Distortion Grid for 3D tracking

I’m on set VFX suping a short for a PBS series written and directed by Robby Hensen (The Badge, Thr3e) and some of the sets call for digital set extensions that I plan to do using Vue, and Maya. I don’t have any distortion grids printed off, so I thought I would drop them [...]

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New Tutorial: Converting 2D image to 3D in Nuke

There is a new quick video tutorial available in the tutorials section. In this tutorial I show you a simple way to convert any 2d photo or video clip in a stereo anagylph with Nuke. Although a similar pipeline to Shake, and After Effects in some regards Nuke is by far the compositing [...]

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Build Your Own Shake Macro

There is a new video tutorial available in the tutorials section that is a step to step guide on how to build and save your own Macros to use in our own node trees. Practically any script can be converted into a script allowing you to streamline any project. I hope to [...]

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Road trips, car camera mounts, time lapse photography and graphing calculator intervalometers. Part 1

I finally drove my car out to california so I could have my own form of reliable transportation. I decided it was also a perfect opportunity to mess around with the graphing calculator intervalometer I put together a few weeks ago for another side project that never came to throughition. In order to [...]

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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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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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A must see…

http://www.vizworld.com/2009/07/building-rome-in-a-day-from-flickr-images/?utm_source=direct-bit.ly&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=socialmedia
Amazing stuff.
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