Cgworks interview with Allan "Particle FX guy" McKay

[Rendan66]

awesome :beer:

[[-m-]]

as if thats a CG explosion... OMFG IT IS*($*%... SOMEONE GIVE THAT MAN A CIGAR"*^£
hehe

[BrandonD]

Ah yes, very nice! Alan's one of the few people really pushing MAX in VFX work.

[WhiteRabbitObj]

Thanks so much for this heads-up, I'm spending the entire summer learning particles so this is definitely a good start.

[CDS]

Ive always admired Allan's work. Great interview guys!

[cgwolf]

very cool

[DocuWild]

Originally posted by [-m-]
as if thats a CG explosion... OMFG IT IS*($*%... SOMEONE GIVE THAT MAN A CIGAR"*^£
hehe

I think someone just did, hence the big explosion :)

Great interview =)

[Steve Green]

Hi,

does anyone know what the first image is from? I wouldn't mind seeing it moving.

Ta

Steve

[mastering3d]

Cool stuff .....


who most 3d studio people know from his extensive particle tutorials.

Where is that I have never seen it and would like to have alook at it ...

[aevium]

The still is from a movie called "Seconds to Spare." It's a new release, a TV movie, I believe. I cannot recall which channel I saw it on, either USA or TBS Superstation.

[Steve Green]

Thanks, I see it now in the Features gallery.

Can anyone get Allan's reel to download? It doesn't do anything this end...

Cheers,

Steve

[urgaffel]

Mastering3d, they are avaliable at http://www.3dluvr.com in their tutorials section. There are both video tuts and regular html tuts to browse through. You can also find links to them on his site (at least I think you cam :))

[mastering3d]

Thx for the link ...


Is there no way of downloading the tutorails to the hard drive. So I can have alook at them at a later time ...Its a bit of a pain looking at them on the net....

[Icestar]

Yeah i had a chance to have a few classes with him at my cg college and i have to say he is amazing, he really knows his stuff.

[katon]

Yeah his stuff is amazing, i cant believe that is a cg explosion:eek:

[amckay]

Hey guys, that project was called Seconds to Spare (not the greatest project I've worked on that's for sure). I was brought on as the primary vfx td on the project handling all the fx pipelines for the movie. All of the 3D animation was all maya based (I didn't touch anything but fx on this gig with the exception of compositing), all of the fx were max 3.1 with afterburn (don't ask) with the exception of two missile shots I worked on in Maya.

Currently in Los Angeles for the next three months but after that I'm hoping to have time again to continue a lot of my personal projects as well as tutorials ect. Finding it hard to make spare time right now unfortunately.

Thanks everyone for the excelent posts! Didn't expect such big things when I turned on my computer this morning :)

[ripLEE]

Just thought Id say "woot woot" ditto everything brandon said.... your kicking arse with no time to take names : ) always awe inspiring! rip : )

[cloak]

Thanks Urg :D and everyone for your great comments. Doing these interviews has been a real blast - luminaries like Allan, Tim Miller, and Darryl Lajeunesse make it more fun than work. Come on by to INTERVIEWS@CGWORKS (http://3d.cgworks.com/viewforum.php?f=40) to see some of our others, and look forward to some great interviews in the future.

:bounce: Thanks cgtalk guys and gals for the encouragement! :applause:

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