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The Blonde with One Green Screen The following technique from CreativeCOW member Todd Groves can be applied to situations where the actor or object that is placed before a greenscreen/bluescreen has some element about them that cannot be separated by the standard approach to keying. The situation that inspired this solution involved a blonde haired actress in front of a greenscreen. Combustion |
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Getting That Old Movie Look: Dust and Scratches In this tutorial, CreativeCOW.net Contributing Editor, Bimo Adi Prakoso introduces further techniques for Creating the Old Movie Look with Combustion. Read on to continue this tutorial with Part 2: Creating Scratches and Dirt. Autodesk Combustion |
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Getting That Old Movie Look CreativeCOW.net Contributing Editor, Bimo Adi Prakoso demonstrates some techniques for Creating the Old Movie Looks with Combustion in this tutorial. He adivises readers that, "Many plugins for creating an old movie look are available at various costs, but the challenge is creating one without any plugin at all. Actually, it's a simple, straight forward process". Autodesk Combustion |
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Creating a Promo with Combustion: As the lines between television and the internet continue to blur, it seems like every TV channel wants you to look at their website. Whether you’re CNN or community television, you’ll have to rise above the straight cut or dissolve to get the viewer’s attention.In this tutorial, Lee 'Rod' Roderick will show you how to use Discreet combustion to create a promo transition that combines digital video and motion graphics. Once you set it up, you can substitute your own clips and text. Combustion |
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Using the Diamond Keyer in Combustion 4 In this tutorial, Ayman Abdel-Basset demonstrates how to use the new Diamond Keyer of combustion4 and Color Correction operator to change selected color of the footage. Autodesk Combustion |
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Creating a Traced Watermark Image In this tutorial, Rikard Bosnjakovic will demonstrate converting an existing logo to a paint-object and use it as a watermark for pictures. The intent of the tutorial is to overcome some nasty and unwanted problems with traced objects in the paint operator. This tutorial is for beginners. Discreet Combustion |
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Creating a 3D Transition In this tutorial, Ben Munkres demonstrates building a transition in order to instruct in the use of the 3d workspace and how to put into use in a production piece. (Note: This is a pc tutorial) Discreet Combustion |
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Changing the Image in Particles In this tutorial, Federico Dedeu demonstrates an interesting text effect using the particle generator and the text effect presets. Discreet Combustion |
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Create A Burning Castle In this tutorial, Michael Mey demonstrates using some simple operators in Combustion to make a castle look like it's burning. The intent of this article is to show how selections and particles can be combined to make some elements of the picture to be in front of the particles effects and others to be behind. Discreet Combustion |
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Replacing A Color Using the Color Suppression Operator in Combustion Beginners in Combustion often ask the question: "My actor's shirt is green. How do I change it to blue? In this tutorial, Ayman Abdel-Basset demonstrates how to change one color in an image to another color. And he does it in Combustion without extra plug-ins. Discreet Combustion |
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How to use Bit Depth Converters and View LUT’s. In this tutorial, Alan Edward Bell demonstrates how to work with Cineon files and combustion. Generally speaking the rule of thumb is, that you should do all your color correction in Log space and the majority of your image transformations in linear space. Discreet Combustion and Cineon Files |
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Creating Shadows and Reflections in Combustion In this tutorial, Mike Harper demonstrates, using Discreet Combustion, how to create shadows and reflection layers and how they interact with lights in a 3-D environment. Discreet Combustion |
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Creating Rays of Sunshine using the basics of Combustion In this tutorial, Ayman Abdel-Basset demonstrates how to create the effect of rays without 3rd party plug-ins by using the keying operator and basic blurs in Combustion. Discreet Combustion |
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Creating Jittery Text A quick and easy technique using Combustion* Adam Tracksler was reading through the tutorials at CreativeCow and stumbled across an After Effects tutorial on creating Jittery Text. He thought, hey, you can do that in Combustion, and here's a quick and easy demonstration. Discreet Combustion* |
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Adam Tracksler looks at: Combustion-3ds max Integration Training DVD Creativecow leader, Adam Tracksler takes a look at combustion*/3ds max* Integration DVD from Technical Animations & Video, Inc. and gives it the highest praise at the COW - 5 COWs. Discreet Combustion/3ds Max |
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Morphing Smoke Into Text When I was working on a title sequence for a short film, I needed some help creating a particular effect; smoke morphing into text. Not knowing where to turn, I wrote a post in the Combustion Forum. Lucky for me some people were more than happy to help out. Lee "Rod" Roderick, Discreet Training Specialist, helped me out. This tutorial was created from his original file. In this tutorial, Adam Tracksler demonstrates the use Combustion's Particle effects and text operators to create a cool effect suitable for your home or office. Discreet Combustion* |
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