Carl's Corner :)

What I was thinking was that since these composite artists usually work with dozens or hundreds of images to crate a final work it might be a good idea to provide them with grunge filters that allow them to grunge only parts of an image. The one I'm working on provides them with two user defined shapes that can be located anywhere on the image. Then these shapes are used to place the grunge. The idea is that this filter could be applied repeatedly.

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ronviers wrote: What I was thinking was that since these composite artists usually work with dozens or hundreds of images to crate a final work it might be a good idea to provide them with grunge filters that allow them to grunge only parts of an image. The one I'm working on provides them with two user defined shapes that can be located anywhere on the image. Then these shapes are used to place the grunge. The idea is that this filter could be applied repeatedly.

Excellent idea - multipule image in FF would be good too for that idea

Ps have also developed new scratch method which is more interesting you may notice in samples above

I'm getting the idea and it looking very very promising - when you say 2 shape the selection component would be good for this - hey wait a minute are you saying i'm not subtle

wasnt it mike meiers that said 'grungy, baby!'? nice ones, carl

you didnt like austin powers? oi!

and anything with mimi rogers and elizabeth hurley cant be all bad

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Carl wrote: You giveth and you taketh

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Carl wrote: See craig says nice things and doesn't take it back

Grasshopper, I see that you have swapped out "tough & rugged" for "sensitive & menopausal"??? LOL.....

Hey, sometimes you have to break a few cheeks to make a filter..... .....

I knew that comment would somehow get me into trouble..... ..... LOL....

LOL.....

Capt'n "backcheek the pirate" Carl Seriously, I would suggest (1) limitting the frame aperature to the outside like in your first sample, (2) no rounding on the frame corners, and (3) limit the frame color to black. This should blend in (grunge in) the frame with the rest of the effects so it's not noticable like in your first sample.....

I think this is by far your best "artistic abstract grungifier"!!!

The idea here is (as it continues to evlove) that each of the objects can be any width, height or position on the image. Right now they are both the same color but that can change. It already has too many controls.

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Kraellin wrote: so, that means that i'm 'sensitive & menopausal' now?

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StevieJ wrote: "sensitive & menopausal"??? LOL.....

LOL no I'm not

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Carl wrote: are you planning a variety of elements on switches

I'm going to shelve it. It is just takes too much time to wrap up an idea. The last two filters I posted I had to have removed because I had done a half-assed job of cleaning up the details.
Did this weekend result in any pics from your new camera? How is the transition from film to digital going?

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ronviers wrote: I'm going to shelve it. It is just takes too much time to wrap up an idea.

That's a shame

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StevieJ wrote: becoming a shutter bug???

yes I've moved out of the darkages of my 30 year old film camera, which the light meter hadn't worked on for years [ it has given me the ability to guess light value through so many bad exposure ] and I'm not going to miss the chemicals.
I've been reading Ron Bigglow's articules Ron and there excellent he really know his stuff - one gripe white type black background painful to read after a while, for a visual person he should know better

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Carl wrote: for a visual person he should know better

He's really nice, maybe you should mention it to him. The thing I like are the no flashing adds, in fact, no adds of any kind, and his clear writing style.

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Carl wrote: really know his stuff

He certainly does seem to be doing exactly what he should be doing. I hope that if I ever get good at something I will be as generous about it has he is. He is a very good role model for how to be a professional.

finally they admit it

Yikes!
Those English Mastiff are great dogs but their size keeps them from aging well - poor babies. Someone dumped one off in my yard. I cared for her for quite a while but her arthritis continued to get worse and worse - don't ask how it all ended.

She sounds so adorable. I'm old enough now that I dread their passing from the time they arrive until it's time to deal with it. It sucks being an adult.

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ronviers wrote: She sounds so adorable.

She is and smart, it amazing what she can pickup, for example: I'm thinking to myself I'll give her a bath which she hates with a passion, I've done nothing except get up and she's off like a rocket hiding under the bed, some times I think she can read my mind LOL At 15 she has one paw in the grave and like you, dread her passing as we love her dearly [ child substitute LOL ] I've had dogs all my life and she is something special with her personality and intelligence

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ronviers wrote: I learned something spectacularly cool yesterday. It's too technical to describe but isn't it great what can be done with nodes.

Well thats got my curiosity

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ronviers wrote: What did we do before node based apps. Why would anyone ever make anything other than a node based app? I just heart nodes.

It the only way I've been able to make filters mind you making filters with mapzone [ which is an excellent freebee which I like playing with too ] nodes for example is a lot harder than FF for example so it also has to be a good node base like FF

Ok, here it is.


Just two utility nodes, a point constraint, a geometry constraint and a nurbs plane can be used to drive the scale of the sphere, which can then be used as a blendshape deformer. This deformer can then be used to control things like the distortion of a flexing bicep. Notice how the fuchsia locator's (gnomon) movement is constrained to the plane even thought the animated object (the green ik handle) is moving in three axis. This overcomes the problems inherent in working with Euler angles (pronounced oiler).
I am more into the artistic parts of 3d but sometimes the technical stuff is so cool that it blows my tiny mind.

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ronviers wrote: Ok, here it is.

very cool - can you loop it a bit 2 sec is mighty fast had to keep pressing replay [ yes I'm very lazy LOL ]

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ronviers wrote: Look at how realistic some of these renders are.

incredible - have you tested it out on something

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Carl wrote: no idea what your talking about

Sorry. I did tell you it was a little technical.

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ronviers wrote: I talk so much about 3d that you are all probably sick of it

This is when you were supposed to say - Oh No Ron! 3d is the most interesting topic in the history of the universe and I could never get tired of you going on about it. Tell me more!

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Carl wrote: have you tested it out on something

Neah, just made a mental note of it and moved on. Textures are for later.