Ben's Comp
Newsletter: Issue 065
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Hey,
Last issue there was, unsurprisingly, so
much interest for the NukeX license
giveaway. I'm pleased to announce that Andriy
Koval is the lucky winner --
congratulations!
This week's newsletter is all about beziers
and animation curves.
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Bezier Curves from the Ground Up.
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This article covers the math behind how
different types of Bezier Curves are
calculated and drawn. While reading the
article, you may find things start to look
and sound very familiar, and relevant to
what's happening under the hood in
Nuke...
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Programmatically editing animation
curves in Nuke.
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The beginning of my Compositing career
started with After Effects, and while I'm
now living and breathing Nuke, there's one
thing I still miss -- the ease of use of
After Effects' animation tools. I decided to
set out to see if I could bring the most
basic functionality from After Effects,
"easy ease", into Nuke, with a way to
control the amount of smoothness of that
curve.
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Following this week's theme, I thought it
would be appropriate to share Fynn
Laue's collection of gizmos titled
Wave Machine, which appeared on
Nukepedia a few weeks ago.
There are many gizmos available to create
and modify animation
curves in different ways. However, what
makes Wave Machine's gizmos
different is they cover all the bases in one
package, while adding additional flexibility
that a lot of other curve-based tools lack.
I also like that the methodology behind the
way they operate is based on familiar
Compositing operations, such as Merging,
Grading, Retiming, etc.
Check out the short demo
video to see the tools in
action.
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An interactive guide to Lights &
Shadows.
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I'm endlessly fascinated by the way light
interacts with the world. Having a basic
understanding is necessary for creating
photorealistic VFX, as it aids us in
mimicking the way our eyes & cameras see
the world.
However, if you're interested in a deeper
theoretical dive into the subject, this blog
post provides an easily digestible
interactive physics lesson to get you up to
scratch. You will learn what happens with
light when a light source changes in
intensity, colour, size, angle, etc., and
subsequently, what happens when it interacts
with different surfaces.
It's a little lengthy, but well worth a
read.
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Thanks to my Patreon
Supporters.
This issue
of Ben's
Comp
Newsletter is
sponsored by
Keegen
Douglas.
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Aaron Bradford
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