Forum: Professional Talk

It would be great if you could also put your country in your post. Please also note that I mean the amount of hours contractually agreed on. If you work additional hours even though you're not required to, that's your thing and not what I would like to figure out here ;-) I didn't make it...

Hey. We are currently looking for some more smoke and atmosphere stock footage for our library. We allready have all Compositors Toolkit packs and ActionEssensials but there are not that many good atmosphere clips in thoes. Most stock sites sell single clips for 50$ a piece and with usually...

Pilzner Urquell 170 years sel. Commercial Hi Guys, this my last project: All compositions done on Flame 2012, and 3d in Xsi and Maya. In 3 weeks, with (Agency BBDO Prague) changes and so on … ;) Not that easy process, but we are proud, of our final result. www.peternemec.com

Hi All, I'm not sure if this is the best place to post this question so feel free to move it if its not appropriate here. I am planning to go to the UK next year on the Youth Mobility work and travel visa however I am hearing mixed things about finding work over there. On one hand I hear...

DESCRIPTION Technical Rendering Administrators (TRAs) support the 24x7 rendering production of DreamWorks' animated feature films. In this entry-level but mission critical role, TRA's touch all aspects of the technical production pipeline. They have broad interaction with production artists from...

DESCRIPTION Technical Rendering Administrators (TRAs) support the 24x7 rendering production of DreamWorks' animated feature films. In this entry-level but mission critical role, TRA's touch all aspects of the technical production pipeline. They have broad interaction with production artists from...

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Image Finaling Job Description: Image Finaling Artists “polish” each shot as it leaves the lighting department. As an Image Finaling artist, you will be required to digitally alter frames using compositing techniques in Nuke. Artists also diagnose rendering issues with Nuke scripts that were...

Hi, so I am graduating today and have been looking around for runner jobs to apply for. One of them is in London and I am from the United States. Does anyone know how this generally works. Do I just submit my application normally or do I need to already have a work visa to be eligible generally?...

Hi all I am looking for a company to match move 3000 frames or so. They will also need to supply the element rendered plus the tracking information. Please send me some names of companies. India, UK ...anywhere really. Need it tracked asap! as always:) Regards

Companies listed here have done VFX work for multiple movies of at least some substance in the past ~3 years, sorted roughly by the percentage of those movies out of all their projects (and countries sorted by the average percentage among their studios). The sorting is obviously somewhat subjective...

Hi, normally i have a live action plate to comp 3d passes into it. So i can use the live action plate as a reference for the 3d stuff and it is easer to match 3d and 2d. But at the moment i have a complete 3d shot which should look like real. Can anyone give me some hints or tips what...

why they unwrapped the sequence, instead of that they can take damaged skin from 3d model with textured area in alpha and comp.VIDEO]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzSHXR_pAKw&feature=youtu.be and how to do the 3d projection

I've poring over some of the online analysis of the new Prometheus trailer. This article in Den of Geek was going through frame by frame and pointed out the discrepancy between 2 versions of the same shot in the 2 different trailers. Now, I thought it was fairly common knowledge that...

Hi all, I hope my questions are in the right forum, I need to match a 3d camera in Cinema 4D with a real camera. It's for a shoot that involves motion control. We setup a few shots in Cinema 4d and exported them as an FBX file for the motion control guys so they can use it to shoot a couple...

Hey guys, need some help. I have an old b&w video, something like 20's-30's. The camera is motionless, however the footage is damn shaky, it is changing the position for several pixels every frame, lots of artifacts and tons of grain. I tried tracking in Nuke, AE CS5.5, Mocha, even Boujou. No...

I watched recently a tutorial from one of the giants in VFX industry and talked to some people as well about it, It seams some studios are using this plugin to transfer full data from 3ds max/Maya/LW/XSI/Rhino etc... this is like a dream come true to any artist who wanted to work in a studio with...

Is there a way to create portable versions of AE CS4, Fusion or Nuke, so that they could be executed from a usb flashdrive without installing? I don't need using extra plug-ins, just the basic stuff. Thanks.

Hi Guys, Im having trouble getting a fixed track on this shot. It was filmed on GoPro HD. Due to the caustics and resolution and grain, water distortion etc, im having alot of trouble getting a locked track. I have tried undistorting the plate, CC'ing it to remove most of the milkyness, 3d...

Hey guys, how're you doing? I got one small question, however a very important one. I've consulted several vfx gurus but I wanna know the society opinion. I'm going to release a reel soon. The purpose of the reel is to find clients who need some amount of vfx done in a movie or a commercial or a...

Dear Friends, I was looking for a workflow which helps me shooting/ filming a live action in which the :). Any inputs would be highly appreciated. Regards SMS007

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Hello! I tried to find a thread on virtual studio work (mainly realtime camera track + realtime chroma key + comp) but didn't find any. We are aiming to launch production of a tv series featured with heavy vfx work next autumn, and now looking for the best solution for our needs to get the...