Feb 16, 2010

about me and nuke

In a nutshell a bit about me, and the tools I use. I work for Digitalapes, a vfx company in Hungary, as a 2d TD/compositor. As you may have guessed, we use Nuke for compositing. We were using Fusion back in 2005, and later Shake (in Cubeeffects Inc.) In my opinion, generally Nuke is far superior than these other two (but to be honest, each has its strength). After using Fusion, I found Shake very stable, and in the same time very basic. This is an advantage to learn and understand compositing, but i was also missing a lot of tools. Now Nuke has the speed, is multi-platformed, and well-designed from its basics, and has almost all the tools we need. Only thing that I miss, is Shake's previews and warps, and Fusion's particle system.

Feb 6, 2010

Lee Stranahan: Open Letter To James Cameron: Fairness For Visual Effects Artists

Lee Stranahan: Open Letter To James Cameron: Fairness For Visual Effects Artists

Heathaze gizmo

I always wanted to have a decent heathaze plugin for nuke. My problem with heathaze plugins in other composite softwares was they look so uniformly distort the image. For this reason I have put together one, that is not so uniform. So I'm releasing here my heathaze gizmo for nuke, you can download it from creativecrash.
Note that this gizmo is not a usual heathaze, as it doesn't distort the image, it just creates a red-green noisy image, that can be used with an idistort node as distortion channels. More explanation can be found in the tooltip of the node.