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 Spin VFX Brings A Legion
of Angels To Earth
Eric Doiron, the Compositing
Supervisor at SPIN VFX, along with a crew of
nearly 50 artists, worked on Legion for 24
weeks.
The team's primary task on Legion
was adding CG wings to Kevin Durand's character,
Gabriel, and later to Michael, played by Paul
Bettany. Several shots required full digital
doubles for both actors. In one shot, composited
by Jeff Campbell, VFX Supervisor at
SPIN, they created a full CG double for
'Gladys' (Jeanette Miller) who climbs up a wall
and across the ceiling of an all CG
environment. The Spin VFX team was also
called upon for several matte paintings and set
extensions. Read more about their work here. 
Visit the offical Legion website
here.
Visit the Spin VFX webiste
here.
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 Switch
VFX On The SAW Series
Recently we spoke with Gudrun
Heinze about Switch VFX's work on the SAW film
series. This is what she had to
say...
"We've worked on SAW III, SAW
IV, SAW V and SAW VI.
On Saw VI we did about
190 shots
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In the first arm
removal shot, we had to clean up the background to
remove her blue screened arm. We created a
clean plate with the Paint Tool, tracked it and
rotoed her and the foreground table back on top
minus the blue screened arm. The Rotoscoping tools
are great in V5 & 6 of Fusion. They're
intuitive to use and flexible, especially with the
outer polyline option for sections of your roto
that need a softer edge. "
Read more about the
frightening work here.
Visit
the SAW VI official site here.
Visit
the Switch VFX website here.
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 Prime Focus Presents
Avatar - Before and After
"Fusion was the compositing application
on all Avatar shots." ~ Chris Bond, President
& Senior VFX Supervisor, Film VFX, North
America, Prime Focus
Some of the before and after shots of the
amazing VFX, by the artists of Prime
Focus, are available here.
Visit the Prime Focus website here. |
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 Feature-quality VFX for
Episodic TV Using Fusion
Encore
Hollywood has been widely acknowledged as
the gold standard for television postproduction
for decades. What isn't as well known is that for
the last eight years, Encore has also provided
full-service visual effects for the film and
television industries.
In addition to touch-ups, CGI is
also widely used to create imagery integrated into
a particular shot. The title character in My Name
is Earl was often attacked with baseballs or
arrows that we would build and composite using a
combination of Autodesk 3D Max and Fusion. Read more
about Encore Hollywood here.
Visit the Encore
Hollywood website here.
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 The Monster of Nix in
Production with Fusion and Generation
eyeon
is supporting Studio Rosto A.D., with their newest
production, The Monster of Nix, an animated
short film for children and families.
The film is directed by Dutch film maker
and artist, Rosto, who has produced a number of
remarkable projects and award-winning
films. The Monster of Nix is an
international co-production between
The Netherlands, France, and
Belgium.
Visit Studio Rosto A.D. website
here.
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 Introducing Excerpts From
Beta Blog
Now
from us to you, interesting info from eyeon
artists and developers relating to Fusion and
Generation.
The
first extract for 2010.
First thing is to understand what
VariBlur does. It doesn't take each source pixel
and spread it out into the result. Instead, for
each output pixel it gathers from the source. That
means if the BlurImage has a 0 value next to a
non-0 value, the result will have a non-blurred
pixel next to a blurred one - ie. a hard
transition.
So
for example, given the BlurImage you are using
(with the MatteBol disabled), pixels of the
BlurImage within the blue ball indicate no blur,
pixels within the red ball indicate some blur, and
all other pixels indicate lots of blur. So at the
edge of the blue ball, on the outside of the ball
there's lots of blur, and then the next pixel has
no blur, which is why you see its AA'd edge. This
is one reason why VariBlur isn't very good for
DoF/Z blur.
So the BlurImage will need to be a circle
of 'mid' values over and around the blue ball
(spreading out around the ball enough to cover
however much blur you want), and the a circle of
'high' values over and around the red ball (also
spreading out around the ball enough to cover
however much blur you want). Where the 2 circles
of values overlap (if they would), then you're
kinda screwed because you can't indicate both
'mid' values for 'gathering in' of blue ball
pixels and 'high' values for 'gathering in' of red
ball pixels. This is another reason why VariBlur
isn't very good for DoF/Z
blur.
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 Forum Posting of the
Month
This month's post comes from
VFXTalk.com, Digital Compositing and VFX
Forum
Spin VFX, an
award-winning creative boutique specializing in
visual effects, animation and matte painting for
feature film and television is seeking to fill the
following full time contract positions at their
Toronto location:
Intermediate/Senior
Fusion Compositors
Applicants should have a minimum
of 2 years feature film visual effects experience
- Must have solid fundamental skills
including keying, roto, tracking, and paint
- Must be comfortable integrating
photoreal cg into live action plates and/or full
3D environments
- Must have a keen eye for detail,
composition, light and color
- Must be able to take direction and work
well in a fast paced environment
Read the rest of the thread here.
Often, studios will come to the eyeon
Freelancer Listings Page to scout for talent,
please be sure to post your information here. |
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 Reseller
of the Month
Poul Lerche and his team at
Tech2Net are eyeon's Reseller of the Month!
Poul had this to say about his partnership
with eyeon, "It is great to work with eyeon
and sell Fusion. They are very loyal to their
resellers and we have worked together for a long
time. eyeon provides evaluation copies for us, as
resellers, which is very important. Keep up the
good work eyeon!"
Talk
to the team at Tech2Net for more information
on eyeon products. Find out how they can help
you find the eyeon solution to suit your
needs.
Please
visit the Tech2Net website here.
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 Prime Focus Releases
Deadline 4.0
Prime
Focus Software has announced the release of
Deadline 4.0, the company's easy-to-use
administration and rendering toolkit.
"Even during the early stages of the beta
program, it was obvious Deadline 4.0 was going to
be an extremely feature-rich release. The new
slave throttling and network load reduction
features are brilliant at handling larger data
files and keep Deadline highly responsive to users
at all times. The development of Deadline
continues to remain highly inventive with lots of
new functionality whilst remaining stable and
reliable under fire in production." ~
Mike Owen, Senior Technical Director, Burrows
Nvisage, beta tester.
Read more
about the release here.
Please
visit the Prime Focus
Software website here.
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 VFXTalk and eyeon
Partnering for VFX Challenges In
2010
eyeon is sponsoring the VFXTalk challenges
again this year!
The VFXChallenge Series 4 is a sequence of
ten tasks that will invite VFXTalk members to
re-create a moment, a character or title sequence
from a succession of ground breaking, popular or
iconic movies. The challenges provide an
initiative to stretch the skills of digital
artists and encourage an environment for learning;
and they are judged online by the VFXTalk
community itself.
eyeon is including all VFX
Challenge participants in the eyeon SWAT
Membership program. The winner of each challenge
will receive a Fusion SWAT Edition. The grand
prize winner will receive a Fusion/Generation
license.
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 Introducing The New eyeon
SWAT Membership!
Based
on the success of partnering eyeon's SWAT learning
initiatives with artists and facilities, eyeon's
new SWAT Membership program offers SWAT members
the opportunity to learn Fusion in several
different ways:
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Introductory to advanced online training resources
and webinars
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Extensive facility training
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3-day to 6-week courses
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SWAT authorized curriculums, including
universities and colleges
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One-on-one seminars
Members
also have access to great SWAT Edition pricing and
upgrade models. All licenses are identified as
belonging to artists who have actively
participated in authorized SWAT training,
providing additional leverage to artists in the
field when looking for work and to eyeon when
approached for the latest list of
freelancers.
The
collaboration between learning and the ongoing use
of our products has proven to lead to great things
for both the artist and eyeon.
To learn more about the eyeon
SWAT initiative and membership, please
visit the SWAT page here. |
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 eyeon SWAT is on the move
once again and we can get to you remotely!
We
have recently introduced a new feature to our
eyeon SWAT initiative, remote training and
demonstrations.
Contact
Susan, Client Relations Manager, at 416.686.8411
x.270 or SWAT@eyeonline.com, to
book a facility visit or remote
session.
Keep up to date on what's
happening in your area at eyeon's Events page.
more
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 The University of Bolton
Has Become A Member Of The eyeon SWAT
Team!
The University of Bolton is a community of
professionals committed to developing their
students skills for their professional lives.
With a student body of approximately 11,000
you will get the best of all worlds at Bolton. You
will be based on a modern, compact campus where
no-one feels anonymous and, with small teaching
groups on many courses, you can be sure you are a
name, not just a number. Bolton itself is a
friendly, thriving town close to the big cities of
Manchester and Liverpool.
The university's course quality has
consistently won the highest ratings possible from
the Government's quality control agency
and they have professional accreditation for
more than 30 programs.
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