March 17, 2010
Compositing, Tutorial
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Yay! Today my second tutorial for AEtuts+ went online. As usual, it was very labor-intense but from the first comments I got on it, it was really worth it. And that people like my hair.
Feel free to check it out yourself here, where you can also see the sneak peek of it. Now I gotta get some some sleep, just came back from holding a live tutorial on the FH Salzburg. Exhausting, but fun!
Yay! Today my second tutorial for AEtuts+ went online. As usual, it was very labor-intense but from the first comments I got on it, it was really worth it. And that people like my hair.
Feel free to check it out yourself here, where you can also see the sneak peek of it. Now I gotta get some some sleep, just came back from holding a live tutorial on the FH Salzburg. Exhausting, but fun!
January 30, 2010
Compositing, Computing, Dear Diary, Tutorial
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Wassup, y’all? I’m back! Back from the vault, back from grinding merrily away 20 to 30 hrs a day on my diploma thesis and back from LaTeX formatting hell. Through my veins still runs a little amount of blood among all that caffeine and so I’m announcing my new credo for 2010: Make Something Creative Every Day Week!
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Wassup, y'all? I'm back! Back from the vault, back from grinding merrily away 20 to 30 hrs a day on my diploma thesis and back from LaTeX formatting hell. Through my veins still runs a little amount of blood among all that caffeine and so I'm announcing my new credo for 2010: Make Something Creative Every Day Week!
There's quite a bit I have planned for in 2010. First and foremost I'll get busy on some new AEtuts+ video tutorials introducing Nuke to the After Effectors among you all and something I have in mind for quite a while now, working title: "The Art and Science of Rotoscoping". (Everything's "art" and "science" in visual effects, if you read the books.)
There's a new series for flickr that I have in mind by the name of "Austrian Details". There are so many things I encounter that are so typically Austrian in some way and that people from other places probably wonder about when they see it. When it launches I'll tell you here.
I'll also be holding Tutorials on the Salzburg University of Ap
April 26, 2009
Compositing, Tutorial
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I got this problem occasionally on different machines running Vista when firing up After Effects CS3. When it said “Initializing User Interface” it froze. Sometimes it would start after 15 minutes but, seriously, that’s not how I like to work, although I use any delay to excuse a round trip to my espresso machine. I didn’t find anything about it on the beloved internet so I had to figure it out myself. And here’s what you can do:
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I got this problem occasionally on different machines running Vista when firing up After Effects CS3. When it said "Initializing User Interface" it froze. Sometimes it would start after 15 minutes but, seriously, that's not how I like to work, although I use any delay to excuse a round trip to my espresso machine. I didn't find anything about it on the beloved internet so I had to figure it out myself. And here's what you can do:
Locate your User directory of After Effects:
C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\After Effects\8.0
Now delete your preferences and workspaces. I don't know what files exactly you have to delete, but be aware that your saved templates, workspaces and other user files will be reset. I know this hurts, but you want AE running again, don't ya?
Adobe After Effects 8.0 Prefs.txt
Adobe After Effects 8.0 Shortcuts.txt
AfterFX8.ini
Workspaces.xml
That's it. On the next start-up After Effects will create these files again with default settings. Good Luck!
October 23, 2008
Compositing, Reports, Tutorial
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I am sitting here in my new favorite café/restaurant in Berlin, the Rebellion des Zimtsterns and wait for the dish of the day. I really need a break from the inconvenient truth I have learned a few minutes ago. If you read on there’s also a short tutorial on a possible wire removal workflow. Skip it, if you already know it.
EDIT: Of course I couldn’t finish this lengthy post in one lunch break so I posted it the next morning.
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I am sitting here in my new favorite café/restaurant in Berlin, the Rebellion des Zimtsterns [1. translates to The Rebellion of the Cinnamon Star] and wait for the dish of the day. I really need a break from the inconvenient truth I have learned a few minutes ago. If you read on there's also a short tutorial on a possible wire removal workflow. Skip it, if you already know it.
EDIT: Of course I couldn't finish this lengthy post in one lunch break so I posted it the next morning.
As some of you already know I am working as an intern at rise visual effects here in Berlin and spend my days working with Nuke, Combustion as well as Avid, the latter two being a major pain in my brains. Rise is currently doing the VFX for quite a number of international projects, putting me in the position to participate on some of them with minor shots. I keyed and comped [1. I will keep this kind of short form of “composited” from now on, so better get used to it] for the German TV movie Die Patin some dull green scre
March 13, 2008
CGI & Rendering, Reports, Tutorial
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I am more of a satisfyzer (yes, just I made that word up) than a maximizer but I am not up for any compromises when it comes to t-shirts: If I have an idea about a certain print I want then I won’t settle for anything less than exactly that. Yes, I was looking for that perfect, one and only DeLorean-logo shirt!
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I am more of a satisfyzer (yes, just I made that word up) than a maximizer but I am not up for any compromises when it comes to t-shirts: If I have an idea about a certain print I want then I won't settle for anything less than exactly that. Yes, I was looking for that perfect, one and only DeLorean-logo shirt!
The idea was quite simple: I wanted a gray or asphalt colored shirt with a white DMC logo on it because working in Maya on a DeLorean time machine for so long leaves its marks, especially on somebody who as is easy to manipulate as me.
If you try to find that shirt via Google you will spend a while until you end up at the DMC website where you can buy it for $18.95 plus $49.42 (ahhh!) international shipping fee. Seventy frickin' bucks for a quite simple shirt is waaay too much! "I can make one myself for less!" I said to myself. And that's how I started.
Yesterday I had a brief chat with my colleague Dansch Übleis who is famous not only for his Maya skills (especially workarounds and chea
June 21, 2007
Reports, Tutorial, photography
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Some of you might have seen me two days ago roaming around the endless corridors of the campus: Black shirt, shorts, worn flip-flops and a large black camera on a tripod on my shoulder. But why would I take pictures of the boring campus in medium format? Well… why not?
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Some of you might have seen me two days ago roaming around the endless corridors of the campus: Black shirt, shorts, worn flip-flops and a large black camera on a tripod on my shoulder. But why would I take pictures of the boring campus in medium format? Well... why not?
On Tuesday I paid Foto Mayrhofer another visit and did some bulk shopping in photo equipment: Lisa bought some photo paper for her project in staged photography, I got myself two Ilfosol S developer packs, a wire release for my dear Mamiya RB 67 and -most importantly and most urgently- a Manfrotto tripod. Model #055CLB to be precise. And, boy, it wasn't cheap but a bulky medium format camera does need a good tripod.
And finally I was able to shoot long time exposures with the Mamiya which I always anticipated because of the lovely large format of 6 x 7 cm.
A guide to Mamiya RB 67 long time exposures
It wasn't easy finding out about the T setting on the lens. Long time ago I learned that it stands for tempus and is another
I am more of a satisfyzer (yes, just I made that word up) than a maximizer but I am not up for any compromises when it comes to t-shirts: If I have an idea about a certain print I want then I won’t settle for anything less than exactly that. Yes, I was looking for that perfect, one and only DeLorean-logo shirt!
Call me flip-floppy but today I like Steam better than the day before. Because it works again and likes to display my custom models. Like the one out of three airplanes I modeled for S&P Simulations some months ago.
I am working on another project for BigBoy Productions and I needed a realistic gold texture with proper reflections but which doesn’t take eons to render. Years ago I was very close to photorealistic gold but unfortunately I forgot a big deal about it. After playing around for days I finally came up with a good solution which I will present you in this tutorial.