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Sticky Thread Sticky: The Core Skills of VFX Handbook

This one is quite useful for anyone starting in VFX, will definitely help you understand whole nature of VFX business and how you should prepare yourself for the industry. Though this handbook is written very UK centric, it is still valid for any other place as the nature of the VFX business...

Started by metalrahul‎, June 7th, 2011 01:52 AM
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August 7th, 2012, 05:26 AM Go to last post

Sticky Thread Sticky: this is how you fix H.264 Brightness / Contrast issue!!!

I was going crazy trying to figure this out until i came a across a solution online. This is a very annoying problem where you compress a video with the H.264 codec and your video is nicely compressed but the gamma or brightness is always off and everything in the video looks washed out! I...

Started by avillabon‎, January 15th, 2008 11:51 PM
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Sticky Thread Sticky: V. Paint

Another part in progress! V. Paint Paint. When do you paint frames as opposed to roto? How can you decide which method will work best given the task at hand? One thing to always remember, is that painting multiple frames to remove something is time-consuming and wasteful. There are always...

Started by Aruna‎, April 12th, 2009 01:56 PM
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March 15th, 2011, 04:00 AM Go to last post

Sticky Thread Sticky: IV. Rotoscope Techniques

Another daily update.. This comp manual is still in progress, very few images are documented, so the final chapters which are published may stray slightly from what I've shown. IV. Rotoscope Techniques A compositor has many responsibilities for the successful completion of a shot.. Almost...

Started by Aruna‎, April 11th, 2009 12:44 PM
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February 14th, 2011, 03:10 PM Go to last post

Preimere and assimilate scratch workflow

Hello everyone, am trying to send my sequence from preimere to scratch. I shoot my clips with a Sony alpha 65 and imported it to preimere, am done with my sequence, saved it as a .edl and now import it into scratch. Scratch won't show my clip but instead it shows me a color frame or something...

Started by ehigiepaul‎, March 1st, 2012 06:15 AM
Replies: 0
Views: 750
March 1st, 2012, 06:15 AM Go to last post

VFX Salary

Hi i live in London. What is the salary for a VFX Production Coordinator or a VFX supervisor for a tv show.

Started by sachin211‎, December 12th, 2010 11:03 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 2,986
February 29th, 2012, 05:55 AM Go to last post
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Alienware...

Hi guys, I been looking around for a new fast and powerful laptop for comping in nuke, 2d/3d tracking, roto, a little maya, the usual stuff... my choice would of been for a macbookPro but somebody told me to have a look at Alienware. now I know Alienware is basically aimed at online gamers, but...

Started by oldblindbob‎, February 21st, 2012 05:09 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 933
February 27th, 2012, 06:34 PM Go to last post

MOCHA / MOCHA PRO / MOCHA AE TRAINING

1 Day Course Date: Saturday 10 March 2012 Times: 10.30am to 4.30pm Price: £100.00 Mocha is a popular tracking and rotosoping software, which ships with After Effects CS4, CS5 and CS5.5. Based on an innovative 2.5 D planar tracking system, Mocha helps visual effects artists solve complex...

Started by SPACE‎, February 27th, 2012 08:22 AM
2.5d planar tracking, camera tracking, matte painting, mocha, rotoscoping
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Views: 624
February 27th, 2012, 08:22 AM Go to last post

A Fringe Inspired Logo Test

Hi, I tried last few days my hands on learning Pflow scripting and was wondering how to create something which can give me a better understanding of what's going on inside the software itself. I decided to work on the title footage of my favourite TV show -Fringe-. However, while finishing the...

Started by semiprowolverine‎, February 21st, 2012 08:57 AM
3ds max 2012, fracturing, fumefx, nuke, particle flow
Replies: 0
Views: 475
February 21st, 2012, 08:57 AM Go to last post

Boujou to Maya error !

Hey guys ! I render a movie in After effects as a JPEG sequence. 29,97 frames, 1280x720. I put it into boujou and did the tracking thing.Then i opened the scene in maya but the following error occurred : Error: Unable to load the image file . Help pls

Started by VictorTHEMIGHTY‎, February 16th, 2012 10:36 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 770
February 20th, 2012, 09:05 PM Go to last post

Living and working in US

hey guys, Thank you for taking the time to read this. So I'll keep this short. I'm looking for any opinions of living and working in US as an VFX artist so things like, life,food, rent stuff like that any good advice will be much appreciated

Started by xseson23‎, February 17th, 2012 01:38 AM
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February 18th, 2012, 04:16 PM Go to last post

Denoise

Hi All I'm wondering if anybody has any tips about, how i should denoise a image seq. (i have tried the denoise node. but the detail in the clip get destroyed when i get ride of the noise) so i hope some one out there have a solution to my problem Thank you in advance

Started by aezz‎, February 16th, 2012 07:23 AM
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Views: 1,098
February 17th, 2012, 07:33 PM Go to last post

Wire pass with Fusion

Hello everyone. Can someone explain how to use the Wire pass from Vray in Fusion ? What's the difference between ObjectID render pass and Wire render pass ? I can see that ObjectID pass has NO antialias while the Wire is premultiplied and contains also motion blur info. Do i have to use...

Started by Devhill‎, February 9th, 2012 02:54 AM
fusion, object id, wire
Replies: 5
Views: 1,985
February 11th, 2012, 03:50 PM Go to last post
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2 Plumbers 1 Raft, a Super Epic Action Mario Adventure Fail (Short)

I made this not to long ago, and i think its pretty good for my second time using Flash CS4 :3 I love how the ending came out.

Started by luignm‎, February 7th, 2012 10:19 PM
funny mario flash
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February 7th, 2012, 10:19 PM Go to last post

VFX role explanation

Hi everyonw again. Can someone explain the exact definition of the VFX ROLES in a big studio ? I see that very large studios has variours role people like TD, TD Lighting, 3D TD, 3D technical and so on.. I know that all these roles can be grouped basically in 3 big categories: Pre-production,...

Started by Devhill‎, January 24th, 2012 02:43 AM
roles, vfx
Replies: 7
Views: 1,471
February 4th, 2012, 03:08 AM Go to last post
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Maya problem

Hello friends, I am wanting to a disintegrate a poster into cubes. If i simply create particles & instance them on a plane &then make them fall like rain it works beautifully but what exactly I want is that the particles look like the poster when they shatter into cubes. I can get a average look...

Started by ashita‎, February 2nd, 2012 03:40 PM
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Views: 537
February 2nd, 2012, 03:40 PM Go to last post

Complex roto

Hi all, omene has a good explanationor technique to create a good roto matte froma a plate whit: girl with brown hair dark (almost black with blue noise) background I already rotoed the internal solhouette of the girl and mixed the matte with the lumakey. But luma is not enought to isolate...

Started by Devhill‎, February 1st, 2012 04:27 AM
fusion, keying, luma, matte, rotoscoping
Replies: 4
Views: 785
February 2nd, 2012, 07:49 AM Go to last post

High-end complex compositing scene ?

Hello again. I don't know if this is the right place for this question.. What a usual "complex high-level" compositing scene involve ? How many different tasks at the same time and in the same scene there are ? Let's say.. (for example) is it possible to have a scene like this ?

Started by Devhill‎, January 21st, 2012 11:45 AM
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Views: 1,357
January 31st, 2012, 01:53 PM Go to last post

Where to go from here

Hi All, I have posted here many a times, but I need some advice on direction. I would say I have a pretty good beginners grasp on the basics of VFX. I know how to pull a key, rotoscope, matchmove, track in 2D and 3D, and basic compositing. Mind you all very rudimentary stuff, but I don't...

Started by mttjss‎, January 26th, 2012 08:21 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 764
January 28th, 2012, 02:22 AM Go to last post

Keying on CG

Hi again. I saw on a video (i don't remember where exactly) that some people applied a keying/chroma on a CG sequence!! Why create a 3D CG render sequence with a "virtual" greenscreen behind if there is an alpha way ?? Maybe was a wrong 3D sequence or there is a specific taks ? bye

Started by Devhill‎, January 25th, 2012 04:06 AM
chroma, fusion, greenscreen, keying
Replies: 4
Views: 660
January 25th, 2012, 12:26 PM Go to last post

Vector pass for Fusion

Hi all I want to use the Vector motion blur in fusion to control the motion blur. But i see that vray can not export vector ! I received vectors only from mental ray a long time ago. Is there a way to obtain a Vector pass for Fusion from vray ? Is there a way to create a Vector pass...

Started by Devhill‎, January 25th, 2012 04:03 AM
fusion, optical flow, vector, vector pass, vray
Replies: 2
Views: 804
January 25th, 2012, 08:32 AM Go to last post

How likely is it to get freelance jobs?

I should have had asked this earlier... How big are the chanes to successfully build up a second income with compositing?

Started by my_visualfx‎, January 16th, 2012 01:22 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 529
January 25th, 2012, 03:03 AM Go to last post

Using Color Matrix and Custom Filter in Fusion

Hi guys!! I have already read the definitions on vfxpedia about Color matrix and Custom Filter in Fusion http://www.vfxpedia.com/index.php?title=Eyeon:Manual/Fusion_6/Custom_Filter http://www.vfxpedia.com/index.php?title=Eyeon:Manual/Fusion_6/Color_Matrix But... Can some explain with an...

Started by Devhill‎, January 23rd, 2012 03:00 PM
color matrix, custom filter, fusion
Replies: 2
Views: 777
January 25th, 2012, 02:04 AM Go to last post

Fusion bitmap mask or not ?

Hello everyone a simple question just to be sure.. I see that when i have to mask a Loader in Fusion with a matte, i can connect the Matte Loader directly into the Plate Loader. But which is the difference from this Matte Loader -> Plate Loader and this Matte Loader -> bitmap mask ->...

Started by Devhill‎, January 21st, 2012 11:25 AM
bitmap mask, fusion
Replies: 8
Views: 1,346
January 24th, 2012, 02:53 AM Go to last post

SPIDERS!!!!

I want to make a scene with spiders crawling all over the walls and floor How would I go about doing that in 3ds max? All i can find from searches is how to MODEL a spider Bu how would i go about creating hundreds of them?

Started by iggy35‎, January 15th, 2012 06:34 AM
3ds, 3dsmax, max, spider, spiders
Replies: 2
Views: 677
January 19th, 2012, 08:30 PM Go to last post

compositor

What Responsibilities are to be Handled By Compositor ? :)

Started by abhishek‎, January 15th, 2012 07:46 AM
compositor
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January 16th, 2012, 12:38 PM Go to last post

What Are The Most Prominent Feature in OpenEXR......

What Are The Most Prominent Feature in OpenEXR...... and how could be leveraged it Mostly.......

Started by abhishek‎, January 15th, 2012 08:01 AM
openexr
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Views: 428
January 16th, 2012, 05:47 AM Go to last post

city top - camera pan shot

http://vimeo.com/9076775 this example has a shot breakdown from 06 to 30 secs. any one knows any resources or tutorial. if not i would appreciate some tips on how to go about it to achieve such a shot in nuke. PS: i am planning to have CG buildings in the first plane (closest to camera). ...

Started by manodzit‎, January 14th, 2012 07:15 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 417
January 14th, 2012, 07:15 PM Go to last post

Conceptual material to start in VFX

Hey guys I'm starting in houdini a few weeks, but i dont have any fx background, currently I work with render and modeling in 3d. But I want to start VFX, and i dont know where I acquire conceptual material in regards to VFX. Do you recommend some material, book, article, sites, course...

Started by wandersonp‎, November 20th, 2011 07:52 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 698
January 14th, 2012, 01:22 PM Go to last post

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