Realistic Futurama Portraits
I stumbled upon these cool Futurama portraits by Spanish artist Cristian Melián. Awesome work!
Realistic Futurama by Cristian Melián
Here’s the gang as we know it.
Vertical Alignment
I’ve finished another quick video tutorial, this one is about vertical alignment in stereo shots. It’s done with Fusion but this technique requires no plugins and can even be done in Photoshop 🙂
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll6nKefUfRc&hd=1
I have enabled Youtube’s automatic transcript just for the fun of it. It used speech recognition and it’s funny how some phrases are transcribed perfectly despite my German accent while others are jibberish. You can download the subtitle file though and it only takes a few minutes to edit the transcript and re-upload it again.
So enjoy the English captions on this tutorial! Here are some funny phrases that Google’s voice recognition software had produced initially:
0:00:09.809,0:00:14.019
as you probably know there are lots of things that can give the bureaucratic when it comes to stereoscopic footage0:00:14.019,0:00:17.960
the most important one is spiritual alignment0:01:05.239,0:01:07.340
the monogram version wants it0:01:20.080,0:01:22.230
his foreign troops of the ride i0:01:35.240,0:01:38.929
since the transform which is his offspring you have to hold down the
aisle to key while driving the mention of your porch0:02:48.259,0:02:55.259
now zoom back into the top left corner and adjust the anglo french haitian0:02:57.629,0:03:01.020
using the cursor keys left and right then
you can get justice in smaller steps
You tell 'em, Sly!
Multiple Camera Projections in Fusion
Made another video tutorial about combining projections from multiple cameras. Enjoy 🙂
Also, check out my script to quickly align image planes to points in a point cloud and my latest tutorial about camera projection workflows.
Bundestrojaner
Der Chaos Computer Club hat – sofern es sich nachträglich nicht noch um eine große Ente handelt – den legendären Bundestrojaner eingefangen und disassembliert. Wie nicht anders zu erwarten war, stellen sich deutsche Ermittlungsdienste in Angesicht der Schnüffelmöglichkeiten, die entgegen expliziten Weisungen des Bundesverfassungsgerichts eingebaut wurden, auf die Stufe von Schurkenstaaten. Programmiertechnisch stellen sie sich auch noch auf die Stufe von Script-Kiddies. Köstliches Zitat vom CCC:
Wir sind hocherfreut, daß sich für die moralisch fragwürdige Tätigkeit der Programmierung der Computerwanze keine fähiger Experte gewinnen ließ und die Aufgabe am Ende bei studentischen Hilfskräften mit noch nicht entwickeltem festen Moralfundament hängenblieb.
Die erspähten Daten (z.B. Screenshots von Browserfenster und Skype-Protokolle) werden auch noch über einen Server in den USA geleitet. Der gesamte Bericht des CCC ist hier (PDF) zu finden.
eyeon Dimension
eyeon has finally shown a short teaser for “Dimension”, their “Occula-for-Fusion” plugin. Looks promising so far. Most importantly, the price tag undercuts Occula by thousands of dollars which makes it feasible for smaller production companies as well. Let’s wait and see – competition is good 🙂
And Generation is back from the dead (read: a year after it was end-of-lifed by eyeon without further explanation). It has gained a lot of asset management and workflow functionality (shot status, artist collaboration, reviews). Having worked with Shotgun recently, I have to say that Generation’s shot management from a player interface sounds intriguing. Shotgun is a slow browser-based behemoth with millions of clickable links that all look alike. I don’t know if it was built that way or if it was that company’s customization… But it seemed overkill for most problems that an artist has (might be a different story for project managers).
Fusion 6.3 will be half as expensive as before and if you add Dimension and Generation AM you’ll end up with the former price.
None of these tools is shipping yet though.
