We have some issues with the VFX BALL These are a chromeand grey ball that the VFX supervisor uses on set. We had the honor to work with Marijn Eken yesterday, who also did the VFX for InterStellar, damn! ®These twoballs and the color checker are used to determine the position of all light sources, […]
They could possibly be the most famous couple of all time! Forget Sunny and Cher, Simon and Garfunkle, Meghan and Harry, Cleopatra and Mark, I’m talking about the Grey and the Chrome Ball.If you are wondering why you keep seeing the Grey and Chrome ball in so many CG renders, here is a little rundown
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Why do visual effects artists love this shiny ball? using a HDRI (high dynamic range image) these shiny balls allow artists to capture the way that light looks on the live set so that they can make it look as though that light is convincingly illuminating a digital object.Swipe and look deeper into @andre_eksteen_’s shiny
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Throwback to VFX History! “Chrome balls. Mirror balls. Light probes. They sometimes go by many names, but they all do pretty much the same thing: the chrome ball reflects the entire scene, giving VFX artists the perfect reference to recreate the lighting and environment digitally. “Fun Fact: Back in the early 90s, the brilliant minds
How to use Chrome Ball VFX? Overview In film and television production, gray balls and chrome balls are commonly used visual reference tools on the set, mainly used to capture lighting and reflection information in the scene. They provide key reference data for the lighting matching of CG (computer graphics) elements in the later stage