DMP Mini Challenge_007 - January 2015 - Architectural De-Modernization

[miragenz]

oh… was wondering that too, so I guess its not ‘great - accentuating - knick knacks’ ?

[milanschere]

Go for it guys!! Whoever comes up with the awesomest acronym gets a digital high five across the interwebs. Get creative, can’t wait to see what you all come up with. I’ll share with the people at our studio…

We always say at the beginning of every challenge that they’re for everyone to participate and meant to be fun. This is your chance to really have fun. Sorry, no prizes, other than the chance to invent an industry-wide explanation of a professional term which might stick around for the rest of VFX history. Ha

oh… was wondering that too, so I guess its not ‘great - accentuating - knick knacks’ ?

[hpatel]

oh… was wondering that too, so I guess its not ‘great - accentuating - knick knacks’ ?

That would be “GAKK”

I think it’s “Gazillions of Additional Krap”

[DylanPierpont]

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?p=7986672&posted=1#post7986672
I updated post 28: http://forums.cgsociety.org/showpost.php?p=7986672&postcount=28
David and I are trying to keep things more organized, instead of spreading everything out all over. Sorry about the confusion.

No problem. I understand. I should have checked back through the thread just to be sure.

Thanks so much for the feedback, Milan. Looking forward to David’s remarks, but the comments you and Jason provided were great. Really made me aware of thinking more critically about future mattes, especially the lighting. Still trying to shake the concepty-illustrative style that permeated both this and my September entry.

Onward and upward. Cheers!

[seemaschere]

don’t forget to post your regular mattepainting work in our usual forum here: http://forums.cgsociety.org/forumdisplay.php?f=196

[Ackdoh]

Yeah, +1 on that. Milan??? :shrug:

Great feedback from the judges too. Looking forward to Dave Luong’s comments but I know he’s been especially busy. I’m such a slacker compared to you people.

I just posted my comments and image write ups, sorry for the delay all! Another great month for sure. Again, so many great entries out there for January. Looking forward to February’s!!

I somehow totally missed that question. Sorry about that.
Apparently, it is NOT an acronym for something super sophisticated but it appears to be only internal slang? Apologies for that. What we refer to as Gak, I guess, is smaller add-on elements to populate a scene, mostly created by the 3D assets department. It is shot dependent but general examples would be antennas, street lamps, signs, barrels, boxes, bottles, etc.
Hope this clarifies it somewhat better? My bad on the confusing terminology.

Haha, I guess it could be defined for us as “doodads” or “junk” and “stuff” scattered on the ground for dress up.