The Muffin

Open Muffin - The story is finished! from Open Muffin on Vimeo.

Everyone is invited to contribute to the project and everyone is allowed to watch, enjoy and spread the final animations.

The result will be a number of funny 3D animation shorts based on the same characters, each with a likewise story released under the Creative Commons Attribution License.

If you like the idea of helping the muffin project, read on at “how to contribute”.
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3D Stereoscopic Visual Effects

3D Stereoscopic Visual Effects - web event
Free webinar on 3D Stereoscopic Visual Effects
Limited 'seating' but there will be a recording. 10am this Friday.
By Lee Stranahan with speakers Jason Goodman and Daniel Smith
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VFX402 – Through The Looking Glass to Underland
Submissions Start: April 1st 2010
Submissions End: May 1st 2010
The new challenge is on now...hope to take part in this one as well....
Still waiting the official result of the first one thought....
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Vfx Town Hall

VFX Town Hall – Community Links
Here some more link going around:

Motion Design Standards of Practice Wiki
“This open, collaborative site aims at establishing standards of practice for employers and employees in the motion design industry, including freelance animators, designers, art directors, and visual effects artists.”



Lucas Martell blog post “VFX Union Solution” with an explanation and link to a Google Spreadsheet form where people can enter hours anonymously to start to get a global sense of hours worked vs. hours paid.

VFX TOWNHALL

an open disccusion of a visual effects industry in transition
Panelists includeD:
Chris deFaria -- Vice President, Warner Bros. Pictures
Jefferey A. Okun -- Visual Effects Society Chair and visual effects supoervisor
Scott Ross -- Co-Founder of Digital Domain & former CEO of Industrial, Light and Magic

The panel was moderated by Lee Stranahan, a former visual effects artist and writer for The Huffington Post whose Open Letter To James Cameron: Fairness For VIsual Effects Artists started discussions all around the world.
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Foundry NAB Preview

--- outlines the new products from the foundry to be shown for the first time at NAB 2010 in Las Vegas. New products include the acquisition of Weta's Paint and texturing program Mari, a new optical flow tool for AE and new Nuke versions.
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Nuke Stereo Master Class Plus 6.1 Preview

The Foundry held its second Master Class in London on Friday, playing to packed house at the Vue theatre in Leicester Square. The event was standing-room only, having given away all the seats in only 24 hours when it was announced earlier this year
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Escape Studios

Escape Studios is offering their new scholarship...
New Skillset course open for applications..
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