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Oh dear my CG render have perfect perspective So you have the awesome 3D model, texturing and lighting work but then you need to distort the renders to fit into the original plates that is shot using a lens with noticeable lens distortion. This is where the Lens Distortion node comes in to assist through […]

Decent free plates from Hollywood Camera Work Sometimes you need to practice your compositing skills but lack access to decent shooting equipment like a decent DSLR or good green screen. Fret not as Hollywood Camera Work offer free high quality footage that is more than enough for practice works.

Time to bake some pie Sometimes you need to copy paste a node from one script to another but then you noticed it doesn’t copy the values together since it is link to an expression. An expression is well an expression. The above screenshot show the translate parameters for the CameraOriginal node which is driven […]

Frame Padding in Nuke? Pad Thai? Most first timer to high-end compositing will often work with a video container like MOV or MP4 in After Effects or maybe Photoshop (when it support basic video editing). Still the best approach when working with any compositing job is using image sequences.

Look ma, spoon-feeding the 2D tracker helps a lot! If you are using Nuke 7 and newer, one of the handy new features is the assisted 2D tracking. Previously, the regular 2D tracker aka Tracker node will either fail or drift away if the tracked pattern undergo changes in lighting or perspective. What it does […]

The PS3 is already dead Too long didn’t read aka TLDR: Long live the fat PS3. Well the PS3 is already dead. Oh you can still read Part 1 of the repair attempt through this link!

Resistance is futile… not Like any humans on this planet, we resist changes and adapt to it. Although there are interface changes that actually make things worse than the earlier version. I believe this is due to the rise of mobile platform that encourage web designer to create a unified interface for both desktop and […]

One shall attempt the PS3 YLOD Repair Part 1 I’ve been fortunate enough to try to fix the infamous YLOD (that happens on my cousin PS3. His model is the original fat model but for all the wrong timing in the world, his model is the revision where Sony arrange the fan to the left […]

The need for prepaid mobile internet in Singapore Regular visitors to my site and those who follow me on Twitter knows how much I despise Malaysia awesome overpriced and lousy internet service. During my last trip to Singapore for Anime Festival Asia, I cannot rely on roaming as the rates will slaughter every single organs […]