Ben's Comp Newsletter: Issue 020
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Hey,
I hope you will find this issue of Ben's Comp Newsletter informative. If you do, please consider sharing it with a friend, so they can benefit from this knowledge too!
Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadian friends!
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Change your lens on communication.
Hilarious image aside, I believe that an adequate artist with good communication skills is far more valuable than a brilliant artist without any. One of the reasons I started this newsletter was to help improve my own communication skills, and I want to elaborate on why you should aim to do the same...
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Four tips to improve Neat Video's denoise results.
Neat Video is the mysterious, magical wizard of the Compositing world. I have no idea which algorithms it uses to produce the results it does, but they're nothing short of amazing right out of the box.
But, what if I told you these amazing results could be even... amazinger?
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Get a 2D track from any 3D Point Cloud or Geometry.
Serial gizmo creator Pranjal Choudhary is at it again, with yet another handy tool: PointCloudTrack!
After connecting a Plate, Camera & Point Cloud (or 3D geometry) to the gizmo, you can sample an area of your plate & hit go, then PointCloudTrack will output a 2D point in a Tracker node that's locked to the area you selected! It's a far more streamlined way to accomplish this task vs. a manual Reconcile3D setup.
Click here to see a quick video of the tool in action.
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Siggraph 2018 Papers: First Pages.
If you're like me and couldn't make it to Siggraph this year, you might have missed some of the fascinating new things people have come up with. I recently stumbled upon a PDF document that contains the first page only of every single white paper from this year's conference! At 128 pages long, it's not a relaxing bedtime read, although definitely worth scrolling through when you're waiting on renders...
If the thought of technical white papers is scary, here's a video showcasing a handful of the groundbreaking algorithms and creations people have come up with!
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