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Four lenses: a visual comparison, part 1
We live in an age of lens choice. Because of this, we also live in an age of lens tests. Done properly, such tests are hugely valuable. The best way to ascertain a lens’s contribution to an image is to...
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Attach Splines To Animated Objects
Attach Splines To Animated Objects Learn how to attach splines to animated objects, and alembics. Splines This article is slightly different than my usual format, as I will be presenting two tutorials...
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Adobe Tightens The Leash
Adobe Tightens The Leash How does this effect me as a user and product developer for After Effects? First things first A few notes and disclaimers: Prices mentioned in this article and any related URL...
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Four lenses: a visual comparison, part 2
It’s time to name names. I’m going to tell you what lenses you’ve been looking at for the last few days, and offer my own impressions. Disclosure: after several decades as a director of photography, I...
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Polygon Disintegration
Polygon Disintegration Breaking apart polygons with X-Particles. Polygon Disintegration With the popularity of the Avengers Thanos ash effect, I decided to create a variant with X-Particles. It’s very...
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ARRI Signature Prime and Mini LF Event: Sim Video, Vancouver
Come see me on June 6th at Sim Video in Vancouver, B.C., where I’ll co-present a session on ARRI Signature Primes with product manager Thorsten Meywald. Francois Gauthier, technical sales rep for...
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Self-feeding Particle System
Self-feeding Particle System Build an infinitely animating procedural system. This week Thanks for stopping by again to check out another random video tutorial based on an experiment I ran earlier in...
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CG Blood
CG Blood Simulating blood dripping with X-Particles. Blood On the heels of creating X-Particles Lava a few weeks ago, I decided to try my hands at making blood. There’s always a need for blood dripping...
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Redshift3D Per Trail Color
Redshift3D Per Trail Color Rendering X-Particles per trail colors & creating abstract art 2 in 1 Today I am primarily focusing on a feature in X-Particles that has been a large issue in the...
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Liquid Image
Liquid Image Two methods on applying images to particles in a liquid simulation. M7.1 First a note about this past week. As many people know by now, the town of Ridgecrest California has been hit by...
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The secret life of behind-the-lens nets
“What’s with the pattern in the headlights?” I asked the first camera assistant, as I looked through “B” camera on a feature film set. I was a young second camera assistant, and a bored first camera...
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Focus ramping: when T-stops go bad
Years ago, while assisting on a sitcom, I helped the director of photography shoot exposure tests on all of our zooms. The closeups were darker than expected, and she wanted to know why. The two master...
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The US Army’s Syndicated Television Program “The Big Picture”
In 1951, the U.S. Army produced and made available a thirty-minute television show to all television stations in the U.S. and its possessions. In some markets it had institutional sponsorship by a...
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Invention of Sound for Movies
Having seen “Making Waves,” I am thrilled to see the attention being paid to film sound. Certainly sound effects, music and even the human voice have never played so large a role as they do in today’s...
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