Hasta La Motion!

Hello all.

I was wondering if anyone could offer me some help.

I am just learning about render passes for a project in which I want to composite a rendered image (of a bike) into a photograph. I have set up some image based lighting and also used an hdr image for reflections.

When I render out the passes for the chrome material something goes wrong when I try to composite them together. The three passes I am using are, diffuse, specular and reflection.

The diffuse pass is pure white, which I think might be causing an issue. I have tried many different methods of merging them, tried multiplying the reflection and the specular together and then adding this to the diffuse. Also tried adding them all together.

For some reason I cant get the reflections to show up correctly, I am missing a pass or doing something wrong?

Many thanks.

So I just lost my roto artist job. Several of us lost it as well. We speculate that it is because either our clients are going to Indian firms directly or our small vfx studio is going directly to indian studios.

I don’t want to start another thread of outsourcing bashing, or another thread about the pro’s and con’s of outsourcing. But does anyone know how much the Indian Firms bill their US clients at for Compositing and Roto work?

I read that indian artists are paid at about $1/hour. But surely the Indian studios that hire these artists are not billing the US client at $1/hour or $2/hour. I imagine it is closer to $25/hour because they have to absorb other costs like Software license, rent, insurance etc.

Does anyone know the billing rate of Indian Studios to US clients?

Just for fun this afternoon I sat down a coded the original Nuke 4 UI into a saved preset of NukeX 6.

Everything works (save backdrop node, can’t find the code) and gives you a very clean interface if needed.

Just for your interest,

Matt

edit, Backdrop fixed … nuke.nodes.BackdropNode()

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A couple of videos have been uploaded to The Foundry’s YouTube channel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACqB7…feature=digest
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheFoundryChannel#p/p

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