Archive for 2010

Reel 2010

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What’s in it?

Dog party in a bakery

From Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2, 2010. One of the baby chihuahuas had to sneak under the german shepherd. 32 hours of roto.

Completed in Nuke.

Near Collision

From Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2, 2010. Straightforward split screen.

Completed in Nuke.

Belt Dropping STEREO

From The Hole 3D 2009. Luma key for the background replacement. I also added some wiggle to the belt as it fell with internal mesh warp.

Completed in Nuke.

Jester STEREO

From The Hole 3D 2009. The puppeteer’s arm was visible frame right and some gaffer tape in the mouth needed to be removed. Roto, background tracked, resized and graded before being comped in.

Completed in Nuke in stereo.

Faceoff  STEREO

From The Hole 3D 2009. Tracking markers removed. Couple different mattes produced for the core and troublesome hair. The CG smokey volume and debris were added with the background for the multi-pass composite. Grade and camera shake added.

Completed in Nuke.

Reel cut in After Effects.

Email Overload

Posted on: by Richard

I read Mike Davidson’s lo-fi solution to email overload ages ago, and have decided to give it a try.

Most people I’ve emailed have had their chance to make fun of me for using this. They typically make note of how their own reply’s sentence count either falls short of, matches or exceeds the five sentence maximum.

How to master the the art of brevity:

  1. Speak less when necessary.

Toggle switch on user defined frame in Nuke

Posted on: by Richard

In this tutorial, we demonstrate how to let the user specify a frame that toggles a switch. I know – pretty dope.

We use “manage user knobs”, and a small expression to accomplish this.

If your name is James, you know I made this for you.

The video is more easily viewed in fullscreen – click the button in the bottom right of the player controls.