(Alex) Compositing Academy

Senior Compositor / Generalist / Filmmaker. Founder of Avengers / Spiderverse / Avatar / Star Wars. Dell Pro Precision Ambassador

[(Alex) Compositing Academy @CompAcademyVFX]

We went crazy on this one! We just released a huge library of FREE Greenscreen plates (150+ clips, more coming!) for VFX Artists.

I wanted to focus on things that make shots not feel like generic greenscreen cutout plates: so we planned specific light scenarios, various 3D Camera moves, lots of different actions, and a variety of other elements of production value in order to create something unique.

I'll be building some cool shots from these myself as I have a bunch of ideas, but hopefully other people will find this valuable as well!

[(Alex) Compositing Academy @CompAcademyVFX]

The interesting thing about this approach is it's getting the ai generated depth injected into the solve before solving for any parallax, so even if there's little parallax we can still get something at least more representative of the scene. It does get more accurate with parallax though, basically refining the depth estimated result.

[(Alex) Compositing Academy @CompAcademyVFX]

I wanted to implement new A.I Tracking models combined with depth estimation directly in a Nuke workflow. Here I'm combining multiple models and techniques together, which expands possible workflows.

This is leveraging my system from Dell & Nvidia:
Dell Pro Max Tower T2
NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, 96GB VRAM
Intel Core Ultra 9 285K
128GB Ram
4TB storage

The VRAM plays an important role for pre-processing the track in this case (1K processing takes about 13gb VRAM, 1.5K Pre-process is about 63 GB VRAM). With a separate refinement pass on either quality pass you can get sub-pixel tracks however (the footage itself is 2K).

#DellProPrecision #DellTech #NVIDIA

[(Alex) Compositing Academy @CompAcademyVFX]

@re_skob ok this is enough internet for one day

[(Alex) Compositing Academy @CompAcademyVFX]

@MatterCg next attach a tiny fast shutter 360 to normal camera and solve the offset, so we can have auto tracks for blurry shots and never solve cameras again!

[(Alex) Compositing Academy @CompAcademyVFX]

The new studio workstation just arrived, and I’ve officially joined the Dell Pro Precision Ambassador program!

There are some insane specs on this machine, for creating studio-level productions:
Dell Pro Max Tower T2
NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, 96GB VRAM!
Intel Core Ultra 9 285K
128GB Ram
4TB storage

The most powerful machine Compositing Academy has ever had.

This year has been a big one for our infrastructure, both physical and digital. Our studio projects have gotten a lot more complex: processing photogrammetry, lidar, and Gaussian splat datasets, handling large volumes of raw footage, developing and exploring new hybrid AI + VFX workflows and tools with ComfyUi, and rendering entire CG sequences in Blender to composite in Nuke.

The more ambitious our productions get, the more real-world workflows we can bring back to our students.

Huge thanks to Dell Technologies and NVIDIA for having me on board and providing this machine.
#DellProPrecision #DellTech #NVIDIA

[(Alex) Compositing Academy @CompAcademyVFX]

@andrewpprice they have the right idea, but it's the wrong form factor. VR 6dof controllers are still the best for manipulating 3d objects in a natural way, unlike a 2d mouse

[(Alex) Compositing Academy @CompAcademyVFX]

@ElasticSea apple is always the best with using reflections in design

[(Alex) Compositing Academy @CompAcademyVFX]

@SongYeongd36503 looks cool! what code base is being used for the hand pose estimation?

[(Alex) Compositing Academy @CompAcademyVFX]

Deep dive on Corridor Key 2.0 here:
https://t.co/Qp3fE8hK9e

Free greenscreen footage to test it yourself:
https://t.co/4ukuylmglW

[(Alex) Compositing Academy @CompAcademyVFX]

One surprising part of Corridor Key 2.0 is that it can pull green objects off of a greenscreen. The model uses a mix of segmentation and a custom trained greenscreen A.I model in order to do this.

[(Alex) Compositing Academy @CompAcademyVFX]

I did a deep dive on Corridor Key 2.0, against real production footage!

https://t.co/PrtSN7F9O2

[(Alex) Compositing Academy @CompAcademyVFX]

@notch do it! We need more creative leaders to step up and create the new centers of gravity necessary to pull in talent and create new things.

[(Alex) Compositing Academy @CompAcademyVFX]

Free Footage Download:
https://t.co/4ukuylmglW

Full Stack Filmmaker Course:
https://t.co/MPUC9Iphla

[(Alex) Compositing Academy @CompAcademyVFX]

We released 150+ greenscreen VFX plates for FREE! Here's some more info on how you can use them.

[(Alex) Compositing Academy @CompAcademyVFX]

@zokitzar not sure what that is, it's a relatively new website so maybe that's why

[(Alex) Compositing Academy @CompAcademyVFX]

We went crazy on this one! We just released a huge library of FREE Greenscreen plates (150+ clips, more coming!) for VFX Artists.

I wanted to focus on things that make shots not feel like generic greenscreen cutout plates: so we planned specific light scenarios, various 3D Camera moves, lots of different actions, and a variety of other elements of production value in order to create something unique.

I'll be building some cool shots from these myself as I have a bunch of ideas, but hopefully other people will find this valuable as well!

[(Alex) Compositing Academy @CompAcademyVFX]

Browse it here
https://t.co/4ukuylmglW

[(Alex) Compositing Academy @CompAcademyVFX]

Product list PDF:
https://t.co/JSUmnWRa9y

[(Alex) Compositing Academy @CompAcademyVFX]

How to make your own VFX Balls for cheap (DIY Style).
Product list in the comments

[(Alex) Compositing Academy @CompAcademyVFX]

https://t.co/MPUC9IpPaI

[(Alex) Compositing Academy @CompAcademyVFX]

Full Stack Filmmaker is finally finished after months of work. I believe this is the most comprehensive VFX course for people looking to create projects start-to-finish if you're doing greenscreen or CG integration projects.