29th July �08 �Worksss
CG Workshop filling up quickly!
Hi guys so the new CG workshop is online! This class covers 8 solid weeks of intense vfx training. Primarily a lot of film vfx its aimed primarily at mid to senior fx people however plenty of newbs have committed to this class and achieved amazing results! So click on the link below to sign up, it fills up usually in a couple of days the last few I havent announced as we've had people who missed out on previous classes pre booking. So get in there fast and I look forward to training with you guys!
Click here for more information on the latest CG Workshop - Visual effects for Film!
15th July �08 �Worksss
Update & new cg workshop
I have just officially moved to Vancouver, BC so I'll be now living in Canada. The key reason is to live back on the north side of the hemisphere so I'm back in action again, as 15 hour flights from Aus to <where_ever> tends to take its toll after a while!
So I will be attending SIGGRAPH this year, I am holding a masterclass on Fire (Brandon Davis will be covering water, me fire and we'll let the other two elements go for this year I think!). But essentially with the theme of 'elements' and covering the two which are heavily held as a hot topic. I will be covering a lot of film, fluids and other cool things. So it should be an awesome class. I will also be speaking at the Turbosquid booth and at a few other venues, and floating around the floor (probably hanging at Autodesk and Frantic booths a lot of the time/when I have time). So if you see me feel free to say hi!
Lastly there will be a new advanced film FX CG Workshop being held I believe next month. I will get the details soon. I havent announced the last few as they tend to sell out in the first day or two of their announcement so by the time I had gotten around to announcing it they were full! So it might be an idea to try to pre-book now if you can. If you email Biljana at CG Workshops she can probably put you down on the list so you have a seat saved!
16th March �08 �Worksss
My whereabouts
I am currently in New York, I will be back in Australia for 4 weeks in April, which afterwards I will be based out of Vancouver. I will also be teaching my SIGGRAPH masterclass on fire which you can sign up for on Autodesks website.
I will also be planning to release plenty more training material very soon so keep an eye out over the coming weeks!
14th March �08 �
Visual Effects for Film Workshop - SOLD OUT!
Just a heads up on the Visual Effects for Film Workshop on April 7 sold out on the 3rd day after its announcement. For all of the many enquiries I got about the course, I will see if we can run it again in the future, so please email me at amckay@allanmckay.com and I wll add you to the list so you all know when the next class is likely to happen!
Thanks guys and my apologies for all of the people who eniquired about attending this course and didnt get in this time!T
10th March �08 �Worksss
Visual Effects for Film Workshop - enrolling now!
We are running another Visual Effects for Film Workshop on April 7 at CGSociety. The course is an 8 week advanced course aimed to cover production content at a high level, approaching it in an easy to follow direction. The course includes the following and more.
The classes fill up extremely quickly (every single one has sold out) so get in quick!
- Introduction to advanced particle set ups and workflows
- creating explosions
- procedural events and complex particle set ups
- creating a large tornado
- creature effects
- crowd simulations
- creating a vampire ashing effect
- and plenty of other topics.
3rd March �08 �
Fume FX: Essentials - Training DVD released!!
First of all, thank you for everyone who has purchased my latest fume FX disc, its become an instant hit! The DVD primarily focusses on Fluid simulations for film, introducing fire, smoke, explosions and all other concepts that are tied to fume fx. We cover working and handling fluids and understanding the complex process. Working with particles, compositing fire and making the most of the entire fluids process! Definitely one for people who want to raise the bar on effects, essentially aimed at advanced users, but designed thoroughly enough for most users to be able to keep up.
I have just returned from Vancouver where I did an intense 3 day training course with a lot of Frantic Films senior staff, training them on particles, fluids and visual effects and various other advanced content for film using pflow/thinking particles, fume fx, shaders and maxscript. Which days before that I was in Tokyo and Osaka holding a pirvate masterclass for a lot of the local game and film studios there! Thank you everyone for attending, it was a huge crowd and it was great to meet everyone!! - I am currently in New York for the next month overseeing the fx for a game cinematic with Tronic.
Finally I will be speaking at CG Overdrive 2008 in June in Singapore - Asia's largest annual animation festival, and later in the year at Creanimax, and lastly holding a HUGE masterclass again this year for SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles - this will be covering in great detail a lot of my more recent film work - as well as focussing on advanced techniques for production on fire, smoke, explosions and everything fire. So if youever wanted to blow something up this masterclass will be the one for you!
Lots of new announcements to come - but in the meantime I have released a bunch of new scripts and tutorials for max. Primarily focussing on maxscript, fume fx and afterburn. There will be plenty more to come, these ones are more introductory stuff however I will be covering plenty of high quality tutorials in the coming weeks.
ut_FFX2_Explosion1
Very simple tutorial just to jump start people into fume fx land.
http://www.allanmckay.com/tut/tut_FFX2_Explosion1.avi
tut_FFX3_FuelMasks1
More on the basics, emitting fuel from masks.
http://www.allanmckay.com/tut/tut_FFX3_FuelMasks1.avi
tut_FFX4_PFAB
Using pflow on a per-event level with fume fx.
http://www.allanmckay.com/tut/tut_FFX4_PFAB.avi
tut_maxscript1
max script intro 1
http://www.allanmckay.com/tut/tut_maxscript1.avi
tut_maxscript2
max script intro 1
http://www.allanmckay.com/tut/tut_maxscript2.avi
tut_maxscript3
max script intro 1
http://www.allanmckay.com/tut/tut_maxscript3.avi
they will require the techsmith codec (http://www.techsmith.com).s
I have also put together some of my more recent scritps I've written, currently they are presented 'as is' - I will later release all of these in a more presentable format with videos and intructions etc to make all of this easier. However currently I'm couped up in my hotel room in new york and havent got all of my resoruces with me. So there will be more to come! For a more detailed description of these scripts you can look at my CG Talk post for further reference.
http://www.allanmckay.com/scripts/amckay_scripts_01.rar
And lastly I will be moving back to North America this year so good times ahead! I will be speaking at SIGGRAPH and various other events I will announce soon.
Lastly there is an interview with myself in the latest digital media world magazine - you can read the article here if you do not have your latest issue! haha
So lots more to come - more tuts, cleaner site, more scripts, and properly presented. lots of other stuff!
31th January �08 �
Fume FX: Essentials - Training DVD released!!
ell. Click on the image below to see more information about the product!
26th January �08 �
Hi everyone and happy new year - I'm currently in Tokyo for my digital pyrotechnics class with Autodesk, next stop Osaka! One of these days I'll update this website so its a bit neater.. but for the time being here are a few updates.
SIGGRAPH 2008 - I will be holding a class on digital fire, this class will be I'm hoping my best content yet. Case studies on recent films, covering in depth lots of fluid simulations and fire, and really showing the balls of digital fire creation, explosions and everything I know on fluids and fire.
Fume FX DVD
Quick update, the DVD was meant to be released in December through Turbosquid, its been finished for some time - and to be honest I'm not entirely sure why its not out yet... but I will be finding out whats going on ASAP!!
New Fume FX Tutorial
This year I will be trying to find time to release more free training material, however finding time is the hard part! However I have put up a new video tutorial on fume fx. Nothing too complicated, but just a quick introduction to the interface. I will record more material in the coming weeks. You can find the tutorial located HERE. You will need the techsmith codec to play the video, and I believe its mp3 encoded audio.
