Surviving Post-production
How to Get Into and Survive Film, Advertising and TV Post-production – The Alternative Guide
10 Simple Steps to Becoming a VFX Compositor
Ok, so you have seen these Nuke Breakdowns and think the glamour of Hollywood awaits you…well then… 1. Have a look around filmmaking and post-production. 2. Still keen? Then check the core … Continue reading
Book Trailer – How to get into and survive Film, Advertising and TV post-production – The alternative guide
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VFX News
03/05/2013 The Hollywood Reporter – Visual Effects Companies Meet to Consider Formation of Trade Association VFX World – Spring 2013 Animation and VFX Film Preview 02/05/2013 VFX Soldier – Letter … Continue reading
Yay! Davi Stein of Escape Studios Reviews the Book ‘How to Get Into and Survive Film, Advertising and TV Post-production’
‘How to get into and survive Film, Advertising and TV post-production – The alternative guide’ by Klaudija Cermak From the amazing compositing tutor at the amazing VFX school. Escape Studios’ … Continue reading
The Book Extract: “I’m an Artist”
Then the first thing you should consider doing is joining the art world. It is open to new ideas. It allows you to create original and challenging work. It lets … Continue reading
The Book Extract: The Client is God
There is one good reason for this, he is holding the purse strings. However, in advertising post-production there may be up to 20 people in the room with you and, … Continue reading
The Book Extract: Rules are Made to be Broken
At the beginning of my career, a colleague told me: ‘You can’t combine these two colours. They don’t go.’ At first, I was taken aback. Immediately after, I felt exhilarated. … Continue reading
The Book Extract: The Traditional Way
The traditional way of getting a job in post–production is to start as a runner and build your way to the top. It requires tonnes of enthusiasm and the willingness … Continue reading
Pi Day 14/03/2013 7pmPDT VFX International Town Hall Meeting
This meeting will be streaming live on vfxsolidarity.org – State of the Industry by Scott Squires – Moderated panel discussion with Q&A – Panel includes Scott Squires, Scott Ross, Steve … Continue reading
And So VFX Solidarity International Is Born
Make your Avatar green - VFX Solidarity templates. Because we need solidarity – VFX Solidarity International. More info – VFX Soldier.
Why VFX Oscars Demonstration Matters
The persistent and selfless campaign of the VFX Soldier to protect the VFX facilities and the artists comes to the Oscars. Read how VFX companies are going out of business while film … Continue reading
7 Steps to Falling in Love With Autodesk Smoke 2013
1. What is Autodesk Smoke? Yay! It’s all in one! No more trekking between different softwares and a number of plugins to deliver a commercial. 2. Smoke 2013 NAB Announcement. 3. … Continue reading
Learning VFX Compositing Skill 14: Nuke 7.0
Free online tutorials A Sneak Peak at Nuke 7.0 Jon Wadelton for The Foundry Nuke 7.0 Power and performance Juan Salazar for The Foundry Nuke 7.0 File Formats Juan Salazar … Continue reading
5 Simple Clicks to Safeguard Your Future in Film VFX
VFX Soldier launches international campaign to end VFX Subsidies. You need to support the campaign by donating because “subsidies distort the price of visual effects work. This has led to … Continue reading
Learning VFX Compositing Skill 13: 2.5D Relighting
Free online tutorials Relight for Nuke Mark Lowne 2.5D Relighting Using RGB Passes Marko Vukovic Nuke NDK Relighting Olugin v1.0 Stian Halvorsen 2.5D Relighting in Nuke with Vray Luca Mignardi … Continue reading
Learning VFX Compositing Skill 12: Have a Break – Get Inspired
Free online tutorials Staying Calm - 30 Relaxing Activities Tom Free Cinema School Serpentine Gallery Splash Photography by Jack Long My Modern Metropolis Mountain Coaster in Stubaital by Mulxx Youtube How to … Continue reading
Learning VFX Compositing Skill 11: Particles
Free online tutorials Nuke Particle Fundamentals - 2 Videos Matt Brealey for The Foundry Using the Particle System in Nuke - 4 Free Videos Digital Tutors Particles Turning Into Type Lester Banks … Continue reading
Learning VFX Compositing Skill 10: Warping
Free online tutorials Nuke Grid Warp and Spline Warp Nodes Russell Dodgson for The Foundry Grid Warp Steve Wright for Lynda.com Understanding UV Maps - Warping with STMap - 2 parts Florian Gellinger … Continue reading
Learning VFX Compositing Skill 9: Planar Tracking
Free online tutorials Nuke and Mocha What is Planar Tracking Steve Wright for Imagineer Systems How to Shoot for Planar Tracking Hollywood Camera Work for Imagineer Systems What is Mocha … Continue reading
Learning VFX Compositing Skill 7: 3D Compositing
Free online tutorials 3D Compositing fxphd for The Foundry 3D Workflow cardanfx Introduction to 3D Ignis Fatuus Nuke 3D Compositing eosacro Basic Nuke Projection Set-up Garrett Fry Projection Basics Frank … Continue reading
Learning VFX Compositing Skill 8: Camera Tracking
Free online tutorials Camera Tracker for NukeX The Basics John Starck for The Foundry Camera Tracker for NukeX Lens Distortion John Starck for The Foundry Introduction to Camera Tracker Ignis Fatuus … Continue reading
13 Key Skills to Becoming a Great VFX Compositor
1. Develop your eye for detail 2. Learn about photography 3. Train your photographic eye 4. Learn about light and shade 5. Learn about composition 6. Learn the colour theory 7. … Continue reading
Learning VFX Compositing Skill 6: Compositing
Free online tutorials What is Compositing Digital Tutors Step by Step Through Nuke – 8 videos Cardanfx Blending Modes - 2 videos Compositing - 4 videos Eosacro Channel Management in Nuke Steve … Continue reading
Learning VFX Compositing Skill 5: Colour Correction
Free online tutorials Colour Theory Simplified imaginefx Colour Theory Explained – An Eye for Colour Apple Applying Colour Theory to Digital Media and Animation – Siggraph 2011 Siggraph What is … Continue reading
Learning VFX Compositing Skill 4: Keying
Free online tutorials Art of Keying fxguide Denoise Part 1 Denoise Part 2 Maria Elena Nilsback Despill Jan Burda Masking and Keying in Nuke Cardanfx Primatte Part 1 Primatte Part 2 … Continue reading
Learning VFX Compositing Skill 3: Tracking/Stabili(s/z)ing
Free online tutorials Image Transformations fxphd for The Foundry Nuke Screen Tracking Compositing and Integrating the Screen Jed Smith Four Point Tracking (if you speak French ) David Francois Tracking … Continue reading
Learning VFX Compositing Skill 2: Paint
Free online tutorials Nuke Cleanup Methods – 2D Tracking and Cloning Jed Smith Nuke Cleanup Tutorial – Temporal Clone Painting and Grain Manipulation Jed Smith Removing Tracking Markers in Nuke … Continue reading
Learning VFX Compositing Skill 1: Rotoscoping
Free online tutorials History of Rotoscoping Bill Schaeffer and Loring Doyle The Art of Roto fxguide The Basics of Rotoscoping Scott Squires Introduction to Rotoing Working With Layers in Roto … Continue reading
3 Inspirational Movies for Budding Film Directors…
or what can be achieved with… …a great script… …a bunch of great actors… …and a couple of locations… Carnage - Roman Polanski - An interview with the director Two pairs of … Continue reading
‘Samsara’ – the film
No trailer can make justice to this epic journey through the state of the Earth and the state of the humankind today. And no words are needed to see the western … Continue reading
Luke Scott’s ‘Loom’ short film shot on Epic
‘Luke Scott in cooperation with RED Camera presents “LOOM”. A film shot completely in 4K format in the tone and style of Ridley Scott’s dystopian Blade Runner. The film was … Continue reading
Stanley Kubrick’s – One Point Perspective
One point perspective shots from Stanley Kubrick films edited together.
The Things That Kept Me Sane This Week…
Listening to… 2 Cellos Sitting on cork chairs in… Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012 Reading… What Money Can’t Buy Love Poems Eating… Gnocchi Drinking… Iron What drove me insane was… …ahhhh … Continue reading
3 Evenings, 3 Beautiful Films (with no VFX) – Now That’s Escapism!
From France to Italy and then back to France and its North African Community. And, back to basics. Great scripts. Great acting. And timeless human stories. Who needs Hollywood. Le … Continue reading
The 5 Artists’ Goodies of NAB 2012 in a Nutshell
1. Come on Apple, what’s going on with FCP? Ok, let’s see what are the future features in FCP X. 2. Adobe CS6 – includes SpeedGrade for grading and Prelude … Continue reading
The Place and the People Who Keep Soho Moving
The wonderful baristas at Flat White who keep the industry moving. The best smiles. The best coffee (I swear they put something in as everyone I know is addicted). It’s … Continue reading
London Soho 12/04/2012 03:17am
London was cold. Soho was filled with late night revellers. Some of us worked (that’s post-production). There was a rickshaw. An ambulance. The police vans. That’s modern London … Continue reading
VFX Soldier Blog – VFX Industry’s March to the Bottom
Fascinating read. I had no idea of the problems in the US VFX film industry. And, I am speechless. “Paying to Work for Free” VFX Business model DD CEO John Textor: … Continue reading
London Soho 09/04/2012 10:29am
London was cold and wet today. Soho was empty. Only few of us worked (the life of post-production!). But then, if we hadn’t we wouldn’t have seen horsemen on … Continue reading
Love it When People In the Industry Have a Second Life – Temba Band
I went to a gig a week ago at The Workshop in Hoxton (OMG East London is so far from West London). The band is Temba and they are hot… … Continue reading
Some of the Most Beautiful Things I Have Ever Seen or 3 Days Left to…
…see Hockney. I went 2 weeks ago. And I went back today, but this time really early in the morning, just to enjoy the paintings I love. The giant landscapes … Continue reading
OMG…Really Sorry…
I haven’t written anything for two weeks and it really isn’t because I have nothing more to say. It’s simply because: 1. It’s really busy at work. 2. I had … Continue reading
The Best Answer To: “Is the BBC Biased?” EVER!
Klaudija Cermak Interview with Mitch Mitchell, now Head of Imaging at Technicolor. If the Conservatives think BBC is left wing and the Labour think it is right wing…well, it’s obvious … Continue reading
The BBC TV Centre Training: the Cameraman vs the Sound Man On the Set
Klaudija Cermak’s Interview with Mitch Mitchell, now Head of Imaging at Technicolor. The amazing BBC training course for a Technical Operator (cameraman and sound man) at Wood Norton live in … Continue reading
The Type of People That Make it Into the Industry
Klaudija Cermak’s Interview with Mitch Mitchell, now Head of Imaging at Technicolor. The type of people that make it into the industry… Part 2. The BBC Interview for the Technical … Continue reading
The BBC Set the Standards For the Whole Industry
Klaudija Cermak’s Interview with Mitch Mitchell, now Head of Imaging at Technicolor. How the BBC set the standards for the whole industry with the industry wide training. The Hollywood directors … Continue reading
The Book Extract: Learn to Make a Nice Hot Cup of Tea
When I arrived in London, I was armed with a variety of skills but apart from a long list of politically incorrect jokes, few were relevant to survival in the … Continue reading
If You Really Want to Know About Film and All the Rest…
Terry Flaxton interview with Mitch Mitchell. I am speechless. A legend.
The Book: ‘How to get into and survive Film, Advertising and TV Post-production – The Alternative Guide’
‘How to get into and survive Film, Advertising and TV post-production – The alternative guide’ Buy the iBook from iTunes £3.99 Buy the PAPERBACK from LULU £7.99. Bestseller on Amazon.co.uk … Continue reading
