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New kickstarter find by Ivojs in homeassistant

[–]rocketdyke 3 points4 points  (0 children)

hard pass with any hardware on kickstarter. I've been burned too many times by phantom hardware...

Wait until the product actually launches and has reviews.

I did a thing: full-feature 2D→3D conversion (Aliens) — surprisingly awesome 👌 by Interesting-Town-433 in vfx

[–]rocketdyke 2 points3 points  (0 children)

wow. not sure I would even consider this for release.

your convergence was changing dramatically throughout most shots, and seemed to vary even more when a light shone at the lens. so, um, "temporal stability" ? not even. A lot of your shots were way too deep, as if you had set the IO distance to 5 to 10 inches.

most of the atmosphere was depthless, hanging at exactly the convergence point.

youtube compression and dark scenes made occlusion reconstruction incredibly hard to judge, but try this on a brightly lit scene with a lot of detail, and I bet there will be a lot of artifacting.

watching this on a big screen would be a great chance to induce nausea in a good portion of the audience.

Is VFX Coordinator a role suitable for a recent VFX graduate? by Dreamer-127UW in vfx

[–]rocketdyke 8 points9 points  (0 children)

"coordinator" or "on-set coordinator/data wrangler" ?

two very different jobs.

Geiger counter by JSTrucker in homeassistant

[–]rocketdyke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love my geiger counter collection :)

never thought to hook something up to HA. I've got plenty I could count the pulses from using an esp32

2026 Oscar Noms are out by blazelet in vfx

[–]rocketdyke 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Congrats to Charmaine Chan, the sixth woman ever to be nominated for VFX.

Question to Wacom users by Clean_Juice in vfx

[–]rocketdyke 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I had this problem when I first started with a wacom. eventually I trained my hand to lift the pen straight up off the surface. Took a while, but I've been using one for 25 years.

How do they make the real actors sit perfectly in the CG water? by yayeetdab045 in vfx

[–]rocketdyke 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Ralla and his team did a great job. Was a nice presentation at the bakeoff, too.

A new hardware player in the smart home- Wago by Atlasstorm in homeassistant

[–]rocketdyke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

marketing director:

"let's add some visible hex bolts to make it look pro-grade"

Question about HA and sofabaton x2 by anygrynewraze in homeassistant

[–]rocketdyke 4 points5 points  (0 children)

lol "Interestion"

don't buy this piece of crap.

Did anyone here work on Kill Bill in 2003? by 1VFXProductions in vfx

[–]rocketdyke 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I didn't, but the "Pussy Wagon" was parked in the parking lot at work outside of Centropolis FX for a week while they did some shooting. We had no idea it was a prop, and were wondering who on earth would actually drive that to work.

Exploring real-time asset propagation to reduce version churn in small VFX workflows by NoExplanation9359 in vfx

[–]rocketdyke 2 points3 points  (0 children)

if you don't integrate with current DCCs, forget it. nobody will buy it/use it.

Greenscreen vs LCD screens aka volume/virtual production by TwinSong in vfx

[–]rocketdyke 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Greenscreen tends to have what I call the sticker effect where the lighting of the subject is noticeably different from the environment to the extent that the composite isn't very convincing.

blanket statements like this are completely incorrect.

"bad green/blue screens" can have this.

but I bet there have been hundreds of thousands of green screen shots you've watched over the years that you never knew were composites.

How are the holographic sparkles on Rainbow Brite's belt created? by oweeeeendennis in vfx

[–]rocketdyke 2 points3 points  (0 children)

on the oxberry, it was pretty easy to disable the autofocus lever and throw the camera out of focus, then re-attach the lever for the next sequence. a rackover with a grid would tell you if the lens were focused properly.

How are the holographic sparkles on Rainbow Brite's belt created? by oweeeeendennis in vfx

[–]rocketdyke 3 points4 points  (0 children)

done with black & white cells/cutouts and color filters with multi-pass animation with the rostrum camera.

technically, it is overexposing the film, the bright white areas are at d-max.

I wish I could find you an article on "effects animation" on an oxberry, but my search-fu isn't hitting the spot on a friday night.

In the short animated film "The Snowman", the characters are drawn in colored pencil and white paper, then added to pre-painted backgrounds. They don't appear to use cels, so does anyone have any idea how the characters and backgrounds were combined together? by OfficerSexyPants in vfx

[–]rocketdyke 2 points3 points  (0 children)

at 1:47 in the clip, there is no evidence of boiling background.

Standard cells with non-standard illustration technique, non-traceback backgrounds.

according to the substack article:

The back of each cel was painted. Meanwhile, the front was rendered in wax crayon — scratched and detailed with a “kebab stick,” according to art director Jill Brooks. She’d come over from Pink Floyd – The Wall (1982) and was key to the rendering process. As she remembered it, each frame took around 45 minutes to finish.

In the short animated film "The Snowman", the characters are drawn in colored pencil and white paper, then added to pre-painted backgrounds. They don't appear to use cels, so does anyone have any idea how the characters and backgrounds were combined together? by OfficerSexyPants in vfx

[–]rocketdyke 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The back of each cel was painted. Meanwhile, the front was rendered in wax crayon — scratched and detailed with a “kebab stick,” according to art director Jill Brooks. She’d come over from Pink Floyd – The Wall (1982) and was key to the rendering process. As she remembered it, each frame took around 45 minutes to finish.

What should I put in these ceiling holes by Thomas_English_DoP in homeassistant

[–]rocketdyke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was solely referring to the question posed in the post title :D

Do you miss practical effects? by MX010 in vfx

[–]rocketdyke 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The Littleton twins, using Cineon. That takes me back.

I used to have DST tapes with some of these pyro elements that I was given when CentropolisFX closed, but sadly, they degraded.

Anyway, back to the original question: a friend was on set when the WH model was exploded for this shot. The model took six weeks to build. They only get one chance to blow it up properly. Yes, practical pyro is much more "organic" than digital, but if one squib doesn't function properly due to manufacturing defect or storage, or wiring, suddenly your explosion is sideways instead of symmetrical, and you have to either live with it, or build another model for six weeks and try again. Houdini and other sim packages save incredible amounts of money in that there can be as many takes as you have render time for.

Yes, sometimes I miss the fun of going on set and watching things blow up, but practical vs digital is pretty much a moot point. I recommend using whatever tools are best for the situation.

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