[ Massive ] Red Robots Parano (test) from Ti’bOu on Vimeo.

this is my first Massive work wouuuhoouuu

I did create a Vimeo Album about it, so I’ll post all my exercices there : http://www.vimeo.com/album/60852

Here we are, already the 3rd week! So now it’s done, for sure I’m taking the following 4 classes for this term:

• MSV101 – Introduction to Massive
• AFX301 – A Guerrilla Filmmakers Guide to After Effects
• PFT202 – PFTrack in Production
• FUS101 – Introduction to Fusion

MSV101

This class is really nice, but in the other hand, massive looks like the most complicated software I ever “had to” learn. But it’s really interesting and I can’t wait to see what is going to come out of it… Read the rest of this entry »

libmv is a structure from motion library, which plans to one day take raw video footage or photographs, and produce full camera calibration information and dense 3D models.

The first targeted application for libmv is to integrate with Blender to make the first open source matchmoving solution

Roadmap – libmv – Release plans and goals for libmv. – Google Code.

I really looking forward for this project, since it will bring blender to a next level of vfx tool and make it the free complete opensource matchmove application available on “the market”

Check out the following video of what they got so far : Read the rest of this entry »

US, January 23, 2009 – Microsoft has confirmed the closure of Aces Game Studio, the internal development studio responsible for Microsoft Flight Simulator. Flight Simulator is one of the company’s oldest product lines, stretching back more than 20 years. The closure came amidst the company’s first major layoffs in its history, announced on Thursday. Approximately 5,000 Microsoft employees will be laid off; around 1,400 were cut immediately, with the remainder to but cut over the next 18 months.

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The source code is available to download here : http://code.google.com/p/ft-projects/source/browse/#svn/trunk/FaceAPI2FSX

NB : you’ll need to install your own copy of FaceAPI SDK (and probably FSX SDK as well) to compile this project

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FaceAPI with Flight Simulator 10 (FSX)

This is my test of combining FaceAPI with FSX SDK, so using the headtracking to control the point of view without any marker on your head.

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Ah Ah I forgot, I already took this class and it’s just amazing !

To be honest I wasn’t going to take any AfterFx classes at FXPHD since I think website like VideoCopilot.net are way enought to get into it. But I took a look at the first class which is rule by Gareth Edwards and I was so impressed by his workflow he had.

Ok, just to be clear, this guy made the VFX of a show for the BBC, called “Attila – The Hun“, He did it :

• all by himself,
• at home,
• 256 shots,
• in 5 months,
• using afterFX and Premiere

by working like that, YOU got to have great tips, really fluent workflow, and great organisation. So that’s why I enrolled in his class as well

The trailer of "Atilla - the Hun":

So now I started my first class of Fusion, it looks really exciting from here ! Finally getting into compositing.

I cannot determine if I’ll take the Flame’s classes yet or not ?! Kind of hard to follow a class without the ability to play around with the software. Well I’ll see, otherwise I might take the Maya class, since I said “One day, yeahh, I’ll learn Maya” (it’s been 3 years at least :p)

Sad thing about having one course per week is that you have to wait one week before getting the next class !!! it’s like watching a TV Show, and comes the moment like you know it’s getting to the end, and the story is never gonna be finished in the next 3 minutes, so you start crying cause you already you’ll have to wait 7 long days ! Yeah well I got the same feeling for my fxphd’s classes :p

o_O !!! ok, I just got my first course on Massive, and I think that THIS is gonna be a hard one. I think it’s going to be fun, but in the same time it looks really complicated ! I hope I’ll be smart enought :$

http://www.massivesoftware.com/special-features/

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Hey I just enrolled for this new terms and so far I’m going for PFTrack 202, Fusion 101, Massive 101, AfterFX 303, and maybe the Flame 101 which look really interesting !

Last term I took Syntheyes 101 and 201, and I’m really exciting about taking this new term !!! (let’s hope it will be usefull one day … )