Interview with Wes Caefer, VFX supe on The Expendables
In The Expendables, director Sylvester Stallone harks back to the gritty and explosion-filled action films of days gone by to follow a team of mercenaries helping to overthrow a South American dictator. fxguide talks to visual effects supervisor Wes Caefer about the practical and digital effects work in the film.
I figured it was as good of an excuse as any to install Word Press and start blogging. This first entry is largely a sort of mini-review of the camera that we were using, and how it did during production. It turned out to be quite a long post, so I’ll save some of the details of how we are handling the 4:2:0 AVCHD compressed footage while trying to be obsessive about not losing any quality for another post.
Anyhow, here is my first post:
http://www.willrosecrans.com/blog/20…-notes-part-1/
If you find this interesting, or have any questions as a result of this, or think of anything specific that you’d like me to hit in the next post, please let me know.
I have access to Syntheyes and the camera tracker in Nuke. We did a track in Nuke first but didn’t manage to import it correctly to Maya. Then we tried with Syntheyes but the track we get is not enough (we did try to fine tune it and so on). The matte painting and 3D objects are floating around. The projection error we got in Syntheyes is 0,28.
How could we approach this to get a good track?
(I uploaded the shot and track we got so you can see what I mean)
Mainly, what I would like to know is where I can find a real good backdrop video showing a very large full moon with clouds moving slowly across it, or some other night-sky backdrop video that would have a nice, mesmerizing quality.
I am turning up kinda dry on the google search.
Any suggestions?
Thanx in advance.
Boujou 5 questions ..
Is it possible to do an autotrack and then use a manual track to lock it down further? so essentially combine use both?
Also is it possible to do a reverse auto track in boujou without rendering the plate prior in reverse?
Thanks
Dave.
What is does: Selects all read nodes in script, truncates them to base name and then puts that info in a sticky note in the Nuke script.
What it is not doing: Will only put the first file base name in the sticky note. So it seems I am missing the loop to continue with all the names. I can print and see all of them in the script output window.
Here is the script below, what am I missing here and thanks for the help: (there are line indents where the > is, I could not get it to paste in this post with them)
for a in nuke.allNodes():
>>if ‘Read’ in a[‘name’].value():
>>>if ‘rnd’ in a[‘read_file’].value():
>>>>path = a[‘read_file’].value()
>>>>filename = path.split(" ")[0].split("/")[-3]
>>>>print filename
>>>>nuke.nodes.StickyNote( label = filename + "\n", note_font_size = 130)
My problem is that the addCommand always adds the new item to the bottom of the menu. I’m wondering if there is anyway of inserting an item into a giving place in the menu?
I updated my reel and is looking for a job as a lighting TD position.
feedback are welcome, thank you.
Richard Pang
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