Nuke tips and tutorials at SphereVFX
Matt Leonard has a whole bunch of Maya & Nuke tips and tutorials up at SphereVFX. Try not to hate him for having an “entry page”, there is lots of good stuff in there and he really knows what he’s doing. If you go in the front door, click on the “Training Articles” [...]
Nuke on a TVC at Fin Design
Back to my parade of Nuke news! Our Australia reseller Intraware has put up a short story about Fin Design in Sydney using Nuke on a Jalna TVC. There are some screen grabs showing the 3D layers they used. Watch the video link at the end of the article to see how it all comes [...]
I want a pony!
Finally announced, something that has been painful to keep my mouth shut about. FXGuide covers the nuts and bolts thoroughly:
Foundry/SPI Nuke/Katana deal
This is a deal that is near and dear to my heart. I spent nearly two years working on the Katana team at SPI before joining The Foundry to move Nuke into it’s product [...]
The gory truth about stereoscopic post
Just in time for Halloween, Studio Daily posted a short article about CafeFX’s work on Final Destination 3 that hits one of the often underestimated issues encountered in vfx post on a stereo show:
“3D can add a lot more time to normal workflows,” Williamson admits. “Some of the things that are normally very, very simple, [...]
More Nuke customer stories
Maybe I’m biased (just a tiny bit?) but we recently had a couple of great case studies come out about customers using Nuke. I get pages of email every week about the things Nuke still needs to do, or do better (and I love it, and we need it, so don’t stop fer cryin’ out [...]
Halo 3 short
Interesting Q&A with Rob Moggach about Asylum’s work on the new Halo 3 short where alongside Flame, Maya, and Renderman, “Nuke was busted out for some of the more complicated CG work”. In addition to the expected effects, lots of small details manipulated to produce perfectly imperfect images. Follow the link for the whole short [...]
District 9 on The Reel Show
Somewhere I’ve got a note-to-self with a bunch of links to recent Nuke stuff I’ve come across but had no time to post up here. Until I find get a chance to dig that up, here’s something that just came my way and is definitely worth a few minutes of your time: Shervin Shogian talks [...]
FT article about The Foundry
The Financial Times had an article about us yesterday!
Boffins who went to Hollywood
It’s always interesting reading things written by non-cgfx people about the business — the simplifications and slight misunderstandings. Reminds me that most things I read in general media about any topic have passed through a similar kind of filter.
Foundry Asia travel
It’s going to be a crazy month — four consecutive weeks traveling for events and customer visits.
We’re going to Shanghai and Beijing next week; the following week I’ll be showing Nuke on the Media Village stand at Broadcast Asia in Singapore; then off to Seoul for the 24th – 26th; and finally Tokyo July 1st-3rd [...]
Moving again!
In case you don’t already know, I’m moving to Hong Kong! This has been under way for long enough it should be news to no one, but I’m so bad at keeping up with these kinds of announcements that it surely is. Anyway, it appears that there is a quite an untapped market for the [...]
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