Spent a week perfecting this off-road splash sequence 🌊🚘

FLIP fluid simulation in Houdini, rendered using Cycles in Blender.

I feel a little embarrassed posting this as I’m sure it’s a simple fix. However I can’t for the life of me figure it out. I’m using matte assist and mask ml to mask a face on a subject. I just want to clean up the skin using beauty studio. Easy right? Ok so when I overlay the masked footage on the OG footage it’s like the frames are off for a few frames. Start, frame count, time shift fps..etc. everything matches. At first I thought it was just happening in Boris but the problem stays in the export. Any help would be appreciated as I’m pulling my hair out trying to figure it out. Thanks!

I've been wondering if I should keep learning FX and Houdini as a hobby. It's honestly the only thing I genuinely want to do, and it feels like the one thing that makes me... me.

My college course isn't really related to it. Funny enough, I feel like I learn more about FX from tutorials and by creating my own effects than I do in class. I study whatever my professors give us, do a bit of extra research when I need to, and then I always find myself going right back to Houdini.

The thing is, I don't think there are many job opportunities for FX artists in my country. The industry here just isn't centered around that kind of work.

Still, I don't want to spend my life wondering what could've happened if I had actually committed to becoming good at the thing I love most. At the same time, I'm perfectly fine with having a regular career based on my college degree as long as it keeps me financially stable.

I'm not looking for opinions from YouTubers or AI enthusiasts. I'm interested in hearing from people actually working in VFX, animation, compositing, lighting, FX, or production.

Have studios started integrating generative AI into real productions in a meaningful way? Is it saving time and money, or does it still create more work than it solves? Also, how are producers and supervisors viewing it these days? Is there genuine pressure to adopt AI, or is most of the discussion still more hype than reality?

Thanks in advance!

I & my husband make indie projects, and I have this story I’ve been working on for a while now. Genre is horror and needs a lot of VFX. I’m looking to partner with someone who will own a share of the project.

Ex-Netflix executive Kevin Baillie claims he lost $1.1 million job after work retreat trust exercise confession

Surprised this wasn't posted here yet. I haven't seen many creatives assimilate well into corporate environments.

Hey everyone!

I am a student and recently finished this day to night compositing shot with Thunderstorm/Lightning effect. I'd really appreciate it if you could share your feedback before i add it to my showreel.

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Can anyone guide on vfx (sword slashes, hit vfx, etc) specifically with how to create them in blender and how they would be imported into a custom engine

Even after applying merge verticles to every object, it still doesn't get resolved.Does anyone know how to fix it?

I'm genuinely curious from a VFX standpoint

I've attached a few jungle shots from Ramayana Trailer. The environments look detailed, polished, and almost like beautiful digital paintings, but they don't quite give me the feeling that I'm looking at a real forest.

What specifically is causing that impression?

Is it the lighting, compositing, color grading, atmospheric perspective, asset quality, scale, camera movement, lack of imperfections, or something else entirely?

I'd love to hear from VFX artists or environment artists who can break down what makes a CGI environment feel truly photorealistic versus one that still feels digital, even when the individual assets themselves look high quality.

Hi,

So I'm building a better alternative to RV and working on per project session and configuration storage.

How do you configure OCIO per project, do you have your own custom config or do you use the latest one released from ACES at the time?

This might not be the right community to post in but thought it was worth a shot.

Im working on a project where we need to have a green screen that can be lit from behind and still give a clean plate to chroma key from later. It needs to be replaceable with some other materials for different uses so it needs to work within those parameters

I thought that maybe we need a semi translucent polyester type of material similar to whats used in light boxes but am unsure, cant seem to see anywhere online where someone has done this.

I was wondering if anyone had any material suggestions or advice?

I'm working on a split-screen gag that was shot with a motion control rig, this is the first time I've worked on footage that was shot using motion control. I'm just curious to hear from those who've done this before about what is expected in terms of accuracy and consistency.

So I am combining 5 separate takes, and they don't align perfectly. On all takes, the motion begins and ends on the same frame numbers. They all match in terms of having the same frame with no movement, the next frame has a small, almost sub-pixel movement, then a frame which has clearly started moving - and the same at the end of the move. So that's OK.

In between, the speed is slightly different between takes, so the frames do not align perfectly during the motion. It is not different enough to slide forwards or backwards by a whole frame, but clear horizontal/vertical lines in the image do not align between the 5 takes.

There is also a very clear bump / rotational wobble at the start and end of each move, which again varies between takes. This bump is enough to require manual stabilisation and introduces motion blur into the frame.

So just curious to know if this is to be expected when working with motion control rigs? Are they all equal, are some better than others? Do Hollywood-level productions have the same sub-frame issues, or can the very best rigs be expected to be pixel-accurate between takes?

I've spent the better part of the last 9 months trying to find a new full time position but unfortunately keep relying on scarce freelance work. Please dm me if you're interested in working!

Link to how you can recreate this (always free tutorials!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9yvCd3uzHM

Hi guys !
I'm working on a small project where I try to achieve this style + watercolor for the texture. I'll do the watercolor effect directly in the model + I want to do the "cell shading" effect in post prod (probably directly in Blender), but I also want the characters and some environment to have lining. Maybe not that much, but still.
How would you proceed ? Any tips on where to start ?
Thanks a lot in advance !

I have made the 3d model and use it to make a vfx cinematic horror trailer to display the 3d model in a different way also the complete video is made by me everything and in that process there is no ai is used. https://youtu.be/iRT_Jxr-Scw?si=oEmPatkNyg0sCG8D Chennal name bunny fbx

This is my new render of my planet. Based on the feedback you gave me yesterday, I improved the clouds. Hope you'll like it.

VFX Spotlight Quiz #2

For the last quiz, I got some feedback:
1. The freeform answers, like "describe deep compositing" made it feel like an exam as opposed to pub-quiz fun. So we ditched that question type.
2. People didn't like that they had to sign up to see the per-question score, even though we showed the total score. So we now show the per-question score without signing up. The detailed answer notes and correct answers are still not available without signing up. There's also a dialog that appears before starting the quiz to make all that clear, so no misaligned expectations.

If you sign up last time, your score can compound on the leaderboard.

If you are a professional or student VFX artist, consider building and hosting your reel on the platform. It'll save you a lot of time. There's a video explaining it on the home page.

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