Nuke 7.0v2 Roto node's FRUSTRATING BUGS ! ! ! →

Philippe Roberge:

  • Sometimes, after your roto is all done, some points decide to go to the 0,0 position
  • When you do a "ctrl-z", the "undo" is applied BUT random keyframes are adde throughout the shot.
  • NOW THE MOST FRUSTRATING I was all done, everything was working, I saved, sent it to render farm and left. When I came back this morning and loaded the same script, several shapes were out of place and/or had different keyframes!!! Now, I have to completely redo these shapes!

We are having the same bugs with the Roto Node. When I sent these bugs to support the responded it was a corrupted Nuke script, and mot bugs.

Really Now!

Visual effects society winners of 11th annual ves awards →

by Jeff Heusser:

The 11th Annual VES Awards, recognizing outstanding visual effects artistry in 24 categories of film, animation, television, commercials and video games were held tonight at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Nominees were selected Saturday, January 5 by VES members at SPY/ a FotoKem Company in the Bay Area and at FotoKem in Burbank in California; and at Blue Sky Studios in New York, Weta Digital in New Zealand, Fuel VFX in Sydney, Molinare in the UK and Image Engine in Vancouver. The host for the evening was Mark DeCarlo.

Congratulations to all.

Computer Graphics World - The VES Defined →

By: Karen Moltenbrey:

The Visual Effects Society is the entertainment industry’s only organization representing the full breadth of visual effects practitioners, including artists, technologists, model makers, educators, studio leaders, supervisors, PR/marketing specialists, and producers working in all areas of entertainment—from film, television, and commercials to music videos and games.

 

The inside story behind Disney’s Paperman →

By Ian Failes:

Motion fields – motion fields are created on the CG animation from which the final lines will be advected. These are rendered per-frame per-element with the result being each pixel in the image having a 2D offset. The effect of this is to describe where that point on the CG model will be in the next or previous frame.

 

A new wave of brilliant invisible effects →

By Ian Failes:
The signature Jay Moriarity wipeout was achieved with a combination of real photography and a CG body and board replacement. It began with a real wave plate (later scaled up) that happened to have a master shot and a number of extra camera angles shot by second unit.

 

Some of the hardest compositing you will every do.

the vfx show #162: 2013 Oscar Preview Show →

fxguide.com:

Mike Seymour, Todd Vaziri and Matt Wallin discuss the five Academy Award nominated films in the VFX category and Todd Vaziri’s VFX Predictinator!

 

Don't think the Oscars are't important. They are.