Effects and stunts

Blue Screen 1980

MikeLinn — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 17:15:13 +0000

Anatomy of A Scene: The Battle of Winterfell

MikeLinn — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 20:14:01 +0000

Virtual real car

MikeLinn — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 12:33:54 +0000

New Green screen technique research

Ralph_B — Thu, 26 May 2016 16:50:53 +0000

Here's a research paper on a new and superior greenscreen process.

http://people.inf.ethz.ch/~aksoyy/papers/TOG16-keying.pdf

Can't wait for this to become available commercially.

Drone Star Wars

MikeLinn — Thu, 26 May 2016 10:15:43 +0000

BlackMagic Fusion 8 available and is free, good VFX option

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 04:46:43 +0000

Software that they got from Eyeon.

Fusion is the world’s most advanced compositing software for visual effects artists, broadcast and motion graphic designers and 3D animators. With over 25 years of development, Fusion has been used on over 1000 major Hollywood blockbuster feature films! Fusion features an easy and powerful node based interface so you can construct complex effects simply by connecting various types of processing together. That’s super easy and extremely fast! You get a massive range of features and effects included, so you can create exciting broadcast graphics, television commercials, dramatic title sequences and even major feature film visual effects!

Thousands of Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters and hit television shows use Fusion to create their groundbreaking visual effects. Fusion has been used on feature films like Thor, The Amazing Spiderman 2, and The Hunger Games, as well as hit television shows like Orphan Black, Breaking Bad, Grimm, Adventure Time, Downton Abbey and the Emmy award winning Battlestar Galactica

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/fusion

Deadpool Visual Effects Breakdown

MikeLinn — Fri, 25 Mar 2016 19:56:40 +0000

Last day of war

MikeLinn — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 15:16:43 +0000

Ex Machina VFX

MikeLinn — Wed, 13 Jan 2016 12:16:25 +0000

The CGI and VFX thread!

bwhitz — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 03:35:45 +0000

Anybody here do any work in Maya or C4d? Has anyone used GH2 footage for composting yet?

Here's a concept I'm putting together for a CG intensive short I'm doing... anyone want to share experiences with this stuff? Anyone used Nuke for composting and VFX?

Any GH2 aerial footage I could "barrow"? ;)

Anyone else have any work they'd like to share?

The evolution of Game of Thrones effects

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 22:39:50 +0000

Game of Thrones Hardhome VFX Breakdown

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 10:26:36 +0000

Drone, again

MikeLinn — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 20:07:55 +0000

Euphoria Module

MikeLinn — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 06:59:15 +0000

NUKE Non-commercial

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Sat, 18 Apr 2015 18:40:45 +0000

http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/products/nuke/non-commercial/

What brand chroma green screen do you use?

f1lm3r — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:39:01 +0000

Just a curious question. There seems to be quite a handful to choose from. I'm looking to do a green screen shoot in the near future for a short film and was looking at picking one up. I know one of the big things to look for is non-reflective and wrinkle-resistant. Westcott seems to be popular brand. But could I just get any old green screen and it'll work?

Intros Tutorials: animating titles, stills, 3d, etc.

maxr — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 09:32:52 +0000

I find this technique for AE and photoshop really nice

another great AE tuto from Mikey Borup

I couldn't make it work (export the vanishing point for AE part) with a tif image, any other but tif

a quick & dirty test for fun

Slow motion from 2.5k Jpeg brust

Adam_Mercier — Fri, 28 Mar 2014 06:08:55 +0000

I tested doing a video from a jpeg photo brust at 40fps and using time warp in premiere CC to slow it some more. Did some of you research this? Take a look at the first shot of this test I did, what do you think? This was a quick and dirty test but the results are rather interesting!

Special software for stitching together bullet time photos?

kraqman — Sun, 25 Jan 2015 23:43:49 +0000

Nikon had a 360 degree "bullet time" camera array at CES to create the resulting videos such as this

Are there any software on the market that can stitch the pictures from the camera array into the resulting "bullet time" video? Or they are all in-house software?

There is a painstaking way of doing this in NLEs. I was wondering if there are more time saving software out there.

Thanks in advance!

NFL Any Given Surface VFX Breakdown

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 08:55:15 +0000

Any tips for reducing lens fisheye in Premiere CS6?

ikoniq — Sat, 04 Oct 2014 02:50:45 +0000

Working in Mac Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 and I'm hoping for advice for how to reduce or eliminate the fisheye effect from GoPro's and ultra wide angle lenses ... anyone care to share?

I'm open to purchasing 3rd party filters, just haven't found any that will work in CS6 specifically (it's the version I have).

Thanks!

Hankook Tires “Braking” Commercial

MikeLinn — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 07:32:49 +0000

Game of Thrones S4 VFX breakdown

MikeLinn — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 20:53:57 +0000

CGI VFX: Main Road/ Post's "Stalingrad"

jleo — Sun, 17 Aug 2014 15:21:54 +0000

If you were at SIGGRAPH 2014, they were always showing a clip of the plane crash in Fedor Bondarchuk's Stalingrad at the Houdini booth. Here is the complete VFX reel.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1966566/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalingrad_(2013_film)

( Wikipedia links don't work, you can cut and paste URL)

CGI VFX Breakdown Showreel HD: "Stalingrad VFX Showreel 2013" by - Main Road/Post

http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2692&Itemid=68

FAST and FURIOUS made in China. 9 minutes Making Of

eurocameraman — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 07:10:40 +0000

STREET OF FURY: I directed, edited and partly shot this 9 minutes Making Of video, a documentary related to a unique and huge project shot in China, near Shanghai, during 4 months. An international team of 300 people was build up around Gary Hymes, the stunt director of famous movie series "Fast and Furious" for shooting a 3D feature film filled up with car and motorcycle chases and crashes.

All team was fantastic and very helpful on the Making Of, with a special thanks to Gary Hymes who is both a great director, a great technician and a very humble person.

This is the first time in China, a project of that kind is produced at such scale. Interesting thing is that all those effort were made for a theme park, not for a theater release.

On a technical point, shots for the making if were done by 3 cameramen (including myself) working with Sony EX1, Canon 5D2, Panasonic AF100 and GH3. We collected more than 20 hours of footage and I had a hard time to choose among all the great stuff we had. Finally, I succeed to compress the best of it into a 9 minutes exciting piece (edited in Premiere CS6). Enjoy!

3D Object Manipulation in a Single Photograph using Stock 3D Models

karl — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 17:00:14 +0000

Looks like an interesting new option for some low-effort VFX:

Breaking fish tank...

RRRR — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 02:40:41 +0000

For all you VFX and stunt guys out there. I need to shoot a breaking fish tank in an upcoming short. It's unlikely we can do it for real on location because of the potential water damage, though it might be possible with some sort of "pool" arrangement. (containing the water from the crash) I've been thinking about doing a green screen composite but I think it may be difficult to make it look natural with the transparency of the water, background wall and everything + we need to shoot some water pouring/splashing out on floor level (w. fish rattling) which will add to the difficulty. The whole sequence is a radio hitting (thrown at) the fish tank, breaking it, water pouring out and fish rattling on the floor (c/u). I'm thinking locked down shots to make things slightly easier.

How would you guys solve this?

Blur Studio Animation/FX Reel

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Sun, 08 Jun 2014 04:48:32 +0000

Pixar Renderman Free Version Coming

matt_gh2 — Sat, 31 May 2014 08:35:48 +0000

http://renderman.pixar.com/view/non-commercial

FAQ - http://renderman.pixar.com/view/DP25849

Pixar will be offering a fully featured free version of Renderman software in August. It's for non-commercial work, but no watermarks or anything. Register to be notified when available here:

http://renderman.pixar.com/view/registration

They also dropped commercial version price to $495

Evolution of visual effects

MikeLinn — Thu, 15 May 2014 06:50:34 +0000