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So I just used my tax return to customize my own brand new workstation, which is totally awesome. The hard part was migrating everything over from my old one.

I installed all my software and it...

My company is trying to create a 3D version of our laptop, the texture of which is a sort of brushed metal texture.

We used the MIA_passes_x feature in the hypershade menu (using Maya 2012), and...

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I went a lot further and put a lot more work into the DataCorp sign. I think it looks way better now than before, but I'm still open to any critiques anyone has to offer. I also added...

I'm not out of the photoshop phase of this project yet. There's still a lot of extra work to do, let alone the cleanup work that I'll do afterwards. My biggest concern is the DataCorp sign, which is...

This looks great.

I agree with most of the comments in regards to the grading, but the light source appears to be accurate. I think it just needs to have that final polish added to really make it...

Cool guys, thanks for the advice. Yeah, I've done a couple terms of fxphd (beginner, then intermediate nuke). Great program.

The tutorials look good, I'll see about buying them. I'm currently at...

Hey everyone,

I was hired as a matchmove artist for an upcoming indie war movie. I completed all the matchmoves and handed them in. The director needed more hands on deck for compositing to meet...

Thanks for the advice guys. I might be able to post a couple of frames or some really low rez renders.

I tried out Boujou for one of them and it seemed to work ok. Basically, this was shot on a...

I'm using PFTrack to pull matchmoves on 20 different fx shots for an upcoming indie war movie. More than half of them tracked fine, some requiring tweaking and trickery (crunching the contrast, etc)....

Gentle Fury, I am hereby nicknaming you Sir Lancelot for your impecable jousting prowess. You sure knocked me off my "high horse". Good show, my good man, good show indeed.

That said, I'm not...

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...

Not sure. I'm not particularly fond of the primate for complicated keys. The strength of the primatte is that it's really good at preserving the integrity of the RGB, but I don't like how it keys...

[QUOTE=Andreas.Jablonka;152043]id say that after effects newest primatte is the same as nuke. sure nuke has the IBK and other things but its still too black and white saying whats more...

That's motion graphics. The final comp is no small thing. They took all of the elements they had and tied them all together in Nuke, which made for an enormous node tree. I don't deny that AE is a...

Nuke is better for compositing because all the tools are more powerful. It's got a more powerful tracker, more powerful keyer, and a more powerful color-grading system. But the most important aspect...

Thanks for the comments, adalast.

I've been thinking of the best way to respond to your comment without sounding like I'm getting defensive, because I respectfully disagree with your sentiment....

I love this reel. Some people may tell you to spruce it up with some finished comps, but I think it's perfect how it is. You're not trying to use smoke and mirrors by throwing Optimus Prime into the...

I'm somewhat of a newbie (only a couple years experience). I have a nack for chroma-key so I try to own that. This is a basic vfx reel but does show off some of my chroma-key work. It's pretty short...

I'm a VFX artist who is looking to get more Chroma-Key (greenscreen) work. My software of choice is The Foundry's Nuke6, but I also use Adobe After Effects for touchups and final tweaks.

If you'd...

Well, I agree that it's a poor solution for large projects, but if all somebody is looking for is some basic footage to practice with, gotta work with what's available. Example: Using a DSLR to shoot...

Make your own stereo footage by doing a cheap conversion Clash of the Titans style and doing a stereo composite in Nuke. Write out the left and right channels and import them into your tracker of...

Two Big Questions:

1.) What trackers are capable of object tracking in Stereo 3D? I know PFTrack is, but I don't think Boujou and Matchmover are. The biggest key is to track an object in Stereo...

Yannick hit the nail on the head. It literally comes down to time and quantity of reels. The people that review reels aren't paid to do that, they're usually paid to head up the department they're...

Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for!

My advice is to keep it under a minute and a half if possible. I only say that because if it's longer than 30-45 seconds, most professionals aren't going to know because that's usually when they stop...