Introduction to Maya - Rendering in Arnold
This course will look at the fundamentals of rendering in Arnold. We'll go through the different light types available, cameras, shaders, Arnold's render settings and finally how to split an image into render passes (AOV's), before we then reassemble it i
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Which composition software
I'm thinking about buy a software to compose. But since I haven't touch any, I would like your guys help. After effects or Combustion? Should I have Premiere? Why?
Can anyone explain what each of theses softwares used for?
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Actually Premiere isn´t a compositing software but a video editing one. AfterEffects is a somewhat of an industry standard (much like Photoshop), and it´s by far the most common compositing package at the moment. It´s from Adobe (More info available here)
Combustion is Discreet´s most available (and less pricey)compositing package. It has a somewhat steep learning curve (Specially if you´re an adept to Adobe´s Products) but essentialy they both do the same. They composite. You just have to learn how to, and in reality it won´t differ too much whichever one you should choose. You´ll have to learn how to use them anyway.
By the way, now that you asked, Premiere is used to actually edit video, and it´s being used like crazy to make all those anime music videos you can find around P2P networks.
Prices?
Premiere goes for 549 US$
AfterEffects goes for 699 US$
Combustion goes for 4995 US$
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commotion has an interface like photoshop if u like that, butid go with combustion, very nice for the price
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Has anyone tried the new compositing software form side effects called halo i believe?
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same as houdini master, seems very flexible tho
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hmmm...
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I use Commotion mainly for roto-splines, color matching and the Primatte Keyer, and I use After Effects for everything else.
After Effects and Photoshop are my PRIMARY 2d weapons
Right now, I'm in the process of doing 4 compositing movie tutorials here at SM.
The first 2 are FREE
The first one covers:
BASIC COMPOSITING FOR VFX
Part 1
- Compositing theory
- History of Compositing
- Color spaces
About 25minutes long.
The second covers:
- Maya Render Layers, and why they are usefull for compositing.
- Photoshop and After Effects usage in VFX
- Basics of Matte creation
- Maya camera shake techniques. (For no other reason than you should know it
The VIP vids will cover:
VID 1 - COMPOSITING for VFX:
- zero-G explosion animation and compositing
- debris creation
- paticle instancing debris
- stock footage pyro usage
- rotoscoping
VID 2 - MORE COMPOSITING for VFX:
- inter-earth solid-body explosions
- advanced matte creation methods
- more debris creation methods
- more paticle instancing debris
- stock footage debris and pyro usage
- more rotoscoping
All of these videos cover After Effects and Photoshop usage pertaining to VFX.
There will also be links to the demo versions so you can follow along in case you don't have the software at the moment
Hope you check them out.
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The website is at https://www.borisfx.com/ and, from there, you can download the 'keyframer', which is basically a fully-working version, but without the ability to render (you can save out, and render elsewhere, though...)
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I haven't used Shake yet but as it's node based set up is pretty much like Maya's I'd sure as heck like to get my grubbies on it.
In your shoes I'd go and see a few demos of AE, Combustion and Shake ask a lot of questions, see which is suited to the way you work then check your budget.
If your budget is tight then you don't need to go for the full AE production bundle the Standard version will do pretty nicely to start you off.
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Seriously though there is a demo of version 4 coming soon, and again it's node based.
I for one have no experience of it, seen no demo, tell no lies.
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digital fusion is a very good program, but its kinda old, havent played with version 4 yet, but 3.1 was pretty good, still prefer combustion tho
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