One Battle After Another

Anybody in here work on One Battle After Another? Really curious about a breakdown for the scene where Leo falls into the alleyway from the roof. Seems like motion control? Stunty drops on the ground with pads, and then the B side of the shot is Leo getting up off the ground and panning right for him to be tased.

It looks amazing and seamless.

https://redd.it/1o8j0pg
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questions on 'state of' the industry, please share your insights!

*\*Hope this is in scope of the channel, if not my apologies\**

A few general questions, interested in your perspective!

1) I've seen some general talk about the state of VFX in Hollywood across multiple channels and there were murmurs of a union forming back when the SAG AFTRA strike started. Does anyone know if it actually exists? If VFX groups are separate from studios what is the disadvantage for joining one of these (I know studios can pressure lower rates but can't the industry come together to fight that?)

2) Contrasting VFX isn't treated very well (long hours, underpaid, high pressure work) with stars like [director James Cameron saying VFX should be paid less ](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/james-cameron-generative-ai-filmmaking-text-prompts-1236186102/)(the audacity!) and ["CGI is for loosers"](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/frankenstein-christoph-waltz-guillermo-del-toro-filmmaking-cgi-1236357587/) (et tu, Christoph?) what is the likelihood (from your vantage point in the industry) of a strike occurring before 2030?

3) Final question: given everything going on in the world/industry over last few years [leading to job shrinkage](https://www.reddit.com/r/vfx/comments/1dk81xt/what_is_the_situation_in_the_industry_right_now/), how do you all think that's going to play out with the uptick in CGI/VFX heavy films coming up the line? They're making less movies, but those movies are stilly heavy on special effects. [2026 is going to be a massive ](https://www.movieinsider.com/movies/2026)year with Spiderman 4, Marvel Doomsday, Jumanji potentially, The Odyssey. Given vfx is used a lot for even smaller films now thanks to the "fix it in post" curse, does this slate seem better or worse than years prior? More broadly do you think there is there enough talent/pipeline to scale with the industry's steady increase of using VFX for seemingly every type of project now?

https://redd.it/1o8lw2x
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Compositing reel tips

Hey, I was talking to a senior artist and he recommended me to put more prep shots at the beggining of my reel cleanups more 2d difficult tracks difficult rotos and greenscreens screen replacements I know there are some techniques that vary from studio to studio but I just wanted to know if that is more helpful instead of puting stuff like deep compositing and that stuff.. and if I could put another green screen, better like two for example

https://redd.it/1o8ng67
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Is it worth it for an individual to rent a rendering service?

I have an enthusiast tier workstation PC. I don't know anything about render farms or virtual machines.

Minorly- OCd 4090

32 GB 3200 MHz RAM

and a 4.3 GHz 10900KF - that I might be able to get to 5.2 if I look into Intel's proprietary overclocking gimmicks, though this might sacrifice the power or usage of secondary cores IIRC.

Would it be worth advertising my ability to quickly render extremely intensive projects or would people just rent a VM/render farm from a large company who can afford to offer this kind of thing much cheaper?

To clarify: I'm not looking to run my PC 24/7, just to be emailed project files for whatever software and then to render them manually before returning the final project to the artist.

https://redd.it/1o8n6k4
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The VFX Noticable?
https://youtu.be/AzDQeZ3BLYM

https://redd.it/1o8neyt
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This AI short film is making the rounds on LinkedIn

https://redd.it/1o8rjys
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I Remade Alien 3 with Modern VFX
https://youtu.be/NVPkDSHWp2E?si=YguQ1WTaK83OJLLL

https://redd.it/1o8tcgc
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learning to do transitions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81DtPgLlev4 where can i learn to do 3d transitions like these? doesnt have to be to this level but along the similar lines

https://redd.it/1o91f68
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How can I recreate this effect from this music video?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg-wOTx94uE

https://redd.it/1o967bq
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Witness Cam Tracking help

I'm seeing if anyone is up to assisting me on using a 360 camera for tracking. I'm following a tutorial I found online, but it's for Blender and I'm using C4d. I can't quite get my 360 footage tracks to line up with my A-cam. Anyone here think they can take a look at my files and see what I might be doing wrong?


Setup is a Gopro Max attached to the top of my Zcam. Both were shot at 59.94. The GP footage was tracked and exported inside Syntheyes. I imported my tracking into C4d, created my second camera and put in my measurements of the cameras offset. But it's just...wrong/lining up? Not sure wtf I'm doing that's not correct.

https://redd.it/1o95vw6
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Nightshift - made in c4d + Octane

https://redd.it/1o999ip
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Human realism advice
https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1o9bc5k

https://redd.it/1o9bcl5
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Xbox glow VFX

https://redd.it/1o9conw
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Miniature geometry for live action fluid effect

Anyone have any experience compositing fluids?

Idea is to shoot a plate of a staircase, build rough geometry as miniature of the staircase, paint it green, shoot the real fluid and composite into plate of location.

This is a shining type thing. End goal is the fluid looks like opaque milk. Thinking of painting miniatire green for key and using red opague fluid.

Any thoughts would be much appreciated.

https://redd.it/1o9exb4
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VFX lover doesn’t know where to start, need some pro advice!

Good evening artists!
I’ve been a bit lost lately and could really use some advice.

I’ve always been super passionate about visual effects and compositing, and I’m trying to figure out how to break into the VFX industry as either a Compositor or an FX Artist.

I’ve watched a bunch of videos about both roles and honestly, they both look amazing. But here’s the issue: my PC is kind of low to mid-range. It’s got 16GB RAM, a 6GB GPU, and a Ryzen CPU. It already struggles with my motion design work and sometimes even freezes, so I’m guessing Houdini would be too heavy for it.

On top of that, I hate coding haha, and I also hate waiting days just to see the result of a small tweak. That kind of workflow just kills my motivation. So I feel like compositing might be a better path for me.

That brings me to my second question. From what you see in the current industry, which has better job opportunities: Compositing or FX?

Also, I’m totally fine with relocating. In fact, I’d love to move somewhere with a more active creative scene because honestly, my country’s industry is kind of dying.

And finally, the big one. Where and how should I start learning compositing?
I heard about Ganz Ramalingam, and his program looks amazing, but it costs around 25k which is completely out of reach for me right now.

So, if anyone has a good roadmap or self-study plan that can really prepare me to enter the industry and compete someday, I’d be insanely grateful.

Thanks in advance to anyone who takes the time to reply!

https://redd.it/1o9bq83
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If I have shaky camera footage that doesn't track well, am I supposed to stabilize the footage for tracking and then once I'm done tracking add artificial shakiness?



https://redd.it/1o9hc3s
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A close up view of the silo collapse in Martinton, IL

https://redd.it/1o9jf87
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