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Foundry Nuke – VectorFrameBlend v1.1 by Nikolai Wüstemann – Blend up to 11 nearby frames together, while preserving all detail
https://www.nukepedia.com/gizmos/time/vectorframeblend
Blend up to 11 nearby frames together, while preserving all detail
VectorFrameBlend can average/median/min/max/plus up to +- 5 frames with full motion awareness. Compared to the last version or other similar solutions, I built it as technically correct as possible and it provides thorough settings to improve the filtering quality and edge cases (literally).
You can also use the ‘External’ mode and connect the ‘vec’ input to another VectorFrameBlend, to use its internally generated vectors.
This can be useful, if you want to analyse a certain layer (for example a diffuse color pass that holds a lot of clean details), but apply the frame blending on somewhere else. Apart from that, the tool can of course be used on live action plates, utility passes or whatever comes to mind.
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The God of War Texture Optimization Algorithm: Mip Flooding
“delve into an algorithm developed by Sean Feeley, a Senior Staff Environment Tech Artist that is part of the creative minds at Santa Monica Studio. This algorithm, originally designed to address edge inaccuracy on foliage, has the potential to revolutionize the way we approach texture optimization in the gaming industry. ”
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Romain Chauliac – LightIt a lighting script for Maya and Arnold
LightIt is a script for Maya and Arnold that will help you and improve your lighting workflow.
Thanks to preset studio lighting components (lights, backdrop…), high quality studio scenes and HDRI library manager.
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/393emJ
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Tim Peters – the Zen of Python
A Zen of Python is a list of 19 guiding principles for writing beautiful code. Zen of Python was written by Tim Peters and later added to Python.
Here is how you can access the Zen of Python.
import this
print(this)Output:
The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters
- Beautiful is better than ugly.
- Explicit is better than implicit.
- Simple is better than complex.
- Complex is better than complicated.
- Flat is better than nested.
- Sparse is better than dense.
- Readability counts.
- Special cases aren’t special enough to break the rules.
- Although practicality beats purity.
- Errors should never pass silently.
- Unless explicitly silenced.
- In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
- There should be one– and preferably only one –obvious way to do it.
- Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you’re Dutch.
- Now is better than never.
- Although never is often better than *right* now.
- If the implementation is hard to explain, it’s a bad idea.
- If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
- Namespaces are one honking great idea — let’s do more of those!
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