Looking for a VFX Artist to help me…

Hi, i dont know anywhere else to make this post, other than CGtalk (but got deleted to my frustration) but basically, if anyone has followed my other thread here: http://www.vfxtalk.com/forum/possibl…ng-t17800.html

i am looking for someone who can help me model a kind of facial damage near to the left eye, like bruises, gash or something very much like this if one can replicate it:

http://www.studiomonnot.com/face.html

keeping it real is important 😀 for those who didnt follow, basically i am doing a small practice and experiment that hopefully if all goes well will be implemented for a small project of mine or that im involve in. i have already created a head model for the actress and a UV Map Layout is on its way to which i will provide, where this will be tracked on the person’s face and blend in seamlessly to give that overall effect that this person has been abused 😀

sorry if the title is abit misleading, but im pretty sure that is a general term. also, if anyone can advice me on as such on this, please dont be afriad of my idiosm 😀 or anything else come forward.

Look forward wearing from all of you, and i thought i would like to take this time to thank Seriphu who has helped me greatly on this and ongoing as well.

Online MFA [visual effects] degree

I’m wondering which schools offer online diploma study for visual effects and animation ?
I studied graphic dsign, and I want to do my master on visual effects, however, I’m not sure about the goods/pros/cons about an online class.

I found academyart has online classes, but I could not find any information about their admissions.

Needing help.

HD Encoding Recomendations, what I should use?

Hi everyone

I was wondering if you could help me to solve a tricky mistery, at least for me, I’m about to distribute an animation to a couple of friends and maybe other people, I made the video in HD(1080p), rendered, compossed and edited. Now I have a uncompressed format from the video, but I don’t know what kind of codec or tools, I need to make it playable to almost averyone who has mac or pc without the lossing of so much quality, I plan to burn the video as a file and if necessary add the right tools to be seen.

What is what you suggest that I should use? I heard something about H.264, MPG4, Divx, Procoder, Rhozet Carbon Coder, Cinema Craft Encoder,among others, but it is harder to take a good decision, What I would like that my friends experiment when they put the CD/DVD inside their computers, is an ease of use, and a good quality video and playback, I will burn 2 or 3 diferent formats maybe.

I really hope that you can help me or suggest something to me,

ok cya, nice day and best wishes for 2009 year!

DOF match

I want to learn how to match the added 3d elemnts’ DOF with the footage’s.

I’m using C4D and AE.

New to the forum

Not quite sure if this is the right thread to post this one, anyway, Im John from California. Im new to the forum and hopefully, I can get good insights here and vise versa.

How to “practice” compositing?

I am a 3D artist, Animator to be specific, by trade. But often times I have to do little slap comps and stuff. I have always been interested in compositing, but I was wondering…how do you practice compositing? In 3d if I want to practice animation I just grab a rig and go. But how would you do a similar thing with comping? Where would would you find source footage/plates to practice with? Visual elements/VFX to try and integrate with each other?

I guess this question is similar to "how do I learn…" but I just wanted to hear your thoughts?

Thanks.

6 color Matte Passes?

I’m trying to figure out how to do 6 color matte passes.

R, G, B, RG, RB, GB

If you take RG split it up. And invert and subtract it works as long as there is a color behind it. But it then double subtracts when on a black background.

I’m sure there is a little script which can break out 6 colors… or a colorx node. Anybody already done this?

AE Expression Gurus

I am was asked to reverse camera data for a comp which will in turn require me to reverse the point cloud null data. I am using AE CS3 and cannot seem to think of any way to do this without expressions. Does anyone know of a way to accomplish this?

Thanks

(This is a theory, but would time stretching the null layer in the -100 work?)

shake2.56 vs nuke5.0v2 vs after effect ?

im want start to learn compositing i read some articles but im be confused to choose what softwares..

so for pc(windows os) there are shake v2.56 nuke 5.0v2 and after effect and i know shake and nuke are node base and after effect layer is base…so do u have any idea to start with which ones ? why?
thnx
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First work in HD –

Hi,
i am elaborating a budget for a video work, and is the first time i´ll work in HD format. I have previously worked in dv formats or in still images of medium to hight resolution.

this time, i´ll have to comp some 3d water walls impacting on people and such things..
My question is, concerning my factible render times out of 3dsmax, if it is an usual practice to render at a slightly lower resolution. considering that digital generated image should be somehow crisper and supposing i could enlarge them at comping time in HD.

I hope this makes sense and waiting to know yor thoughts.
thanks in advance