Category Archives: Compositing

Glimpses at the Production

Posted on November 28, 2011 by loramel

Confirmed by comments on my recent post, I will try to refrain as much as possible from displaying potential spoiler images. As this would mean, to cease showing any images from now on, I thought I could give you some … Continue reading →

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Light and Shadow

Posted on May 30, 2011 by loramel

This post should have been my first screencast doing some texturing work, but alas as live plays, things have gone a bit different.

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Shot Breakdown

Posted on October 26, 2010 by loramel

As announced in my previous post I present here a shot compositing breakdown from a frame of shot 3 of Ara’s Tale. This is a medium shot with emphasis on Ara and the environment does only act as nice blurry … Continue reading →

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Compositing and Composting

Posted on October 26, 2010 by loramel

These words are not only similar orthographically, but bear some kind of other relationship too. It’s sometimes necessary to apply the latter to the outcome of the former. For me this ‘sometimes’ was even more frequent during my work on … Continue reading →

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Z and Alpha, so similar and yet so different

Posted on October 15, 2010 by loramel

In this post I try to portray the things I have learned and experimented with about combining image layers having both transparency information (alpha) as well as z information. The starting point for me was quite simple. Up to now … Continue reading →

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Layers upon Layers (of life, obstacles and exr files)

Posted on October 12, 2010 by loramel

Sometimes it seems, that the sole purpose of this project is to test my patience, motivation and capacity for suffering. Setting up a workflow for offline compositing, ( i.e. compositing not directly after rendering but from saved multilayer exr files … Continue reading →

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Fake lighting tests

Posted on July 8, 2009 by loramel

I started a project which I had in my mind for quite some time now. Triggered by an article about product visualization, which uses fake lighting, I decided to finally give it a try myself. I created a thread in … Continue reading →

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Linear Workflow in Blender

Posted on January 24, 2009 by loramel

While working on my current project to explore the differences between luxrender and blender I came in touch with setting up a linear workflow. Until now I knew what it was and never found it necessary to test or use … Continue reading →

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First tests with luxrender

Posted on September 22, 2008 by loramel

I decided to give luxrender a try and get accustomed with its material setup. For those who have not yet came across this new renderer see here for more info. I find it a highly promising project with after one … Continue reading →

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Lightsaber Node setup

Posted on July 12, 2008 by loramel

I started to put together a (video) tutorial for a complete lightsaber rotoscoping session. The basics – blend file with node setup for the lightsaber effect and a lightsaber mask – are ready, but right now my priority lies with … Continue reading →

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