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“Finally the wonders
of MEL are accessible for people with even a bare minimum
of technical knowledge! Kevin's thorough production experience
and strong educational
background shows through in this excellent series on MEL.
With his witty eloquence and well-structured approach he
makes even the most advanced
concepts and techniques understandable. This set is without
a doubt an invaluable resource for any aspiring TD - and
any artist who is interested
in optimizing and fine-tuning his pipeline .”
- Tom Kluyskens
Senior Technical Director
Sony Pictures Imageworks
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- Instructor:
Kevin MANNENS
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In MEL For Effects Artists, effects
technical director Kevin Mannens offers an in-depth and hands-on
dissertation on how to streamline and perfect your effects
pipeline. This lecture demonstrates how to speed up your cloth
workflow based on your production needs, streamline rigid body
dynamics, workaround particle limitations, add functionality
to Maya’s hair engine, and make your code more dynamic
and productive in a harsh production environment.
Over 7 hours of lecture.
Product Code: KMA03
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Rigid Body Add-ons
02: Baking out Softbodies in a Blendshape
03: Particle
Motion Paths
04: Speeding up Your Cloth Workflow
05: Dynamic Surface Constraints w/ Hair Follicles
Click here to
view a sample clip from this DVD. Note that while this
clip is 640x480 the actual movie size is 1024x768 with
higher quality compression . View the stills to the right
to see the actual resolution.
Kevin Mannens, a Belgian native, originally pursued an academic career at
the University of Leuven, where he received his MA in philosophy. Due to a
mind-boggling sequence of fortunate events, he regained consciousness and
worked three years at the Alias|Wavefront (AW) European Support Centre as an
application engineer. Traveling around Europe, Kevin worked with and trained
AW clients such as Moving Picture Company, Double Negative, CFC, Cinesite
and many more. Wanting a warmer climate and new professional challenges,
Kevin moved to Manila, in the Philippines, for a job as Technical Director
at ImagineAsia. He hasn’t looked back since and swears by his lifestyle as a
lyrical vagabond, alternating between TD and SCUBA instructor, most recently
in China, Malaysia, Philippines, New Zealand, Taiwan and Thailand. He is
currently Technical Director at The Moving Picture Company in London. His
feature film credits include: 10.000BC and The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince
Caspian.
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