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I just wrote another Flame Expressions tutorial on how to animate an element travelling in a perfect circle without having to manually trace a path. Take a look!

Just finished this last week. The sumos were shot on blue/green screens on location. Enjoy!

Here’s a simple expression to calculate the missing point in a 4 point track.

Suppose you’re missing the lower_left corner of a bilinear.

In the animation menu, choose the lower_left channel under the Bilinear and type the following expression:

And here’s the result:

The method is to add the two nearest corners to the missing point and then subtract that from the opposing corner. 

For easy reference, here are the expressions for all four corners:

upper_left: ( lower_left + upper_right ) – lower_right

upper_right: ( upper_left + lower_right ) – lower_left

lower_right: ( upper_right + lower_left ) – upper_left

lower_left: ( upper_left + lower_right ) – upper_right

So I finally got around to write a beginner’s guide on Flame Expressions. Enjoy!

On Nov 13th, RED should announce the successor to the short-lived Scarlet 3K camera and a redesigned Epic 5K. Jim Jannard, the company’s head honcho, posted a couple of teasers:

Ports on the Epic 5K camera?

Scarlet/DSMC buttons? We’ll find out in 3 days!

Back in July we were working on a job for Hardys Wine called ‘One Love’. The premise was to see vines and grapes grow in smooth time-lapse by using CG plants. Richard Nelson supervised the shoot in Australia and did all the CG R&D when he got back. His team then camera tracked the shots, animated, lit and rendered all the passes for me to put together in Flame.

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