A lesson in group destruction
This is a group effort in third year's dynamic class, blowing something up! [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JBWQiUxJVE[/embed] This is the result of me and my team mates, Eric Andersson and Ben Casey. Lecturer Brian Samuels provided the assets for us to blow up, and we design the process of destruction. We decided we'll…
Sebastian sat on a wall
[embed]https://vimeo.com/259688116[/embed] Sebastian is the asset we used to practice animation during year one and in year two it is still the main model for students in animation stream. Naturally, it is quite the love and hate relationship for students like us! So when it is about shooting a canon, of…
Making tearable thing
[embed]https://vimeo.com/259688034/[/embed] Playing with tearable Maya nCloth.
Installing DroidCam on CentOS 7
Basically what DroidCam does is it allows me to turn my android phone into a webcam and use it on Skype, Google+, or even as a surveillance device if I wish. And I chose this program over other webcam apps for android simply because its desktop client work on both…
Nuke 11 Frame Server setup
Recently I was working on a short film called "June", directed by actor/director Dwayne Cameron. Unfortunately, the render farm software in the facility is under maintenance. Fortunately, it opened up an opportunity for me to look into Frame Server in Nuke 11 to learn how to utilize the whole room…
Writing tools for read nodes!
This is me getting too lazy to deal with one read node at a time. Often I found myself keep repeating the process of selecting all the read nodes that I actually remember the python script that does it, and keep typing it up in the script editor. Finally I…
Project Directory in Nuke
It is only after joining trollbridge I realize how using project directory can make things easy in nuke, especially in a big script with lots of files. It makes transporting the folder significantly easier as you only need to change one path as you move the folder. If using relative…
Nuke EnumerationPulldown
I was trying to create a simple panel with a dropdown menu, and had some trouble with nuke panel.addEnumerationPulldown. Here's the code I was typing: opts = ('on', 'from auto-localize path', 'off') p = nuke.Panel('Change read localization') p.addEnumerationPulldown('Set localization policy', opts) I expected the panel to give me a dropdown…
Linux Snippets
I've interested in Linux for a while now but it's only until recently I actually installed Linux to dual boot with my Windows 10. At first I installed Ubuntu because of it's popularity, but on the same day I found out the production programs I work with (Nuke, Maya) doesn't…
Nuke Execute with Command Prompt
This is a little side project I worked on during my second year in Media Design School. My lecturer, Ryan Mullany mentioned that Nuke can potentially render faster without its graphic interface running, thus the idea of sending the execution command to another terminal. So I worked with him to…