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Image Engine Design Inc. Maya: Camera Projection using a Matte Painting. Vfx, mograph, and production news. VFX Business. The Art of VFX — Exclusive VFX Interviews & News. The Art of VFX — Exclusive VFX Interviews & News. V-Ray Render Optimization. Intro This tutorial attempts to cover the process of optimizing your V-Ray render settings to get the best possible render quality and fastest render time for a given scene.

V-Ray Render Optimization

V-Ray DMC Sampler. Introduction.

V-Ray DMC Sampler

Light Collab - Help Documents. Part 1: Aliasing vs.

Light Collab - Help Documents

Noise Sampling can be divided up into primary and secondary rays. As the name suggests, the primary ray first hits the object from the camera. MP4 Feature Film. Decimated Designs. Shake: the Undead - Trouble_with_Color.pdf. Animation Movies · Feature Films · Games & Cinematics · Music Videos · Schools / Universities · Commercials · TV Series. Download Free HDRI Maps. Shake: the Undead - Trouble_with_Color.pdf. Chris Nuzzaco - Commercial Photographer. Your Source For Nuke Tutorials. How to Make 2D Tree Cards Work in 3D Films. Last Updated on Saturday, 07 July 2012 01:22 Published Date Written by Garrett Fry.

How to Make 2D Tree Cards Work in 3D Films

Basic Nuke Multi Projection Setup for Matte Painting. This is a basic multi projection matte painting setup for Nuke.

Basic Nuke Multi Projection Setup for Matte Painting

There are 4 projections that make up this animated camera move of this column. I added a animated spec pass for some moving shine just for fun. I chose this column as a subject for several reasons. First, it shows that matte painting is not limited to “backgrounds”. This column is a foreground object and it works just fine. Understanding Lens Distortion Workflow for NUKE. Understanding White Balance in Digital Photography. Color Temperature To understand the concept of White Balance, you need to first understand the concept of color temperature.

Understanding White Balance in Digital Photography

Color temperature is a characteristic of visible light. It provides a method of describing these characteristics and is measured in Kelvin (K). A light having higher color temperature will have more blue light or larger Kelvin value as compared to lower light, which has a smaller Kelvin value. The following table shows the color temperature of various sources of light. How does the Light Affect the Color? You must have noticed some photos turn out with an orange/yellow cast if shot under tungsten lighting or a bluish cast if shot under fluorescent lights. Why to Adjust the White Balance? Since different sources of light have different color hues, a picture taken with a normal white balance under artificial lighting conditions transmits the low heat to the camera’s sensor.

Preset White Balance Settings. Free photos. Tutorial:Hard Surface Texture Painting. Hey very nice presentation, good tutorials and tips, but I HAVE to mention this: Use layer masks.

Tutorial:Hard Surface Texture Painting

I noticed you actually use the eraser on the textures. This means you actually destroy the original texture. Instead, you should use layer masks (Layer/Add Layer Mask). This is basically a black and white alpha map linked to your texture. Pinewood Atlanta Studios. Steven Crewniverse Behind-The-Scenes Universe: A selection of backgrounds from the Steven... FREE HDRI 360° < HDRI < 339w. Last years made several free sIBL/HDRI sets.

FREE HDRI 360° < HDRI < 339w

Cleaned up my archive so put a complete list of all FREE sIBL/ HDRI sets on this page. Some sets have a nice story attached that you can read in the article link (under some images). Eric Alba Blog - Lens Distortion Grids (pdf) for download. Updated with Camera department documentation. #vfx #cinematography. 48 inches by 96 inches PDF files.

Eric Alba Blog - Lens Distortion Grids (pdf) for download. Updated with Camera department documentation. #vfx #cinematography

You can print these at Fedex/Kinko’s, laminate them etc. You can scale these if you want a bit of a margin for rigging/mounting. base lens distortion grid. Free Downloads Archives. 10 Things You Need to Know About Compositing in Photoshop. Visual Effects & Compositing Courses. Free Resource Centre. Our regular monthly webinars are your opportunity to get a feel for the different disciplines of CG training we specialise in, Maya tutorials for example, and ask questions to our expert tutors.

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Each month we cover a different subject and all sessions are free to listen to. Click on a webinar to read the agenda. Webinar: The art of roto Join us on April 24th for a free webinar on the art of rotoscoping, we will show attendees how to get started with the best roto practise and give an overview of the importance of mastering this skill. Character Animation. Pixel Farm PFTrack Archives. VFXrecruit.com - visual effects and film community for latest film, games and vfx jobs.

Altair (Desmond) from Assassin\'s Creed I - 3d model - .3ds, .obj, .c4d, .3dm. Mastering Complex Selections in Photoshop. Having the ability to effectively extract an image from its background is an essential skill for any designer, photographer, or creative professional. Many times we have unique challenges when attempting to separate a subject from its setting. Obstacles like poor contrast or the intricate shapes formed by hair and fur can make the process nearly impossible without the right techniques.

In the first installment of Making Complex Selections in Photoshop, I covered fairly easy objects to select, such as a woman with a few wisps of hair sticking out, but this time we are going to cover making even more complex selections in Photoshop. The example image below can be found here. To try and select each individual strand by hand would be extremely painstaking and nearly impossible. You can see from the image above that the selection is very loose. You can see that the Refine Edge menu has already done a great job of extracting the fine, fibrous edges around the cactus.

Conclusion. PROTEIGON. Nathaniel Caauwe Demo Reel - Fall 2012. COMPOSITING TUTORIALS « Surviving Post-production. Breakdowns : Shawn Mason. Wrath of the Titans (2012) Final Composite Full CG shot consisting of CG Kronos (Lava monster), Perseus and Pegasus (man on horse), BG sky and ground matte paintings. -Atmosphere- -Graded and hazed the BG matte paintings to give them the proper depth. - Added in a low lying cloud bank and BG atmospheric smoke at the head of the shot via placing multiple practical smoke elements in nuke 3d.

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