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
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Awards // Cannes Lion // Coca-Cola Masterpiece
The Coca-Cola – Masterpiece project has won a Bronze Cannes Lion for Animation. Cash In Cash Out also won two Golds for Animation and Excellence In Music Video
Awards // D&AD Awards 2023 // Coke – Masterpiece and Pharrell Cash In, Cash Out
A whole host of pencils in varying colours were dished out to my friends at ETC last night for the blood, sweat and toil that went into Coke – ‘Masterpiece’ and Pharrell – ‘Cash In, Cash Out’. D&AD Awards Shortlist | 2023
Awards // British Arrows // Pharrell, 21 Savage and Tyler, The Creator – Cash In Cash Out
Big congratulations to the ETC crew who worked tirelessly on Cash In, Cash Out, and have now picked up a British Arrows Craft Gold https://www.britisharrows.com/winners/2023/cash-in-cash-out
Awards // Burberry Festive
Burberry Festive has garnered some favourable reviews over recent months with it hitting the top spot on Televisual’s 2021 Commercials 30 Survey shortly followed by winning a Silver at the CLIO Awards in the Craft Visual Effects category. Mad props to all those who worked on it. It came out good. https://www.moving-picture.com/news/burberry-takes-home-silver-at-the-clio-awards https://www.moving-picture.com/news/burberry-and-jean-clement-soret-hit-number-1-in-televisuals-2021-commercials-30-survey
Awards: JD.com – “Joy & Heron”
“Joy & Heron” has picked up a few awards in recent weeks. A Gold Ciclope for Long Form Animation A Silver LIA for Production & Post-Production: CGI Animation Golds at The One Show Awards for Online Video, Branded Entertainment, and Animation.
VEX: split string and convert to integer
//Split @anotherAttribute based on ‘_’ string myString[] = split(s@anotherAttribute, “_”); //Use last element as attribute value s@tempString = myString[-1]; //convert string to integer i@myIntegerFromString = atoi(s@tempString);
VEX: Bend Wrangle
Taken from https://tosinakinwoye.com/2017/01/23/houdini-vex-snippets/ //Input is a line //Resample SOP on line for more points //Activate curveu attrib in resample SOP //Remap curveu to shape of bend @curveu=chramp(“ramp”,@curveu); float bamt = chf(“bend_amt”); //bend amount vector benddir = chv(“bend_dir”); //bend direction @P+= benddir * bamt * @curveu;
Houdini Python: Find/Replace Parameter Expression
A little script to find/replace strings in selected nodes’, parameter expressions: import hou sel = hou.selectedNodes() dialog = hou.ui.readMultiInput('Find/Replace In Expression', input_labels=['Find: ', 'Replace: ',], buttons=("Find/Replace", "Cancel"), severity=hou.severityType.ImportantMessage, title='Find/Replace', close_choice=1) find = dialog[1][0] replace = dialog[1][1] if dialog[0] == 0: for n in sel: for parms in n.parms(): try: newString = str(parms.eval()).replace(find, replace) parms.set(newString) except: … Read More
VEX: SOP Rotation
f@speed = fit01(rand(@ptnum), ch('minSpeed'), ch('maxSpeed')); float angle = (ch('angle')+@ptnum)*@speed; vector axis = sample_direction_uniform(rand(@ptnum*ch('seed'))); @orient = quaternion(angle, axis);