16mins 38secs, 54meg Quicktime mp4 mov
I finally got my desktop fired up and grabbed this video I made last year for class. I have a 50meg version of this I will try and get up soon if 80meg is too big. I have used Simon Reeves’ excellent breakdown on his website www.bankaffairs.com. Check it out for some very clear examples of using RBG passes for compositing in CSI Please note that all images are copyright Simon Reeves and are to be used for education purposes only. Check out Simon’s main site at www.simonreeves.com.
Note: for clarity (and my own workflow), I have reordered the channels of the RBG passes before feeding them into nodes. You don’t have to do this in Shake. In the node being masked you can choose which channel you want to use as the mask.
Images (c) Simon Reeves
Tags: Compositing, Shake, Tips & Tricks
Not sure if it’s just me but the video isnt playing in my safari and firefox browser.
Downloaded the vid and works fine.
Yeah, it took a little while for it to come up as streaming in my browser. I think something may have gone amiss in the conversion! I haven’t really been home at a decent hour recently, so I will attempt to upload the smaller h264 version tonight.
Cool. It is very very informative.. I cant thank you enough, these are the types of things I know I will look back on in a few years and be thankful I had this sort of information as a studying compositor.
Sorry about the late reply Guy, I thought I had approved this one. I am glad you are finding it useful. One of the main reasons for starting this page was definitely to pass on information that I felt that students are maybe not being exposed to. I know that I had no idea about a lot of this stuff when I left school and that is not necessarily a bad reflection on my school. There is a lot to know and to cover in a class and a lot of the stuff you learn will be passed on to you by more senior people who have “been there and done” that and no the ins and outs and shortcuts!
Amazing stuff. This is the kind of things that they don’t teach you at shool. And i come from a school in Hollywood, i won’t say which one. Please keep doing a great job with these compositing tutorials. Perhaps on how to comp these ID passes and mattes in AE.
Cheers Ruben. That’s a major reason for me doing the videos: not being a taught a lot of this basic stuff in schools. Heck, I didn’t even know you should render 3D in frames, not movies, until I read it in 3ds max tips book!