Any peeps here that use a pre-paid plan for a cellphone?

I’d like to hear your thoughts/experience as I’m highly considering it.

A book problem !

Well nowdays my eyes are always on "The Art and Science of Digital Compositing" by Ron Brinkmann.Well in the matt creation chapter there is a piece of technique

as Ron said " Assume we are working with an image shot on a blue background. The first step the color difference method involves the creation of a new image in which this blue backing is suppressed to black. This is done by selectively substituting the green channel for the blue channel in every pixel in which the existing blue component has a greater intensity than the green component. In other words, for each pixel,

If Blue > Green
then New blue = Green
else New blue = Blue "

so Ron is telling to substitute the green channel for the blue channel and then put a condition. I tried a lot to do this in nuke. But ended scratching my head.So please all Vfx artists give it a try it will be great help.Thanks:)

How to create a cold air effect?

Hi there,

I am currently working on a shot with a fridge in it. The fridge opens up and there has to come some smoke out of it to simulate the cold.

I am close to the deadline and have not realy an idea how to do this a quick and an easy way.

Are there some tutorials for this? Or can you guys maybe help me out with this?

Thanks a lot already!

Later,
Maarten

Stabilizing and DeStabilizing

Hi everyone,

I wanna roto out my character from live action footage and I thought I will as few tips here.. Since there is a lot of shaky camera movement involved I was thinking about stabilizing the plate do the roto on the character and then destabilize the plate again so it has original movement.. technically the roto should follow the character then, right?

So I used Tracker to track my footage then in transform settings I set it to be "Stabilize".

The problems that I’m having is when it comes to reintroducing the old camera movement.. I applied transform node (after the roto nodes) copied animation values from the Tracker and added *-1 in the expression tab… Now all the cam movement is back in place, however the footage that went outside the borders during the stabilization is black now… is there any way to tell NUKE to keep that footage data when it goes out of the border during the stabilization?

Or is there any better ways to do this kind of task?

Needed sound fx and voiceover Animation programs?

Firstly I do not want a complicated or high end professional stop motion program. I also do not want to spend more than say $80 dollars. I want it to have sound capability such as sound fx and voiceover. I do not want to have to export to another program to add sounds. It is for windows use by the way not mac.I will be using it with a Logitech Pro 9000 webcam.

All your suggestion helps me to take decision !!

Luxology Modo 401 Released

What is modo?

modo® is the modern 3D software for the PC and Mac
that brings a new level of creative freedom for artists and
designers. modo® offers an intuitive combination of modeling,
painting and rendering tools in a fused workflow that is ideal
for creating 3D content and high quality imagery for a wide
variety of commercial and non-commercial applications.

Who uses modo?

Architects, package designers, industrial designers, graphic
artists, game designers, production studios, fine artists,
educators, scientists, photographers and re-touchers all use
modo.
modo can be used by anyone looking to bring the power of 3D
graphics to their art and design projects. The unique combination
of tools and a well-thought-out user interface has made modo
popular for hobbyists, as well as a wide array of professional
users.

“modo 401 continues our emphasis on making the 3D creative process as fluid as possible for designers and artists,” said Brad Peebler, president of Luxology. “This new version is packed with improvements and is clearly our biggest upgrade of modo to date.”

Modo 401 Tour Modo Product Information
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modo 401 Tank animation

This is a joint project from Rich Hurrey and Michael Blacbourn to test various aspects of modo 401. The tank is fully rigged and animated by Rich. The environment was created by Michael. The scene was rendered entirely on the modo 401 64 bit version.

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Luxology Modo Video Gallery

pftrack geo track help

hey
i need some help in pftrack geometry tracking
is there any tutorial available?
i saw one on pftrack site but its not helpful…
if there is one that can explain step by step thn plz reply..

or plz tell me how to do it?
i have one footage wherein i want to place a car on the floor..
bt whn m tracking the footage all is being track nicely except the floor…
so i though if i make a geometry of floor thn it can help?
plzz reply me with the solution…
i’ll be very thankful

hencyp@gmail.com
🙂

Fangoria on Drag Me To Hell

Fangoria covers Tippett’s vfx for Drag Me To Hell.

Short Film – The jeff Sterling Show

Hi there, just finished our new short film about an idiotic DIY “expert”. Just after your thoughts on the film…..

http://www.vimeo.com/5218819

hope you enjoy it.

Imaginary Forces T4 breakdown

A making of video by Imaginary Forces about their machine vision work for Terminator: Salvation.