bettys production blog

for everyone who couldn´t see our presentation at vollbild here is one minute of vfx-breakdown-fun we made for it.

here is the same clip in 512*288 qt (27mb)
www.nodebase.de/betty_post/bty_vfx_web.mov

This time in german, because it´s a local event.

Am Dienstag gegen 17 Uhr zeigen wir den aktuellen Stand unserer VFX-Arbeit auf der Vollbild:

21. 22. januar, 14.00 - 19.00 Showbühne Mainz
party am 22. januar ab 21.00 im DGB Keller

Vollbild - Semesterendpräsentation des Studiengangs Medien-Design/Zeitbasierte Medien:

Dieses Jahr findet erneut die Semesterendpräsentation „Vollbild“ des
Studiengangs Medien-Design/ Zeitbasierte Medien der Fachhochschule Mainz
statt. Bewundert werden können Kurzfilme, interaktive Anwendungen, 2 D
und 3D Animationen, Websites, sowie multimediale Installationen aus dem
Wintersemester 07/ 08.
Weitere Infos unter: www.vollbildmainz.de

we developed a new tool for fusion

you just have to connect all your footage to it, make a saver and press render.

the “make nice” button for photoshop  and the premiere “make movie” Plugin are still in beta

I wasn´t happy about the deep blur in eyeon fusion, it is easy to use, but it creates some artefacts and it has no blooming. So i tested the AE plugin frischluft lenscare and nothing happend.

The Plugin doesn´t understand float values (1) and can´t read the Maya IFF Z-Channel (2)

I used a CustomTool (3a) to copy the Z-Channel to the readable red Channel (3b)

In the next step i used ColorCurves (4a) to get some values between 0 and 1. Just find the lowest color and make it black (4b).

same game for the highest value and the whitepoint (5)
EDIT: After some testing i thinks its better to use 0

after telling DepthOfField to use the red channel (6) i could select (7a) and define the focalpoint with this simple Expression (7b). Now i can use the tool and play around with the radius (8) and all the other stuff.

i will try to make a macro for this and post it here sometime in the future.

we had to celebrate my birthday yesterday, so there was not much time to make much new stuff, here´s a little wip

Don´t try this at home

here is the first multilayer compositing test, there are still some problems with some passes and premultiplycation, but we will fix them soon.

Here I start with a first Preview of Betty´s Hut.