A few years into my Redshift journey, I realized something simple yet profoundly irritating: you can have a beautiful CG-glass object—perfectly lit, physically accurate refractions, caustics dancing just right—but when it hits the composite, the alpha channel is all wrong. A flat white blob. An opaque mask where transparency should live. The glass behaves like plastic, and suddenly 90% of your compositing magic goes into fix-up rather than artistry. Check out this video to see a step-by-step...

I have a new video up on the YouTubes talking about a set of really great Foley plugins from UVI which is one of my favorite music and...

I've always loved America...the American dream...American history. I remember at the age of five, one of the first songs that I ever fell...