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Live Action & CG 3 - A Comprehensive Guide to Compositing
In this DVD, Instructor Matt Skonicki takes you through the entire process of compositing 2 HD Shots with 3D integration. The best part of this tutorial is it uses Autodesk Composite for compositing which ships free with Autodesk Maya 2011. Matt starts off by taking you On Location to demonstrate the capturing of the raw plate and HDRI images. From there he goes through creating the final HDRI image in Photoshop. The next chapters include detailed tracking in SynthEyes, setting up the scene in Maya, creating masks in After Effects, Animation of the 3D objects in Maya, adding particle effects, lighting, and render layers. Last, Matt composites the final scenes in Autodesk Composite.
This tutorial is perfect for those who want an "Out of the Box" comprehensive tutorial on compositing 3D into your own camera footage primarily using Autodesk Maya and Composite.
About the Instructor:
Matt Skonicki has worked in the video game and film industry for over 6 years. During his time at Midway Games in Chicago, he worked very hard to prove his way up from being a cinematics artist to a character technical artist. Matt has worked on such video games as "Mortal Kombat: Armageddon" and "John Woo's Stranglehold" and even received a prestigious excellence award for his contributions. Currently Matt is a visual effects instructor at Columbia College Film School in Chicago Illinois.
This tutorial is perfect for those who want an "Out of the Box" comprehensive tutorial on compositing 3D into your own camera footage primarily using Autodesk Maya and Composite.
About the Instructor:
Matt Skonicki has worked in the video game and film industry for over 6 years. During his time at Midway Games in Chicago, he worked very hard to prove his way up from being a cinematics artist to a character technical artist. Matt has worked on such video games as "Mortal Kombat: Armageddon" and "John Woo's Stranglehold" and even received a prestigious excellence award for his contributions. Currently Matt is a visual effects instructor at Columbia College Film School in Chicago Illinois.
| Apps: | Autodesk Maya 2011, Autodesk Composite 2011, SynthEyes, After Effects CS5, Photoshop |
| Duration: | 8.5 Hours |
| Instructor: | Matt Skonicki |
| DL Size: | 1.5 GB |
| Project Files: | Autodesk Maya files for every chapter to follow along including all assets, Autodesk Composite files, the original video plate, syntheyes solves and after effects files. What is not included are the final exported Open EXR files due to the extremely large filesize of over 30GB. These can easily be rendered out from the maya scenes provided as seen in the video. |
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User Comments
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Cyan tarek (not verified)
O my Goodness, So much to learn from this DVD, I wish I had the chance to train myself under your teaching. You're the real MAYA Guru
Anonymous (not verified)
This is the best training dvd of you guys! I would love to see a fourth part of th "Live Action & CG" series. It's very helpful!
Marcel (not verified)
Hello,
thanks for a video, very nice. I wat trying to play with switching between image plane texture or image source like you show in chapter 15 - lighting. Works very good, but if I try to light my scene with mental ray Sun And Sky system, than colors of texture image went darker. Is there any solution, to have correctly gammacorected/toned images.
Than you very much
Marcel
Alkesh (not verified)
Great work!! If part 4, can you cover 3d comp in either Nuke, Fusion, or Autodesk Composite? Thx.
Alkesh (not verified)
Great videos covering live-action + CG comp. If there is part 4 in the plan, please see if you can cover 3-D composition - either in Nuke, Fusion or Autodesk Composite. Thanks again for great work!
strontium
i just like to inform you guys , that when you try to download the plug-in "HDR shop" v1 you get a virus warning
3dsmaxman
Im thinking about buying the DVD but I have Matchmover not SynthEyes. Can you do the tracking in Matchmover?
metalliandy
@dominionjames
Most of the Next Gen Texturing DVD is in Photoshop
There is only around 30 mins. or so that is in Max, with the other 4.5hrs being in Photoshop and Unreal.
dominionjames
Watched the whole thing, and this tutorial is awesome and informative! a must have for any compositor!
mskonicki
James, honestly I textured the harvester from rikis awesome texturing DVD. There's a reason it's a best seller.
gozzyman
Hear Hear
dominionjames
hey, got this tutorial the other day and i gotta say good job! i know it's a "composite" tutorial, but is there any way you can do like a side tutorial on how to fully "texture" the Harvester? thanx
Dukowsky
Hi all i am a bit confuse about the purchase info.
the: Library Version $194.95 include file size of 30GB of data?
Sudessh
really amazing, where we get rendered file
gozzyman
Hi Matt,
I’d love to learn more about Nuke so it would be great if you’re planning a comprehensive Nuke tutorial.
Will Eat3D make a new training DVD for "The Harvester" in future? (From Live Action & CG 3 - A Comprehensive Guide to Compositing - Building, Texturing, Rendering and Render layers in Maya). Same as Eat3D did the Dozer for 3ds Max. Is it possible?
Gozzyman
3Dgeo (not verified)
very nice tutorial, very detailed, i hope someday someone do something similar with 3d max.
Daniel (not verified)
hey Riki, is there going to be 4th part...please say yes,,,this is amazing man..please
RobPhoboS (not verified)
This is almost perfect timing for me, I say almost as I have been working through a MR rendering work-flow for my matchmoved shots.
But this will be really great to check out, I hope you get the support you deserve for this effort !
All the best,
Rob
mskonicki
Thanks for feedback guys, been a while since last dvd, I've been crazy busy with teaching at Columbia but always wanted to create a 3rd in the series that brought you through the labrynth of incoherency regarding live action/cg (from rough sand to final product). Hoping to do a comprehensive Nuke tutorial some day.
Ramil
Hi, Matt! Just one word for what you did for us - awesome!!!
GCastro
A video of the finished video would be great to see!
Venkman
Is there a place where we can view the finished video created in this project?
GCastro
Cool Riki, thanks for the info and thank you for creating more maya training
Riki
Hi George, Matt used a preset explosion from Maya I believe and does not go into creating the explosion itself. He does show how to put it into the scene, animate, render, etc. As for the camera he uses a Sigma with a 24-70 lens.
GCastro
Hey, that looks really interesting. What camera did you use to shoot the plates? How much detail do you go into creating the explosion? Is it fluids or particles? Or is it comp footage of an explosion?
Thanks,
George
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