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.

Saving

Recently the company I work for decided to take the month of July off. Which for me is awesome. It can only be awesome if I am prepared for it.

Being prepared for time off makes it so great. No stress. No worrying about where the next job will come from. The idea of time off is to spend time doing all the things that you don't get to do while working. Some if not all will cost money. Don't go into time off thinking you'll just not spend money. That type of thinking will drive you nuts. Even if you are single. You need money. You need food, gas, you need to have fun. If you have a family the money has to be there. You have no choice. You need money for activities. You need money for school stuff. You always need money for extras. Maybe your child needs speech work or that swim or gym class.

I have to say this was not something I was thinking about when I first started. This is something I learned from the senior artists. This is something I needed to learn. Most have a hard time saving money. But if you don't your time off will be horrible and more stressful than when your working. Figure out what you need to live for a week, then save, save, save.

I hope everyone is having a great summer.

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.