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Posts from ‘December, 2009’

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Real Flow Essentials CG Society Workshop
So the big news of what I’ve been working on for the past 3 months! The Real Flow Essentials CG Society Workshop has finally been announced! This workshop is aimed at both expert level and intermediate FX users, or anyone in general looking to break into Real Flow.

This workshop is multi-platform, so whether you’re a Maya user, Max user, Houdini or XSI etc. As long as you have Real Flow you’re able to participate in this course. This workshop runs over 8 weeks, during which we cover a lot of information on how Realflow works, but also how to optimize and speed up simulation times, various tricks to get better simulations and utilize much of its dynamics, as well as various industry techniques to help advanced all users and ready them to jump into real visual effects shots confidently.

The workshop has only been announced for a few hours of posting this, and last time I checked there were 18 positions of the 35 already taken, so Imagine this 8 week course will fill up very quickly. So get in while you can!

Christmas Special – all four DVD’s for $199!
A bit of a shameless plug, but for those of you interested in purchasing any of the training DVD’s of mine, I have for this month only (until end of December) selling all four advanced training DVD’s together for only $199! Click here for more information
Autodesk Masters
Joe Gunn has been nominated to join the ranks of the masters. Some of Joe’s recent work includes working on the LA destruction sequence for the new movie 2012. Joe’s most recognized for a lot of his rigging and cloth/hair DVD’s, tutorials and classes as well as much of his great work he’s performed in New York and LA. Check out the Autodesk Master’s nominee’s here!

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Want to write your own FX tools?

Previously I’ve mentioned saving pflow presets which has been a real time saver, but what if you want to delve into building an fx pipeline where you literally put in the controls, the object you want to have your FX applied to etc. all in your own custom interface? This is something that I any many others have been doing for years, building blackboxes for FX.

This video we don’t go too deep into the whole process, however rest assured there will be some more videos coming that do. In this video we more just cover the first few steps of building an interface and choosing a custom object to apply your effects to. As well as building a preset file which we can read into our scene and then modify through our script. This is the first steps in the process, but I’m sure many of you will watch this video and then take this concept and build way further beyond the intended steps using this approach. I can’t wait to see what you guys come up with!

More to come soon on this subject, as well as a few big announcements coming next month so stay posted!

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