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Archive for July, 2008

A brief note on channels, and good habbits

So in a recent, near World of warcraft forum level of Flaming over on VFXTalk’s Nuke forum, I have come to the following metaphor for life:

Give a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man to RTFM on fishing, and he can not clog up the forums with questions on fishing he can answer him self.

also here is a fun thing on how channels work from an outsiders POV that came up in a conversation with a friend of mine.

channels are pretty easily explained it’s like a clown car first there’s just what you THINK is in there (the four clowns occupying the norma seats [aka rgba]) then by the end of it, 57 clowns have come out, and your pretty sure there are still 7 of them in there and they can do anything you want juggle spray seltzer, swallow swords, clean up elephant poop w/e

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Roto - The tutorial!

So here’s the deal I’ve created a roto Tutorial spanning Nuke, Combustion and AE, this isn’t a “How To” for roto, this is a basics of roto for all 3 programs with some basics of roto wrapped up.

 

Hope you enjoy

 

-Zander

 

Right Click and Save file

      File size - 232 megs     File Type - H.264 quicktime    Duration 47:30    Video Size 1260×786

 

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In the Interum

Well Im pretty busy atm no time to do the new tutorials I wanted to do, Or write any funny “how to” posts

so this will have to do, One of many spin offs of this scene.

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