Tag Archives: AE

How to convert a Lightprobe into the 9 spherical harmonics coefficients

Posted on June 15, 2010 by François

Here is a tutorial on how to convert your own Light Probe into the 9 coefficients needed into my ft-SSIBL plug-in (Screen Space Image Base Lighting). Links : An Efficient Representation for Irradiance Environment Maps Mingw (gcc) Light Probe Image … Continue reading →

Posted in CG/Animation, R&D | Tagged 3D, adobe, Adobe After Effects, AE, AfterFX, angular map, colour, compositing, debevec, developpment, environment map, Formula, HDR, HDRI, HDRShop, Image base lighting, light probe, ligthprobe, Math, Nuke, open source, pixel bender, re-lighting, realtime, Relighting, SH, shaders, source code, spherical Harmonics, tutorials, vfx, Videos/Films | 4 Comments

Pixel Bender : ft-ColorGray shader for After Effects

Posted on June 9, 2010 by François

Introduction This shader will color an image based on a second input. I did it because I wanted to change grayscale into a variety of colors with a gradiant. Download & Sources Pixel Bender shader : ft-ColorGray Source code : … Continue reading →

Posted in CG/Animation, Download, R&D | Tagged 3D, Adobe After Effects, AE, AfterFX, color correction, colour, compositing, developpment, gradiant, grayscale, lightness, luma, open source, pixel bender, pixelbender, shaders, source code, vfx, Videos/Films | Leave a comment

Pixel Bender : ft-CombineRGBA for After Effects

Posted on June 3, 2010 by François

Introduction This really simple shader let you combine 2 inputs channel into a new one. There is already something like that in AE, but I believe it is only working in 8 or 16 bits. This one is working in … Continue reading →

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Pixel Bender : ft-SSIBL (Screen Space Image Base Lighting) shader for After Effects

Posted on June 2, 2010 by François

Introduction ft-SSIBL for “Screen Space Image Base Lighting” is based on a topic I covered in a previous post about Roy Stelzer’s “2.5D Relighting inside of Nuke”. In this shader I tried to reproduced a few approach found in his … Continue reading →

Posted in CG/Animation, Download, R&D | Tagged 3D, Adobe After Effects, AE, AfterFX, angular map, color correction, colour, compositing, developpment, IBL, Image base lighting, lightprobe, Nuke, open source, re-lighting, Relighting, shaders, source code, The Foundry, vfx, Videos/Films | 7 Comments

Pixel Bender : ft-UVPass shader for After Effects

Posted on June 1, 2010 by François

Introduction This shader let you re-texture your rendering directly in After Effects. It use a UV pass as default input and a texture as second input. UV pass could be render from pretty much any 3d package. Download & Sources … Continue reading →

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Pixel Bender : ft-2-strip technicolor & ft-3-strip technicolor shader for After Effects

Posted on May 31, 2010 by François

Introduction Those two shaders try to mimic Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator movie effects. The codes are based on snippet found on VFXTalk.com, Blender source code & Aviator VFX behind the scene website. Download & Sources ft-2-strip technicolor Pixel Bender shader … Continue reading →

Posted in CG/Animation, Download, R&D | Tagged 2 strip, 3 strip, adobe, AE, AfterFX, Aviator, blender, color correction, colour, compositing, developpment, Martin Scorsese, open source, pixel bender, pixelbender, shaders, source code, technicolor, vfx, Videos/Films | 1 Comment

Experimental Animation based on sound with After Effects via AETuts+ (Audio Reactant Time Remapping)

Posted on May 17, 2010 by François

My tutorial for AETuts+ is finally out !! It covers Time Remapping, Waveform to keyframe conversion, expression, … I got really inspired by watching all those reels from motion designer or filmmaker with music most of the time from Hecq. … Continue reading →

Posted in CG/Animation, R&D, Videos/Films | Tagged adobe, Adobe After Effects, AE, AETuts, AfterFX, animation, color correction, compositing, creative, Expression, Javascript, motion design, Time Remapping, Videos/Films, Vimeo, Waveform | Leave a comment

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

Posted on March 23, 2010 by François

If you haven’t seen my previous post yet, here is the Syntheyes’ Cubic Lens Distortion algorithm ported to Pixel Bender. New Features Scale factor : works exactly as Syntheyes Scale Lens Workflow (v2) Chromatic Aberration : based on Martins Upitis‘s … Continue reading →

Posted in CG/Animation, Download, R&D, Videos/Films | Tagged adobe, Adobe After Effects, AE, aescripts.com, AfterFX, chromatic aberration, compositing, Cubic, Distortion, Formula, fxphd, GLSL, HLSL, lens, Lens Distortion, matchmove, open source, pixel bender, pixelbender, realtime, shaders, ssontech, Syntheyes, tracking, vfx, Videos/Films, workflow | 5 Comments

PixelBender Cubic Lens Distortion for After Effects

Posted on March 22, 2010 by François

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 … Continue reading →

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

Posted on January 28, 2010 by François

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 nothing really fancy here since the mask can only be … Continue reading →