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Talking Heads as Pyramids, quick doodle to test to Wacom and software

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Blender Cycles Shadow/Splash Board

Hey guys. so for my most recent project I’ve been working with compositing inside the Blender Cycles engine. Up until fairly recently it wasn’t possible to create a shadow board within Cycles alone, instead requiring awkward and complex work around using both the new and old engines to fake the effect. In fact one of my first posts to this blog was to demonstrate this using both shadow boards and sub-surface scattering. Thankfully a shadow input (among others) has finally been added allowing us to finally create a composite scene entirely using the Cycles engine.

The setup above shows how this is executed. By placing your objects and your environment into separate render layers you can mask each from the other in the scene panel. This means when rendering the ground, the foreground object appears black. Vice versa for the object layer. When inside the compositor you can render out  separate channels of ambient occlusion, shadow and indirect diffuse from the environment layer. This is important as it gives you control over the look and intensity of each parameter to match the scene you’re compositing into. These parameters can be seen individually in the bottom left of the second image. The indirect diffuse layer must be added back into the mix after the video plate is introduced to add bounce light back onto the floor. This is especially important for glossy or brightly coloured objects which reflect light. That pretty much sums up what is needed, after all this time it is fairly quick to achieve a reasonable looking composite using the compositor almost exclusively.

The only thing I haven’t mentioned is the reflection on the cube which I achieved using a quick and dirty 2.5D projection to the floor, which is necessary for reflective objects. I’ll be posting a follow up to this soon describing how to achieve a complex composite where masks, holdout objects and lights are introduced which is a whole different story. Until then I hope you enjoy!

3rd Round Combo, Diaz v. Condit, [Draft 1]. Retimed and removed frames to emphasize combo. I think I can hold the connection frames a bit longer and retime a few tweens to really make it pop.

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Walking home tonight from dinner with a friend in the East Village, NY, I was passing south along Pitt Street, one block north of Delancey, when I heard the throaty rumble of a low-flying plane getting louder overhead. I didn’t pay it much attention but it was loud enough for me to clock it. Up ahead, I saw three guys emerge from one of the projects on the east side of Pitt St. As I got closer to them, they paused. The plane was passing right above us, heading north along the east river Manhattan shoreline, and I suddenly saw what could only be described as a wide, flat green laser beam start sweeping the street from the plane. It passed over the three guys up ahead, and then me. It was like a giant laser bar-code scanner passing across every contour of the street - for a brief second like suddenly being in a bad light show at a 1990s rave. The three guys ahead of me stopped in their tracks, dumbfounded. I caught up with them and we all looked at each other, then back up to the sky, and then saw this fat triangle of green light beaming down from the plane as it headed north. I talked to them, and none of us could work out what it was, but we had all seen the same thing. I continued walking south towards Grand Street, where I live, and just as I was entering my building I heard the plane come back, this time flying south. I stopped and watched it’s green beam cover ground just a little further west of where I’d been walking. As I write this I can still hear the plane making passes overhead - it’s engines have quite a distinct sound.

As related by a friend, November 19th, 2012. This appears to be LIDAR scanning of New York in operation. This was first proposed in 2010, and reported by Fast Company and the New York Times. Green LIDAR in particular is used for marine environments - it seems likely that the current scan is in response to recent flooding caused by Hurricane Sandy. The technical term for this process is EEARL, but I haven’t yet been able to establish who is doing the scanning. (via new-aesthetic)

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