Posted in CG, Download, Learning, Tutorial, Video on Jun 25th, 2011

fxphd – MYA206 – Maya Animation and Compositing : Red Dwarf
Long time fxphd professor Matt Leonard dives into production with his new course covering work he did for Red Dwarf: Back to Earth. Leonard is our leadMaya professor, but he is also an adept compositor who uses tools such as Nuke and Fusion. For this course, he’ll be walking through the entire productionprocess of his work on the show — from pre-production to on-set to the final composite. He’ll cover all the angles of delivering great animation and a realisticcomposite in this hard core hands-on course.More details to come about the course once the mini-series airs in the UK the weekend of April 11th. Read more...
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Posted in 3D, CG, Download, Learning, Tutorial, Video on Jun 24th, 2011

FXphd – VFX101 – Intro to Compositing with Ron Brinkmann Read more...
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Posted in 3D, CG, Download, Learning, Video on Apr 17th, 2010
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Posted in 3D, Download, Learning, Tutorial, Video on Jul 12th, 2009

Vtc Complet Shake 4.1 Tutors
Welcome to VTC’s tutorial on Shake 4. My name is Kalika Kharkar. In this course, we will cover the new features in Shake 4, the system requirements and an introduction to nodes. In the orientation section, we will learn how to open Shake for the first time. The Viewer, Tool Tabs, and Node View, the parameters, the Color Picker, Pixel Analyzer, and time Bar, the Curve Editor, Audio Panel, and time View, and the Command Line, Help, Title Bar, and Top Menus. Using the interface: here we will learn how to view images, how to use the Nodework Space, working with parameters and globals, how to view channels and compare buffers, and navigation and keyboard shortcuts. In the section on File In and File Browser, we’ll learn how to use the File In Node, using the browser, importing different file formats, how to replace footage, and basic retiming with the File In. Read more...
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Posted in Download, Learning, Tutorial, Video on May 12th, 2009

This tutorial demonstrates how to generate a volumetric ground
explosion that is software rendered with cloud particles. Through
the use of emitters, particles, fields, collisions, instancing,
expressions, cloud shading, lighting, rendering and compositing,
the effect is generated from scratch.
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Posted in Download, Learning, Tutorial, Video on May 9th, 2009

There is often far more going on in any given frame of a contemporary movie or commercial than meets the eye. In Digital Compositing in Depth, the techniques of both visible and invisible effects are explored and explained.
Obvious visual effects are pervasive in today’s broadcast media; less obvious effects like color correction, image stabilization, object removal, and virtual backgrounds are more common than most observers might guess.
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Posted in Download, Learning, Tutorial, Video on May 8th, 2009

Christophe Desse shows us his workflow for the creation of his sketch and cell rendering in maya 2009. Beside setting up the shaders and rendering in maya , he also shows us the compositing and finaling in photoshop cs.
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