Ben's Comp Newsletter: Issue 027
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Hey,
I'm always on the lookout for cool tools,
and it just so happens that quite a few have
surfaced recently! A few readers like
yourself have reached out to share some of
their favourites, which I'd love to share
with you!
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SPIN VFX Gizmos
Erwan
Leroy recently reached out to
share something amazing. He tipped me off
about SPIN
VFX releasing their production gizmo
& tool library online, for free, for
everyone to use and benefit from! This
is super cool of SPIN
VFX to do, and I wish more
VFX studios would follow suit.
There are plenty of useful gizmos in this
package, including
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Erode_Fine, which
erodes an image with subpixel
accuracy, as opposed to Nuke's
default Erode node which can only
erode full pixels
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Morph_Dissolve,
which allows you to morph between
two moving plates automatically
Check them out!
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Level Up Your Python Game
Speaking
of Erwan
Leroy, he wrote an article
titled "Level Up Your Python
Game" in September of last
year. A trend I've noticed among
Compositors is they all want to dabble
in Python -- this is what Issue
013 of Ben's Comp Newsletter is
all about!
Erwan's article is a
natural extension beyond the basics. It
covers the importance of following
the rules, naming conventions,
version controlling, documentation
& UI/UX, to name a few
things.
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Smart Rescue
This tool, created by Cragl
VFX tools, is useful for
troubleshooting problems with your Nuke
scripts, including corrupt ones that
won't open anymore. Smart Rescue will
create copies of your original Nuke script
for every step that you enable and process,
so you're always keeping a paper trail and
never diagnosing issues destructively.
I recommend reading through the extensive
documentation to learn more
about what this handy utility does, and how
it achieves these things. It's certainly
part of my repertoire, in case the
unthinkable happens. Get ready to say
goodbye to lost work forever!
Thanks to Lars
Wemmje for the tip.
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Macro, Slow Motion Eyeballs
One of the more challenging tasks in VFX is
making a CG characters' eyes look life-like.
Humans have become so accustomed to looking
into each others' eyes, that it's hard to
fool them with a mere "close-enough" CG
representation.
The
Slow Mo Guys are the
connoisseurs of the internet's finest
slow-motion videography. In their
newly-released video, they showcase extreme
close-up shots of their eyeballs, showing
all sorts of things from the layers in our
iris', pupils dilating, etc.
What an incredible reference for our ongoing
VFX work!
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Did you find this
newsletter informative?
Have you created, or do
you know of any
outstanding
Gizmos, Python
Scripts or Tutorials
that you would like to
share with the global
Compositing community?
Please send
me an
email, and I
will do my best to
include it in a future
issue of this
newsletter.
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