Ben's Comp Newsletter: Issue 051
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Hey,
Welcome back to a fresh year of
Ben's Comp Newsletter. I
hope you had a long and relaxing
break over the holidays, and are
ready to take on a new year of
challenges and personal growth.
To start off 2020, if you haven't
already, I encourage you to sit with
your own thoughts for a moment and
take stock of where you're at, and
what processes or habits you might
be able to put in place to get
closer to where you want to be. It
doesn't have to be anything huge,
but I believe if you're not moving
forward in some way (even
if it's just 1% per day),
you're moving backwards.
If you're not sure where to start,
I've uploaded the first two lessons
of my Python
for Nuke 101 course
onto YouTube for free! You won't get
the full course material or any of
the downloadable content to assist
you, but I'm hoping these two
lessons might inspire you to learn
something new.
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nuke_smart_nodes.
Over
the break, a bunch of folks reached
out to share some really cool things
they've been working on. Falk
Hofmann was one
of them, and he has just released a
new Python utility that creates some
handy shortcuts that help speed up
your workflow.
nuke_smart_nodes includes
three python scripts:
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Smart
Pasting, allows
you to easily create an
already-expression-linked
node from a different type
of node.
-
Paste
on Selected
nodes (as
opposed to pasting on
one node at a
time).
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and
my favourite,
Context-based node
creation.
You
may remember my tool bm_SmartMerge
from Issue
047, which aims to
automatically create the right type
of "merge" to combine different
nodes of different data types.
Falk's tool aims to solve a similar
problem, although he has taken this
idea to the next level with more
node categories, and even includes
options for simple
user-customizability via a .yaml
file.
Click
here to watch a demo
video of all this in
action!
nuke_smart_nodes has very
quickly become an every-day time
saver for me!
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Nuke Vector Matrix Toolset.
Erwan
Leroy was also
busy over the break, releasing a
bunch of Vector & Matrix
utilities in conjunction with
Mathieu
Goulet-Aubin (who
had previously released this)
on his blog...
This toolset makes it easier to
manipulate matrices and work with
vector-based math in Nuke. In short,
it could help you do things like
convert Transforms from one type of
data to another, as shown in Erwan's
demo video. Although for the
more technically-minded folks, you
may read plenty more about potential
applications via the resources
provided on the project's GitHub
repo.
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fxT_precompController.
This tool,
created by Tor
Andreassen, is
something I can't believe didn't
exist before now. If you often
pre-comp parts of your heavy Nuke
scripts, you'll likely know the
tedium of zooming around your
script, switching different things
to the pre-comp, and then back again
to continue working on each
part.
Tor has created a simple but
effective system for dealing with
this, which comes in the form of a
global panel (gizmo) that lets you
easily manage each pre-comps' state,
and offers buttons that quickly zoom
around your nuke script to see each
specific pre-comp with ease.
Click
here to watch the demo
video of the tool in
action!
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Datamoshing in plain English.
Glitch art
comes in many
forms,
and there's a strange beauty
inherent in all its
imperfection.
After a deep
dive through the tunnels of
the internet, I found myself
consumed by tutorials on how people
have achieved different types of
effects. The above gif is an example
of "data moshing" -- I thought I'd
share one of the great tutorials I
found on how to achieve the effect
with relative ease!
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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 reply
to
this email, and I
will do my best to
include it in a
future issue of this
newsletter.
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Support on Patreon
Ben's Comp
Newsletter: Issue
051 is
sponsored by
Keegen
Douglas.
If you get value from
reading Ben's
Comp
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other week, please
consider contributing
via Patreon to
help keep it
running!
Thankyou
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