Hasta La Motion!

Dec 29

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.

Dec 29

District 9 Radial3D plugin

Posted in: NUKE from The Foundry

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!

Dec 29

Photography

Posted in: Beginners Talk

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?

Dec 29

PFTrack distance to camera

Posted in: Matchmoving Software

Hi All,

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

Thanks in advance.

-Joe

Dec 29

reading nuke script from the terminal and getting the information of file

Posted in: NUKE from The Foundry

Hi guys

The following script I am using for getting the information of start_frame, end_frame, width & Height of the given scene. This is working in the nuke GUI.

My problem is that I need to run this script through the terminal without opening GUI of nuke
I gave the following command

COMMAND:
/usr/local/Nuke6.0v6/Nuke6.0 -t test.py /home/narasimham.k/Desktop/test/test.py /home/narasimham.k/Desktop/test/test.nk

ERROR:
Nuke 6.0v6, 64 bit, built May 18 2010.
Copyright (c) 2010 The Foundry Visionmongers Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
lut files registration executed
/home/narasimham.k/Desktop/test/test.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test.py", line 5, in <module>
nuke.scriptOpen(sys.argv[1])
RuntimeError: Syntax error at "1"
Syntax error at "1"

########### test.py
import nuke
import sys

nuke.openScript(sys.argv[1])
#nuke.scriptReadFile(sys.argv[1])
print str(int(nuke.root()[‘first_frame’].getValue()))
print str(int(nuke.root()[‘last_frame’].getValue()))
print nuke.root()[‘format’].value().width()
print nuke.root()[‘format’].value().height()

Please help me

Dec 29

The visual effects of The Tourist

Posted in: 1

The visual effects of The Tourist

Visual effects supervisor Ted Rae oversaw nearly 400 shots for The Tourist, a romantic Venetian comedy thriller starring Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie and directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. Here’s my article at fxguide that takes a look at how Rae simulated a critical train journey and re-arranged the rooftops of Venice for the film.

Dec 29

Best laptop

Posted in: Beginners Talk

Hi friends,

am a freelance 3d & compositing artist (From india) . I want to Buy a new laptop for my future works. Please suggest a better laptop configuration for me :confused: