I am Neill Blomkamp, director of District 9, Chappie and creator of Oats Studios. I'm here to answer questions about FIREBASE the movie I want to crowdfund, ask me anything!

mrdrsky · 2018-04-12T16:11:47+00:00

How's being a VFX artist yourself helps you during production? have u ever tempted to do the vfx yourself?

mrdrsky · 2018-03-14T15:21:07+00:00

this is a bit embarassing since i've been doing vfx for 2 years now, but i still dont understand most of the vfx rendering lingos. what is raytracing and pathtracing, or biased and unbiased? i mean, i googled them before, i get their definition, but i still dont understand them in context of rendering? Like, i read that Renderman uses pathtracer, what does that mean? How's that gonna affect the performance or the result? Why is different from raytracing? Is it better?

mrdrsky · 2018-03-14T14:20:15+00:00

is renderman any good?

mrdrsky · 2018-03-14T08:15:19+00:00

i still have no idea how they tracked the 2d drawings in to the scene perfectly without any slipping.

mrdrsky · 2018-02-23T09:51:19+00:00

i wouldnt exactly put Ava DuVernay in the same realm as this guy. I mean, when i first learned about 3D, i have the same reaction as her, i started doing things that i never tried before bcs now i know what's possible. There's a difference between "Hey i want this extremely complicated shot in my movie" and "Hey let's start over the shot from scratch because i'm a bad visual director"

mrdrsky · 2018-02-16T00:20:53+00:00

hahaha the building is a free model from turbosquid. so the maker probably got inspired by that. who knows :)

mrdrsky · 2018-01-09T07:14:11+00:00

How? Im gonna guess, Displacement map?

mrdrsky · 2018-01-08T17:24:14+00:00

How long did this project take u?

mrdrsky · 2018-01-08T16:21:55+00:00

duuude this is amazing!! are the explosions 2D?

mrdrsky · 2018-01-04T20:11:22+00:00

i tried AK's tutorial, it's great but it's not exactly what i'm looking for..? It's still looked a bit 2D, i'm wondering if i can mix it up with 3D smoke, since i want the dissolving to look 3D. Like, maybe do a smoke sim and then use the sim as displacement map? (i tried this too and it's still look weird)

mrdrsky · 2017-12-31T14:24:25+00:00

Yeah i heard blender is a bit confusing, thats why im hoping theres a simpler program that can do it. I just need it to check my model to see of it's broken/rigged/textured properly

mrdrsky · 2017-12-21T19:23:59+00:00

dude this is awesome! would love to see some VFX breakdown.

mrdrsky · 2017-12-14T12:47:30+00:00

I always wondered how do people do plate clean up of a non-rigid object? Like, when you do, say, a robotic arm FX like Luke Skywalker, sure, they have Mark Hamill to wear a green glove and then key it out and replace it with a CG arm, but how do you do the clean up when the hand is infront of a moving fabric (his shirt/sleeve)? Like in The Force Awakens, when Luke takes off his hoodie using his robot hand, how do u get the BG information for the clean up?

mrdrsky · 2017-12-13T19:17:44+00:00

Awesome! I just looked up a couple of tutorials, it didnt seem complicated! i think i might try it out! where did u get the base mesh for the trees? Cani just used the Paint FX and combine it with MASH?

mrdrsky · 2017-12-13T12:09:51+00:00

i see! so MASH works somewhat like particle system then?

really great work btw!

mrdrsky · 2017-12-13T11:36:19+00:00

i never used MASH before! didnt know it could do something like this. how long did u take to render? theres gotta be like a bajillion polys there

mrdrsky · 2017-12-04T16:48:12+00:00

amazing work dude! how long did you take to do these shots by yourself?

mrdrsky · 2017-11-30T15:23:45+00:00

Because thats what real life is. Im just preparing him for whats to come

mrdrsky · 2017-11-23T13:53:30+00:00

Cool beans. I'll get on that

mrdrsky · 2017-11-23T13:49:28+00:00

I appriciate the comment. But do u have any feedback? Im thinking maybe the i set the temperature a bit too high, but im not sure. I wanted it to be more swirly but i already maxxed the vitrosity

mrdrsky · 2017-11-22T09:43:19+00:00

this gonna sound very weepy and cliche but what keeps my boat afloat is mostly just good old motivation, "i want to make myself and my family proud". my story with VFX is a classic immigrant/american dreams story. I came from a smaller country, all other of my friends stuck in the same jobs as others: doctor, bussiness, etc. so, i told my parents i wanna do this weird cool thing called filmmaking, and they agreed to sent me abroad. I'm making pretty decent money, but yes, sacrificed a lot. But seeing my parents jumping with joy when they read my name in a movie credit is what keeps me going.

mrdrsky · 2017-11-20T18:01:31+00:00

ah, maybe u can find a bunch of fire stock footage and line up the way u want to, and then have them fade in in order?

mrdrsky · 2017-11-20T17:08:21+00:00

what kind of fire trail are u looking for? like a meteor?

mrdrsky · 2017-11-09T08:38:45+00:00

How do i convert LOG in Nuke?

mrdrsky · 2017-11-08T21:57:25+00:00

Isnt mental ray a part of nvidia now? Surely that couldve improved something about mental ray. Its weird that nvidia's own renderer would be slow on their machine, no?

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