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Here is one of my old commercials made with realflow and rendered in final render (3d max). Read More »

I have decided to attempt FXPHD October’08 courses on Realflow, Digital compositing and Photography for VFX.

The most exciting thing is that Realflow course is being run by professor Mark Stasiuk from Fusion CI Studios, one of the most advanced users of realflow ever, which we can talk to on fxphd forums. Whole course is about quite basic stuff but there might be some things You haven’t thought about this way.
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I’m also happy to announce that I have been qualified to Academy of Fine Arts in Poland/Warsaw!

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I have been working (as onset supervisor) for Lunapark studio with newest, extremely portable rig from Mark Roberts, The Modula’ Rig - The transformer of motion control rigs.

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Summer Learning!

Yeah, It’s summer and I’m not on a vacations. BUT I have to say, at least I’m working on interesting project - next Polish movie in 2K res with some fluid effects. Of course I cannot say more about it YET.. but soon.

This vacations I have also dedicated to Houdini and renderman. It’s very good time without crazy deadlines so I have decided to learn some stuff.

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Ok, I am amazed with Houdini and very happy that sidefx did the OS X version!

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Today SideFX relased public beta of osx Houdini version!

“The public beta release is available today for download on all platforms. 3D Artists can participate in the public beta using Houdini Apprentice or Houdini Apprentice HD which contains all of Houdini Master’s features except for third party rendering and FBX export. These non-commercial editions of Houdini are ideal for learning the software and working on personal projects and demo reels”

[grab it here-osx]

Expo 2008 is an international exposition planned to be held from 14 June to 14 September 2008 coordinated by the Bureau of International Expositions, the organization that is responsible for sanctioning World’s Fairs. The 2008 expo will be held in Zaragoza, Spain, with the topic of “Water and sustainable development“.
[From Wikipedia]

The coolest part is that I was working on part of animation which is representing Poland on expo. NanoFX Studios that also worked on “Peter and the Wolf” (oscar nominated movie) created 12min of 3D animation full of water and realflow’s fluids which I was working on

Of course I will post that animation as soon as it will be possible.
Meanwhile some more info about it, but only in Polish [HERE]

“Delicje cytrynowe” commercial (ice scene and packshot)
Agency:
Production:
Director:
Post production: AlienFX

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Houdini is another great 3D animation package with fluid based particle simulations. Just like realflow it can simulate fluid systems but also provides infinitive possibilities like generating fluid mesh during redendering process. Houdini is allso well known as L-systems builder and it’s based on nodes. It uses it’s own “Mantra” renderer and also work with Pixar’s Renderman, Mental Ray, Maxwell and probablly few others. The coolest part of all is the news about osx Houdini version

Best way of quick learning your new software is to watch few basics tutorials

Just finishing Digital tutor’s set and waiting for cool 3D buzz DVD to arrive.
I’ll keep posting about my progress and hope that my next project will be fully done in Houdini :p