vfxjunkies – feeds – Truth about resolution and pixels –

This is a recent thought bubble from one of vfxjunkies on the RED 4K on color sampling and comparsion.

Last week our team had a presentation on RED workflow from good people at Icerber Design here in Singapore. The key issues we discussed at the end were 4:2:2 color sampling and advantage of 10 bit log space of Red workflow. While advantage of 10 bit log space is almost similar to a film workflow but the compromise we would make would be on the quality of the image. READ MORE

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Filed under: TECHNOLOGY, 4K, CREATIVE COW INTERVIEW, IMAGE SAMPLING, John Galt, RAHUL VENUGOPAL, RED 4K, VFXJUNKIES FEED

Interview: Terminator Salvation VFX supervisor Charlie Gibson – FRM DEN OF GEEK!

INTERVIEW OF CHARLIE GIBSON – VFX SUPERVISOR OF TERMINATOR SALVATION. CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE!!

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VFX supervision | rethinkfx – insight tips on Vfx Supervision

Interesting tips on vfx supervision by Ben Cowell.

This is an attempt to explain the live action shooting process for VFX supervisors. Many people trained in 3D and Compositing have never stepped foot onto a tv or film set and it can be quite unnerving. Whilst there’s nothing like experience I hope this guide can help smooth out some of the jargon and complexities.CLIK HERE TO READ MORE ON THE ARTICLE …

Filed under: MINDS BEHIND VFX, VFX, BEN COWELL, GROUND WORKS ON VFX SUPERVISON, SHOOTIN FOR VFX, VFX CO ORDINATION, VFX PIPELINE, VFX SUPERVISION TIPS

TERMINATOR VISUAL EFFECTS – TALKING IMAGES OF THE FILM VFX.

CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO VIEW THROUGH THE GALLERY OF VFX WORKS OF TERMINATOR SALVATION. OR CLICK HERE

Filed under: VFX, CHRISTIAN SLATER, ILM, JAMES CAMERON, TERMINATOR SALVATION, VFX OF TERMINATOR SALVATION

MAKING OF Rorschach’s Mask in Watchmen – VIDEO JOURNAL

 

WATCHMEN RORSCHACH

INTERESTING FACE OF THE VILLAN IN THE COMIC IN REALISTIC WAY BY ZACK SYNDER OF 300 FAME.

 

CLICK HERE FOR FULL REVIEW

VIDEO JOURNAL 1:

zack synder interview :

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CG USERS survey 2009 – vfx Junkies links

 

This one comes through one of the vfx junkies in our team. Am more delighted how blender is growing with its updates and useablitiy. Houdini is still holding the artistry with its effects side. Read more about the user community survery from the direct link here.

Filed under: APPLICATION, VFX, 3d application users survey, 3dsmax, blende, cg community user survery 2009, cg users survey, cgenie, cinema4d, houdini, lightwave, maya, modo, softimage, vfx application users survery

Professional 2K image sequence playback – Internet diggs

Interesting information diggs on the 2k image sequence playback have thrown lots of light into the technology available in the current scenerio. The requirements any VFX studio would be to playback the 2k Full high res image cacheing and playback in real time through network streaming or direct streaming from local hard disk. Basic studio requirements would be 

1.speed in streaming and reading high res 2k image sequence.

2.with support for playback of high density image formats 

3.Support Multiple image formats cin,dpx,hdr,tiff,tga,iff,sgi,rgb,jpg…

4.Multiple OS support- windows,linux,Mac OSX

5.exposure and image colour corrections tweaks.

6.image reference notes to be drawn on the frame for review sharing.

7.internet support.

 

all these have narrowed down to few poppular technology findinds in vfx domain. They are 

1.DJV imaging – free player available and  the best open source

2.pdplayer – from chaos group – will be the most versatile player.

3. Tweak software RV – Review – very technical gadget to play with

4. IRIDAS Frame Cycler – popular 2k sequence playback available

5.  jahshaka player

if you guys have anything to add up to this list. kindly send in your comments.

Filed under: APPLICATION, VFX, 2K IMAGE SEQUENCE PLAYBACK, CHAOS GROUP, DJV IMAGING, FRAMECYCLER, FREE 2K PLAYBACK SOFTWARE, IRIDAS, JAHSHAKA, PDPLAYER, TWEAK rv PLAYER, VFX JUNKIE

Irradiance Environment Maps by Ravi Ramamoorthi/Pat Hanrahan

Googling for research papers on Technology behind VFX, gave this usefull links. This is first part of my technology explorations and Future.

 

Lighting in most real scenes is complex, coming from a variety of sources including area lights and large continuous lighting distributions like skylight. But current graphics hardware only supports point or directional light sources. One reason is the lack of simple procedural formulas for general lighting distributions. Instead, an integration over the upper hemisphere must be done for each pixel.

We present such a simple formula for diffuse objects, i.e. for the irradiance. The key to our approach is the rapid computation of an analytic approximation to the irradiance environment map. For rendering, we demonstrate a simple procedural algorithm that runs at interactive frame rates, and is amenable to hardware implementation. No texture-mapping is required for the irradiance with our approach.

Read more on this research papper. more From Ravi Ramamoorthi

Filed under: MINDS BEHIND VFX, TECHNOLOGY, VFX, vfx demo reel, BERKLEY UNIVERSITY, COMPUTER GRAPHICS LABORATORY, HDRI, IMAGE BASED LIGHTING, IRRADIANCE MAPS, PAT HANRAHAN, RAVI RAMAMOORTHI, VFX JUNKIE, VFX TECHNOLOGY

VES Awards nominees announced

Road Side Romeo on VES Nomination

Visual Effects Society announced the nominees for the 7th Annual VES Awards. the awards recognize outstanding visual effects in film, animation, television, commercials and video games. Nominated features include Bolt, Kung Fu Panda, Waltz With Bashir,Roadside Romeo, Wall-E, Iron Man (with five nominations), The Dark Knight, and Cloverfield. Commercials for Coke, Audi and Wrigley’s 5 are also on the list, as are several television shows and student works.

The awards ceremony will take place on February 21st in Los Angeles.

 

 

 

 

 

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John Dykstra on his favorite scene – the opening shot in ‘Star Wars’

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Two-time Oscar winner John Dykstra is considered one of the true forefathers of visual effects. His credits include “Star Trek: The Motion Picture,” “Batman Forever” and “Hancock” and was a producer at the launch of the original “Battlestar Galactica” television franchise. He won his first Oscar for the original “Star Wars,” for which he was special photographic-effects supervisor, and his second for “Spider-Man 2” and is now immersed in the challenges presented by period combat as the visual effects designer on the Quentin Tarantino film “Inglourious Basterds.” He was on the set in Berlin when he spoke to Bradner by phone.

This is the third installment in our series “Wizards of Hollywood,” where we shine a spotlight on the masters of movie magic, the effects specialists who can dazzle us with screen images of liquid robots, giants and goblins, ferocious dinosaurs or just a special human soul who ages in reverse. Today, guest contributor Liesl Bradner interviews John Dykstra.

LINK FROM LA TIMES BLOG – Read full interview here!!

Filed under: MINDS BEHIND VFX, VFX, JOHN DYKSTRA, START WARS, VFX JUNKIE, VFX PIONEERS