Multi Color ID for Nuke!

I have made my first Gizmo for Nuke and it is naturally Multi Color ID that combines the RenderID and Coverage pass from the VRay for Maya Render Elements.

It was a good experience to recreate it in Nuke and it handles a lot quicker in Nuke than in Fusion.

Feel free to use! Download here:
http://www.thomasbanner.dk/download/nuke/MCID.gizmo

Practial information:

I am using Adapative DMC sampling and Linear Workflow. This Gizmo is Nuke 6 and above.

RenderID and Coverage combined in updated macros for Fusion

Hi there. I updated my macros for lighter comps. Instead of having just one that combines 20 masks I have made four different ones suitable for the job of simply combining either, 2, 5, 10 or 20 masks.I also cleaned it up a bit. I hope you use it. Enjoy!

http://www.thomasban...rIDs_v01_tb.zip (contains all four below)

http://www.thomasban...t_02_tb.setting (contains two color ID's)
http://www.thomasban...t_05_tb.setting (contains five color ID's)
http://www.thomasban...t_10_tb.setting (contains ten color ID's)
http://www.thomasban...t_20_tb.setting (contains twenty color ID's)

  

Fusion Macro for using V-Ray RenderID and Coverage passes

Here is a macro for Fusion that uses the RenderID and Coverage passes from V-Ray and combine them using color pickers for easy use. There is a default of 20 color pickers for 20 masks. I am quite happy and proud of it and use it in production myself.

Disclaimer: There are so many awesome tech guys out there and I am not one of them. So if you have any problems with them I am not sure how much I can help. I am also sure that it can be optimized quite a lot but I am not that good.

Please do me a favour, if you like the macro I would love to hear it on a quick email: thomas@thomasbanner.dk


Download *UPDATED* versions of the macro here:

http://www.thomasban...rIDs_v01_tb.zip (contains all four below)

http://www.thomasban...t_02_tb.setting (contains two color ID's)
http://www.thomasban...t_05_tb.setting (contains five color ID's)
http://www.thomasban...t_10_tb.setting (contains ten color ID's)
http://www.thomasban...t_20_tb.setting (contains twenty color ID's)         


Download OLD VERSION here: http://www.thomasbanner.dk/download/fusion/macro/MultiColorIDs_v03_tb.zip

If you are using Digital Fusion for making VFX and quickly need some god rays, fake volume light etc. I have made a macro to do the trick for you instead of having to spend way too much on buying a plugin. It has some nice features like flickering and noise but also a couple of bugs when trying to make an instance copy of it. So I advice not to do that until I make a new version.

It has been used in production at Gungho VFX and at Wil Film for LEGO Ninjago.

Download here God Rays Macro for Fusion v11

If you make something cool with it I would love to see it! :-) thomas@thomasbanner.dk

A framegrab from youtube shows the use of the macro on top of several layers of particles for the Lord Garmaddon FX.

Making of Bionicle Vakhi printed in 3D World

I found this scan of an article posted by 3D World a while back about the making of the LEGO Bionicle Vakhi TV commercial I worked on whilst employed by VFX house Ghost (Copenhagen). Good memories. I worked on the look and compositing of the whole project but also did some misc 3D (modelling, shading, lighting).

My favourite shot was the last one where they all appear through the fog. Later on I graded the shot for a Bionicle music video (which was great fun too). Unfortunately for unknown reasons the music video was uploaded ungraded and made officiel even though I had graded the whole thing. What a shame.

Toyota RAV4 in Free Format

Here is a video from a CGI project I had a major role in at Storm Productions. The end result was fantastic to experience in real life. There was a stand in the Copenhagen Airport in 2006 where the company Vizoo had an installation with a real life size car projected onto a "transparant" screen. I had never worked with Free Format before. I don't think a lot of people had at that time.

It was tricky to do the video because the car had to drive somewhere but it couldn't be in another environment because it was inside the installation box at the airport. So I came up with the idea of making animated HDR images showing the environment more clearly as it the car moves along. I think it works very well. It also needed to align perfectly compared to the viewing angle of the people passing by. It was very interesting to work with. I hope they had uploaded a better quality video by I guess we have to make to with what we have.

Just to mention again, this video was to be experienced in real life, and it was a fantastic pay off to get to the airport and see the final result. I hope the video shows the idea of how it was to see.

Space Cadet's Laureline et Valerian reel

Here is a video I made with my brother Jesper Banner back in 2001. It was hastly done in less than a month. We made the music and added sound FX. Thinking about what we can do today it isn't much but it was fun to do. It is losely based on Laureline et Valerian (the french sci fi comic book).

ERGO Direkt

Last year (2011) I worked on a German TV commercial at Gungho VFX. They created some terrific CG elements and I got the job of compositing some of the shots. All of the shots were collaborative so I can not take sole credit for them. Either way I am pretty proud of what I and the other guys did so here are some pics and the video.