VFX Haiku » Cinema 4D http://vfxhaiku.com Visual Effects Tutorials for Eyeon Fusion 5 and Fusion 6, Adobe After Effects, Trapcode Plugins and Adobe Photoshop Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:30:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D: Stereo Workflow http://vfxhaiku.com/2010/05/journey-to-the-center-of-the-earth-3d-stereo-workflow/ http://vfxhaiku.com/2010/05/journey-to-the-center-of-the-earth-3d-stereo-workflow/#comments Tue, 25 May 2010 03:19:44 +0000 Kert Gartner (VFX Haiku Admin) http://vfxhaiku.com/?p=545 post thumbnail

A 3D Journey | Information Parity | Stereo Knowledge

This is a recording of a presentation I gave in October of 2008 on Frantic Films work on Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D.

There’s quite a few topics covered here including:

Post-vis, 3D tracking Stereo footage, Fluid Simulations, Creature design, Compositing Passes, Creature Rigs, Particle tests with Krakatoa, Cloth Simulations, 2D look Developlemt, and common problems with 3D Stereo Footage.

There’s a bunch of behind the scenes stuff here that normally doesn’t make it out of a VFX studio, so I hope you enjoy it!

Let me know if you have any comments of questions!

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Real time re-lighting | It is not a fantasy | 2D FTW!

In this tutorial, we take a look at how to export a Normals pass from Cinema 4D, and how to use it to re-light objects in 2D inside of After effects and Fusion 5.

You can download the Normality Plugin for After Effects here:
http://minning.de/software/normality

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This is a feature length tutorial on Advanced Multi-pass Compositing with Cinema 4D and Fusion. There’s a ton of material covering how to set up your render passes in Cinema 4D to working with them in Fusion 5.

Advanced techniques | Taken to the next level | Your skills will increase!

Here’s a quick overview of a few of the topics that are covered:

Cinema 4D:

  • • Working with 32bit floating point textures as materials
  • • Overview of Ambient Occlusion and Global Illumination settings
  • • Overview of the Fresnel falloff shader
  • • Dealing with blurry reflections
  • • Setting up your Z-depth pass for post depth of field effects
  • • Setting up your bit depth based on your composite
  • • Straight vs. Post-multiplied Alpha channels

    • Adobe After Effects:

  • • Importing the multi-pass comp from Cinema 4D into After Effects

    • Eyeon Fusion:

  • • Fusion Compositing Basics
  • • How to use the merge tool
  • • Working with Deep Pixel information
  • • In-depth re-texturing with a UV pass
  • • In-depth re-lighting with a Normal pass
  • • Using Colour Curves
  • • Using passes as masks to tweak effects
  • • Working with Masks
  • • Adding depth of field (DOF) in 2D with a Z-Depth pass
  • • In-depth with the soft glow tool
  • • In-depth with the Colour Correction tool
  • • Using the hilight tool to create anamorphic looking lens flares
  • • Createing Chromatic Aberrations
  • • Adding realistic grain
  • • Using passes in unexpected and unintended ways

    • Adobe Photoshop:

  • • Dealing with Gamma shifts when working with files in different applications
  • • Using Looks and Actions to finesse your image
  • • Adding final touches and colour adjustments

    • What’s included in the Download?

  • • High quality quicktime movies of the tutorial (1GB) Part 1 is Cinema 4D, Part 2 is Fusion and Photoshop
  • • Full 1920X1080 render passes to play with
  • • Cinema 4D scene source file
  • • Fusion comp file
  • • Final layered PSD file

    • I really hope that you enjoy this tutorial. I put a lot of work into making everything as simple and easy to understand, so it should get you really rocking with multi-pass renders. Even though I do the final comp inside of Fusion instead of After Effects, ALL of the concepts can be applied to After Effects as well. Fusion is my compositing tool of choice, and once you see how easy it is to manipulate and play with different passes in Fusion, you might be a convert to the node based workflow!

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    In rainbow colours | We find new information: | The co-ordinates!

    In this tutorial, we take a look at how to export UV and Object Buffer passes from Cinema 4D, and how to use those passes to re-texture objects in 2D inside of Fusion 5.

    Here’s the link to the watering can scene used in this tutorial.
    Youveelizer UV Mapping plugin for After Effects
    Re:Vision FX RE:Map Plugin for After Effects

    If you have any comments or questions, please, feel free to ask!

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