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- pralhad on Colour Smear for Nuke (UPDATE v2.0):
i use this node education parpose - Francois Leduc on FrameBlendMerge:
You could also use a TimeEcho node. There’s no Min mode, but to fix that, apply a Invert Node to your source, plug TimeEcho (in Max method) and apply another Invert node after. Go at the end of your timeline, change the “Frames to look at” to the number of frames or your shot (or less) and you should get your clean plate. Of course all of this is done on a stabilized shot. - Richard Frazer on Colour Smear for Nuke (UPDATE v2.0):
Hi Josh. Thanks for the feedback. You have correctly discovered that this tool works best when you have a solid core for a matte with a feathered edge. Where it fails is if you have large areas that just have semi transparent alpha (such as your grimy window). I’d approach this by separating your actor with a rough roto and using the colour smear to deal with their edges. Then for the smudges maybe try extracting the green channel and using using it to drive a grade for your background, or... - Josh Northeast on Colour Smear for Nuke (UPDATE v2.0):
Hey Richard! Absolutely love the tool. Saved my ass alot. I’m working with some greenscreen plates where there is a smudgy window behind the actor and a greenscreen behind that. We need to preserve the smudges on the window but that means it’s hard to use your tool to treat the edges because the alpha isn’t clean. Any tips? Cheers, Josh - Matt on Keyframe Reduction script for Nuke:
Nice! Just used this on a projection/stabilization job and it worked great to simplify the original camera keyframes and smooth out the reprojected shot. Thanks!
- pralhad on Colour Smear for Nuke (UPDATE v2.0):
‘Blade Runner: The Final Cut’ model shop photos
April 13, 2015
I went to see Blade Runner: The Final Cut at my new, awesome independent cinema The Lexi last Friday.
Wow – what an amazing movie to see on the big screen. I’m just gob-smacked that three decade-old VFX can still look that good when everything was done with optical compositing, miniatures and matte paintings.
Afterwards I ended up down an internet rabbit hole, reading up on everything from the original concept art to the additional VFX work that Lola and The Orphanage had done in the 2007 remastering. I came across this album of amazing photos from the model shop and had to post them here (I had said from the outset that this blog would try to only post original content rather than just recycling other posts, but I have to make an exception here).
I have nothing but admiration and respect for these incredible artists who can create actual real props and miniatures.
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