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THIS BLOG MAINLY CONSISTS OF NOTES I MAKE WHEN LEARNING SOFTWARE, ALL COMPILED IN ONE PLACE - HOPEFULLY IT MAY BE HELPFUL TO YOU TOO!
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DIGITAL COMPOSITING: Camera Mapping in 3DS Max
Camera mapping is a technique whereby a flat photo is projected onto 3d geometry. This gives us a limited ability to turn the flat photo...

Michael
Nov 1, 20163 min read
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DIGITAL COMPOSITING: HDR Lighting
HDR Light mapping is a technique used to get accurate lighting results when putting 3d models or characters into a photo or video scene. ...

Michael
Oct 26, 20165 min read
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DIGITAL COMPOSITING: 3D Camera tracking with After Effects
After effects cs6 has a 3D Camera Tracker effect. Before CS6, Matchmover was the best program to use.Match Mover still has some...

Michael
Oct 18, 20163 min read
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DIGITAL COMPOSITING: 3d Camera Tracking with Matchmover.
Matchmover is a free piece of software from autodesk used for tracking footage, to be taken into a 3D package such as 3DS Max or Maya....

Michael
Oct 18, 20164 min read
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DIGITAL COMPOSITING: Keying and Green screen.
Chroma keying, often referred to as ‘green screening’ is stripping a selected colour away from footage, leaving it transparent. This...

Michael
Oct 11, 20164 min read
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Digital Composition Submission: ‘Aliens Versus Badass 2’
So I was rummaging around in the attic and found a box of old video tapes… The trailer was made over a very short space of time....

Michael
Jan 13, 20142 min read
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DIGITAL COMPOSITING – Green Screening (Keying) in After Effects.
Note – this is an older tutorial. A more recent one with newer information is available here: https://michaelarbuthnot.wordpress.com/2016...

Michael
Oct 25, 20134 min read
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Digital Compositing : Photoshop Tutorials
SELECTIONS 1) Open your image in photoshop. You can use masks, magic wand tool, pen selections etc to make selections, but they can still...

Michael
Sep 27, 20132 min read
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Lightscapes – An experimental method of creating paintings.
So I’ve recently become addicted to http://www.thisiscolossal.com, a fantastic blog featuring all kinds of visual brilliance, as shown by...

Michael
Nov 16, 20121 min read
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