Tweet Fueled by inspiration from the Paths of Hate demonstration at Siggraph 2011, Eugene Mishibinijima creates a detailed tutorial on how to create Damian Nenow’s Paths of Hate clouds look using translucency and vertex colors in 3ds MAX. Eugene Mishibinijima notes in his tutorial: “I had the time to create a video tutorial based on [...]
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Tweet A quick tip for users of SynthEyes tracking software, Josh Johnson demonstrates how to manually set scene orientation by adjusting the coordinate system after a solve with the 3 point system. Be sure to check out the post “SynthEyes Quick Tip: Manual Scene Orientation” at Josh’s VFX Daily site.
Tweet The basic use of the RotoPaint Node in Nuke is demonstrated by tutorial author named Dot
Tweet Brandon Young demonstrates techniques for creating a simple rig in RealFlow to control water simulated flow with some daemons and a few lines of code. Brandon also provides the Realflow scene file and the script for the water rig available for download here.
Tweet Exocortex provides a preview of Fury 2, their GPU accelerated point based renderer. The major new features in Fury 2.0 include GPU-accelerated particle self-shadowing Shadow maps Built-in compositing previewing. Command line renderer support. Synchronized Softimage and Maya support. Exocortex Fury 2.0 Preview from Exocortex on Vimeo. In the example video above, provided by Exocortex, [...]
Tweet The Foundry has release Nuke and Nuke X 6.3 sporting some huge improvements and additions that include a new 3D particle (True 3D) that works seamlessly with the Nuke 3D workspace, a Planar Tracker, new Denoise technology built upon Furnace wavelet based algorithm, Grid and Spline Warping, Audio Scratch Track, a Displacement Shader, and [...]
Tweet Fxhome, creators of EffectsLab Pro and CompositeLab Pro recently released a new layer based compositor that boasts a “true” 3D environment. what is interesting is the price point at $149.00 for the Standard Version, and a $399 price tag for the Ultimate version which adds native particle systems, 3D tracking data support, 4K resolution [...]
