Organika animation/vfx studio, based in Mexico City seeks a senior-level compositor/effects artist for national spot work and finishing. 5+ years experience, who is willing to relocate, We are looking for someone with a strong spot reel and high-end finishing/compositing experience. Our...

First, play around here. Beautiful. Then watch the videos on director Terry Hall’s site. Inspiring. (Credits on The FWA.) Posted on Motionographer

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I'm often find myself in a situation where I want to use mattes from objects in a 3d setup. For example, I have several images with alpha channels going into a scene node and going out through a scanline renderer. After the scanline renderer all alpha channels from the objects have been merged into...

Hi evebody. Could some one give me a tip or sugestion about model or kit of monitor for work in 3D stereographc in Nuke. Currently I have a Mac Pro Octacore whit Nvidia Quadro 4000 and a Apple display cinema as main monitor and a generic LG second monitor. Could some help me please?

setAttr "polySmoothFace1.divisions" 2; How can I write this so it will effect all the polySmoothFace nodes in the scene? I would like to run a pre render command telling all polySmoothFace nodes to set their divisions to 2. Thanks for the help

Hey, this is my first post! This is an old school assignment that I UV'ed and textured, I did not model it. I'd like some feed back on my UV's. What would you recommend I do to improve this piece? ...

I'm putting together a write node template for our studio, and like the Auto Write script at Nukepedia, I add expressions together to create a path. I would like to take the location of the Nuke script file (value root.name), and go two steps back into the folder structure using expressions. For...

I like the "Render view port subdivision" option in vray. But the render times are 5 times longer than rendering the same model using mesh/smooth nodes with 2 subdivisions. Is there a setting Im missing to make this more efficient? Thanks for any help.

Mk12 takes us back in time for the FITC Toronto 2011 titles. Cel animation by T.J. Fuller. Posted on Motionographer

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[AUDIO] Radium Audio’s behind the scenes post about crafting the MGM sonic ident Posted on Motionographer

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Hi Everyone, I hope that you have all had a great week!!! I have posted a new video - Autodesk Smoke: Removing Grain Do your images have too much grain? Autodesk Smoke is designed to deal with a variety of formats, including grainy ones. The Denoise tool can help you reduce grain while...

Hi! I live in London a few months e stare looking for work. are available With more than ten years of experience in the visual effects field, CG animation and commercial visual FX. I have the technical knowledge to work to most levels of creativity giving a precious contribute to the production. I...

This is my VFX short film for my school project. And I would like to share to everyone. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15AMEPYISmg My story is about a soldier named Joseph who belongs to a special unit. His last assignment is to kill a drug dealer. Joe is given an order to kill everyone in...

Please come to check my Demo http://www.vimeo.com/22993926 22993926 For my last scene, I use Maya to do a texture projection. And then use Maya fluid to create different kinds of smoke and dust. After that I use Nuke and After Effect to work on the colour matching, key out the green and...

*Double Negative is a full-service VFX facility capable of handling projects from initial design through on-set supervision and production to post-production. All key post-production technologies are available in-house to allow for maximum flexibility. Our R&D; Department is constantly developing...

*Double Negative is a full-service VFX facility capable of handling projects from initial design through on-set supervision and production to post-production. All key post-production technologies are available in-house to allow for maximum flexibility. Our R&D; Department is constantly developing...

Can any1 tell the procedure of passes in fusion in detail

OK, so something I'm noticing is that as more and more people use Vimeo and Youtube as a distribution method (and we highly encourage it...it makes it way easier for users to view them without having to navigate away or download anything) the more I realize that people don't understand how to...

This is an exercise in the use of materials and textures for cg characters. We had to make the hair from nurbs planes. Any tips to make it more believable?

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In school I am doing a project and I am required to take a survey. What are your favorite Visual Effects/Design Products? 1. Adobe After Effects 2. Shake 3. Nuke 4. Digital Fusion :):)

In school I am doing a project and I am required to take a survey. What are your favorite Visual Effects/Design Products? 1. Adobe After Effects 2. Shake 3. Nuke 4. Digital Fusion :):)

Hello, Is it possible to rename some of the 3d tracks after a camera solve? Reason is that when I export the FBX to Maya I end up with lots of locators and I have to figure out which locator I was interested in and delete the rest of the tracks of the point cloud. Work arounds so far 1....

Very strong start but its WAYYYYY TOO long! Professionals with 10+ years experience don't have 3 min demo reels! OK, the fluid dancer I think is actually really cool. What would make it better is at about :11 he falls into the liquid he should just splash into the puddle and leave nothing. ...

Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to configure one stroke in Rotopaint and maintain the same knob vales for each new stroke. I know I can configure init.py but what about doing some strokes one way and next ones another?? Doing nuke.knobDefault(... only affects the first stroke in a new...

I'm working on a matchmove project and I have to pull the 3D track in Nuke, but my coworker needs to do his animation, lighting, and texturing in Maya 2011. Every tutorial I ever see covers moving from Maya to Nuke, but not vice versa. Some things to know before you comment: Yes, I've...

Remains, LLC, producing the feature zombie film "Steve Niles' Remains", is looking for VFX freelancers and small studios to handle some FX work during our upcoming post production period from July - September. We're looking for artists who can take on individual shots from start to completion...

Hi, What are people's favourite DOF (z blur, that can accept a depth pass) and degrain plugins, which can run in linux? Thanks! Alex Harding Nuke Compositor MPC New York

Vigour by Chang Dai. Sheridan College Thesis Film. (via Cartoon Brew) Posted on Motionographer

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Elastic‘s Andy Hall has just directed these two spots for Ben&Jerry’s. Storyboards & breakdowns included! Posted on Motionographer

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Hi there, this is a project i have been working on for my show reel, since I am working on this from home and don't have the benefit of having dailies. I would love to have some feedback about what I have so far. 23292441 In a manner of breakdown, for this shot I have done sky...

23311683 In the year 2130, on a yet undiscovered planet, Tiko is the last remaining robot of a mechanical civilization. Machines discovered greed and hunger for power. The war that wiped this civilization lasted 50 years. Tiko is one of those lower end robots on the military scale. He was mass...

Hi I'm Boris Raguza, a 3D Artist/VFX worked for years in game industry where I learned everything from character modeling and animation to complex explosions and composing. Would love to try my skills in movie industry. Fully making all shots alone from begining to end as shown in my portfolio...

Hi, after some minor modifications on the source code I´ve succesfully compiled the SSAO Plugin (http://www.nukepedia.com/plugins/filter/ssao/) using Nuke´s "Makefile". The Makefile was modified too so it uses the MacOSX10.6 SDK. When I try to load the compiled plug into Nuke (typing...

Hey guys! Samsung is asking filmmakers to create 60-second films about how the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 can help 24/7 digitally active people make their lives fuller by improving personal productivity, superior entertainment experience, and time management. The best films will earn a total of...

Hello! I am currently taking Visual Effects at the Art Institute of Vancouver and have just began to get into Nuke. I haven't done much to date, but I thought i'd post one of the simple tracking shots that I did for an assigment. I realize it isn't much but feedback of any sort would be greatly...

Howdy Folks, Great News! iPisoft has made a easy and inexpensive one (kinetic) camera mocap solution that requires no calibration. First Download the 30 day FREE demo here http://goo.gl/fJXSY Then visit my youtube channel to see the ipi mocap software demonstrated by MrBones himself....

Hi guys, My English filming project is due tomorrow and I still have some editing to do. I also need 2 songs, one should be (not overdone) happy and a sad song. Here is the script, please advise me a happy and a sad song that would fit each scene. Play: Scene in my own...

Hi, i'm trying to transfer a project, which was done in Flame to Nuke. So I basically need to recreate every step that was done in Flame in Nuke. Do you guys know if there is a Flame to Nuke Guide or something that might help me out ? Thanks in advance. Gizmo

Wow celebrates 25 years of Maxon (GreyScaleGorilla) Posted on Motionographer

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Hello, I'm not sure if this is the right place for this but I was wondering if anyone here has attended SCAD in Savannah for production design or any of their graduate programs? I am graduating from Drexel in Philadelphia with an accredited bachelors in architecture and i want to attend SCAD in...

Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to create a button that does this: Opens up a window asking what shot number you are working on. Once that's done, import a script from path X or even if it's a nuke script inside the python script that just gets created, doesn't matter. Replaces all write...