[Martincito]

We need the Viagra before going to Las Vegas no after. : )

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Yes, but you can’t videochat in the Mac version and ichat is not compatible with any video chat software on Windows.

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Messenger 😛

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We received a quotation of $5000 per node + 7600 per render machine + you need another computer to run the render software.

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arctor wrote:

saw Kong on Sat….
while I thought it was /very/ entertaining and Kong himself was really really fantastic (by far the best actor in the film) I have to say that (like LOTR) the effects overall were very inconsistent…from Kong being soooo convincing and emotionally engaging on screen to really bad simple comps – most shots of Kong carrying whatsername were terrible…
I feel bad saying it (I have friends who worked on it)…but the blame, IMO, rests squarely on Peter Jackson…wanting to put as much into a film as possible is great, and as a film lover I’m grateful for the passion and desire to entertain…but there were a couple of sequences in Kong that could have been dropped (because they added /nothing/ to the film in any way – spider pit being chief among them) which would have allowed an appropriate amount of time for all the other shots…

The CG in general is awesome, but I agree that there are some comps that are a little weak. Every time that the monkey is shaking the girl in his hands it looks funny with tons of motion blur. The dinosaur stampede is weird, the actors have a light that doesn’t match, too bright and clean to be running below a bunch of gigantic animals. In the overall I feel the compositing work was much better in LOTR.

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I went to a demo last thursday at NAB Post New York and Flame on Linux looks very fast and the interactivity was excellent. The guy put together 20 layers in HD and the flame moved fast. He also tried the edge-rays Sapphire spark, that usually is very slow, and the interactivity was excellent, almost real time every time that he changed the parameters.

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Thanks for the advice
I did a second pass with tracker point.

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I agree, Flame R&D has fallen behind the rest of the galaxy. Seven years ago Flame was kicking ass, it was far better than any other software an killed Quantel. Now my aunt can do the same effects with a fraction of the money that we spend in updates.
All the 3D environments (Lights, particles, 3D tracking, textures) are lame.
I hope with the purchase of Maya we can access to better things.

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You can use Photosphere

There is an article talking about that

http://www.fxguide.com/article268.html

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I did this kind of work but without particles. We shot an stunt man fireproof protected doing the same movement that the caracters and them we put it together in Flame.
If you send me your email I can send you the commercial as a reference.

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There is a place called Bikini, I think they have Flame.
In Lisbon there is just a couple of Flames, If I’m not wrong.

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I’d like to buy Furnace but I don’t want to ask money again to my boss to pay the upgrade to version 2. They released this version for shake 6 months ago.

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Michael Gondry did that music video. You can buy a DVD with a lot of works done for that director (for me one of the best directors) . This DVD includes that video.

http://www.fxguide.com/modules.php?name=Amazon&asin=B0000DBJ9J

[ed: edited by fxguide crew….linked to the fxguide store]

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That is an optical effect. The eye can’t perceive that sequence of frames like a movement. That is because the movement is so fast than you can notice the distance between one frame to another creating a stroboscopic effect. If you have in the original image any vertical line at the same position you should see the same effect than in your text. I don’t know if you can fixed without changing the speed. If you were working in video at least you could have the field option.
Sorry for my english too.

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