Shake Tutorials

This was two attempts to perform the "Neon" text idea in Shake. Yes, again there are tuts in PS and AE! Instead of the basic tut with lots of words, I will use lots of pics and very little words. Pretty much look at the pics (pics will show numbers to dial in) and connect the nodes The left side...

Before tackling this tutorial I am expecting that you have basic macro building skills for Apple Shake on the OS X platform. Overview: So there are a lot of helpful macros out there, and there are plenty of them that actually do exactly what you want them to do.  However, there are a lot of i...

Multipass Rendering : Quick Tutorial by Tahl Niran. Introduction Most people know that you can get the best results from outputting multiple passes from your 3d app and then tweaking these in 2d. What I have put together is a simple breakdown of a setup which will allow you a lot of control i...

Z composite with IFF in Shake Utilizing the Z channel (depth information) of Maya's IFF files in Shake is a bit tricky because of the way Maya stores depth information... here's a quick tutorial to get you started. Note that this tutorial is applicable on not only Maya's IFF files but also...

Lead Compositor John Lafauce, Jr. revisits the ardous task of head replacement and shares his Shake compositing techniques on this unusual film. THE STAGE IS SET After a family is suddenly murdered while enjoying an intimate dinner in their home, Master "Betty" Pain and his evi...

Compositing Ambient Occlusion and channel based lighting. By Tahl Niran. Hi this is another in a series of my shake tutorials. Although I am using big words in the tut name, what I am really interested in covering here is a workflow for relighting and tweaking the lighting of 3d CGI in a como...

Face Crack Tutorial: Part 1 Rig removal and clean plate generation in Shake by Tahl Niran. After quite a few requests for tutorials on this subject, I have dug up an old shot for a short film I worked on a few years back. The film was shot on a variety of formats and mastered at 1k for a 35mm ...

Simple Set Extension in Shake by Tahl Niran. Set extensions and compositing matte paintings are some of the most spectacular and satisfying shots that a compositor can work on. In this tutorial we will be looking at a very simple application of the principles involved. I have also included an ...

UV Map Now or UV Map Later With a little tinkering and the right movie as input, you can make a displacement node perform UV mapping within Shake, putting an ordinary still image into motion. Instead of mapping an image onto an object, map absolute UV addresses. By subtracting a refer...

There seems to be a lot of confusion about the huge number of different video recording formats and their specifications. Information is widely scattered and hard to find. This document will mostly cover professional and semi-pro formats, both those in use now and those being under development.