Ben's Comp Newsletter: Issue 041
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Hey,
I hope you're keeping busy and
continuing to learn new things!
Please enjoy this weeks'
newsletter.
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PBR Relighting in Nuke
Erwan
Leroy is a busy
guy! I scrolled past some of his
experiments on LinkedIn, testing PBR
(physically based
rendering) relighting
in Nuke, and quickly expressed my
interest. It seems this has been an
ongoing project for Erwan over the
past few years, and he's finally
getting the results he's been
searching for!
He wrote an easily-digestible
article about his findings,
including a link
to the tool for you to play
with on your own. Erwan also shared
a fascinating
article on the theory behind
PBR, which I found quite
interesting.
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HTML for Nuke
HTML
is a trusty, easy-to-grasp
programming language. Although it's
mostly used for web programming, you
can do some neat things in Nuke to
help style nodes, gizmos, show icons
in the node graph, etc.
I put together a quick tutorial to
walk you through some of the more
common uses.
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HeatWave
Speaking
of using HTML in Nuke,
Damian Binder's
HeatWave gizmo utilizes it
excellently!
I rediscovered the latest &
greatest version of this gizmo
recently, and have found it
incredibly useful for simulating
realistic heat haze for CG fire.
This gizmo reveals enough knobs to
give you control over plenty of
aspects (distortion & blur
amount, wind speed, turbulence,
etc.) while remaining
user-friendly, and getting you a
decent result incredibly
quickly.
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Galactic Innovations: Star Wars
& Rogue One.
It's
not often that some of the pioneers
from the beginning of modern visual
effects get together to publicly
talk about the good old days. This
talk, hosted by The Academy
in June 2019, is one of
those rare occasions. It's one you
do not want to miss!
I was fortunate enough to hear about
this event 24 hours in advance and
was able to catch the livestream.
Although, The Academy
only left the recording online
for a measly 48 hours afterwards,
causing a bunch of interested folks
to miss out... If you were one
of the unlucky ones, I have some
great news -- thankfully someone got
their hands on a copy and
re-uploaded it for your viewing
pleasure!
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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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