Inspired by Steve Yedlin‘s work with cinema film, I’m going to try to characterize the look of Instax film. I’ll then apply the look of that photochemical process to digital photographs. This project will be ongiong as I dig through the data and build a model to simulate the film. In order to understand how...
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Cinematographer Steve Yedlin has been doing some super cool work on how to prepare digital images so they look like they were captured with film. Maybe you’ve heard of him, maybe you haven’t. I knew his work from Brick and Looper even though I didn’t know his name until recently. I’m very much looking forward...
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I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s Digital Media Symposium (link courtesy of Internet Archive Wayback Machine) at Drexel University. I’m presenting some recent work and VFX industry advice at 2pm.
Last week I needed to concatenate the motion blur for a SplineWarp, a Transform, and two CornerPins in Nuke. The Transform and the CornerPins, of course, concatenate beautifully once you make sure they are all using the same filter and motion blur settings. But the SplineWarp doesn’t. In fact, it doesn’t even have a motion...
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