Andrew Hazelden – Movies & Visual Effects

[...] on her blog. This has inspired me to want to get out and capture a few seasonal photos around West Dover, Nova Scotia. When I woke up on the [...] [...]

[...] Here are a few snapshots of West Dover, Nova Scotia taken from the air using a Multiplex Eaststar model airplane. [...]

[...] taste the wild raspberries and blueberries and capture a few photos of the streams and lakes in West Dover. [...]

[...] Today was a great evening to be outdoors in West Dover. The fall colours have just started to appear on the trees and the water was glassy calm. [...]

[...] using lens shaders a lot recently and I wanted to share this MEL script patch I created for the Mental Ray for Maya Physical Sky & Sun system. The update fixes an issue where the default physical [...]

[...] I've just finished a set of Notepad++, BBEdit, and TextWrangler syntax highlighting modules for Mental Ray and iRay. The new modules makes it easier for a VFX artist or technical director to edit a [...]

[...] Clip #1 Production Notes I'm using Autodesk Maya to animate the world of Zosma, along with Mental Ray and [...] [...]

[...] This morning I was using Autodesk Maya and mental ray to create a batch of fisheye formatted images. The only problem was the results from several [...]

[...] a new python script that makes it easy to set up and use mental ray environment map nodes in Autodesk Maya. This is useful for rendering environment maps using spherical or cubic texture maps. About [...]

[...] Speedgrade Introduction I've been looking for a good replacement for Autodesk Maya's Fcheck image playback utility. At first I thought of using the Mental Ray IMF-display [...]

[...] I thought it would be fun to brainstorm new feature ideas for Autodesk Maya 2015. All I was able to come up with was "Clippy for Maya". Who wouldn't want an [...]

[...] Recently I assisted a planetarium's animation studio department upgrade their render farm from Autodesk Maya 2014 & 3DS Max 2014 to the newer Maya 2015/3DS Max 2015 releases. The render nodes were [...]

[...] code from Solid Angle's Arnold Renderer. The new modules make it easier for a VFX artist or technical director to edit an Arnold scene source (.ass) file. Download The Arnold Syntax Highlighter module [...]

[...] that works with Softimage SPDL files. The new modules make it easier for a VFX artist or technical director to edit an SPDL document with an external text editor, and this can speed up your […] [...]

[...] code from Chaos Group's Vray Renderer. The new modules make it easier for a VFX artist or technical director to edit a vray vrscene file. For more details on the Vray vrscene syntax check out the Vray [...]

[...] modules for Mental Ray and iRay. The new modules makes it easier for a VFX artist or technical director to edit a Mental Ray .mi include file. Download The Mental Ray Syntax Highlighter module is [...]

[...] Text tool. The fulldome optimized title tool will be included in the next release of the Domemaster3D Shader for Maya. The new GUI should make it a lot easier to create animated title cards and [...]

[...] The latest version of the Domemaster3D shader for Maya and 3DS Max has been released today. This version brings the Mac builds back in [...]

[...] , and cubic panoramas. The meshes were created as part of the development process for the Domemaster3D shader's DomeViewer Tool. If you need a tool to convert imagery between the different cubic [...]

[...] For the last two years the Domemaster3D shader has been one of the leading tools for creating pre-rendered stereoscopic content for the [...]

[...] Overview I would like to present a new set of Notepad++, BBEdit, and TextWrangler syntax highlighting modules that work with code from Sky-Skan's Digital Sky planetarium software. [...]

[...] Overview I've just finished a set of Notepad++, BBEdit, and TextWrangler syntax highlighting modules for Mental Ray and iRay. The new modules makes it easier for a VFX [...]

[...] I wanted to mention that I released a Notepad++, GEDIT, BBEdit, and TextWrangler syntax highlighting module for code from Solid Angle's Arnold Renderer. The new modules make it [...]

[...] I've just finished a set of Notepad++, GEDIT, BBEdit, and TextWrangler syntax highlighting modules for code from Chaos Group's Vray Renderer. The new modules make it [...]

[...] To prepare for the Winter Warmup RetroChallenge 2013 event I had to swap the power supply on my Silicon Graphics O2 and tinker with [...]

[...] In preparing for the upcoming January 2013 Winter Warmup RetroChallenge I took my vintage Silicon Graphics O2 workstation out of storage and plugged it in to [...]

I've started preparing for the upcoming RetroChallenge 2014 Winter Warmup event. This year I hope to explore a little bit of IRIX, try loading OS/2 Wa [...]

[...] Domemaster Photoshop Actions Pack Version 0.6 Released This week I updated the Domemaster Photoshop Actions Pack to version 0.6 by adding support for converting images between angular fisheye and 2: [...]

[...] Nova Scotia. The image was shot using a Peleng 8mm fisheye lens and edited using the Domemaster Photoshop Actions Pack. [...]

[...] Hi. This is a quick post to let you know the Domemaster Photoshop Actions Pack has been updated. The new version 1.0 release adds the following three actions: 180° [...]