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.
- Tab Layouts
- WebBrowser
- GetFileList
- FloatFieldGrp
- SelectMode
- CurrentTime
- Fmod
- Catch
- PluginInfo
- CreateHair
- NormalConstraint
- Rigid Body Add-ons
- Baking out Softbodies in a Blendshape
- Particle Motion Paths
- Speeding up Your Cloth Workflow
- Dynamic Surface Constraints w/ Hair Follicles
- Product Code: KMA03
- ISBN: 1-59762-944-8
- UPC: 805366016036
- Duration: 453 minutes
- Formats: DVD-ROM
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Software Used:
Autodesk
Maya
Kevin Mannens
Moving Picture Company
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: 10,000 BC and The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.
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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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