Smoke Learning Channel
Summary: The official learning channel for Autodesk® Smoke® software, the all-in-one solution that connects editing and visual effects. The Autodesk® Smoke® Learning Channel provides tutorials of all levels to help you learn Autodesk® Smoke®.
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Podcasts:
This video shows you how to set up your wireframe icons in Action so that they do not get in the way of your compositing.
In this video you learn how to pixelate faces and logos using ConnectFX. With ConnectFX, you have greater creative flexility on your look. Hide faces and logos by blurring, pixelating or however you wish!
In this video you learn how to blur faces and logos using the Action 3D Compositor. Great for obscuring things you don't want people to see or identify. An every task!
In this video you learn how to balance the black and white levels of an image. With this technique you can correct an unbalanced source or balance a foreground element to a background plate whilst compositing.
Learn about how the mid-tones trackball works and why it is different from the other grading trackballs in the Colour Warper.
This video shows you how to do credit rolls in Autodesk Smoke. Correctly format the text in the roll using stylising and tabulation.
This video shows you how to place your text on an editable path. Learn about path animation as well as turning your masks into paths for your text.
This video shows you the various ways to create or import text. We look at text attributes and alignments as well as a few tips in the text tool.
Part 6 shows you to convert your day scope into a night vision scope. We will use the Damage node to acheive this effect as well as tweak the settings to give a great finished look.
Part 5 shows you to create lens defects in Action using lens distortion as well as lens flare texturing.
Part 4 shows you to how to track and animate the crosshair in the scope. You also learn about multiple instancing and offset animation in action.
Part 3 shows you to create create a crosshair with borders using the mask tools to be composited later in the simulated scope.
Part 2 shows you to create an edge matte to simulate smearing and blurring at the edges of the scope.
Part 1 shows you to use the mask tools to create the shape of the scope.
This video teaches you how to reintroduce lens distortion into your footage after compositing the images in a corrected state. This is useful information for any VFX supervisor or artist working in post-production.
