SoftBoxRelight | Experiments With Blinkscript
SoftBoxRelight is a blink-driven gizmo that allows for relighting a 3D scene using the Normal and Position passes and emitting from a...
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Chris Fryer
Feb 171 min read
ImageBasedHighlights | Highlight Compression Tool (shot files included)
ImageBasedHighlights is a highlight compression tool that allows for the effect to be driven by an input image along with some controls...
Chris Fryer
Jan 181 min read
IterationStation | Subframe Workflow Tool
A while back I put together a template for making iterative tools using subframes which you can see here. IterationStation is the...
Chris Fryer
Nov 20, 20231 min read
Procedural Ring Flares | Experiments with Blinkscript
Procedural lens flares often feel like chasing your own tail. Using a blink-driven reverse convolve a procedural ring flare can be...
Chris Fryer
Oct 23, 20231 min read
Contrast Demystified | Compositing Theory Tutorial
Contrast operations are something I find a little bit deceptive and to be used sparingly. In this tutorial I go over the...
Chris Fryer
Jun 10, 20231 min read
Artistically Driven Keying & Despill | Experiments with Blinkscript
After playing around with ReverseSTMap I realised that there's a world of uses for this function beyond transformations. By combining...
Chris Fryer
Feb 26, 20231 min read
Experiments with Blinkscript | Reverse STMap
STMaps can be a great way to bake-down complex transformations into a single process. However this process is fairly destructive and is...
Chris Fryer
Nov 21, 20221 min read
Bespoke Detail Enhancement | CopyCat Tutorial
Copycat is an amazing yet initially overwhelming tool that's relatively new to Nuke's arsenal. This tutorial goes over adding detail to a...
Chris Fryer
Jun 27, 20221 min read
MedianMerge Midjourney | MedianMerge Tutorial
Midjourney is an amazing tool but it can struggle when dealing with faces. Using MedianMerge and a lot of generated images you can...
Chris Fryer
Jun 23, 20221 min read
MedianMerge | A Blinkscript Powered Merge Tool
MedianMerge is a Blinkscript powered tool that allows you to merge multiple inputs together and keep the median of them all. This has a...
Chris Fryer
May 21, 20221 min read
Experiments with Blinkscript | Complex Motionblur
I've often found that CG-perfect motionblur lacks a lot of the complexity that we love to see in the wild. I decided that would be a...
Chris Fryer
Feb 20, 20221 min read
SPRING 2022 | COMPOSITING REEL
Password: reel After going quite a while with very few of the projects I'd worked on being released, it was finally time to update my...
Chris Fryer
Jan 22, 20221 min read
ChromaticGuidedBlur | Experiments with ChromAb
ChromaticGuidedBlur is a tool that takes a single rough matte and an image to produce a 3 channel RGB ChromaticAlpha. Taking the concepts...
Chris Fryer
Oct 12, 20211 min read
Making Iterative Tools with Timeblur!
iBlur is one of my favourite tools due to its iterative nature. Creating an interative tool like that in Nuke can be quite difficult...
Chris Fryer
Oct 2, 20211 min read
Nuke Experiments | Bidirectional GodRays
GodRays is one of my favourite toys Nuke has to offer and sometimes I end up doubling up the effect in various counter-transform...
Chris Fryer
Sep 12, 20211 min read
LightReWrapper | Unwrapping LightWrapping!
LightReWrapper came into to being after I decided to tool-ify a workflow I've been playing around with for a while. Procedurally removing...
Chris Fryer
Aug 22, 20211 min read
TrueExponentialBlur & Light Theory
TrueExponentialBlur is a gizmo that hopefully simplifies the task of exponential blurs/glows to a single, physically accurate, operation....
Chris Fryer
Jul 13, 20211 min read
Experiments with Blinkscript | Conway's Game of Life
John Conway's Game of Life is a really great example of making something potentially uninteresting suddenly quite engaging. Which got me...
Chris Fryer
May 29, 20211 min read
Experiments with Blinkscript | RadialDilate
RadialDilate is a solution to the fact that Nuke's Dilate node is limited to only a box filter. RadialDilate allows for much more organic...
Chris Fryer
May 3, 20211 min read
Monochrome Tutorial: Combining Channels, Theory and Practical Applications
Monochrome workflows have a special place in my heart. They've saved me from some really tough element-removal work. From markers,...
Chris Fryer
Apr 26, 20211 min read
Foundry Skill Up: An Artist's Guide to Blinkscript
Foundry were kind enough to run a webinar with me talking about An Artist's Guide to Blinkscript and have a Q&A about Blinkscript in...
Chris Fryer
Apr 8, 20211 min read
Experiments with Blinkscript | SurfaceBlur
SurfaceBlur is a Blinkscript driven tool that allows you to blur an object with respect to the angle of its surface. I can see this...
Chris Fryer
Mar 4, 20211 min read
GodRaysProjector | Shadows! and a total rebuild
I decided to completely rebuild GodRaysProjector and clean up a lot of the bugs and quirks. This also gave me a chance to make the code...
Chris Fryer
Feb 25, 20211 min read
Experiments with Blinkscript | ContourBlur
ContourBlur is a Blinkscript-driven gizmo that allows you to blur an image based on a set of vectors. This is especially useful for...
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