Leading VFX studio MPC has explained how they created 300 plus shots for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. MPC has participated in the creation of such a scene and full stereo VFX shots as it were CG waterfalls and environments, mermaid’s tendrils, and a CG ship: Queen Anne’s Revenge, which included sails, ropes and rigging.
Brett Ratner, one of Hollywood’s most successful directors, producers and photographers needs a new identity for his production company Rat Entertainment. He will choose the winner from all qualified submissions with special consideration for the top voted entries. The selected design will be used as the animated logo for Rat Entertainment.
New issue 110 of Digital Photographer magazine brings for readers except Photoshop video tutorials, test shots and shooting guides also RAW conversion software in worth 90£ for free. This software is produced by Phase One and enables photographers to convert and edit their RAW files quickly and easily.
Allegorithmic released for free his Wooden Floor Material Generator for Autodesk 3DsMax 2012 and Autodesk Maya2012. With this you can create realistic parquet in just minutes. The task to create a realistic looking material to simulate parquet is not easy; each floorboard must be unique, uneven with its own properties and defects. Allegorithmic created a powerful dedicated filter allowing creating unique parquet floors, recreating all the subtle imperfections that will give life to your imagery.
Syflex is now available for the newest release of Autodesk Maya2012. This new release decrease the initialization time by a factor of up to 100 on cloths with more than 50,000 vertices. Syflex is a cloth simulation plugin for Maya bringing new possibilities by cloth animation and simulation. It’s a very easy to use and very fast, on a quad core Syflex is 15 times faster than similar products on the market.
