Smoke Learning Channel

This user requested video goes through the workflow of using selective lighting in Action.

Choose which lights affect different 3D objects and surfaces in the 3D composite.

This video goes through the technique of creating a difference matte in Autodesk Smoke.

Great for accelerating jobs that may require a lot of masking and this might give you a head start.

This video shows the four corner pinning and four corner tracking workflow.

This workflow is typically used for screen replacements and replacing boards or signs.

This video will show you a workflow to cut out any foreground elements and recomposed them back onto the background plate if they have been obscured by the 3D model.

This video will show you the workflow to create a shadow matching the background plate using the point locators, surfaces, lights, Action Render outputs and Comp Nodes.

This video shows you how to convert the point cloud into Axis nodes or Point Locators. You will import a 3D model and align it into the scene with point locators. Exporting the 3D camera and point locates covered in this video.

This video shows you how to take the 3D track and refine the data for a better camera solve. We also cover defining the ground plane of the shot and any real world measurements.

Get started with the Analyzer node in Action to set up and analyse a shot for a 3D Track.

With the project now complete, you can now backup the project for archival purposes. In this video you learn how to archive your project. We also cover how to restore the project if you need to revisit it at a later date.

In this video, you learn about the various export options for getting you sequence out of Smoke. We cover the export workflow as well as a few options to tweak the final export.