I love the effect of rays and volumetric light and that is why I gave it a shot to make the effect in Shake.
The basic idea is pretty straightforward. You got a “light source” and position a radial (actually zoom-) blur behind it and adjust the colors, and luminance and other stuff… the broadness of [...]

I’ve been playing around in Shake today with some off the materials I got from different books on compositing. And I’ve decided to test my “integration” skills.
So I did some tracking, keying, color matching, etc… and I came up with this.

(Pay attention to the two guys in the background)
And here’s what the script looks [...]

I uploaded my 2005/06 compositing reel with most of my works from my time as a compositor for Kerozin. It displays a nice array of my skills as a compositor:

matte creation (keying, roto)
wire/rig removal
CG integration
tracking
sky replacement
…

I’ll have this online as a reference for my future work.

Watch reel_05_06.mov

Well, here I go again, with a new blog. Throughout the past few years I’ve been writing various blogs. But none of those blogs was actually focused on a specific topic – they were basically random rants, than anything else. That is why I decided I should focus this blog on something I’m really good [...]