Hasta La Motion!

thats the question, I have many 3d characters moving and doing things so they render with motion blur. so should I render them to work in nuke in stright or premultiplied mode?

thanks

In this new tutorial, I show you how to make a heat haze effect.

Heat Haze

To make the heat haze effect was basically a 3 step process. Firstly I created a layer of fractal noise that evolved over time using an expression. I then used this layer as a displacement map for my main piece of footage. This essentially created the wavering, blurry look of a heat haze.

The second step was creating the watery reflections you often see in the forground. For this i used a range of masks, scaling and blend modes, along with a bezier warp.

The final step was colour correcting to make the warm reds and oranges associated with shooting in hot conditions.

Hope you find it useful.

Nick

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Hi all,

i am currently working on a VFX film(school project) as a cinematographer. This VFX film will have 3D characters interacting in live-action scenes(something like stuart little). As a cinematographer, i have to plan the framing of the shots and the lighting of the scene.
Does anyone have any advice on how should i frame/light the shots where the 3D characters will be composited in? What to look out for and such.. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Links to references or tutorials will be best!

Thanks in advance. 🙂

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