How could I do this effect?

Im trying to replace an arm with a sword (i.e. Terminator 2) or a Gun (i.e. Evil Dead)

I saw in Grindhouse Robert Rodriguez placed a large green sock over Rose Mcgowan’s leg for the machine gun and then animated over it.

Could I do something similar for this? What program would be best to use, Maya or Cinema 4D?

Any advice?

When sending out your showreel…

is there an "ideal" way to send it?

What I mean is aside from making sure your name and contact details are written in permanent ink on the the DVD. Do you send DVDs in one of those standard DVD cases, a CD jewel case or just a plain old plastic sleeve?

Do employers have a preference for how things are sent to make their lives a bit easier?

Oh and I’m in the process of sending reels out to places in London and the rest of the UK at the moment.

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Noob question

Ok ,say I have a footage of an empty street. I then CG a robot on Maya or 3DS MAX, how do I mix the footage so that the robot is walking in the empty street then render it out as a video clip? That was just an example btw.

Thanks.

Lord of the rings CG question

Does anyone know what software Peter Jackson and his crew used to develop some models.
Like the armies marching, I saw it in the behind the scenes but couldn’t see the name of the program, Maya?
Thanks in advance.

rigging question !!

i’m new at rigging -i use maya 2011- what i want to rig is an alien tripod like that one in WAR OF THE WORLDS 2005 movie … ma question is HOW to rig the legs AS i have no idea how to rig it in a way to be able to animate it the way it was ?!:confused: any help plz :confused:

thx in advance 🙂

Fake shot !

How to make something like this ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZE8X0tmUOo

How to shooting plates for still make real ? any ideas.

Thanks.

23.976 to 29.976 hd master

Hi all,
I need to make my final project which is 23.976 and render out a HD MASTER with a freame rate of 29.976.
Usually I would keep my master at 23.976 and let the encore add the 6 frame or flags during the burning process.

In this case, I need my master to be 29.976. The reason for this is I will drop it in a 29.976 timeline and then PRINT TO TAPE. Which only excepts a 29.976 for it to record back to a Mini DV tape.

Unless you guys know a better way to Print to tape using a 23.976 frame rate?

Thanks,
Lou

Graduated from Liberal Arts College. . . Now what?

Hi everyone,

I graduated from a liberal arts college not too long ago and want to pursue a career in visual effects. I have a 2d art background and have spent 2 years teaching myself photoshop in my spare time and reading books on composition and visual storytelling. I have taken a computer animation course in which I learned modeling and rendering and lighting, although I always got irritated with the fact that the class wasn’t geared towards producing high quality complex images, since it was for beginners. I wanted to be able to produce cg graphics that were on par with my drawing ability.

I want to attend Gnomon School for to or 3 years to make up for my lack of technical knowledge, since I went to a liberal arts school that prides itself on not teaching technical skills.

Taking a computer animation course in which we used Maya I found that I really enjoyed rendering and lighting and composing shots, but not so much animating objects in an exaggerated way, I tend to prefer realism even if fantastical.

I’m trying to figure out what vfx path I should take knowing that my artistic eye is pretty good from being a good 2d artist and my knowledge of photoshop and as well as knowing what I enjoyed from taking the computer animation course. If you guys could give me some suggestions of what vfx path I should take and what it would be required of me that would be great. Or if anyone could list all the jobs that make up the vfx industry and what it entails that would be great as well.

Thanks!

QuickTime render Help…Please

Hi again,
I am trying to render out an "exact" copy via Render of Premiere.
MY ISSUES:
If I render in AE using QT and NONE for compression. Then import it back in to AE and zoom in 1600 %, there is 100% pixel match. There is not 1 pixel changed when you compare timeline & rendered.
Now, If you copy it from AE and compare the two in Premiere, there IS a difference. How could that be?

Try this:
Take a small clip in Premiere, Press COPY and paste it into AE.
Render it in AE via QT, NONE compression.

When you do a 1600 % compare, you will see 100% match

Now, Import that same render into Premiere, do a 400% zoom, you will see a HUGE miss match..

HOW & WHY??????