leviathan-entertainment

Just a bit of diving into memories…

instinct-vfx — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:44:23 +0000

Here’s a bunch of songs i did along the years….*sigh* those were the days

Dream On
Originally written for/with “Clean”. Recorded Solo with programmed drums. Published on a regional Bandsampler. Consider this the first (and prolly last) time i’ll be published heh)
Dream On

Flying
Originally written for/with “Clean” also. Recorded Solo and in an unfinished state. Again Guitar and singing by me, rest is Midi
Flying

Lippi’s Limbo
Originally written for/with “Johnsense Nonsense”. Yes Nomen est Omen so dont even bother to try listening to the text in this one
Lippi’s Limbo

Pre Production “Snippets”

And here’s some clean pre-productions done during a one day Session in the SAE Studios Munich as an Exam work of a friend of “Clean”

Aiport Pre-Production
Fullblown Miracle
Under forbidden Skies

Regards,

Thorsten

#nuke weirdness

instinct-vfx — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:34:25 +0000

14:19 *** butterycroissant joined #nuke 14:19 butterycroissant: are there any sleazy danish chicks in here? 14:21 instinct- points at Varun 14:21 instinct-: :P 14:22 Varun Whaa? lol 14:22 Varun: i know karate ! what do you wanna do with the danish chicks? 14:54 butterycroissant: penetrate them 15:15 instinct-: i guess you misunderstood the topic of this chan and that directly relates to the probability of hot chicks 15:15 butterycroissant: oh 15:15 *** butterycroissant left #nuke

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NDK Plugin wizard

instinct-vfx — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:30:48 +0000

Hey ho,

before you get your hopes to high: This is an early WIP and i dunno if i manage the time to finish it…but yes i’d love to have it myself

NDK wizard alpha

Tease again…

instinct-vfx — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:39:52 +0000

guess what…

Nuke Tip

instinct-vfx — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:25:04 +0000

Hitting Alt + Cursor Up/Down with a readnode selected steps up and down versions for versioned input sequences

Max Tip

instinct-vfx — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:14:54 +0000

I think i’ll start posting useful tips and tricks for the various apps.

And here’s a first for Max. Hitting Ctrl+N in any Spinner-box gives you an expression popup to do some math without using windows calc

Regards,

Thorsten

Old experiments. Just for fun

instinct-vfx — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:46:55 +0000

Just a few old experiments that were never really shown, brought to a final state:

gdm_shepherd was a farm management experiment trying to manage the renderfarm via a simple webinterface.

Monitoring of slaves with pingtimes and management of mode (VRay DR Spawner vs. Backburner server)

A different view to monitor jobs on the farm via WebUI. Custom PHP classes were used to query Backburner for information:

A small hint…

instinct-vfx — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:27:02 +0000

When rendering additional passes together with a beautypass and having passes like world coordinates, normals, UVs and alike be sure to exclude them from the AA (“Consider for Antialiasing OFF”) otherwise you will most likely render at MAX AA for every single pixel.

Why you ask ? because the sampler decides based upon brightness and contrast (amongst other things) if a pixel needs more samples or not. Worldspace positions are easily 5000 or even way more…that looks as if it was VERY bright to the sampler and hence he oversamples as much as you let him. Result ? You could also render Fixed Rate with SubDivs as your former Maximum setting

Nukedev Teeeease…

instinct-vfx — Fri, 29 May 2009 09:38:56 +0000

Here’s a quick and very mystic teaster…yes it is creating a matte…go figure

Projects i have been involved “recently”

instinct-vfx — Fri, 29 May 2009 08:10:55 +0000

As most of the things we do here at Mackevision is under rather harsh and long-lasting NDAs things tend to be less recent when made public then we’d all wish. Anyways. For those interested here are two links to projects i have been involved “recently”.

BMW X6 Webspecial:

http://www.mackevision.de/black_world.html#/project/36

VW Scirocco Webspecial:

http://www.mackevision.de/black_world.html#/project/35