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3answers
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Questions about career
Hi my age is 28 and I am interested in becoming a specialist in VFX only. Currently I am a Team Lead in international BPO.
I am good in photoshop & illustrator. I have worked …
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5answers
153 views
What do you prefer to use for de-graining plates?
It's something that there are a lot of options out there for, so it would be great to hear people's opinions on what they like to use for degraining plates, and what they've had th …
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4answers
294 views
linearizing a logarithmic curve
actually any non uniform curve besides the usual 2.2 ones
Are there resources that describes the math/process without too much brain damage :P
back story:
Plates in shake were to …
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6answers
345 views
Blue screen or green screen?
I've heard so many thoughts on this over the years that I thought I'd chuck it out here and see what people think.
What would you say that the advantages and disadvantages of blue …
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2answers
231 views
Rendering a usable Z buffer and using it in comp
Hi,
I'm looking for the holy grail of using depth passes in compositing. Is it technically possible outputting a depth pass that is usable in comp without outputting per-sample da …
3
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3answers
155 views
Playback for a comp workstation in film
How is the playback problem solved on comp workstation (Nuke/Shake) at big companies? I imagine that not every workstation has fibre storage attached, and the memory capacity (esp. …
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2answers
339 views
Future of Eyeon Fusion?
Hey all,
Just wondering what people's thoughts are on Eyeon's Fusion. Eyeon seems to be completely stalled out, and Nuke has basically taken over the feature film compositing mark …
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2answers
299 views
Where is Marcie 2k in Cineon format
Hi All
I am putting together a blog about linear colour space, and am looking for the kodak test image Marcie.cin 2k file
does anyone know where I can find it please?
thanks, Ia …
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4answers
286 views
Simulating defocus in a theoretical lens
Hi all,
I'm trying to figure out some maths at the moment, and was hoping someone might know what happens inside the theoretical camera lens...
What I'm trying to get a function …
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7answers
170 views
Can you recommend a 3d-artist-friendly compositing application ?
Hi all,
I haven't touched any vfx compositing for a while. I used to get my compositing fixes taken care of by good old Shake but since then Nuke, Combustion and what not have sur …
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2answers
146 views
Compiling Shake plugins on newer Linux distributions
I've had a bit of a problem for a while - we're currently OSX-based, and I've got a number of Shake plugins that I've written, all of which work fine (well, apart from the odd bug …
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4answers
156 views
Emulating noise on digitally sourced material
Hi all - as a first question, I'd be interested to know what approach others are using to replicate digital sensor noise when comping elements into digitally sourced footage.
Also …
