Ben's Comp Newsletter: Issue 028
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Hey,
In the last issue of Ben's Comp
Newsletter, I mentioned that there
has been an influx of great tools
for Nuke being released on the
internet! In this issue, I wanted to shine a
spotlight on a Compositor who recently
released a bunch of his neat tools
online.
Welcome, Mark Joey "MJ"
Tang.
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MJ
TANG // Senior Compositor
Mark
Joey Tang, known as
"MJ", started working
in visual effects in Hong Kong, circa
2003. Throughout his career, he has
worked with a handful of different
studios from RodeoFX
to Atomic
Fiction (now Method Studios),
and is currently a Senior Compositor at
ScanlineVFX
in Montreal.
I reached out to MJ after discovering
his unique tools on Facebook (which
you can find below), and asked
about his career in VFX, including how
he got into programming & creating
tools for Nuke.
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Origami
MJ mentions the "initial
intention of 'Origami' is a just for fun
tool", but it's turned into something more
than that!
As shown in the demo
video, Origami
enables you to warp geometry from its
original shape to that of another animated
piece of geo. You can even warp the original
geometry to stick to multiple pieces of
input geo.
This is a super cool tool with unthinkable
amounts of real-world production
applications!
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UV Editor
There are plenty of ways to place an image
onto your geometry in Nuke, but most rely on
2D-based projection methods. A feature Nuke
has been lacking for quite some time is
being able to quickly & easily texture
geometry based off UVs, and create your own
UV's for janky lidar geometry, so you're
able to work with it predictably.
I feel we'll both be getting a lot of use
out of this one!
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Scene Depth Calculator
This is a super handy utility, which will
help you calculate the distance per-frame
between an animated axis / geometry,
and a camera. Automating the animation of
rack focuses on your CG renders has
never been so easy!
Check
out the demo video here.
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Did you find this
newsletter informative?
Have you created, or do
you know of any
outstanding
Gizmos, Python
Scripts or Tutorials
that you would like to
share with the global
Compositing community?
Please send
me an
email, and I
will do my best to
include it in a future
issue of this
newsletter.
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