Sometimes there’s a project that requires you to learn new things. In the last project I have been working on I had to use photogrammetry and I’ve learned how to do fire in Maya fluids....

06 June, 2017 /

I was preparing another post when I have felt the need to write about this. When I started doing 3d it took me awhile to understand the importance of good topology and how this is of capital importance if we want predictable results when subdividing, but more important if the subdivided geometry is going to be deformed. Let’s have a look...

29 May, 2017 /

When we create a 360º panorama there is always the problem of having the tripod legs at the bottom or some distortion in the sky. We can easily clean this by using a couple of SphericalTransform nodes and the Rotopaint in Nuke for cloning. Let’s see the order....

28 October, 2016 /

Sometimes we need -or want- to add a hidden plugin to the toolbar instead of calling it every time we need it. In order to do this we can call it from start by writing some python in the menu.py...

18 September, 2016 /

This is a list about how to configure the init.py and the menu.py. We can load gizmos, add formats, change menus and much more just with this couple of files that load when Nuke is launched. Below you'll find a sample of each file....

14 June, 2016 /

One of the most useful expressions in Ae (apart from wiggle) is loop, as we can create -and easily control- an animation with few keyframes. Looping allow us to keep going before or after our animation by allowing Ae to do the math for us. There are four different types of loop: cycle, continue, offset and pingpong. Ping pong is...

08 June, 2016 /

When shooting in front of a greenscreen the color reflected from it usually contaminates the foreground. The process of getting rid of it is known as despilling -AKA spill suppression-. This process may introduce unwanted effects such as removing some hues, dimming highlights or increasing noise as shown on the picture below....

18 May, 2016 /

My name is Luis and I'm a Digital Compositor. Here you'll find things related to the field as well as audiovisual related themes in general. I pretend to use this blog as an extension of my personal notebooks. I hope that the things that are useful to me will be helpful for others. ...

16 May, 2016 /
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