[nikola]

VOODOO wrote:

Once again the ole banding issue. Is there any tricks to creating a grad without getting the banding. The aliasing feature in Action doesnt get rid of it. Was in a HD project and needed a simple grad. Ended up having to do it in Photoshop. Any suggestions.

tinder is good, another trick is to add some grain

[nikola]

Are you using any Tinder or Furnace plugins ??? – we have the same problem – but mostly if we use Tinder or Furnace – no problem with saphire or other plugins

[nikola]

you’re absolutely right – they seems like amazing machines …. and i think the new shake could be very interesting … however Apple is more a consumer company – there force is design and smart featured applications and Leopard seems to amaze … BUT i want a stable and specialed system … with my new macbook next to it for all the smart communication stuff etc….

if discreet should do anything – they should take flint over on these machines and but the price down to compete shake/nuke and run flame with one of these :::

http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/graphics/nvidia-announces-quadro-plex

my point is that discreet should allways go for the best hardware … even though a short trends make other apelling

[nikola]

Hey guys …

The reason why we choose to pay lots of dollars for a discreet system is to get af full tested system that is not influented by OS opdates … etc.

I like linux … it’s made for Production !!!! And hardware must be what discreet chooses to work and peform best under linux!!

If I wanted flame as a Mac Appl…. why don’t just run shake or nuke on OS/X

[nikola]

I would put Digital Domain much higher on both commercials and features … like #2 on commercials and between 5-7 on features…

what about Double Negative from the UK – they showed some really good work lately on features.

and Sony Picture Imageworks is also a the top 5 on features

In commercial world, the mill is really the winner, however I think is funny to see what comes out of small shop like ourself, considering that we have fragtment of time/budget compared to the large campaigns the large shops works on.

[nikola]

we’re testing the same in the moment and have found some really good alternatives to Sonys HD CRTs – not much cheaper but thiner and actually better in resultion…

Cinetal are good – but they have a noisy fan (however they are working to solve this)
E-cinema system – have a 23″ which we are waiting to test – I’ll post my judge later on …

jonas

[nikola]

DesignDawg wrote:

Hey all,

Pretty self-explanatory subject line. Do you use DVDs? SAN? NAS? AIT? SAIT? SATA? DLT?

I’m finalizing my decision on buying a new Smoke system, and I know, with >4TB of storage for 2K files, I’m going to need SOMETHING. I’d love to hear opinions, workflows, solutions, etc. For example, is anyone using a Windows-based NAS for backup? How?

Thanks,

Ricky

We’re using SAIT tapes for out linux flint … it’s amazing!! fast and easy to use, and all resolution and history data is on the same tape …

[nikola]

what about doing it with displacement …. shoot a face in a darkroom with the light falling off to make a depth matte … (actually infared / nightshot on DV cameras could be better) Use this footage to displace the image in flame. You might wanna do some pre stuff like cleaning the matte.

I don’t know if this will give you the effect you are looking for – just an idea.

[Author]

Posts