Roto masking issue

Hi all,

Im gonna start with showing what I’ve achieved succesfully so far and then I’ll explain my problem.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4OieoF8n_A

As you can see I’ve made a rotoshape that covers the DJ and I’ve put scrolling text in it.

This I have done the following way. http://users.telenet.be/sickbrain/Afbeelding%202.png

Voorbereiding2_57 is the footage, groep 2 the rotoshape and SFileIn1 a psd with the text that makes a left to right move.

So far so good.

However, the next shot I have 2 DJ’s at the same time. I’ve rotoshaped them both and put the 2 shapes in 2 different groups. I now want to put some yellow on blue text in one DJ and some blue on yellow text in the other DJ. They both are in the same shot and at some point they overlap so at some moment there is a forgroundDJ and a backgroundDJ.
I’ve uploaded a screenshot of how I’ve laid it out for now

http://users.telenet.be/sickbrain/Afbeelding%204.png

Anyone who could provide me with some insight as I’m quite new to Shake. If you need more info just ask and I’ll try to explain what I want to achieve a bit better.

Tnx in advance,

Andries

Surreal Stop Motion Short Film

Hi everyone! I’m new here and I was hoping I could get some feedback on one of my new shorts! Thanks for taking your time to watch it and I look forward to know what everyone thinks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyHccOoQwK0

Sean Pettis

Cinemablend interviews T4 vfx supe

Cinema Blend audio interview with ILM vfx supervisor for Terminator: Salvation Charles Gibson.

3D Cartoon

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Army Tank Matchmove

Hi.

Just a quick test for matchmiving with HD footage recorded with my new camera. The animation of the tank is not so good (done as fast as possible… Normal keying.).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcLcCKN501w&fmt=22

Scripting : converting argv to a string

Hello,

Im having a problem that seems like its got a straight answer but I couldnt find it.

Im sending nuke external information, like [argv 0] which is a filename and a path and put it into a variable ( file = str(‘[argv 0]’) ) but when ever I refer to it it gives back argv 0 and not the content of the string itself.

The read node im passing it to displays [argv 0 ] (and shows the correct picture ) but when I print the node’s property the ‘file’ attribute displays the full path and filename. I need to grab that data.

My leet haxxor python/nuke scripting skills are lacking, I hope there is a quick way to fix it. Any ideas?

THanks!

-theo

Splash on fill object-help me!!

Hi, I’m trying to make a splash with a sphere (rigid body) falling into a fill object container,
but my particles aren’t still moving and the object falls without splashing the fluid as I want.
Sometimes the object holes the particles, otherwise I’ve tried with a RW_splash (MatterWaves) but it’doesn’t works fine.
I’m trying to create a good chocolate splash, and there’s my current settings:

scene scale 0.5
a gravity for the fill object and sphere
a gravity (strenght 100 affect velocity)for the sphere
resolution 9
density 20
int p- 0.8
ext. p – 0.3
Surf Tens 0
Viscosity 7

Sphere parameters:
mass 50
air friction 0.000001
@ energy threshold 7
particle force 0.5

where is the error?
thanks in advance!

Gioia

Send Your Reels @ Napoli Film Festival!

Ciao Friends!

I’m the curator of 3DNA – a special section at Napoli Film Festival, 10-15 June 2009 – Castel Sant’Elmo, Napoli, ITALY. Every day for six days we will dedicate a special slot of 30 minutes to VFX Reels. Please write me back if you want your reel to be screened. Just send me a link to dowload your reel, otherwise I’ll give you our FTP address. Thank you all and many copliments for your beatiful stuff :niceone: Francesco – francesco.lucca@letmedo.tv

who can give me a good news?

I need a good news ,ALL kind of good news! maybe for nuke…..maybe about your life….
I think , I REALLY need know some happy thing….:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(

Creating a believeble candle flame

Hello everyone,
hope some can help me up here. I´m trying to create a candle, actually the flame.
I´m doing some tests in Maya Fluids through a 3d container.
The main problem i´m facing is that i can´t control the "flames" to achieve that smooth look, making it believeble.
I think the best way is through Fluids but if someone as a better idea please, really, please tell me.
Thanks