rage_meteor_demo.mb (87.5 KB, 327 views)
Israel "Izzy" Long
Motion and Title Design for Broadcast-Film-DS
izzylong.com
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28-01-2008
, 01:23 AM
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Location: Australia
hey Rage, very nice, many thanks for the file and the explanation. nice site you sent us to before, especially if one is using fusion as their compositor, nice app, im trying to learn it. i just enrolled in 'advanced CGI and VFX' at one of the institutions here.., my 4 years at uni is over.., and left hanging i went looking for more knowledge.., this time in the CGI world rather than the 'film' world. Fusion is one of the apps we learn. nice co-incidence.
take it easy and life will be easy
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28-01-2008
, 04:20 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Melbourne
hey mirek im also looking for a course like that in australia where are you studying
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28-01-2008
, 12:51 PM
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Location: Australia
Adelaide my friend.., but you are in luck. the other day i was looking at a 3D world mag in the news agent (dont buy them anymore, cant afford it and whats the point, its mainly Max and Cinema 4.., the industry news is worth a look) and it seems the only truly world wide accredited animation institution in Australia (according to 3D world) is in Melbourne. I had never heard of the place. you might know of it (sorry i forget the name), if not you might find some hide or hair of it ion the 3D world site?? the mag was only say.., two, three issues ago. Google it??
nothing like some real guidance. the course im doing is 2 years.., the teacher is a friend of mine (we have worked together before) and taught most of the guys in the more successful CGI production houses in Adelaide (and the world, China had been coming here a lot). im pretty excited, i know how you feel.., sometimes one just knows they have reached a point of critical mass!!
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Im doing TAFE, 'advanced dip if CGI and VFX' .., maybe TAFE has that in Melbourne too?? but it's the teachers that count.., i figured that in uni some were less than hopeless.., actually taught bad habits.., like shooting SD with a HD cam (its OK but certainly limits what can be done, eh?!.., not good teaching method, but it gets worse with the teacher stories, horror stories.., long stories as usual)
if you are thinking of moving here you best enroll quick.., only a limited number of places and orientation starts next week
take it easy and life will be easy
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28-01-2008
, 04:31 PM
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thanks heaps mirek thats awesome
im still doing uni this year in my 3rd year so it wouldnt be
untill next year that i head down their. so this lecturer you
say has a heap of industry contacts and stuff. and have you scene much of the vfx work coming out of the course
i would love to see like a student gallery i might run a bit of a search for it thanx for all the help greatly appreciated
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29-01-2008
, 12:30 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: London
Would it be possible to grab a copy of the fusion file, I have worked a little with fusion at uni but want to get more involved.
Many Thanks for tut
Chris
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29-01-2008
, 06:53 PM
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render out your frames in maya.., in Fusion, drop a 'loader node' into Fusion flow work space, a 'background node' and a 'merge node'
put the maya files into the loader node and your background, a back plate into the background node, to out put.., its 'output' in Shake, maybe its the 'saver node' in Fusion?? i think thats how its done. a straight composite!? watch your alpha though, there might be a gotcha there, cant remember but it rings a bell.
remeber to set your settings (frame rate, PAL or NTSC, ect) and save the Fusion file before importing or doing anything in fusion,
im very ignorant of Fusion so i cant really be sure of the above but it wont take you long to check.
take it easy and life will be easy
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29-01-2008
, 09:30 PM
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Location: Minnesota, USA
Well, yes, and no. Its a bit different than shake, but the idea is still the same.
If you only had 3 layers or so to work with, then the loader>merge-over>loader/bg>saver would be fine.
In my case I had over 200 plates and about 4000 nodes total
The sample image above was just the flow for my displacement and streetlights macro testing.
Also, I could give you the flow to the main shot, but it wouldnt help you without the 12gigs of footage that goes along with it, too much custom work.
Now I "could" give you the flow for the above sample, thats only about 8 megs total.
Lemme see if I still have it, as I made a macro from that flow to put in my final flow, so I might have killed it.
Israel "Izzy" Long
Motion and Title Design for Broadcast-Film-DS
izzylong.com
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