Awards // VES 2024

February 22, 2024

Two VES trophies were awarded to Electric Theatre in Los Angeles last night for Coca Cola – Masterpiece for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Commercial and Outstanding Lighting and Compositing in a Commercial. Fantastic work by all involved. Here’s the ‘Making Of’. https://electrictheatre.tv/work/the-coca-cola-company-mastermopiece/

Script: Bake Camera

January 5, 2024

import hou selectedNode = hou.selectedNodes()[0] bakingNode = hou.node(‘/obj’).createNode(‘cam’, selectedNode.name() + ‘_bake’) hou.setFrame(int(hou.playbar.playbackRange()[0])) for f in range(int(hou.playbar.playbackRange()[0]), int(hou.playbar.playbackRange()[1])+1): hou.setFrame(f) bakingNode.setWorldTransform(selectedNode.worldTransform()) bakingNode.parm(“tx”).setKeyframe(hou.Keyframe(bakingNode.parm(“tx”).eval())) bakingNode.parm(“ty”).setKeyframe(hou.Keyframe(bakingNode.parm(“ty”).eval())) bakingNode.parm(“tz”).setKeyframe(hou.Keyframe(bakingNode.parm(“tz”).eval())) bakingNode.parm(“rx”).setKeyframe(hou.Keyframe(bakingNode.parm(“rx”).eval())) bakingNode.parm(“ry”).setKeyframe(hou.Keyframe(bakingNode.parm(“ry”).eval())) bakingNode.parm(“rz”).setKeyframe(hou.Keyframe(bakingNode.parm(“rz”).eval())) bakingNode.parm(‘focal’).setKeyframe(hou.Keyframe(selectedNode.parm(‘focal’).eval())) bakingNode.parm(‘aperture’).setKeyframe(hou.Keyframe(selectedNode.parm(‘aperture’).eval())) bakingNode.parm(‘near’).setKeyframe(hou.Keyframe(selectedNode.parm(‘near’).eval())) bakingNode.parm(‘far’).setKeyframe(hou.Keyframe(selectedNode.parm(‘far’).eval())) bakingNode.parm(‘resx’).setKeyframe(hou.Keyframe(selectedNode.parm(‘resx’).eval())) bakingNode.parm(‘resy’).setKeyframe(hou.Keyframe(selectedNode.parm(‘resy’).eval())) bakingNode.parm(‘winsizex’).setKeyframe(hou.Keyframe(selectedNode.parm(‘winsizex’).eval())) bakingNode.parm(‘winsizey’).setKeyframe(hou.Keyframe(selectedNode.parm(‘winsizey’).eval())) bakingNode.parm(‘shutter’).setKeyframe(hou.Keyframe(selectedNode.parm(‘shutter’).eval())) bakingNode.parm(‘aspect’).setKeyframe(hou.Keyframe(selectedNode.parm(‘aspect’).eval()))

Awards // Kinsale Shark Advertising

November 25, 2023

More gongs for the Electric Theatre cabinet. This time Kinsale Sharks. Post & VFX Company Of The Year Best CGI / VFX – The Coca Cola Company – Masterpiece | Gold Animation – The Coca Cola Company – Masterpiece| Gold Animation – Accenture – Changing Tree | Silver Character Animation – The Coca Cola Company – Masterpiece | … Read More

Awards // Ciclope Festival

November 22, 2023

ETC picked up a stack of awards at the 2023 CICLOPE festival. Amongst them were Animation Company of the Year, Gold in Animation CGI for Accenture – Changing Tree and Silver in Post Production – VFX for Coca-Cola – Masterpiece  

Hscript: Parent

March 1, 2023
Use this to get the name of the current node's parent `opname("..")`

VEX: Delete Isolated Points

September 15, 2022

int pts[] = nearpoints(0, @P, chf(“radius”),2);if (len(pts)==1){removepoint(0,@ptnum);}