Comments on: mirrorball experiment

By: Bhavik

Bhavik — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:37:47 +0000

hey have you tried using the lat long in maya and done a test projection on a model or something?

By: Bhavik

Bhavik — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:38:59 +0000

Thanks for the quick response Adam.

Yes!! Why did i not think of that iv been taught Nuke in my second year, Shake is pretty much obsolete from what the big vfx houses tell me.

I will give that a try thanks make.

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:33:31 +0000

Hi Bhavik

This was a little while ago but i imagine we either:
1. Used shake – to stablise the footage, crop it,
Then unwrap it with whatever the default plugin that shake had.

2. Used shake – to stablise the footage, crop it, then export it as an image sequence.
Then run the image sequence through photoshop to unwrap it (Polar Coordinates filter?) and then scale it 200% on the x axis.

These days it can be easily accomplished in Nuke – with a SphericalTransform (LatLong map?)?

Hope that sort of helps you!

By: Bhavik

Bhavik — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:27:00 +0000

Hey im using this technique to create some dynamics reflections for my VFX uni project and been researching for some time now, i just cant find the software to unwrap the mirror ball in a batch process, how did u unwrap yours or what software did u use?

By: Excellent4U

Excellent4U — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:24:52 +0000

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By: L

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:27:50 +0000

Yeah I’ve seen that technique heaps in the mags and Nimmo is always talkin’ about it. Would like to see how you would use it on a car or something else just as reflective like you said.