Nvizible to Provide VFX for Our Robot Overlords →

By Jennifer Wolfe:

The Nvizible VFX team, supervised by Paddy Eason and with Gill James producing, is currently on location in Isle of Man. The work includes fully CG animated robots, flying vehicles, a spitfire plane, environments and explosions.

 

Another small shop doing big things. If you can, find a small place to start working at. Put in sometime there. The smaller places just might be the future.

SIGGRAPH 2013 Dailies →

Ian Failes: 

If you enjoy the Technical Papers Fast Forward at SIGGRAPH – that session where presenters must race through their paper in an effort to convince conference-goers to check out the full presentation – then there’s a good chance you’ll also love SIGGRAPH Dailies.

 

These are always fun.

Regrain blend on semi-transparent areas →

Magno Borgo: 

Removal area/clean plate, regrained to match the background plate. It has an alpha channel, blurred to smooth transition. But when its composited Over the original plate (heavy grain), on the semi-transparent alpha region the grain is faint because of the blending.

 

This is a question that I have had asked to me many times. It's a very tricky question. I have heard lots of different ideas on how to solve the problem. Seeing that this question came from a nuke trainer, this is a problem for a lot of artist. Have a read.

The Foundry's Siggraph Schedule →

The Foundry: 

Please see below for a full schedule of presentations taking place at our Siggraph booth, number 103 in the Exhibition Hall.

 

Anyone going to Siggraph?

Nukepedia is Back →

I'd like to welcome back Nukepedia to the web. It's one of those services that you have no idea how much you use it til it's not there.

If you have a an idea or need some base ideas, what a resource.

Thanks Frank.

Supermoon 2013 →

Leanne Burden:

It occurs about once every 14 months and is technically called a perigee full moon. At 221,823 miles from Earth, the supermoon was a feast for the eyes.

 

OK, only this one more.