Ben's Comp Newsletter: Issue 032
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Hey,
I hope you've had a productive start to the
month! April 1st certainly wasn't for me,
with Google's
fun new "features"...
I also wanted to extend a sincere thank you
to the many readers who have already signed
up for my Python
for Nuke 101 Course. I've enjoyed an
overwhelming amount of pre-orders thus far,
and can't wait to release it to the
world!
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MILES LAURIDSEN //
Compositing Supervisor
Originally from Clatskanie, Oregon,
Miles Lauridsen is a VFX
artist now living in Vancouver, BC.
Currently a Compositing Supervisor at Scanline
VFX, he's worked in various roles
including dustbuster, matchmover, 3d
generalist, title animator, and compositor
within feature film over the last 13 years.
He enjoys the problem solving process that
VFX entails in the service of helping
filmmakers tell their stories.
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DeepC
DeepC is a suite of new
Deep nodes for Nuke. It introduces some
extra flexibility into your Compositing
workflow by providing some more
controllable grading &
matte-creation options in Deep.
I constantly meet artists who have
previously worked at Weta and say things
like, "Weta's Deep Comp pipeline is
crazy good". It makes sense,
considering they developed the technology!
Although in my own experience at other
studios, working with Deeps is cumbersome
and doesn't quite have enough pay-off in
terms of speed vs. flexibility on a
show-wide perspective. It seems a lot of
studios are adopting Deep Compositing
without an adequate R&D budget to back
up the decision, because it's one of the
trendy things in our industry at the
moment.
For the readers at Weta:
I'd love to interview you about your daily
Deep Comp experiences, to help enlighten us
all about how it should be.
But until then, DeepC
brings some much-needed
functionality to the rest of us.
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Cycle Operations
Something I love is simple Python Scripts
that add hotkeys for extra functionality in
Nuke (it's the basis of my new
Python Course).
Max
van Leeuwen created
this cool shortcut that allows you to cycle
through the Merge node's operations list! I
wish I had come across this one sooner, as I
recently wrote a similar tool at the office
to do the same thing with AOVs -- the
potential for extending this is
limitless!
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The New Artificial Intelligence Frontier
of VFX
I've been checking out the VFX
Voice website a whole lot over the
past couple months.
Given my fascination with how Machine
Learning can be applied to creative fields
such as ours, this particular article by
Ian Failes piqued my
interest. He explores how different studios
are currently utilizing said technologies,
and how they anticipate our industry will
evolve in the future because of them. It's
quite an insightful read!
Anything that removes tedium from my day and
frees up more time to iterate on the fun
& creative aspects of the job excites
me!
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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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