Seen a lot of people here, some really good who appear to be out of work.

If anyone is interested in show content for festivals, djs, pop acts and corporate work with some TV stuff thrown in, drop your show reel below. If anything suits what we do, ill reach out.

Octane, Cinema 4D, After effects, Unreal, Blender, Houdini, Premier, Nuke and resolove. We always need people for full jobs or odds and sods.

Sucks seeing so many talented artists struggling to find work.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/pjosephbell_technicolor-group-a-framework-for-transformation-activity-7178892187856752640-RuAk?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

You're already good enough, if jobs were out there you'd have one. Please stop doing personal work and burning your savings. Reality doesn't care how much time and effort you put into your reel. It sucks I know, but the industry is different now.

Source - my credit card

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SuKUmAQ01U

A side-by-side comparison of real-time footage from Rokoko samrtsuit pro 2 and Perception neuron3. In my opinion, Pn3 looks more natural, what do you think?

Has anyone managed to build xStudio for Windows ? It's been 3 times since I started again and I still can't do it.

So I've been researching VFX artists and adjacent careers' yearly salaries (as I,m wanting to go into the industry) but every source I can find is giving me widely different numbers in how much y'all make, so be honest how much does a job in the movie industry average?

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Since politics is just as important, the Government of Ontario has just released a new budget report, including making our provincial tax credits for VFX production more competitive on the world market.

The news is on Page 197

https://budget.ontario.ca/2024/pdf/2024-ontario-budget-en.pdf

The Ontario Computer Animation and Special Effects (OCASE) Tax Credit is an 18 per cent

refundable corporate income tax credit available to companies that undertake computer animation and special effects activities on eligible film and television productions in Ontario. To be eligible for the OCASE Tax Credit, a film or television production must also be certified for either the Ontario Film and Television Tax Credit or the Ontario Production Services Tax Credit, “tethering” the OCASE Tax Credit to these other film and television tax credits. The government is proposing to remove this tethering requirement and replace it with the following new eligibility rules to ensure the credit continues to only support professional productions. These new rules deliver on the government’s commitment to explore opportunities to simplify tax credit support for computer animation and special effects activities:
 A qualifying corporation would be required to incur a minimum of $25,000 in Ontario labour expenditures for each film or television production for which the OCASE Tax Credit is claimed. The minimum labour expenditure threshold would be required to be incurred in the taxation year of the claim or cumulatively between the taxation year of the claim and the previous taxation year. Once a qualifying corporation incurs the minimum labour expenditure threshold within up to two taxation years for a specific production, expenditures related to that production in those taxation years and any subsequent taxation years would be eligible; and
 Certain types of productions would be excluded from eligibility, including but not limited to instructional videos, music videos and gaming videos. The new rules would be effective for productions for which the qualifying corporation commences computer animation and/or special effects work on or after March 26, 2024.

Ironically, I was calling for my government to help save our local studios in the past few months. So wish granted?

https://www.reddit.com/r/vfx/comments/1ap1ryr/ontarios_film_industry_grows_with_amazon_mgm/kq3ruky/ https://www.reddit.com/r/vfx/comments/1ag0gi0/what_is_going_on_with_ontarios_vfx_scene_dont_we/

Hello everyone,

I'm going to deal with a huge shot which is a Bluescreen 1800 frames long it's a long take ).
It's the first time I work on a shot like this, so I would like to hear from your experience!

I'm a very organized Comper, and one thing I've already thought about was like cutting the shot into different parts and work pretending they're different shot (?)
What about the Rendering part for submitting for reviews?

Any advice is appreciated! Thanks.

I'm thinking of studying Visual effects or Media design at uni. And people tell me I should just do a sysadmin degree because you can't really get a job with media, vfx or 3D art.

So my very vague question is, is it a dumb idea to start studying vfx now?

Hey guys! I’m having some trouble doing a toilette paper roll, I mean made the model is pretty easy but I’m having troubles with the simulation, I’m trying to make it unroll naturally with rigid body, but is not that easy, if you have any good way to do this please help me… btw I’m trying to do a VFX where the toilette paper unroll over a building

Hello fellow people.

I'm going to be interviewing for a position at a local VFX studio this afternoon and I'd like to say I know about the industry but I don't. If I were successful I'd be coming out of an MSP's helpdesk so it'd definitely be a learning curve, but based off of the requirements on the position I am actually eligble.

I am very interested in this position purely because of the extra technical responsibility so I want to go in with a good chance. Any tips for a job like this? This is r/vfx so it'd be a little different to r/sysadmin or somewhere similar but I'd really love your input.

Thanks heaps guys!

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What is the difference between procedural shading and procedural textures. I am currently looking into some tutorials to get better idea for doing procedural work in maya or houdini. Was unable to find in maya as I want to create I nice shader for a brick model and i have a texture to use. Trying to get a better understanding on this area, thanks for reading.

Hi All,

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https://staging.streamable.com/ejwgl4

The 3d on the road (Right side of the video), how do I motion track and add it?

Is it only possible using 3d package? or Ae can do the trick?

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I recently took on a short film with 100+ vfx shots. When the director asked if I wanted to work on the project we only discussed the vfx (obviously). Now that the editor is prepping to give me the shots, Im realizing they expect me to whip out my nonexistent VFX editor skills. I have absolutely zero knowledge or experience with handoff or delivery other than I know how to read in the plate and write out the render. At my studio thats usually all handled by my I/O team, cuz ya know, Im not a VFX editor. The director and editor are talking about giving me AAFs and EDLs, and several different edits and a final conform thing… Absolutely no idea what any of that is. I just make the shots mannn. And it doesnt help that the only time I tried to explain this to them, they blankly stared at me like I was stupid lol.

So is it my fault for not communicating earlier that I dont deal with this stuff or should they have been more clear? Also totally forgot to mention, this is my first freelance project so Im not sure what is usually expected from the freelancer. Also Im doing this for a friend of a friend so its not like an actual client, but still everyone has professional experience and they know what theyre doing. Anyways, how do I handle this? Should I recommend they bring a VFX editor onboard to smooth things out?

Maybe its easier than I think, it just seems intimidating cuz they’re sending me all this shit Ive never seen before. At my studio Im used to all the scripts being prepped for us with a ref and a plate. Thats all I know…

Anyone using it ? Any opinions ? It seems to do everything, from bidding, asset management, show/shot/task assignments, files structure, software integration.

Ans I hear everyone complaining about the alternatives, but nobody seems to be using NIM.

Does anyone have a suggestion on a battery pack that could be used for on set work? Something that I could keep a laptop plugged into all day? For those locations that don’t have outlets scattered around..

Hey everyone,

I hope you're doing good, i'm a Junior Compositor and i would like to practice me craft during those hard times. I would like to know if there are some monthly/bi-monthly challenges given by some parts of the communities (like The Rookies did back in the days). On this particular situation i do not care about money i just want to practice.

One more question, do you have any ideas on how i could get to work for a project like short film. Does dm people of kickstarter, kiss kiss bang bang work ?

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Thanks a lot !

Anyone else get a jump scare when opening ShotGrid this morning?

No idea what Autodesk was thinking…

Mind my ignorance, but isn't it better to use raw or log so color grading would be better/easier? Can someone explain this to me or at least point me to the direction of learning some courses or links?

Thx all!

Hi. I'm a compositor and im trying to figure out if the latency and distance would be a problem when working from Asia remotely connected to a server and computer in Europe.

I have a stable fiber connection in Asia with speedtest.net: Download: 370 mbps Upload: 107 mbps Idle latency: 3 ms download latency: 67 ms upload latency: 6 ms

Since longer distances mean more signal propagation time, leading to higher latency I want to know if this still would be smooth and doable.

Is anyone here doing this right now or has someone at least tried it? Cheers