available on Troma Now and YouTube!

https://youtu.be/-wIlO6dMU4k?si=w6lv5FARWeDQaPWZ

VFX Supervisor For Pixmondo - Sven Martin (Season 1)

VFX Supervisor For Weta FX - Wayne Stable (Season 2)

I've spent about 7 months making my film, Holy Sh*t I'm Dead. Mainly as a proof of concept using the technology, especially as a storytelling device, but also to push the limits of what's possible with a small team. I can't say enough about UE. I thoroughly enjoy using the software. Enjoy the first two minutes! Full release will be on November 13th.

what do ya think?

Hey everyone, as the title says I’m curious about Outpost VFX and whether or not the AVEC tax rebates in the UK have hindered their talent and hiring.

As someone who is lucky enough to be in a mostly self sustaining country in terms of VFX, where we do have tax rebates of our own but that basically means once you find a job as long as you perform well and there’s work, you’ll be employed until you decide to leave yourself. I find it strange that Outpost VFX are constantly looking to hire UK based artists for an immediate start, even when their own artists contracts are ending and they’re open to work.

I say this because myself and a few others have noticed that in the last 2-3 months the recruiter there has put out the same copy and paste recruitment ad looking for Senior Compositors every couple of weeks (this morning I saw the same post that went out last week as well) and each time it gets less and less engagement as I imagine this being probably the 10th copy and past post this year, they’re close to exhausting the talent pool.

I also find it strange that some ex colleagues at Pixo (albeit in different departments) have recently been hired at Outpost VFX and allowed to work remotely from Germany for the entirety of their contract, why are the rules so fixed for Compositors but not other departments?

Also, the same observation of - ‘company X is looking for UK based Senior Compositors for an immediate > Senior Compositors at company X are finishing their contracts and open to work > company X is looking for UK based Senior Compositors for an immediate’ has become a concerning hiring loop I’ve noticed for a lot of London based studios on LinkedIn this year.

Just also wanted to say, this is in no way a slander of the studio, I’ve only ever heard good things about them, I’m just curious to why hiring seems a bit chaotic…

Lunchtime thought dump over, enjoy lunch everyone!

I'm still pretty new to VFX, and I've been working on a personal project for a bit, but I'm struggling to figure out a 3D camera track for it.

I'm just a student, so the only programs I have access to are Adobe stuff, Blender, and Unreal.
I'm working on getting a roto (which I can do) of Jameson out, then 3D-tracking him into Blender and adding him to a 3D scene I've made. I've tried AE's tracker and Blender, and neither does a decent job. I've looked into plug-ins and such, but they haven't been very helpful.
I've seen programs that can do a shot like this, PFTrack, SynthEyes, etc., but I just can't afford that type of stuff, as I'm just doing VFX as a hobby/learning on the side for now. Is any version of a decent track possible for this shot, or is it best to move on?

Any ideas?
For now, I'm just keyframing the footage and camera in Blender to hopefully get a somewhat decent-looking job.

Smoke sim done with Embergen :)

A VFX breakdown from my music video "The River, the Shore".

2+ years in the making, the full music video combines real footage with Blender composited in After Effects and Resolve - with many of the scenes being fully CG!

Full music video in the link below: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrrZCnXuPCs&lc=UgxA5OVrazcW0YI43B54AaABAg

Let me know what you think :)

No generative AI was used for this work.

Hi, I'm using NukeX 17.0v1 on win, the problem cames in when I view the scanlinerender it's completely broken. The set-up cames from Blender and it's 2 meshes merged and remeshed with geometry nodes, one has an armature and deforms. I'ts Imported as a .usd i've tried also with .abc but I couldn't project the texture.

As you can see from the images the projection works when I am in the 3d view but glitches in the scanlinerender, please help, I am availabe for more in detail description if needed.

Sharing our character animation work for Blink Studios’ RPG Stylized Characters Set for Unity and Unreal Engine.

YEYO Studio handled character rigging, skinning, and game-ready keyframe animation. Character models by Blink Studios.

We’re available for paid animation and rigging projects.

Get in touch: https://yeyostudio.com

Hello everyone,

I am learning vfx for sometime and trying to better my work,

I can't relocate so I am looking to work as freelancer or work from home right now

Softwares I use are

Davinci Resolve for Denoising and converting footage to exr

Nuke or fusion for cleanup or compositing

Mocha pro and syntheyes for Tracking

I want to know from all vfx artists what should I look for and how to get better

For example: Is Neat video worth it if I have Davinci Resolve Studio

Are there some courses, specially in budget inside fxphd or other courses that teach workflow from start to end

Also there is shortage of footages as ActionVFX free footage give Rec.709 baked in them untill we pay for 4k raw footage, where can I get best footages to create some advanced showreel

Also I read Digital compositing for Film and Video by Steve Wrights, are there other books that I should specially look into

Specially for working as freelancer or work from home

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks in advance to everyone

I’ll see myself out…

Has anyone else seen this Instagram account @iso1.000.000? The videos look really weird and creepy and I can’t tell if they’re actually filmed like that or edited afterwards. His bio says professional videographer, but I know basically nothing about cameras, so I can’t tell if it’s some special camera, a filter, Blender, AI, or what. Some of it looks real and some of it looks almost fake. Does anyone know how he’s making them look like that?

https://youtu.be/F7t9C-mEKqM?si=iTYH75ncPEFXB6sD

What do ya think of it?

More of a straightforward comp job for this one.

A VFX breakdown from my music video "The River, the Shore".

2+ years in the making, the full music video combines real footage with Blender composited in After Effects and Resolve - with many of the scenes being fully CG!

Full music video in the link below: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrrZCnXuPCs&lc=UgxA5OVrazcW0YI43B54AaABAg

Let me know what you think :)

No generative AI was used for this work.

Using adobe premiere and After effects.

Is there an easy ish way to remove the camera operator?

https://nyckm.github.io/Simulador-de-Lente/en.html

Blur that travels through the lens.

Lens Blur Simulator by Bruxosdovfx is an optical simulator that computes defocus using ray tracing through the actual surfaces of a lens.

Instead of simply blurring recorded pixels, the engine simulates the path of light through the optical system: refraction, aperture clipping, aberrations, dispersion, bokeh shape and off-axis behavior.

Main features

• 200+ lenses including Double-Gauss, Sonnar, Tessar, Petzval, triplets, anamorphics and retrofocus designs.
• Optical ray tracing with Vulkan / CUDA.
• Image, video and RGB + Depth support.
• Bokeh generated from the actual lens design.
• Cat-eye, spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion.
• Coatings, ghosts and diffraction.
• Editable optical prescription: curvature, thickness, diameter and refractive index.
• Preview and render quality up to 1024 samples per pixel.
• PNG and video output.

Platforms

• Windows x64
• After Effects
• DaVinci Resolve / OpenFX
• Nuke
• Photoshop

The desktop application and plugins share the same optical engine and lens library.

🇨🇳 中文

真正穿过镜头的虚化。

Bruxosdovfx 镜头虚化模拟器是一款光学模拟工具，通过对真实镜头表面进行光线追踪来计算焦外虚化。

它不是简单地模糊已有像素，而是模拟光线穿过整个光学系统的过程，包括折射、光圈裁切、像差、色散、焦外形状以及离轴区域的光学变化。

主要功能

• 200+ 款镜头：双高斯、松纳、天塞、佩兹伐、三片式、变形宽银幕、反远摄等。
• 基于 Vulkan / CUDA 的光学光线追踪。
• 支持图片、视频和 RGB + 深度图。
• 根据真实镜头结构生成焦外效果。
• 猫眼虚化、球面像差和色散。
• 镀膜、鬼影和衍射效果。
• 可编辑光学处方：曲率、厚度、直径和折射率。
• 预览与渲染质量最高可达 每像素 1024 次采样。
• 支持 PNG 和视频输出。

支持平台

• Windows x64
• After Effects
• DaVinci Resolve / OpenFX
• Nuke
• Photoshop

桌面应用与所有插件共享同一个光学引擎和镜头库.

(Copy paste from the VES announcement, want to make sure it’s seen outside the usual circles)

New Category Announced!

The VES Award for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Short Project will cover both photoreal and animated projects. Designed to reflect the evolution of today’s media landscape and growing sophistication of social media content, this category will include the growing number of VFX artists working outside of the traditional film and TV framework.

Submissions for the 25th Annual VES Awards are due on October 31st! Head to the link to review the full list of submission categories and submit your project today: https://vesglobal.org/25th-annual-ves-awards-rules-procedures/

Hi! What's a rough price range for a 1-hour custom 3D music visualization like the attached video?

​It needs different scenes for changing music genres. Not looking to hire right now, just curious about typical rates.

https://youtu.be/PjA8DE33nP4?si=J6or95YUpenGR3u4