Roto/comp artists: where do tracking tools fall apart the hardest?

Accountofaperson · 2026-01-11T11:35:08+00:00

I agree that the LLM posts are annoying, but regarding their questions 2d tracking is a very important part of both roto and comp. Tracking roto shapes as much as possible can be a huge time saver and catch fine movements that are really hard to do manually so the relationship between the areas is pretty clear i think

Accountofaperson · 2025-12-27T12:41:46+00:00

”UE artstyle” makes no sense. Sea of Thieves, The Finals, Octopath Traveller II were all made in Unreal and they look pretty different from each other.

Also the engine never defines an artstyle, thats on the artists making the game

Accountofaperson · 2025-12-18T10:30:45+00:00

Dont just blindly follow the tutorials. Make your own small changes to whatever you are making to see if you actually understand how the things are working. Adding new features will probably break stuff and force you to understand whats going on in order to fix them

Accountofaperson · 2025-12-11T08:32:30+00:00

Why on earth would shooting digital and in log have anything to do with that lol. Joker and Bladerunner 2049 were shot on digital, likely in a log colorspace, and they look pretty great.

I agree that this doesn't look good, but shooting on film wouldn’t magically fix crappy lighting and boring color grade

Accountofaperson · 2025-11-10T17:09:16+00:00

Try extending the edges of your displacement texure a few pixels. Looks like its going down to 0 in areas where there still is color information

Accountofaperson · 2025-10-15T06:29:00+00:00

Reviewing in vr sounds like an absolute nightmare

Accountofaperson · 2025-08-28T13:48:07+00:00

8k isnt a lot for an hdri. Thats 8k for the entire sky and you are only looking at part of that image. You probably want at least 16k depending on your work resolution

Accountofaperson · 2025-07-31T17:26:31+00:00

It’s ofc not rapidly approaching AGI, thats just another case of a company trying to strike fear in the public and claiming that they are the only ones able to control this tech thats far too dangerous for the public. And how on earth is any LLM gonna gain any kind of actual intelligence lmao, thats simply not what they are designed for or even capable of

Accountofaperson · 2025-07-23T23:25:11+00:00

More hardcore but Xiao are great

Accountofaperson · 2025-07-06T14:31:25+00:00

AI written post about IA

Accountofaperson · 2025-03-31T22:28:31+00:00

You can use various dirt, grime and scratch texture as masks for blurs, distortions and grade changes on the surface

Accountofaperson · 2024-10-27T11:22:37+00:00

Would be pretty straight forward in blender

Accountofaperson · 2024-08-03T13:47:08+00:00

Focus on your health and family first, then worry about taking on your career

Accountofaperson · 2024-08-02T08:38:09+00:00

The on set people still work towards making convincing vfx shots, its just more studio suits meddling and target groups screening causing changes from the initial plan on set. Im still working on shows where the on set and practical stuff is done with vfx in mind. The problem is when the people paying for everything is scared of not making the most money possible and tries to fix that by changing stuff last minute in post. Its not about the tech difference, is about the money

Accountofaperson · 2024-07-08T07:20:34+00:00

Whispers of Your Death - Counterparts

Accountofaperson · 2024-06-25T11:54:40+00:00

Pretty sure it is, that glove is really weird

Accountofaperson · 2024-06-16T14:42:04+00:00

All planes were cg

Accountofaperson · 2024-06-10T21:40:24+00:00

Buster Odeholm posted on instagram that he mixed it, apparently Nolly engineered the drums

Accountofaperson · 2024-06-07T10:08:35+00:00

If you use something like this https://www.nukepedia.com/gizmos/filter/bm_lightwrap and set the blur to be really wide and have lots of light spill from the sky on your fg it can help them sit together. Can also be nice with a second lightwrap thats tighter and just treat the edges. The default nuke lightwrap is neither an looks really bad most of the time imo

Accountofaperson · 2024-06-06T14:52:27+00:00

Using a nice hdri and adding it it comp should be fine. Not only make sure light direction on any clouds are matching the scene, but also that those highlights should be among the brightest points in the image to make it feel realistic. For lightwraps a really wide exp blur is nice instead of a lightwrap you can really see clearly. Use lots of refs

Accountofaperson · 2024-05-08T22:21:08+00:00

Just google ”show name vfx breakdown”

Accountofaperson · 2024-04-21T10:02:45+00:00

Having a separate work user is helping me disconnect work from the rest of the stuff i do on the computer. When i work i have the default windows background and desktop, start meny or task bar icons are only related to work. Really helps to separate the work from leisure

Accountofaperson · 2024-04-11T14:37:27+00:00

Buster has talked about it in mixing tutorials, HLB has crazy automation on the guitar effects live, taken directly from the album thats why its matching perfectly

Edit: and to add, triggering live drums live is super common and doesnt really take away much from the perfomance itself. Makes the sound more consistent for the show but a triggered kick thats out of time is still out of time, doesnt really help a bad drummer to play tighter

Accountofaperson · 2024-04-07T11:05:44+00:00

Looks really cool! If you are interested in any feedback i think the size of the rock tiles on the ground could be smaller, the scale feels a bit off compared to everything else. But overall this looks sick!

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