Professor and Dean Mike Seymour shows a quick tip for a matte painting provided by Senior Matte Painter Alp Altiner. We show you how to make brushes and how to use multiple layer blending brushes. This can come in handy in a range of photoshop image retouch, here it is used for clouds.[fx_video src=”/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/freetip-skypaint.mp4″ link=”/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/freetip-skypaint.mp4″
Archives: tips
Unix – List Files by Size – The Real Deal
The previous entries in the tips section really won’t produce a valid, sorted list of files in the current directory by size descending. Here’s an improved version….
Roto Quick Tips: alpha RAM Preview and Caching
After Effects doesn’t let you RAM preview an alpha channel. Here’s a workaround.
Digital Counter – Expression Tricks Series
Flame artist Alan Fairlie’s killer setup which allows you to use one axis to create a digital counter using expressions.
3D tracking in action: Part 2 – Automatic 3D tracks
Flame 6 offers automatic background 3D tracking. In this second part of 3D tracking inside flame we examine this new feature.
3D tracking in action: Part 1 – Manual 3D Tracks
Flame and inferno now have 2 different 3D trackers. In part 1, Jake Parker outlines detailed points for producing the best results using the manual 3D camera tracker.
Getting that Big Break
Moving up in the effects or motion design field isn’t structured like a law office. How do you get ahead?
Tracking 101 – An Introduction to the Discreet Tracker
Andy Milkis takes us through an entry-level introduction to the Discreet Tracker. This tutorial is useful for flame, fire, and combustion artists, even though some of it only applies to the effects products. Milkis is Visual Effects Supervisor and Senior Effects artist at DesignLab, the design and visual effects division of Broadway Video, NYC.
Finding Files by Name and/or Date
Ever worked all day on a few different jobs and ended up writing files to the wrong directory? You see the result of your render named in your library, but the setup is gone? Unix has a find command to help.
Nuke: Project managment
For project management you can easily customize nuke.