Starting out with Special Effects

Hey all,

My name is Stefan Lipsius. 25, living close to Toronto Ontario. Ive been interested in compositing for awhile now, but I havent done too too much with it. Ive done a couple of the tutorials over at videocopilot.net which were alot of fun. What Ive liked the most are the special effects / particals. Spell effects, fire, etc.

My question for you pros is this; Is it possible to find junior SFX jobs that do only particals, or do I need to learn roto and stuff as well?

Does anyone have any suggestions for where I should start, if Im doing this all on my own? I have experience with maya and photoshop and stuff through school (game development graduate). But lately Ive been feeling Im more into compositing than game developement.

Any suggestions or info would be GREATLY appreciated.

oh, and I already have the art and science of digital compositing book. 🙂

Thanks for your time

Stefan

render engine

Hi friends,

any body please tell me about the pipeline for a render machine in production. I just heard about that. But i dont know much more. My friend told me that many types of render engine are there. Is it right ?

please give me a basic idea about production based render engine .

Beginner doubt about mocha

I know that this is not exact place for posting a doubt about mocha software. But actually, i dont know where i can post this. Please forgive me.

dear friends, i am beginner in mocha software. I am using 30 days trial vertion of mocha 2.0. But there i cant see the option SURFACE for arranging the corners. Please tell me where is the option in 2.0.

Fusion footage import problem

hi friends,

In one of my friend Computer, when he try to import any files in to Fusion, it will shows only a cross mark.please see the attachment.

anybody please tell me why it is happening ?

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Rigid Bodies… ¬¬

I’m trying to make some Rigid Bodies Simulation, till now, I’ve been playing with Maya, Max and C4D. But I haven’t been able to pull the dynamic that I want.

All I need to do, is: A Glass, full with Pencils, the glass tumbles aside and the pencils scatter all over a table… can’t get it right!!!!

Any idea? suggestions? 😮

Which simulator will be the best?

Cheers 😀

Min-Avg-Max graph values?

Hi all,
Ok, although this question you would think, is "self explained",
I still am confused.
On my Parade graph, I have a Min- avg-max values.
Ok, I get that the min value is the lowest value of the sample, etc, etc…

But when sampling a color , which value is the "actual value" of the given sample region?
For example, If I select a small section of a wall, and I get MIN 127, AVG 150, Max 190, Which value is the sample?

Sorry for the stupid question, but I always ask myself this question when I’m shot matching.

Thanks,
lou

Roto – Bezier tool is buggy??

Can someone please verify if they are having issues in Nuke 6.1 with the Roto-Bezier tool. I have been told in the studio just to use the Bezier node by itself.

Thoughts?

Could anyone give a hand for my project

Hi guys

Im planning for an effect shot in maya.I would be using maya fluids.I dont have much knowledge about tracking and rendering.I am doing this project to enhance my work in showreel.So if anyone of you feel so.Please get back to me.I would be glad to work with you.

Procedural Cloud.

Hello folks,

I would like to know the difference between Procedural Texture Clouds and Clouds created by Fluids? Are they same or different?

While creating clouds using Fluids, we also able to control the shading.

Please share your ideas and experience on this topic.

Cheers,

Ground plane doubt for live action shot

Hi Im preparing a short sequence where an object explodes and falls into pieces and act as a rigid body object

I have tracked the footage and brought in the boujou camera in maya,now suppose if the shattered pieces of object falls into the ground.What should i do? should i turn of the visiblity of the ground plane and render the chunk pass alone or should i do something like image projection?

Please tell more about it.Im am struck in the middle.Please let me know guys.Im just a beginner