchi from manu tanon-tchi on Vimeo.

via Liftingfaces

Posted on Motionographer

Apres la Pluie and other Gobelins shorts

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Dec 31

RED L.A. User Group, January 10, 2009

Posted in: Digital Intermediary (DI)
RED LOS ANGELES USER GROUP
January 10th, 2009
9:00am – 12:00am

RSVP HERE

We’re excited to announce that Digital Vision will be sponsoring the breakfast at the January 10th meeting. Digital Vision will be demonstrating RED workflow with Film Master in Kappa’s new DI bay. Film Master is one of the handful of systems capable of importing RED RAW files.

Curtis Harris, the video specialist at Melrose Mac, will be discussing storage options and backup when dealing with tapeless formats such as RED. He will be discussing in detail the different RAID types, and when to use them, as well as why it is absolutely critical to have a backup strategy such as LTO backup.

These are only two of the presenters who will speak and demonstrate their RED products to the group at the next meeting. Please stay tuned for more announcements soon.

RSVP HERE

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