Finally, I've got involved a project where there was a very smooth cooperation between the shooting crew and the VFX on set crew (myself). Yes, sometimes it happens.
Tidy Vfx
Thursday, July 24, 2025
Summertime's Hot Topics In CG / VFX
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Blender - AI-T - NVIDIA - 2025
I praised the lord that I could participate at the first time on the Blender conference. I was really amazed that creative community is so creative, innovative, open-minded (and unsustainable (free Coca Cola wtf?)...but it is a different topic).
If you ever wanted to understand color management, my advice is to give up :) and just follow the best practices what Jacob Holiday showed us, for eg. Really, really powerful presentation.
If somehow you are not fulfilled after this ↑, check this: the Bible (of Color Management) aka Cinematic Color.
Also worth to mention MagnumVD. This youngster do stuff, and I mean it.Friday, October 18, 2024
The Blender Conference 2024
I'm heading to Amsterdam next week to participate in:
It is the next level to be part of the community, to get know people in person. Also, not to forget the mission to extent the VFX capabilities of Blender, in connection with developing, producing my first live action feature film featuring a CG Polar Bear as the protagonist. It is made with Blender (2D painting of the briefcase in Krita).
Thursday, November 17, 2022
Pipeline Movies
The pipeline is always with us. Even if we don't think about it, because it is different from studio to studio, it is exciting to see how they deal with it.
Old but gold (actually, Rhythm & Hues no longer exists, which is the most depressing story of all time in the industry).
Rhythm & Hues - A Framework for Global Visual Effects Production Pipelines - SIGGRAPH 2014 from Murali Anagani on Vimeo.
Since the ShotGun Software has been renamed to ShotGrid, which is a more PC name for a production tracking system :)
Tony Barbieri and Don Parker; The Shotgun Pipeline at PSYOP from Autodesk Media and Entertainment on Vimeo.
The best pipeline presentation(s) of all time (still ancient which is a bit of a sign that nowadays there are less intersting talk on that field).
Not soo long time ago there was a discussion hosted by Side Effects Software at Siggraph.
Or I'm just getting old and only have good memories from the far past—cinesite's presentation about generalizing pipeline and implementing fTrack.
Last but not least: if we are talking about the pipeline, it's unavoidable to talk about Katana. The exciting part is that people may think that Katana is a lighting & rendering tool. Actually, it is a pipeline tool because of the nature of rendering. If you want to render anything, you must create a complex system to flow the data from DCCs (digital content creation tools) to the render engine. That's where Katana comes in. So here is a brilliant presentation about Katana deployment.
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Hot in CG - fall of 2020
I think the current trend is to more and more people gravitates to Blender, Unreal Engine and Houdini. Why? Because these softwares are awesome. It is hard to imagine that big VFX facilities like ILM, MPC, Weta Digital changes there platform softwares which are Maya and Nuke in the first place. But more and more people uses BUEH (stand for Blender, Unreal Engine and Houdini) means the industry will change slowly but surely. Speaking about myself: at home I only use Blender, Krita and Gimp (and Inkscape and Audacity (and 4K Video Downloader of course 😄))
And the platform for share information is youtube so there are couple of links I think worth to watch.
Thursday, August 20, 2020
AI and CGI
We have to talk about Artificial Intelligence (AI) in connection with CGI. I think usage of AI can affect a lot of things we can't imagine right now. What we are talking about here? For eg. there is subset of AI the so called Machine Learning (ML). It allows us to solve problems much quicker because the computers basically have steeper learning curve. Of course we have to provide large data sets to learn from. It seems more and more things can be optimized with AI or ML.