Eyevex.com Building Houdini Tools and Scipts. Top 9 Tools for On Set Live Chroma Keying. Top 9 Tools for On Set Live Chroma Keying When it comes to the world of chroma key technology, there are many factors that go into a great key. There are specific lighting scenarios, the types of green or blue screens, your camera, the amount of skill you possess, and second most importantly… the software you use. We are going to take a look at nine of the most useful pieces of software out there to make your life that little bit easier when it comes to checking your keys in real time, or checking out the mattes to make sure that the footage you are shooting is going to be the easiest to work with in post. Ultimatte Ultimatte is one of the heavy hitters in this niche of the market.
Lots of new studios and shows like The Soup, Tosh.0, and really any other show that tapes live on television with green screen walls probably uses this software/hardware combo. BoinxTV Telestream Wirecast Chroma Key Live BlackMagic Design DeckLink Adobe Ultra CS3 Conduit2 Veescope Live Frischluft AE plugin. Webcasting Software - Wirecast 4 Overview - Telestream. Produce your show. Add polish and professionalism to your broadcast with live switching, transitions, titles, lower thirds and more. Stream it live. Use the built in multiformat encoding capabilities and easily stream to integrated streaming services and CDNs. Wirecast Solutions Live Events / Entertainment Live stream conferences, concerts, interviews and more.
News / Sports For a fraction of the cost of traditional broadcast hardware, Wirecast allows you to quickly and easily broadcast breaking news and live sports. Education Live stream your lectures, interviews, workshops for professional development or student instruction. Houses of Worship Engage and expand your remote congregation with live streams of your services and events. Wirecast Partners Awards Wirecast. Try all the features of Wirecast with a free trial, or buy now at our online store. Live Chroma Key SDK: Real-Time Color Key Solution - MediaLooks. PHYX Keyer. Have you ever noticed that the lighting on greenscreen talent doesn't match the lighting of the background ?
The revised CompositeMatcher color-matches the foreground to the background more accurately than before, blending the images together for absolute realism. Get matched with CompositeMatcher. Green spill can wreck any key. In fact, spill is one of the worst artifacts of the keying process, and one which most commercial keying plugins are not able to accurately handle. The revised Despill plugin completely neutralizes spill, removing the 'green halo of death' that destroys many green screen shots without color-shifting skin tones. The photo above shows the original image, and the image processed only with Despill. Have you ever wanted to key without a green screen ?
Have you ever noticed jagged or 'extra' edges around keyed talent ? FastKeyer is a 'lite' version of several other plugins put together into one simple easy package. Do you want realistic keys ? Reviews A.J. Tendril. Audi : Paper Liberation | jordibares. This is one of those jobs that pushes our technical tricks to the limit, from the shoot itself that required lots of time and effort to the actual paper carving and of course, paper landing in a natural way but directable and for this we used every single tool under the sky, from XSI to Maya to Houdini, from Zbrush to… anyway… almost all of them.
And on the journey I had the luck to work again with extremely talented people that managed their chunk in a such a brilliant way the whole project was a breeze. Starting with a studio shoot we planned to build a rig for the camera and also a air sucking device so we could get in camera as much as possible and instead of doing a fully CG job just substitute the backgrounds with live action from a location shot… the result as spectacular when working at high speeds and highly poetic imagery although every time we needed to lift a lot of paper the air sucking device was limiting us a lot. Director: Nicolai Fuglsig Agency: MJZ Production: BBH. Ahmad Ghourab Showreel 2011. Sidefx (sidefx) sur Twitter. Demo Reel 2011 Sensfx Allan Morel. Softimage. We regret to inform you that the upcoming 2015 release will be the last one for Softimage® software.
This final version is expected to ship on or around April 14, 2014. Autodesk will continue to offer product support until April 30, 2016. We will also provide Softimage support services (including Hot Fixes and Service Packs) to all Softimage customers with Autodesk Subscription, at no cost, until April 30, 2016. We understand that you will now need time to re-evaluate your production capabilities. Although this decision is a difficult one, we do believe that by focusing our development efforts, we can better serve the needs of the media and entertainment industry and provide customers with better products, faster.
What is happening to Softimage? Softimage Last Release Announcement FAQ - Update Customers with an active Autodesk Softimage Subscription contract can migrate to the latest release of either Maya or 3ds Max, at no additional cost. Rray.de. RCTools. Author: Reinhard ClausV5.3 for Softimage 2011-2013SP1 (Win64) / by Reinhard Claus, last update March 2013 The RCTools plug-in is a collection of workflow helpers and filters for Softimage. The supplied popup menu (Script command »rcToolsPopup«) gives you quick access to all the tools. Download links are at the bottom of the page. What's new? Version 5.3: Symmetrize function Version 5.2: Mirror Edge/Polygon selection / Flip Edge/Polygon selection command / Paste Point Positions In Place / Global Position constraints (select positive X etc.) / Manual symmetry resolving Version 5.14: Mirror Point selection / Flip Point selection command / now disabling menu items by selection context (5.1->5.12: Bugfix for Flip Point Selection, 5.12->5.13: Paste form no need to freeze whole mesh anymore / bugfix flip point selection - warns now if no symmetry, 5.13->5.14 Flip/Mirror now for polygons and edges also, Preference bug fix) Version 5.0: »Topo Clipboard« functionality.
Installation Usage Peek Symmetrize. XPOP. Author: Reinhard ClausV3.2 for Softimage 2011 SP1+ (Win32/64) / by Reinhard Claus, September 2010 XPOP Menus are fully customizable popup menus that can be used with all scripting languages available in Softimage. download links are at the bottom of the page. New Features for XPOP V3.2 Underlined menu items Icon caching for faster display A few additional icons for boolean ops New Features for XPOP V3.0 Greyed out menu items Icon support (including Checkmark) Icon collection included Object oriented API (similar to Patrick Boucher's python extension for XPOP2) Section headers for more linear grouping than submenus Visual customization options: margins, spacing, font, fontsize, coloring example for an xPOP menu 1.
Start XSI then drag-and-drop the .xsiaddon file into the application in order to install it into the USER directory. 2. The addon creates the custom command XPOP(). //This is Javascript code. Popup.AddHeader( "Example Popup", 0xBB2222 ); // adds a red header to the popup resulting xPOP menu. Softimage Resources. Houdini. Vimeo. BlackHawk_VFX_Sequence 2011. Sandman. TV3 - Snowman. Update History. Od[force] Houdini tutorial database. Where can i find any houdini-python examples? Symbolic, on Apr 20 2008, 04:30 PM, said: Hi,I am also interested in exploring some python...I was trying to create nodes starting from /obj level......then creating some child nodes... and renaming them...How can I find some resources to do the basic things like creating nodes and renaming them...changing parameters...Cheers. Did you at least look into Help? I don't think so, since all you ask about is there waiting for you.
Current HOM state is rather dynamic. ) Examples, codes, short explanations, are included in Help. I know that complaining on Houdini's doc and HOM itself is quite favorite sport many of us, but don't go too far in it. Cheers,sy. Houdini Particle Morph Example « Technical Repository. Christian Schnellhammer . TD Blog. Houdini Ocean Toolkit for H12 Training Video For Houdini Flocking Systems on cmiVFX cmiVFX just releases my flocking tutorial:store.cmivfx.com/tutorials/view/330/Houdini+Flocking+Systems Check it out. I hope you’ll enjoy it! This training focuses on a basic concept of flocking simulations: steering behaviors. This step-by-step training video introduces how steering behaviors work and how one can create complex simulations just by combining simple behaviors. As a bonus this tutorial comes with a powerful library of a multi-agent system which you can use to create flocking and crowd simulations.
Houdini Closest Primitive VEX Function This Houdini 11 plugin extends VEX with a function to retrieve the closest primitive to a given point. Usage: prim = csClosestPrimitive(file, pos, maxDistance, &closestPoint, &closestPrimNormal, &primU, &primV); Parameter: There is also a VOP node available: Download source:csVEXClosestPrimitive_src.zip Binaries:csVEXClosestPrimitive_H11_win_x64.zip Showreel 2011. Kenneth A. Huff — Technical notes and resources. Welcome to TiddlyWiki created by Jeremy Ruston; Copyright © 2004-2007 Jeremy Ruston, Copyright © 2007-2011 UnaMesa Association <div id="javascriptWarning"> This page requires JavaScript to function properly.
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Of course it's not always straightforward to categorise videos which cover several subjects, so the boundaries are not rigid. For all of these tutorials some basic knowledge of Houdini is assumed - at a minimum having mastered all the introductory videos that come as part of the 'Start Here' help. Its worth checking the Vimeo description of each of the videos (which is accessible once you've linked through to the video on Vimeo) for dependencies between the videos - obviously the videos that come in a numbered series are best watched in order - but also some series are best watched after other, more basic, videos.
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