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UPDATE – Cubic Lens Distortion Pixel Bender shader for AE (with scale & chromatic aberration

cubic lens distortion & chromatic aberration



If you haven’t seen my previous post yet, here is the Syntheyes’ Cubic Lens Distortion algorithm…

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PixelBender Cubic Lens Distortion for After Effects


Introduction


If you are doing Matchmove, you probably bumped into Lens work-flow issue, where you have to un-distort the footage in your matchmove software, then track it, and export a new undistorted footage, so your client can compose the 3d rendering on top of it…

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Understanding Gamma and Linear workflow

Even If I’m aware of what gamma and Linear workflow is, I’m not quite sure I’m using it always in the correct way. So I decide to dive into documentations and forums again to refresh my memory about it and at the same time closing a few…

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Blender Quick Tips : How to create masks in the compositing editor

Since there is no mask in the “Compositing Editor” of Blender yet, I found a simple tricks which could work pretty well especially in case of color grading.

You’ll see…

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OpenFX (OFX) – An Open Plug-in API for 2D Visual Effects

Open FX


I did bump into this website a few days ago, it looks pretty old, but it’s the first time I heard about it, and I think it is worth looking at it for…

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5 things Blender should do to be succesful in the industry (via 3dsoul)

Well done article on how to improve Blender to make it fit the industry.

I would add another point to this post is an external SDK/API to make communication easier between application or being able to develop plug-in for it…

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new approach of 3D camera for stereoscopic movie

I’ve been fighting with so many people about the subject of “how should you orient your cameras for perfect 3d feeling”. I always was against the idea that both cameras should be parallel, because it’s not how our eyes work at all!

I was pretty happy when I learned that…

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Boston Dynamics – Robots and biomechanics development (skynet ?)

I think that if Skynet would have a name today, it would be called Boston Dynamics. :p

Introduction

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My Home town on Google Map Street View (Mauriac-Cantal-Auvergne-France)

Yeeeeaaaahhh we can start to see a few (one ? ) streets of my home town on Google Map Street View. Mauriac which is lost in…

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Maya to Blender tutorials

I just found those 2 videos on vimeo (hopefully there will be some more soon) talking and helping Autodesk Maya Artist willing to use Blender.
I like the idea behind this…

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  • Maya to Blender tutorials
  • Maya to Blender tutorials
  • Maya to Blender tutorials