Monday 27 July 2009

rendering out the tracking markers with batch render

I want to render out all my frames with that show the tracking markers just like this single frame.



The only way i can render it is by clicking IPR render and just getting one frame, is there a way to make a render layer and do all the frames to show as a sequence ?





Monday 20 July 2009

Subscribed to the Nuke lessons

Hey guys , just to let you know , I've taken Jason's offer today & subscribed for the Nuke lessons . I don't have time to take a look at them now , but I will after September for sure , GOD willing . I'll make sure to post a review of it if you guys are interested ;) .

Wednesday 15 July 2009

final lambo renders































































Pretty much what i've ended up with. Still not happy with certain things, but hey nothing's ever perfect, and if truth be told i've probably spent way too long on this. Time to move on. I'll get round to that comp shot sometime.

Thursday 9 July 2009

Maya render passes overview

I've been trying to render out passes in maya and come across this on Gnomon. It's more of a brief overview of each one (i.e doesn't tell you how to construct those passes) but may be useful - should be able to figure some of them out as well based on those descriptions.

Gnomon

btw, i've run into a problem with maya 2009 - if you use any maya material X, they don't render out properly in the new auto-pass feature. There is a solution - you can go to the material attributes and scroll down to where it says 'upgrade' shader, inside the tab there's an option to convert the shader to the 'passes' version which is compatibe with render passes. Even still there are other bugs in render passes (some x-passes materials only support certain render passes for example)...

Monday 6 July 2009

Nuke lessons request

Hey guys , I don't know if you realized , but Jason replied to our Nuke lesson blog . He asked us to contact him about it . So I hope you don't mind , but I took the liberty in writing him an email about it . This is what I wrote :"

Hey Jason,
I just read your reply at the blog concerning the Nuke Lessons . As you can see , our group is quite upset about how our lessons at Escape ended . We didn't have enough time to learn proper compositing , none of us finished our projects & most of us are still having a hard time with them at the moment ( half of our group discarded the projects ) . Personally I've been looking endlessly for some Nuke tutorials to help me composite my renders which are sitting there in my PC at the moment being useless . & I don't want to sound like an ass or anything , but I did mention a number of times our concern about learning Shake when it was pointed out in one your 3D World magazines that Shake is dead ( & by many other people as well ) . Of course you can't always believe what you read in magazines & I know that it will take studios sometime to change between packages , but the fact that you guys made those tutorials just now points out that you were convinced with Nuke yourselves as well . We ALL are interested in those lessons , but most of us can't afford it . As you read , we are trying to find a proper way to watch them that is affordable to us all . Is there a way you can give us those lessons for an affordable price please ? I am a personal fan of your online lessons , & I recommend them to everyone I know ( & I have convinced a number of people to subscribe as well ) . So I am really hoping you can find a way to give us those Nuke lessons .
I look forward to hearing from you soon .
Kind regards,
Aziz "

I hope that you find my request satisfactory guys .

Peace ;)