Tag Archives: developpment

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 →

Posted in CG/Animation, Download, R&D | Tagged 3D, adobe, Adobe After Effects, AE, AfterFX, blender, compositing, developpment, ft-UVpass, open source, pixel bender, remapping, shaders, tutorials, UV, UVPass, vfx | Leave a comment

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

Rotating Normals from a Normal pass

Posted on April 28, 2010 by François

RotateNormal is a group node inspired from Roy Stelzer (2D TD at Double Negative) “2.5D Relighting inside of Nuke” presentation. This node setup allow you to offset your normal pass on the X,Y,Z axis. It could be use for several … Continue reading →

Posted in CG/Animation, Download, R&D | Tagged 2.5D, 2D, 3D, blender, compositing, developpment, Dneg, Double Negative, Formula, Math, normal, normal pass, Nuke, open source, re-lighting, Relighting, Roy Stelze, Shader, shaders, vfx | Leave a comment

2.5D relighting in compositing with Blender (using spherical harmonics)

Posted on April 28, 2010 by François

Introduction About a year ago, I was watching a great presentation at the Nuke Master Class by Roy Stelzer (2D TD at Double Negative) about “2.5D Relighting inside of Nuke”. There is 3 videos which you can download from The … Continue reading →

Posted in CG/Animation, R&D | Tagged 3D, angular map, blender, compositing, debevec, developpment, Dneg, Double Negative, environment map, Formula, HDR, HDRI, Irradiance, light probe, Math, Nuke, open source, re-lighting, Relighting, Roy Stelze, shaders, Siggraph, The Foundry, vfx | 10 Comments

Color Grading with Blender 2.5

Posted on March 25, 2010 by François

Introduction Yeahh Matt Ebb just commit my patch (SVN r27733) for the “Color Balance” node in Blender 2.5 Compositing node !!! Now it should be much easier to work with. You can get a version of blender at Graphicall.org (any … Continue reading →

Posted in CG/Animation, Download, Videos/Films | Tagged AfterFX, blender, CDL, color correction, Color management, Colorista, colour, compositing, developpment, Formula, Gain, Gamma, Gamma correction, grading, Lift, Math, open source, patch, tutorials, vfx | 13 Comments

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

Posted on January 20, 2010 by François

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 open source software development (Ramen already implemented … Continue reading →