I want a pony!
Finally announced, something that has been painful to keep my mouth shut about. FXGuide covers the nuts and bolts thoroughly:
Foundry/SPI Nuke/Katana deal
This is a deal that is near and dear to my heart. I spent nearly two years working on the Katana team at SPI before joining The Foundry to move Nuke into it’s product [...]
The gory truth about stereoscopic post
Just in time for Halloween, Studio Daily posted a short article about CafeFX’s work on Final Destination 3 that hits one of the often underestimated issues encountered in vfx post on a stereo show:
“3D can add a lot more time to normal workflows,” Williamson admits. “Some of the things that are normally very, very simple, [...]
More Nuke customer stories
Maybe I’m biased (just a tiny bit?) but we recently had a couple of great case studies come out about customers using Nuke. I get pages of email every week about the things Nuke still needs to do, or do better (and I love it, and we need it, so don’t stop fer cryin’ out [...]
Keylight (AE) tutorial
Richard Harrington does a quick Keylight setup at ProVideoCoalition showing some of the standard parameters you’ll use. Nothing earthshaking but if you’re new to Keylight it’s worth watching to get the basics. The parameters involved are the same in Nuke, you just hook up the mask differently of course
Keying With AfterEffects by Richard Harrington
Primatte White Papers
I just stumbled on some pages describing different aspects of Primatte. Some of it looks a bit dated (“runs on a wide variety of SGI workstations”) but as far as I know the fundamental algorithm and controls have not changed significantly so this is probably still relevant.