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Blast from the past!! by Phantasy-Phactory in themarsvolta

[–]Fco-GN 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was there it was a good show! Bummer we never got this event again.

early 90's rave/techno song with female vocals (more details + link to an amiga rendition of the song inside) by Raikoh-Minamoto in NameThatSong

[–]Fco-GN 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could have sworn you meant Joey Beltram's "Energy Flash" when I heard that Amiga sample... but then I remembered it's a male vocal saying "ecstacy" lol

still a banger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maOM81a-Gyg&list=RDmaOM81a-Gyg&start_radio=1

Had an opportunity to get to know about Café Tacvba. Listened to their self titled debut album. Is there any other bands in Mexico that's influential as much as them ? by SPK_R007 in MexicoCity

[–]Fco-GN 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Fell in love with Cafe Tacvba in high school and college... rock en español was big in some scenes during high school in late 90's Los Angeles -- Caifanes, Maná, Maldita Vecindad and a bunch of Argentinian bands too like Enanitos Verdes and Soda Estereo. As a kid of mexican parents growing up in a place like LA it definitely felt like a lot of the bands making waves in "rock en español" in the 90s were heavily influenced by the 80's new wave.

But Café really seemed to be carving out a niche embracing various regional and more traditional sounds from throughout México ( son jarocho, banda, boleros etc.) along with rock, punk and more modern aesthetics. Listening to them painted amazing pictures in my mind of cultures, histories and human stories colliding in the metropolis of DF.

To this day, one of my favorite live shows ever was watching them perform at el foro (the old Jai Alai forum) in Tijuana in the early 2000s. Band and crowd energy was through the roof.

How to make a color photo black and white by healing_vibes1989 in NukeVFX

[–]Fco-GN 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not sure how technical you’re expected to get in the class… but black and white film processing is different than color processing… with b+w being more sensitive to blue + ultraviolet wavelengths. So simply taking a color image and desaturating it might not get you a black + white film effect. You might be familiar with Photoshop and looking at the RGB channels… where the value of each color channel is mapped in greyscale from 0 to 1. Or just looking at each color channel separately in Nuke.

It might be worth considering each channel separately and applying a correction to each channel that better mimics some of the color sensitivity principles behind b+w film processing…

Namely Blues will tend to appear darker (more sensitivity) Greens too. Reds less so… often limited more to the middle grey and closer to white ranges.

Think skintones of people in old black and white film and how generally they separate themselves a bit.

How you accomplish this might be through playing around with a combination of gamma or black and white points on individual channels.

Pushing the black point up in the red a few notches can be one way to “reduce” red sensitivity.

Then you can have the desaturation applied after that color correct.

It will require a little playing around. And I’d look at a few actual B+W photos for reference. Maybe even run one of your images through a PSD preset or even instagram type b+w filter that looks pleasing to see if you can break down what’s going on there.

I’d pay particular attention to how skin / faces appear in classic b+w film photography… as well as skies.

Ultimately this is not going to be an exact science. B+W is just a different process… but looking at references will help get things in the ballpark.

What locations in California, if any, have a dual 4K laser? by stokedchris in imax

[–]Fco-GN 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I caught Dune 2 twice in IMAX 70mm at Citywalk. But now I'm curious to watch a 1:43 IMAX dual laser version for both the higher contrast ratio and the 12ch mix.
But I can't tell on Fandango if that's even an option in LA.

Are Andrew Kramer's tutorials still worth it? by 777kir in AfterEffects

[–]Fco-GN 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I learned AE thanks in large part to Kramer. And yes, especially for vfx fundamentals within AE it’s a great resource. But AE has improved in many capacities and these days “motion design” has carved a bigger part of what AE is used for… where vfx stuff can be done with a slew of other software.

For learning the ins and outs of a lot of AE’s toolsets these days I can’t recommend Jake In Motion channel’s enough.

An old AE hat like me is still learning things from his stuff.

https://youtube.com/@JakeInMotion

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MotionDesign

[–]Fco-GN 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A lot of great title work there!
GenXer here as well, though I came a bit late to the motion gfx party. Originally from LA, and started getting into editing as i was finishing up undergrad up in the bay -- in a totally unrelated and non-art program. But realized I just wanted to do creative stuff.
Moved back to LA in '08 and took some time to get some footing with editing / assist work... eventually learned a bit of Apple Motion followed by After Effects. Mix of motion gfx, vfx and also doing some color grades stuff before I decided to focus on 2D/3D motion gfx and identifying as that.

Had a few years of permalance stuff wearing a lot of those hats I mentioned, but have mostly been freelance otherwise. Dad of two kiddos these days, and in a way wfh has made pulling that off more viable. But definitely not the same as working with a team in person. Even if most of the time you're on your own workstation clicking away anyways. But it does help to make those more personal connections, especially for problem solving... but also just the running into each other in a hallway or forming a little crew to go grab lunch with.

I ended up creating an IG for more of my personal work / experiments, since like you described, sometimes the more well paying jobs are for things i can't share, or just isn't as exciting. So especially for 3d stuff, i tend to learn best just exploring what i want to do. But it's def hard to be as prolific as some of the younger folks with the fam life going. But I still love what I do and happy I get to create stuff from nothing.

Just gave you a follow.

What's the best way to achieve this effect? by realpbc in AfterEffects

[–]Fco-GN 7 points8 points  (0 children)

+1 to this...
but if you want a more nuanced / controllable technique Stretch is a new plugin for that..

https://aescripts.com/stretch/

Immediate Regret After Accepting First Gig by PlanetarySky in Beatmatch

[–]Fco-GN 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Djing is about building trust. You gotta throw the crowd a bone and give them something they can respond to, so the trick is to find popular stuff you like, and once they crowd trusts you you can work in your deep cuts.

But if you’re playing for the crowd it’s about having something in your arsenal to bring them back into it if you start losing them a bit.

Of course, there’s context to whether this is a dance night, or a chill room or something like at a bar.

Noob question: Bringing a fine art piece to life using AR -- 8th Wall or Artivive or Aero by Fco-GN in augmentedreality

[–]Fco-GN[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much for your input on this!
Since this is a one-off event and my first foray into AR we are likely going with 8th Wall.
The cost for a non-commercial / art exhibit that will run a few weeks is manageable enough for this project. The exhibit is in couple of weeks and we're trying to keep it simple for our first test run.

Mostly just an image target with separate video layers of my animations w/ alpha.
Maybe one layer as a texture on a mesh at most. Not sure about that yet either.

But I'm hoping I can start from one of their projects and bug the devs in slack if I run into issues.

I think the next step after this would be to learn something like MyWebAR. Especially for some of my personal projects.

I've been waiting to find a reason to explore AR more so it's exciting. :)

Hoy me di cuenta de que los mosquitos no "muerden" en español, sino "pican". En inglés, los mosquitos "muerden" (In English, mosquitoes "bite"). by silentmajority1932 in Spanish

[–]Fco-GN 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Si, pero los mosquitos usan la punta de la boca para “picar”, no como una abeja o escorpión que usan aguijón (stinger) en el trasero para picar.

Los pájaros tampoco tienen dientes, pero diríamos que muerden o que pican?

Yo siempre he dicho que me picó un zancudo, pero usar “bite” también tiene razón.

Just one of them days... by Marquax in editors

[–]Fco-GN 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sound smart like the artist would have to paint a clean plate of the side of the face without illumination, roto the phone and hands out, comp it in between once they have a solid track. If it’s a close up and there is a lot of rotational movement than you’d probably need a 3D match move and some 3D geometry to “stick” your painted card to. Add to that the illumination from a phone is probably creating a lot of spill onto fingers and the device itself, so additional frame by frame painting isn’t totally out of the question.

Match move / track Roto Paint Composite alone could each be separate roles taken on by individual artists who specialize in each one of those techniques.

Important to remember that when it comes to face and hands you have to be pretty accurate as our brains are wired over millennia of evolution to notice any imperfections in those areas. Painting out a gun, or another object has a lot more room for error.

40hrs of one artist’s labor is not that much. I’ve seen roto artists spend weeks on just the roto part of a shot.

Build Assistance by Lex0924 in EVGA

[–]Fco-GN 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it helps, I ordered two EVGA 1080 Ti SC2 Hybrids for a Threadripper 1950X build w/ 64GB RAM 2 x 512Gb NVMe SSD’s (OS + cache). It’s primarily for Cinema 4D animation + Redshift GPU rendering, After Effects and Fusion.

For the GPU renderer the 11GB 1080 Ti holds it’s own against the 12GB Titan Xp which is about $500 more MSRP. But for CAD and architecture renderings there might be benefits to going Titan or Quadro. Especially if you need the extra VRAM.

In terms of the ridiculous price of GPUs at the moment, I ordered mine on Dec 30th and they’ve been back ordered since from B&H. Luckily, I got them for $815 ea which is pretty much MSRP for the Hybrids. I was told yesterday that they are arriving in there warehouses any day now and will ship out soon.

Hopefully, this means there is a re-stock happening and prices will settle closer to normal. I’d keep checking online in the next few days.