Winners of the Red Bull Illume Photo Contest 2013 →

The Atlantic.com: 

The winners have just been announced in the 3rd edition of the Red Bull Illume Image Quest photo competition. The overall winner, top 10 category winners and top 50 finalists were unveiled at a ceremony in Hong Kong earlier today.

 

Have a great Laybor Day.

Atmosphere →

The Rim Fire while tragic makes for a very good lesson in atmosphere. You don't need a depth channel to do it either. Try a simple grade.

Roto handle in nuke 7 →

Sam Smith: 

This is probably because the default 2D handle pick size increased from 10 to 20 in 7.0v1

 

Moving Footage of Saturn Created Using Thousands of High-Res Photos →

Eric Calouro: 

Vimeo user Fabio di Donato has uploaded a video titled “Around Saturn,” which features more than 200,000 images snapped by Cassini from 2004 to 2012. These RAW images were converted to PNG and set to a Waltz.

 

The most amazing thing about this video is the scale. Remember, space is huge, and so are the objects moving thru it.

VFX House Pixomondo Freelancers Angry Over Late Payments →

thewrap.com:

In some cases, workers have ended their contracts early.

 

That is the right thing to do.

I'll bet Pixomondo is next. They took a round of cash not so long ago. The writing is showing up on the wall right about now. The CEO can say whatever he likes but bad management and bad practices are always going to turn out this way.

I hope I am wrong. Pixomodo does really good work, they just have trouble managing it.