Which Software to learn and master!

Hiye Folks,
                 As a beginner to this Visual Effects Industry you might think which software is best to learn.Personally. I had a great question about this.Then I started with After Effects which is a great software and ended up in Nuke.
                                                   After Effects is a layer based software which is pretty straight forward. The advantage is its supported by lot of third party plugins and its great for Motion Graphics as well as compositing.They good thing is that they have released 64bit version so it works lightning fast.

                                                  But if you go for big production Nuke or Fusion is the best.It's a node based high end application which is great for complex compositing for movies.It has special 3d compositing features.It's great for stereoscopic workflow.

The best thing to do is to familiarize with layer based as well as node based compositing application.

Hope this blog might have helped you,thanks for your comments and support.
  
                 

Camera Projection

Hiye Folks
                First of all, thanks for spending your valuable time reading my blog and I hope you guys are doing great.It's nice to see you all  back again, thanks for your support.
                                                  A few people were asking me about camera projection and I thought it might be a great idea to write it , so it might be useful.I am not going to elaborate, I will make sure to keep short and sweet

          So what is camera projection mean???. Its a illusion of creating a 3d environment form a 2d image.Its done with a unique procedure.I mainly use Nuke and Maya for camera projection and you can be able to achieve this in other compositing and 3d applications like Eyeon fusion, after effects, 3ds max, Cinema4d etc.

First the camera has to be tracked if the shot has a movement.Then the tracked  camera is imported to 3d application.Now the geometry has to be modeled as per the requirement in the shot. Its not necessary to create a hi res model, make simple 3d models to match the scene.Then assign a material and connect it through a projection3d node and link the camera through it.Render the scene to check the final results.This is how the projection technique is done in 3d application.
                                                     This topic is just to give you an overview about camera projection.Hope you enjoyed reading it.Kindly, leave your comments.

                

2D to 3D Conversion-Basic outlook for beginners

Hi Folks
             Great to see you back guys.Thanks for all your comments and support which drives me to write out of my experience.
                   So today's topic is all about 2d to 3d conversion.This is the current hot topic which is going all around the world.
                  Converting movies form 2d to 3d is quite challenging.There are lots of unique methods to achieve the 3D effects.Every post production studios handle differently.Most common softwares used for converting movies are The foundry's Nuke, Adobe After effects, Eyeon Fusion and there are proprietary softwares for making the job a lot easier.

                   There is lot of theory involved but the basic concept is to shift the channels (RGB) to get that stereoscopic effect.Your left eye sees the Red channel while your right eye sees the green and the blue channel (green+blue=cyan).
                             The output images can be seen through 3d glasses or anaglyph glasses which is pretty cost effective.These glasses combines all the channels to see a single 3D image.

       Hmmmm  so how its done in post production????.It involves lots of planning.Before that I would like to tell you about some of the conversion methods which are cardboard cutouts, rubber mapping and projection techniques.Rotoscopy, inpaint, matchmove, tracking, dynamic effects creators are the other major departments involved in post production .
 
                                 If you want to go beyond further please checkout the links below which are great for a good start

2d to 3d article
http://www.fxguide.com/featured/art-of-stereo-conversion-2d-to-3d
    
Tutorials
http://www.digitaltutors.com/09/training.php?search=stereoscopic&x=0&y=0

Thanks for the time you have taken to read the post will be back soon with other interesting topic. Kindly leave your comments and feedback