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“Matt
Linder is one of the smartest digital artists I've worked
with, excelling in many facets of production. Additionally, he
is the consummate teacher, clear, concise and enthusiastic, never
speaking above his audience.”
- Mark Freund
Visual Effects Supervisor
Pacific Title & Art Studio
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In this lecture, Matt Linder discusses
the powerful flexibility of using the command line and expressions
to take your compositing to a new level of speed and efficiency.
Matt begins with basic Unix commands for your terminal or shell,
showing how to navigate around directories and files, and leads
into Shake commands that demonstrate the advantages of command
line workflow. Command line tasks run much more efficiently
when you do not need to load a user-interface. Matt shows how
to composite, resize, color correct, transform and convert
your images from the com- mand line. He teaches how to set
up batch scripts to run multiple tasks for nighttime renders
or a distributed render, and how to build template scripts
for repetitive tasks like title slates, wedges, video to film
or film to video conversions. Matt uses simple math expressions
to add new functionality to Shake, accessing and altering data
anywhere in the workflow, linking node parameters, or creating
random noise or sine wave expressions. He shows how to customize
Shake's interface, how to build your own Macros, and how to
build your own Viewer Look-Up-Table.
Over 3 hours of lecture.
Product Code: MLI01
Unix Commands
Working Via Command Line
Command Line Scripting
Batch Scripting
Repetitive Task Utilities
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Color-X Expressions
Expression Functions & Variables
Creating Your Own Macros
Installing 3rd Party Plugins
Customizing Shake's Interface
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01: Introduction
02: Terminal and Shells
03: Unix Commands
04: Command Line
05: Expression Linking
06: Expressions, Variables and Math Functions
07: Creating Local Variables
08: Creating Macros
09: Customizing the User Interface
10: Creating a Custom Viewer Lut
11: Installing Plugins
12: Putting It All Together
Click here to
view a sample clip from this DVD. Note that while this
clip is 640x480 the actual movie size is 1024x768 with
higher quality compression . View the stills to the right
to see the actual resolution.
Matt Linder has worked on over fifty feature films,
including Elektra, Garfield, X-Men 2, Daredevil, Ghost
Ship and Scooby Doo. Matt got his start at Kodak’s
Motion Picture Film division in Hollywood, where he learned all aspects
of motion picture film and cinematography. Later he joined Kodak’s
Cineon team where he contributed to the birth of digital compositing.
From there Matt went to Pacific Title and Art Studio as Lead Compositor
and Effects Artist for four years. Currently Matt works as a Lead Lighting
Technical Director at Rhythm & Hues, where he is sequence lighting
the film The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. When Matt is
not pushing pixels, he's pushing sound waves around LA with his music
projects "The Mood of Space" and "Nerve Picnic".
Visual Effects Compositing Fundamentals
Shake 101: Interface and Workflow
Shake: Color Correction and Layers
Shake: Effective Keying Techniques
Shake: Tracking and Transforms
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