A Stereoscopic Primer for LightWave 3D by Kelly Myers

This Stereoscopic Primer for LightWave 3D is Kelly ‘Kat’ Myers first video dedicated to Stereoscopic Visual Effects for LightWave 3D. In this title Kelly focuses on the basics of Stereoscopic work for LightWave 3D but also covers some compositing as well in Fusion. His training will help you understand the concepts so you can take these techniques and apply them to other projects.

Kelly will take you through the basics of Stereo in LightWave 3D like camera rigs, and setting up your Stereo renders in LightWave 3D.  But Kelly does not stop there, the continues to showing ChromaDepth, DOF, Colorization and Motion Blur.

In this two hour class Kelly also covers users questions based on the training covered here so watching the Q&A sessions can be more valuable than the training time itself. If you are unclear about Stereoscopic 3D this is the training video for you.

Kelly Covers Camera Rigs for Stereoscopic Rendering

Kelly ‘Kat’ Myers brings his own style of techniques to this series of training. His techniques saved Battlestar VFX hundreds of hours of time on the show while winning several awards including an Emmy. Now he is taking his training to the next level showing the basics of Stereo and sharing his 3D camera rigs and some stereoscopic secrets.

The Stereoscopic Primer also covers DOF and Colorization

This title was created with beginner to intermediate LightWave 3D and compositing artists in mind. Kelly’s approach of project based training will have you using LightWave 3D more efficiently and intelligently. Kelly’s post production techniques are done here in the video using eyeonline’s Fusion. However, these techniques can be used in Nuke, After Effects or any other compositing packages you may prefer.

Rendering Natural DOF in Stereo - All Compositing in Fusion, however can be easily ported to AFX, Nuke or Final Cut pro

Artist Profile: Kelly Lee Myers "Kat"

Kelly, or "Kat" as some call him, has been working with Lightwave and Fusion for almost 2 decades. As the VFX Consultant for Battlestar Galactica, he has won both a Peabody and an Emmy award during seasons II and III. Beyond BSG, Kat has worked on SG:1, SG: Atlantis, Elektra and many other shows over the years on set doing Motion Control Camera work and real-time compositing and has also worked in games and multi-media. He continues today to produce VFX work in artist and supervisory roles for productions around the world and also somehow fits in the time to write TV/Film Scripts for something to do when he can't sleep.

Outside of VFX, Kat's other persona, DJ Lithium relates to his other favorite profession, which is of course the art of vinyl record Deejaying. Considered by many to be one of the top Trance DJs in North America, he ownes and operates Canada's Largest Vinyl record releasing trance labels, Black Tiger Recordings and his mixes can be heard via iTunes. As a producer of over 14 12" singles and dozens of incredibly popular DJ mixes, blacktigerrecordings.com radio has has been on the air for over decade with fans in every corner of the globe.

Kelly/Kat/Lithium also enjoys BMX street riding and annoying authority figures in all shapes and sizes.

This Class is Sponsored by: eyeonline Software, makers of Fusion

Fusion 6 can load compositions created in previous versions of Fusion, but artists should expect to see differences due to the extensive changes brought about by DOD/ROI, expanded GPU support and general algorithm optimizations. Fusion 6 is also binary compatible with all existing third party plugins, no updates should be required.

To get started, please visit the Fusion 6 download site.

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