the first papers for the siggraph 2013 are appearing online.
this one from disney loooks promising, the result in the video is probably then any implemented version later on…but hey, its a demo and they are trying to sell the product..and that works.
cant wait to use this technique
I haven’t watched the movie or worked on it or something like that.
but i just saw this reel from Chris Godfrey on Vimeo…and..its just awesome :)
seams like a lot of good papers at the next Siggraph, especially the Hair-Stuff looks impressiv..
001 Photoshop Blend Modes Explained
002 The Great Compositions Of Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt
003 Making of “Nick IDs” by Plenty
006 Financial Steps to Lauching a Photo Career
007 “Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag” Making of (Digic again)
008 “Life o Pi” Making of Site
009 The Science of Spherical Harmonics at Weta Digital
010 Accurate Displacement Workflow
the next freebie took longer then planned. i am currently a little bit busy with the planning of a music video i am going to shot with some friends in 2 weeks.
i am going to write some more about it, inclusive a detailed making of, when the project is done.
for now you can download my Vfx Data sheet. I am using it on set to write down all necessary data for VFX Shots and keep track of the assets, like hdris, i created on set.
i Hope that it will be useful for you and i am open for any suggestions and feedback.
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"These days every teenager should know how propagation works. But for those who are still clueless we tell the story of birds and bees in a totally different way. Large airplanes turn the laws of physics upside down by acting like small insects, making out heavily with a group of big winged windmills. As the sun sets the technical orgy climaxes in a cloud of metal seeds flying into the sunset. The footage was shot on a red epic and stuffed with state of the art CG VFX to achieve the stylized retro realism."
I worked on this project as a freelancer and was responsible for the whole 3d pipline and the on-set vfx supervision. It was a really short and challenging project, around 2 weeks for postproduction, but was a good experience and the work with Jochen Weidner was a pleasure (as usual). He did all the 2d work.here we go with the first free download. a script for Maya and Vray to controll the Reflection Samples.
a lot of people know this problem, the deadline is near, the renderings are slow and the 2d-people are using the whole farm (because they are more important). so first step, reduce the rendertime. and the struggle to keep the balance between noise free and fast is always hard to find with vray. i mean, its odd that increasing some samples can speed up the whole render process. samples like the reflection samples. that’s why i wrote this small script. when i am setting up my materials, i am often just using the default samples and then tweak it for the final scene. so all this small script does is changing the amount of reflectionSamples for multiple vray Materials depending on the glossiness.
you can download it here or visit creative crash for some more information.
will post a small tutorial/ collection of informations about sampling in vray soon. stay alert
most important thing “Hello World!”, i realy start to hate this phrase, but its a tradition (way older then i am) and we have to take care of it.
probably a little bit early for the first post, but it will maybe help myself to post more often. so thats the new site, portfolio, my own small digital realm. and it will take some time till this side is done, most important step is a new reel, but anyway… there will be more content soon.
the plan for the blog:
so in short, a place to share some my knowledge and help some people.. probaly the most important thing in this cruel buisness. thats at least the plan and i will force myself to fulfill it!
daniel
