Written by Matt Estela:
The expression node in nuke is a bit of a mystery for most people, but it's incredibly powerful. Often its used for patching data passes with simple if/else statements, but here we'll go from first principles, work up to some long forgotten high school maths to do some silly tricks, and finally put it all together to understand how a P_matte gizmo works.
If you are wanting to start learning expressions this is agood place to start.
Luca Mignardi:
Real Camera Shake Samples (Steady, Walk and Explosion). Scan recorded with a camera rig and 3D tracked. Organized into this gizmo to works in 2D and 3D mode.
When you need a walk cycle, or a car driving.
Graham Edwards:
Putting stars on the screen has always been a tricky business. Once upon a time, a night shoot meant stopping down, taping a blue filter over the lens and hoping in vain that the audience might actually buy the whole concept of day-for-night.
The most difficult images to produce are ones we see everyday. You know what stars look like.
Dan Sarto:
While the announcement of a new slate of Star Wars movies should ensure the hum of ILM renderfarms for many years to come, these days not even ILM is immune to the economic pressures that continue to cause such turmoil across the global visual effects business landscape.
I have heard that Dneg has under bid ILM many times.
I thought this might be appropriate. Have a good evening.
Martin Scorsese:
But I don’t think I’m being pessimistic when I say that the art of cinema and the movie business are now at a crossroads. Audio-visual entertainment and what we know as cinema – moving pictures conceived by individuals – appear to be headed in different directions. In the future, you’ll probably see less and less of what we recognize as cinema on multiplex screens and more and more of it in smaller theaters, online, and, I suppose, in spaces and circumstances that I can’t predict.
But with all the attention paid to the machinery of making movies and to the advances in technology that have led to this revolution in moviemaking, there is one important thing to remember: the tools don’t make the movie, you make the movie. It’s freeing to pick up a camera and start shooting and then put it together with Final Cut Pro. Making a movie – the one you need to make – is something else. There are no shortcuts.
I agree with a lot he says. I think we all know what's happening, it's what to do about it. I don't know either.
There are films being made. Who is making them. Its a small list.
Tim Gray:
Unlike other Academy Awards to be presented this year, achievements receiving Scientific and Technical Awards need not have been developed and introduced during 2013. Rather, the achievements must demonstrate a proven record of contributing significant value to the process of making motion pictures.
Another good one from Frank Rueter.
With a big sequence or 4k scans making a local copy can be slow. It's one of those "while you stand there with your teeth in your mouth" type of things. The localize feature is great.
It's awesome when mother nature does it all by herself.