theo's vfx related ramblings! http://euqahuba.com/blog Mon, 24 May 2010 15:19:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Prince of caribbean / Pirates of Persia http://euqahuba.com/blog/?p=156 http://euqahuba.com/blog/?p=156#comments Mon, 24 May 2010 15:19:46 +0000 theo http://euqahuba.com/blog/?p=156 Here’s some work I did with the talented bunch at Framestore earlier this year, good times :)


Make sure you hit that 1080p button kid!

Here’s two of the shots I worked on for this sequence (taken from the youtube video)

]]> http://euqahuba.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=156 0 Shadows in Nuke http://euqahuba.com/blog/?p=139 http://euqahuba.com/blog/?p=139#comments Sat, 27 Mar 2010 23:51:46 +0000 theo http://euqahuba.com/blog/?p=139

(Man, is this guy obsessed with the stanford dragon)

So here’s a little trick to get some dodgy hacky shadows in Nuke , by comparing projected and “rendered” pWorld passes we can derive the difference easily and use that as a shadow matte. Still aliasing and various issues, but works pretty well actually.

Node requires geo, camera, bg and lights. Supports all regular nuke geo.

*Nuke script with gizmo/group , Geo needs reloading.

http://www.euqahuba.com/tools/nuke_shadows.rar

*Just the group in a txt file

http://www.euqahuba.com/tools/shadows.txt

Now, to trace the rays…Zomg!

-theo

]]> http://euqahuba.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=139 5 Slice and plot my scanline! http://euqahuba.com/blog/?p=121 http://euqahuba.com/blog/?p=121#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:23:13 +0000 theo http://euqahuba.com/blog/?p=121

I’ve been playing with the expression node in Nuke lately, and one of the things I made was  a simple Slice tool/scanline plotter. It can sample a slice (between two points) and will plot the color values as a curve over the image.

I’ve wrapped it up in a group with a set of exposed parameters, but not exported as a gizmo, just because it might be handy to just copy/pasta it into your scripts somewhere  without the need to embed it into a pipeline.

It has three modes, per pixel which is checking the raw pixels, and a sample area which is similar to the per pixel method but it can sample a larger area pr pixel as well. (using the ex:  r(x,y,5,5) function) and one that will use the first point to determine which full scanline to sample and plot.

Maybe someone will find it usefull, maybe someone will……….buy me a beer….

Download here and open .txt file and paste into Nuke DAG.

]]> http://euqahuba.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=121 2 Back in ’95! http://euqahuba.com/blog/?p=109 http://euqahuba.com/blog/?p=109#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:21:22 +0000 theo http://euqahuba.com/blog/?p=109 While doing some cleaning , I found a few really really old projects of mine. I used to be ( or rather liked to think I was ) part of the demoscene in Norway, stuff I quickly got more into doing more the graphic related programming and music creation. But a few “productions” surfaced over the years, all of this stuff dates 1995-1996.

Some oldschool sine scrollers and dodgy vector triangles.
Immortal Kombat, inspired by that other game with the similar title.

This fully functional fighting game (TM) was programmed in Turbo Pascal, using my own pcx loader and palette loader. It featured 5 playable characters that could only slide in a very awkward manner across the stage and bitch-slap each other lightly. Could also play against the computer that would randomly attack you. All the graphics was drawn in DeluxePaint2 for PC, needless to say I havn’t been doing much character work since :)

Some of the “prerendered” graphics was made using 3ds Release 4 by Autodesk/Gary Yost group.

Hours later would come out as this!

Thats it from the vault this week!

-theo

]]> http://euqahuba.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=109 2 Light my fire…… http://euqahuba.com/blog/?p=97 http://euqahuba.com/blog/?p=97#comments Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:21:33 +0000 theo http://euqahuba.com/blog/?p=97 Here some spanking new tools I’m writing for Nuke….

Care to guess what it does?

]]> http://euqahuba.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=97 21 Technical reel 09 http://euqahuba.com/blog/?p=92 http://euqahuba.com/blog/?p=92#comments Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:18:09 +0000 theo http://euqahuba.com/blog/?p=92 Here’s a selection of some of my tools for 3dsMax and Fusion, I got some new ones for Nuke now that I’m probably going to show soon :)

]]> http://euqahuba.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=92 53 The big bad Digger! http://euqahuba.com/blog/?p=39 http://euqahuba.com/blog/?p=39#comments Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:15:25 +0000 theo http://euqahuba.com/blog/?p=39 Here’s something I did last year, sorry boot crappy youtube quality, so check the pics below for all the detail.

]]> http://euqahuba.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=39 175 Aftermath, more destruction huh? http://euqahuba.com/blog/?p=85 http://euqahuba.com/blog/?p=85#comments Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:11:15 +0000 theo http://euqahuba.com/blog/?p=85 Single frame camera projection in Fusion, just the regular destruction and mayhem.. Done in 2007.

The actual Fusion comp and original plate is available for free at vfxpedia.

]]> http://euqahuba.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=85 82 Head modeling…… http://euqahuba.com/blog/?p=80 http://euqahuba.com/blog/?p=80#comments Sat, 22 Aug 2009 23:41:49 +0000 theo http://euqahuba.com/blog/?p=80 Just another angry 3d head dude……

WIP model and texture…..

]]> http://euqahuba.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=80 7 More explosions….. http://euqahuba.com/blog/?p=74 http://euqahuba.com/blog/?p=74#comments Sat, 22 Aug 2009 22:40:48 +0000 theo http://euqahuba.com/blog/?p=74 Here’s something I played around with in 2008, its a combination of 3dsmax and Fusion. Projections, camera move and secondary effects are done in Fusion while the hero fx elements are done in max with Thinking Particles and FumeFX. Single frame from DLSR and just the usual projection and particle fetishism…

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