Ben's Comp Newsletter: Issue 056
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Hey,
Wherever you are in the world during
this challenging time, I hope you
and the people you care for are
safe, and are making the successful
transition to working from home.
This weekend I wanted to do
something small to help others, and
help them to spread more positivity,
so I doubled my contribution to some
of my
favourite content
creators on Patreon,
and pledged some money to a couple
of new favourites.
Additionally, I want to give a
special shoutout to two folks who
are making a
difference:
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COVID-19 — An Opportunity for the VFX
Industry: Part 1.
For
many of us, the past few weeks have
brought some of the strangest, most
uncertain times we've experienced in
our lives. The Coronavirus has shut
us in our homes and threatened our
contract-based livelihoods for the
foreseeable future. Movie studios
are postponing productions, and VFX
vendors worldwide are rapidly
adapting both infrastructure and
security protocols to enable artists
to work from home and finish
existing projects, where
possible.
While the situation we're facing is
dire, I felt it was important to
start thinking and talking about the
potential upsides that the
Coronavirus pandemic has for our
industry. Over the next few issues
of Ben's Comp Newsletter, I'll be
sharing thoughts on the
opportunities we have to change the
way we work for the better.
The first part in this series of
articles takes a look at why
security in our industry is
water-tight, and the infrastructure
challenges presented by working from
home. It shines a bright light on
how incredible the past couple weeks
have been, as many folks have
successfully adapted to the new ways
our industry has been forced to
operate.
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Curve Utilities.
Oftentimes
we need to tweak animation curves in
various ways to return a specific
value. There are 3 things I do most
often:
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Remap
a curve from the CurveTool
to values between 0 and
1.
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Zero-out
an animation curve,
essentially setting a
"reference frame" for said
animation.
-
Framehold
a curve on a specific
value.
I recently put together this
collection of Python scripts which
creates shortcuts to help you do all
three things with the click of a
button! Once installed, you can
access the scripts by right-clicking
on any knob, and navigating to
the Curve Utilities
section.
Installing is as easy as dropping
the python script in your
~/.nuke folder, and adding
the line: import
bm_CurveUtilities
to your menu.py.
Do you have any ideas for other
shortcuts in this category? Please
reach out and let me know -- I'd
love to hear them!
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12 Toolsets for a smarter and faster
comp workflow.
Marcel
Pichert got in touch to let
me know he'd dropped 12
Toolsets for a smarter and
faster comp
workflow on
his blog. Naturally, it caught my
attention!
Marcel offers a few handy utilities
such as setups for precomping heavy
parts of your Nuke scripts, examples
of which
nodes concatenate, as well
as some more involved templates for
keying and uv-unwrapping / warping
textures on geo.
It's worth your time to check out,
as you may find a handy new
technique to add to your
toolkit!
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Vfxy News.
Everyone is
too busy in this day and
age, and there are enough
news sites to keep up with
that it's become difficult
to stay on top of the latest
and greatest in VFX. Lev
Kolobov recently
reached out to share his
project, which aims to
alleviate our time
pressures.
Vfxy News provides
a single website where you
can quickly see headlines
from your favourite sources
such as Fxguide,
Befores
& Afters, Art
of VFX, etc. in one
place! It has already proven
to be a useful resource for
me to check a couple of
times a week, and I'm
better-informed for
it.
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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
056 is
sponsored by
Keegen
Douglas.
Thankyou
to the following
supporters
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Adam Kelway
Adrian Winter
Anton Moss
Antonio Gabarrón
Brent Veal
Christian Morin
Ciaran O Neachtain
Dan McCarthy
David Ventura
Ed Englander
Gary Kelly
Hugo's Desk
Jan Stripek
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Julien Laperdrix
Kim
Kris Janssens
Lee Watson
Matt
Micheal Liuyu
Michael Loithaler
Shih Yi Peng
Tiscar Coig
Vincent Desgrippes
William Towle
+ 2 Anonymous
others...
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reading Ben's Comp
Newsletter every other
week, please consider contributing via
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