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Over the past three years Alias|Wavefront has developed a flexible, intuitive and powerful package for high-res character development and effects for film.

During our adventure, dealing with pure data will enable us not to just transfer the data between different parts of our production line, but to manipulate this data, and customize it the way we need to suit our use, AND MAYBE ( as in our course ) to invent a new solution for an old problem using two cameras to capture human movement and automatically transfer the data into a custom character in 3D, without the need of expensive motion capture device or other solution.

Within this training video Thiago Costa explores the development of a toolset that deals with scalar data in ICE, by showing it in the context of a weightmap tool. He will guide you through his exploration process and implementation of how to use per-point values to capture and store data between different sources, to diffuse data across the mesh, work with time information and much more. This training video takes focus on this specific toolset that goes from the basic to intermediate level of how to build an ICE system.

In a sea of XSI training materials only one brand rises above to cater to real world problems in a production environment. cmiVFX created this new ICE video to fill a void in the Softimage | XSI training vertical market.

In this part of the video, you will be introduced to the 3 different projects that you’ll be producing and what assets were used within the training, particularly the car model and the HDRI + Backplates pack. There will be a brief description of how to install scripts, the Gamma 2.2 workflow and how to map useful commands to hot keys in order to speed up your work.

This course, taught by Matt Leonard, is going to be slightly different from our other Maya offerings because we’re going to be working alongside a new and very exciting project called ‘Moving Day’. This short film is being directed by award wining director Jason Wingrove. ‘Moving Day’ tells the story of a young girl and her fight against the fairies who inhabit the garden of her new home. Our short film is literally being produced throughout the term and we’ll have first hand experience of working in post during a live project.

Master Classes Overview of the Feature Film VFX Process | .flv | 920Mb

From the job interview, to the script breakdown, the storyboards, the budgeting, the running amock on set, the politics, the editing room, the DI and the premier of the film, Jeff will share the dirty secrets that form a complete visual effects project.

As a successful and respected CG academy, Escape Studios is a proving ground for a new generation of computer graphics stars breaking into film, TV, games and commercials. Escape Studios is not like other schools. We dont practice theoretical exercises. We skip the history lessons and focus on results.

In this lecture, visual effects artist Matt Linder discusses the essential keying concepts in Shake. Matt explores each of Shake's keying nodes in great detail, and discusses how to apply them to production shots. Matt explains the concepts of hard mattes and soft mattes and how they are used to equalize the detail of your matte.