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Mar 08

The Savage Detectives

Posted in: 2666, Books, Gallery, Roberto Bolano, The Savage Detectives

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While most are reading the posthumous translation of his final novel, 2666, some are also discovering the earlier work of dead Chilean writer, Roberto Bolano for the first time.

A stark, odd dissection of artistry and how one sends themselves into such a classification, The Savage Detectives takes the life of a writer and boils down every success, failure, and pretension into a 600 page plus warts and all confession. Sometimes cringe worthy, sometimes terrifying; by the end you are left with one absolute: no one’s artistic value can be truly estimated until their death. A very prophetic message for Roberto Bolano to send so early in his short career.

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Mar 08

Design Indaba 2009: Bombshells

Posted in: Animazione 3d, Bombshells, Commercial, Craig Wessels, Design Indaba Expo, Featured, Gods of Design, Motiongraphics, Sergio Damele, Stranieri, Wicked Pixels

Per la recente edizione del Design Indaba Expo, fiera del design sudafricana che si tiene a Città del Capo, dove gli espositori presentano novità in tutti i settori: dall’architettura alla gioielleria, passando per l’editoria, il design industriale e molto altro; la casa di produzione Wicked Pixels ha realizzato lo spot Bombshells.

Il regista Craig Wessels ha voluto raccontare la storia dell’etiope Azmeraw Zeleke che trasforma i cilindri delle bombe per costruire la caldaia delle macchine per il caffè. Lo scopo è ispirare altre persone nel coltivare la propria creatività per risolvere i problemi che affrontano nella vita.

Agency: The Jupiter Drawing Room, Cape Town
Production Company: Wicked Pixels, Cape Town
Director: Craig Wessels

Articolo redatto da Sergio Damele

Mar 08

Mark Newson

Posted in: Gallery, industrial design, influential, mark, newson

Mark Newson is one of the most influential industrial designers of our time. He’s designed just about everything you can think of from airplanes to cell phone, chairs, dish drainer, a vibrator (yes, that kind), suitcases, tables. He’s so prolific he can’t remember what he hasn’t designed yet.

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There’s a pretty good bio for him over at Design Boom.

Mar 08

Temperature control instead of RGB how?

Posted in: NUKE from The Foundry

I want to use the TMI controls instead of RGB ones and I want to get that to be default for couple of nodes and at the same time I couldnt paste the copied links for the global controls.

how to paste the links to TMI from a global node. Or it will be very happy if I can get to know how to paste reverse controls ..ie when I increase one slider the other slider needs to go in the opposite direction…

its finally for the TMI control… pls help me..

Mar 08

Better Nuke Workflow?

Posted in: NUKE from The Foundry

Hello everyone!

I was wondering if there are any certain workflow pattern one should follow in order to keep renders as quick as possible. Or does the worlkflow pattern not matter? Like, is there certain ‘Donts’ that would either cause coutnless of errors or further slowdown renders?

Also, does Nuke work best with .mov or sequences?

When writing out, is there any certain compression settings that nuke works best with?

Sorry for all the questions, I just want to make sure that i can fully optimize my current workflow. Thank you!

Mar 08

motion capture performance

Posted in: Beginners Talk

hello everyone. i will be shooting some footage of motion capture performance in a few days, there’ll be 5 camera, 2 actors wearing reflective-tape-wrapped-ping-pongs. the room the shooting will take place has reasonably good lighting, but the walls are multi-coloured.

my question is: do you think i will need to buy black cloth to cover the walls?

thanks for taking the time on this one 😎

Mar 08

Regrain Gizmo

Posted in: NUKE from The Foundry

Ok, well as I said in the last gizmo I upped Ive been working on some rough footage…..so here is my next fun tool i needed to make to deal with it!

One thing I noticed was that if you use F_Degrain (furnace tool) and you push it to 3 you can blur your gs image and make for an easy key with nice motion blur on really grainy footage. Then you can also export the grain instead of the degrain result and you will get a black image with nothing but grain. Render that out to an uncompressed 32-bit .exr and you can simply merge it over the degrained footage and it restores it completely. So you can key, then restore.

I’m putting this footage onto a bg plate that needs to be defocused. I was just adding a grain plate…but you can still tell that the true grain in the fg image does not truly match the fake grain in the bg image.

Regrain takes the grain as an input and the defocused BG image and adds the grain to it in a natural way….there is control for red, green, and blue, and also for how much grain passes thru dark areas in the image (since really dark areas tend to not have much grain..and black areas have no grain.) So this can be used in a couple ways. One is to just apply the original gs footage grain to the bg…so it matches perfectly…..or if you have one, get a clean green plate without your talent, get the grain plate and apply it.

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Regrain.gizmo (2.9 KB)

Mar 08

BG_Passthru Gizmo

Posted in: NUKE from The Foundry

Hey kiddies…im working on some really tough green screen work and as always I want easier ways to do things. One thing that has been annoying me is that the use luminance switch on the IBK Keyer is both useful and totally useless. This footage im dealing with has all sorts of issues….so i can’t get a good key just from IBK…which means I can’t use the use luminance toggle since it will pass color information thru the holes prior to adding the holdout matte…..so i end up with a perfect ending matte result, but either holes in the fg due to use luminance or noise in the bg because i can’t use the use luminance. So after pulling some hair out I decided to make an external version of the use luminance switch that can technically be used for any type of keyer. Easy to use and I even added an extra feature that the use luminance toggle doesnt have….an amount slider!! Before you merge the two elements plug your keyed fg element into the fg and the bg into the bg….yeah i know, really complicated! Ok, here it is, have fun!

Attached Files

BG_Passthru.gizmo (843 Bytes)