Tears of Steel Image Browser
“Tears of Steel” is an Open Source short film created by the Blender Institute. It has some of the best…
VFX/Animation Blog Archive
Maya – Package/Serialize animation from objects
I’ve always needed a way of serializing animated and/or static values out of Maya and so I thought I would…
Maya – Set mesh select state
I found this to be very useful when working with rigs and animators. This will either make all mesh selectable,…
Maya – Remove all namespaces
When you gather all the namespaces in the scene, make sure you avoid the Maya built-in namespaces. Then start removing,…
Maya – Import all references
Here we will import all references starting with the top most nodes, we then collect all nested children and continue….
Maya – Remove unknown nodes/plugins
Maya files from old scenes or different workstations with different plugins can clutter up the Maya scene with “requirements” that…
Maya – Load all unloaded references
This will load all unloaded references including all children: Sometimes there can also be orphaned referenced nodes that are no…
#004 -Reformats, Transforms and Concatenation
Every compositor will have to transform a multitude of images and visual elements to make a shot stand out and…
#003 – Grading based on luminance
Luminance grading is a very important skill to have. You can have the best and most accurate eyes out there,…
#002 – Unpremult and Premult
After some time, you may have noticed a node called Unpremult and its sister called Premult. You may be asking…
#001 – Creating Motion Vectors in Nuke
There are many ways to add motion vectors to an image, usually, they come from the render you are working…