This newsletter is an exciting issue for
more than just the introduction of my new
course...
It's a rare occurrence to see a
groundbreaking new tool or plugin developed
for Nuke in this day and age. Although just
after the previous issue of this newsletter
was sent out, it finally happened...
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Higx Point Render
Mads
Hagbarth Damsbo is one of the
Nuke communities' most innovative
creators, and has featured heavily in
this newsletter. His latest creation, a
Blinkscript-Powered
Point Renderer (aka,
a particle system in Nuke that
doesn't suck), is no exception!
The description alone was enough for me to
encourage the studio I'm working with to
purchase a site license, although
Hagbarth has created a neat
introduction video to walk you
through this tool's features.
I had the good fortune of having a colleague
demo the tool and its features for me, and
was blown away by how fast & flexible it
was to use! A personal license only costs
€30 ($34 USD, $45
CAD, £25.50), which is an
incredibly low price to pay for how much
this can do!
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MADS HAGBARTH DAMSBO //
Compositing & Pipeline TD
With the release of the aforementioned Point
Render, of course, this week's newsletter
has to include an interview with the man
behind the magic.
In his own words: Mads Hagbarth
Damsbo is a Compositor, VFX
Technical Director, Pipeline Technical
Director, and occasionally a supervisor at
Nordisk Film - Shortcut (Copenhagen,
Denmark). Now he's also a sparetime iOS
app developer, and with the release of the
aforementioned PointRender, a Nuke developer
as well...
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$gui Expression Finder
I love the $gui
expression. Although every once in a
while I'll pick up a bird's
nest of a nuke script that is
hard to untangle, where the output of the
Write node doesn't match what I see when
viewing the same Write node through the
Viewer. I'm sure you've encountered this
before!
In this instance, there are almost always
nodes with $gui expressions hidden
throughout the Nuke script. But when you're
not the original owner of said Nuke script,
it can take a frustrating amount of time to
find where they are.
Thankfully, Falk
Hofmann created the perfect
solution! It comes in the form of a gizmo
that auto-detects nodes with a $gui
expression, and does a whole host of things
with them (change the nodes
color, label them, or most
importantly, remove the expression on
all nodes!)
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Advances in Real-Time Photorealism in
Unreal Engine 4
The Game Developers
Conference (GDC) took place
last week, and with it came a slew of new
technologies that are pushing the boundaries
of real-time computer graphics. There were
many notable tech demos showcased this year,
but two, in particular, caught my
eye.
Rebirth:
Introducing photorealism in
UE4 is a video produced by Quixel,
using photogrammetry in conjunction with
Houdini &
Unreal Engine 4, to create
cinematic photoreal landscapes.
Unreal themselves showcased
a tech demo for a new real-time
"High-Performance Physics and Destruction
System". Check
out their video here!
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newsletter informative?
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you know of any
outstanding
Gizmos, Python
Scripts or Tutorials
that you would like to
share with the global
Compositing community?
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me an
email, and I
will do my best to
include it in a future
issue of this
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