We all know that should be a trend for compositing softwares to switch to real 3D compositing. That is, you do composite by not only images/channels/layers but also the (rendered) results of 3D scenes (models, materials, animation, lights and cameras). It is so trivial to forecast this trend and all we are hesitating is the cost of migrations from our current working pipeline. And most difficult part of the migration is human being itself…

The following is the code I got from Andres Hernandez [cybereality] for separating a .mpo file into 2 relative .jpeg files (left and right). The key point is to find the second jpeg’s header “FFD8FFE1” and this is my first time to touch jpeg’s header format. Kinda interesting. According to Andres’s idea, we all hope everyone could keep sharing any informative stuff to help others’ work or research. And eventually, we could benefit from others’ great achievement :) ...

最近一直在閱讀，吸收來不及吸收的各種知識，重新審視過去我視為理所當然的觀念，哪裏需要修正，哪裏需要以不同的角度重新解釋一番，其中之一，是 animatin studios 裏頭 RD/TD，或再泛稱一點，所謂的技術人員，他們應該怎麼自處，應該在工作心理與技術能力上學習些什麼。 ...

The interesting is, we, as artists and engineers, do really can convert 2D images into autostereoscopic ones, as long as having skilled rotoscoper with patience and cooperative computer graphics geek. What we did is just as normal as everyone could thought of: define our targeting quality and appearance first and clearly pick up candidate wedding photos with remarks of importance and focus points for each photo, circle out spatial layout according to aesthetics and logistics. furthermore, having well-designed depth gradient is the most important to achieve nice quality result rotoscoping, the most time-consuming but artistic process 3d image warping, or so called depth image based rendering is used to generate the desired multiple novel views finally, (auto)stereoscopic device related content generating Does a pure computer graphics researcher need to know and even involve in those stuff to this extreme? Yes! Because… ...

The Foundry have acquired the technology of Sony Pictures Imagework’s (SPI) Katana 3D lighting & compositing package. Katana’s hardcore lighting node based technology will be integrated into an upcoming version of the Foundry’s Nuke 2D package. We spoke to both companies about why SPI would part with such a great in house tool and why the Foundry needs another compositing lighting system, in this online exclusive. Source: Foundry Acquires Katana from SPI for Nuke . ...

3D business is not born yet. It is like an expected new born baby. I say new technology regarding 3D is necessary for 3D business. It is said “Necessity is a mother of invention”. 3D technology is a sort of a “Mother of 3D business”. Then who is a “Father” of expected new born baby named “3D business”? It is “Business model” who would become a “Father”. Only when “Technology” meets “Business model”, new business will be born. ...

Every computer graphics researcher should look at this wonderful talk by Rob Cook @ Siggraph 2009 for his perspective of the current CG achievement and the future challenges of this field. I am so excited to know that Siggraph officially released this recording such that I can review it again casually at my cabin~