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Enlightening Evening With Digital Domain & the "Real Steel" Team

Enlightening Evening With Digital Domain & the "Real Steel" Team

On Thursday last week, our friends from Digital Domain came by to breakdown their work on "Real Steel". The house was packed to capacity, and the Q&A sessions were lively as Erik Gamache, Geoffrey Baumann, Justin van der Lek and Blake Sweeney explained the process behind animation, environments, crowd duplication and lighting.

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Wed 9 Nov 2011: 6:41am

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October’s Free Tutorial-- Speed Up Your Workflows with Efficient Rendering

October’s Free Tutorial-- Speed Up Your Workflows with Efficient Rendering

Rendering in Maya can pose a challenge for even the most experienced user. In this month’s Free Tutorial, I’ll show you what a 'Command Shell' is and how to use it to simplify rendering, and make your work much, much more efficient. While the whole idea of command line rendering might seem a little “antiquated” or daunting, I promise you, this will be worth your time. Your workflows WILL speed up and you will find that your professional skills are better for the effort.

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Tue 18 Oct 2011: 10:19am

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Escape Welcomes the Chaos

Escape Welcomes the Chaos

Much as we love our new space, we felt it was a bit selfish to keep it all to ourselves, and as we have so many friends in the industry we thought it was time share and spread the love.

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Wed 24 Aug 2011: 10:33am

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3D For Normal People

3D For Normal People

Am I implying with the title of this blog post that experienced users of 3D tools are abnormal? Maybe. What makes them abnormal is they have to regularly deal with professional 3D software, which is extremely complex and difficult to master. "Normal" people don't have to worry about things like, well…normals.

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Thu 14 Jul 2011: 10:43am

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  • Hi Sukrit - what a great idea for a blog post. I will ping our AdBoard members for tips for folks just getting into the VFX industry, specifically compositors, and will post very soon....

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  • Hi Shannan! Apparently it is so - I've found a couple of sites that confirm it (my brain she is also not what she used to be...)

    I found it here:

    http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/academy-narrows-vfx-contenders-to-ten-january-19-bakeoff-will-pick-final-nominees

    and here:

    http://www.studiodaily.com/studiomonthly/news/Academy-Sets-Line-up-for-VFX-Bake-Off_13615.html

    How many "short list" nominations is it for the entire Pirates franchise? Anyone know?.

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    Susan Thurmond O'Neal on VFX Bake-off Short List Announced

January’s Free Tutorial

Exploring the Mechanics of Bird Locomotion Part 2