Western X – Web Series

This series started off as just an experiment, to better my skills and constructing miniatures. The footage from the first three episodes ended up appealing to some private investors and we now have a much bigger budget for episdoes 4-16.

Here are Eps 1-3. There is a preview for episode 4-16 after the closing credits for episode 3.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ucb7rX2DqA

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pryXUe–MVU

www.westernxtheshow.com

Lens Flare in the Shot! Any hope ?

Hi!

Today I had a greenscreen shooting which went pretty well. When i watched the footage i noticed a few pretty annoying lens flare dots caused by one of the light bulbs in the studio. They dots quite small but still noticeable in my opinion see picture:

The shot is static and there are no camera movements. My question to the community here is: Which techniques do you suggest to remove those lens flare dots ? Please give me a reason to hope 🙂

Cheers

PS: My primary postproduction tool is After Effects.

Any good books on 3d lighting you would recommend?

Try to help a fellow vfxtalker…

Quote:

I’m basically compositor and photographer(once worked proff, now for hobby) now i learning about lighting on 3d packages such as Maya and Houdini, knowing very well about light setup for portrait shoots and outdoor lighting too. Can you do me a favor please suggest me any good books are tutorial for learn about 3d lighting.

Now im working with stereo3D and vfx. But im confused about the s3D is this going to stable in feature are its just hype….
once again thanks a lot…..


Studying at Bournemouth University

Dear Forum members,

I just browsed through the internet presentation of Bournemouth University in the UK and figured out that only GCSE degrees are required to begin studying at Bournemouth: http://onlineservices.bournemouth.ac…&collection=ug

I live in Germany and here you need the so called "(Fach-)Abitur" to get started at university. GCSE levels corresponds to the german "Mittlere Reife" degree which is one below "Abitur".

Does anybody know if it is possible to start the animation program at Bournemouth without having "Abitur"? If so, please let me know!

Thanks!

Best, Michael

Keylight,primatte,IBK question

Hi all,

It’s my first post here and I have a question. I have familiarized myself with the IBK,Keylight, and Primatte keyer’s in Nuke but I am curious as to their application. They seem fairly interchangeable,although I do see where the IBK can be very efficient when a greenscreen has not been lit properly or their are too many color variances in the screen itself. Any input would be greatly appreciated.

AVIVFX

Nuke wallpaper

Hi, this is my first post here, i think this is an awesome community, being a student compositor, i look at reels all the time and trying to figure out how i will do mine at the end of the class! Here is a little something i made will i was bored, to show my support to this awesome software that is nuke, feel free to use it too if you like it!

I will come back here to show you my reel once it is done!

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SFX-Math

Does learning about compositing have a lot of Maths in it. On the Escape Studios website for compositing, their is something about the Alpha Chanel, do you need to be good at maths to work in the buisness.

District 9 Radial3D plugin

Hello! I’m posting a thread here regarding District 9’s radial3D plugin. If you don’t know what it is, it’s a plugin that takes the "preference pass" (as the compositor called it in the video but rendered out of maya it would probably be called pointObject pass) so that you can paint mattes that follow the body of your character seamlessly. This is helpful for those who are lazy and don’t like rotoing but it’s also the only real solution for certain issues.

Here is a youtube link of the video. Please skip to about 7:08 to see the radial3D in action.

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

I looked on every possible forum I could find that discusses district 9 videos and nuke plug ins but I couldn’t find a single one mention this feature of their demo. If I missed a major one though, please point me to that.

I can’t imagine at this point that there isn’t a plugin or gizmo for this effect. I’m just wondering if the community here happens to know of one that exists. Any and all information on the topic would be widely appreciated and thank you for your replies in advance!

Photography

Does being a photographer help you with cinematography, matte painting and other compositing staff? Is it worth learning photography to apply the knowledge to these areas?
What do you guys think?

PFTrack distance to camera

Hi All,

Does anyone know to find out the distance of a feature to the camera in PFTtrack?

Thanks in advance.

-Joe