Stereoscopic Vue Scene

After looking at the tutorial I posted last week on how to develop a stereoscopic camera rig in After Effects, I realized how terrible the composition I quickly threw together looked, so I decided to render it out with a different composition to see how the effect held up. I dropped in the jungle [...]

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Forget Bullet Time, Time Sculpting is where it’s at.

Remember way back in 199-whatever, the first time you probably every took notice of names like Wachowski, and Gaeta, and finally saw a movie where Keanu Reeves wasn’t a laughable caricature of an actor; OK, I still catch myself saying ‘I know Kung-Fu’ in the burnt out surfer dude accent. Well this is the [...]

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This is my Boomstick, the Thunderpipe FX-1: A guacamole gun on steroids.

If you’re a fan of Robert Rodriguez, you need no introduction to the Guacomole gun, if you are a guerilla filmmaker on a no budget splatter flick, you have probably tried concocting one yourself. Just google: Guacamole gun, and you will find dozens of DIY’s and how to’s on the subject.  I myself have [...]

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New Tutorial: Stereoscopic 3D Camera Rig in After Effects

There is a new tutorial available on the tutorials page that shows you how to create a customizable and versatile anaglyphic stereoscopy camera rig using After Effects.  The tutorial takes just under an hour to complete from start to finish and includes project files, step by step notes, and a two part video tutorial.

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Stereoscopic 3d Anaglyph formulas

I stumbled upon a very cool webpage with formulas to find the correct RGB values for the varying kinds of anaglyphic stereo images.
http://mitglied.multimania.de/stereo3d/anaglyphcomparison.htm
If you are into math, matrices, and stereoscopic images you may just blow your load; for that .ooo1% that is into that type of thing.  For the VFX artist that barely stumbled through [...]

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New Build a Key Walkthrough for Shake

After a few request to explain the build a key script that is available for download on the Scripts page, I decided to do a quick walkthrough explaining the steps involved in rolling your own key.

It comes with the finished script, and video footage as well if you need it. The video takes about [...]

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New After Effects Tutorial: High Dynamic Range Images.

There is a new tutorial up in the tutorials section that shows you how to easily take any video and give it the high dynamic range values that really make the image pop.  The tutorial includes a video walk though and AE project files and can be completed form start to finish in under ten [...]

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Vue scene I have been working on the past two weeks.

For some reason I am having trouble this posting movie clip directly to the page, so I am giving up for now, but the link below will take you to it.  This is a Work in Progress, but I am inclined to leave it as is, and move on to the next scene I would [...]

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