Bad Visual Effects Business Practices →

Scott Squires:

Some of the key problems include compressed post-production schedules that require overtime from the start just to complete the work on time, never ending changes from clients until the film is in theaters, film incentives shifting where and why work is awarded and increased competition from more visual effects companies.

There are a lot of problems with the visual effects industry. I would also argue that the Whole motion picture industry is in a bad spot right now. Even production crew memebers are having to travel. It used to be that you would only go to exotic locations for a few weeks if you were lucky. The rest of the time was spent on a stage in Burbank.

Free work and money is a hard thing to give up. Look at the recent R&H news. While most of it is talk and from what I hear the artist are taking it that way [just talk]. It doesn't bode well to be in debt to 3 studios.

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.

 

10

The pro theory.

10,000 hours.

10,000 at bats, passes or pitches. I currently have 2500 with Nuke.

I wonder how many I had with Shake. Maybe I should lighten up.

Being a master of your tools takes time.

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.