I recently started to use Blackmagic's Fusion at home (budget reasons) and I'm liking it so far but, one of the most important features coming from Nuke, is obviously the ability to shuffle between all the AOVs of your multi channel EXRs. Unfortunately Fusion doesn't support this. It has something called booleans to separate RGB channels but not AOVs.
Chad Ashley pointed me to this third party script that splits a multi channel EXR in many different loaders with each one of your AOVs. Not as good as Nuke's shuffle but good enough!
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byWord /
At the beginning of the days I used my iPad just for fun but now I use it in a professional way for a lot of different tasks.
This time I’d like to talk to you about one of the applications that I most use on my iPad every single day.
I’m talking about byWord.
It’s a simple text editing software for Mac, iPad and iPhone. Nothing fancy here you might think, and you’re probably true, but the good thing about byWord is that you don’t need to think about anything but writing.
byWord is simple, clear, tidy and will keep you focus on writing, that’s it.
I use it for all writing related stuff, from blogging to outline courses. From planning shootings to write emails. You won’t be distracted by things like type fonts, colors or menu tools.
byWord has nice features like syncing with Dropbox or iCloud, so you can keep all your content in different devices or in the cloud.
Another nice feature is the dark theme which turns your screen to black and your text to white.
This is very useful for dailies sessions, you can write down feedback easily from your vfx supe under dark light conditions in the daily room.
I usually write a few words and then on my desk I just expand all this key words to complete a text with the whole feedback given and a small strategy to address it.
If you are involved in writing related tasks go to http://www.bywordapp.com and give it a try.
Jeff Bridges photography /
It’s Courier, just better /
“Since the beginning, screenplays have been written in Courier. Its uniformity allows filmmakers to make handy comparisons and estimates, such as 1 page = 1 minute of screen time.
But there’s no reason Courier has to look terrible. We set out to make the best damn Courier ever.
We call it Courier Prime.”
Portland Mews Panorama /
Another panorama for 3D lighting which I shot in Portland Mews, Soho, in London.
As usual I shot also clean plates and colour checkers.
Isle of Skye panoramas /
Isle of Skye 0001
Isle of Skye 0007
Isle of Skye 0004
You can download the high resolution .exr plus clean plates here:
Mari 2 Maya script /
I was lucky enough to find this simple but effective script to import your Mari textures in to Maya in a really quick way.
It is a Python script created by Kushal Goenka.
Follow these instructions to install the script.
# Mari2Maya – PyMEL Script
# Written by Kushal Goenka ( Animation Maniac )
# kushalgoenka@gmail.com
# http://AnimationManiac.deviantART.com
# Description:
# This Script Automates the Process of Setting up given MARI Texture Patches
# into one Single Layered Texture in Maya.
# Setup:
# Copy Script to ‘\maya\2012-x64\scripts’ folder. ’2012-x64′ might by different.
# Source the Script. ( Script Editor > File > Source Script… )
# Call the Python Command: ‘Mari2Maya()’ (or add to Shelf)
# Requirements:
# Export textures from MARI with ‘$UDIM.extension’ at the end.
# For Example: $ENTITY_$CHANNEL_$UDIM.tif >> Castle07_color_1003.tif
# Instructions:
# 1. Drag Texture Files into Hypershade.
# 2. Drag Select all Imported Texture File Nodes in the Hypershade Work Area.
# 3. Run the Script. via ‘Mari2Maya()’ Let the Magic happen.
Robert Nederhorst tools /
Surfing around I just discover this great site by Robert Nederhorst, plenty of really nice and usefull tools for Maya and Nuke.
Awesome stuff by Robert, thanks!