linear workflow

So this is supposed to be a big deal. Admittedly I can't remember there being much of an emphasis on this at Escape - the general impression I got was everything gets saved/fixed in comp. I didn't even know the framebuffer tab in mental ray even existed until a few days ago.

So here we are, some useful links regarding linear workflow:

http://3dlight.blogspot.com/2008/09/linear-workflow-for-maya-mental-ray.html
http://www.djx.com.au/blog/2008/09/13/linear-workflow-and-gamma/
http://www.floze.org/2008/07/six-tuts-on-light-and-shade-part-i.html

Let us know if you get your head around it :-)

RollingShutter

Hey guys ..

how have you been? I`m fine! but my country is not , after the typhoon hits Taiwan..many people still in the bad situation ..


anyway, I just want to let you know that The Foundry public a brand new tools for solve terrible RollingShutter Problems, do you remember those shots shotting by 5d mark 2 ,the CMOS sensor result in goddammit image-distortion problems, yeah ! The Foundry company provide the plug-in called RollingShutter can solve it now. so..dose anyone want to buy a new 5d mark 2, go for it!



here is the information link : http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/pkg_overview.aspx?ui=A757DC23-E017-41FF-983A-4E134721DDF6

tif compression

just a quick one...

set your tif texture compression to 'none' in photoshop before you take it into maya to render, mental ray really hates it, but then again you probably know all this !

argh ! another hour wasted

DVD Authoring Software

Does anyone know any good DVD authoring software, Ive been using Adobe Encore but I've never really been a fan of it.

Has anyone used any other software that they consider to be pretty good?

maya forum

Does anyone know of a good forum to ask questions about maya, modeling and materials ?

All Done ! (Finally)

Re-rendering my passes and then getting them into Shake, click for the full size image to see the details, hope you like it.

I might need to blur it a little more to compensate for the background blur, what do you think ?

rendering from Shake problem

So if you caught my unedited post that was me just being silly.. I now have my comped frame rendered out as a tiff from Shake.

However, I've noticed the brightness/contrast of this rendered out image is much different to the one i've comped. Looks like a gamma shift almost. I could probably rectify this in PS but that would defeat the object.

In my file out properties i'm using tiff as file format and codec set to none (i'm guessing this is compression as was set to LZW originally)

Has anyone encountered this issue?

cheers.