I will share my entire Flame User Bin, 20 years of battle proven workflows, special ops techniques, and tactical toolsets, if you help these Vietnamese street kids 
I will share absolutely every useful setup I have and I will lay it all out in such a way that it is really easy to use, understand and save.
I will also give you my full Comfy UI user bin and the key setups I use every day in professional AI projects. Loads of top level, AFAIK unique VFX related AI stuff. ComfyUI workflows particularly tailored to the VFX environment we work in.
With each of these I will include a video detailing how the nodes, workflows and techniques work. I will share absolutely everything I can, years of hardcore knowledge and workflows.
Why?
I’m doing a charity bike ride across Vietnam in aid of Christina Noble Children’s Foundation. They work with orphans and street kids, giving them a better life. They provide school, safety, clothing and nutritious meals to some of the most vulnerable children in Vietnam and Mongolia. You couldn’t find a more worthy cause to support. The money you donate will go very far here in Vietnam. It’s a small efficient charity, I know people who volunteer and I can guarantee practically every cent donated will feed, house and school these amazing kids. These are children born in to incredibly unfortunate circumstances and CNCF has helped thousands of them find a better life. We can too!
How it works. Help Orphans = Get VFX
For a $50 donation you get my entire Flame user bin, containing all the useful setups, workflows and techniques I’ve built up over 20 years. I will lay them all out in a batch, in clearly labeled compasses, just pick off what you find useful and add it to your user bin. I will include any necessary supporting clips/files to show how they work. I will also make a video explaining, as much as I possibly can, how all the setups and techniques work. It’s not gonna be a perfectly refined tutorial, but it will be incredibly functional and information packed. I will try to pack in as much Flame knowledge as I possibly can, while keeping it brief. Even if you’re a much higher level VFX artist than I am, you will still find a ton of useful tricks and techniques.
Putting modesty aside for a moment, I won the Autodesk Flame award a couple of years ago, I’ve been on the Logik Live podcast a couple of times, presented for Autodesk at Siggraph. In the last 10 years I’ve done ~250 TVCs, many of them massive well known projects. I’ve also worked on Oscar winning movies and loads of shows. I was widely credited with creating the first AI TVC (for better or worse). I’m very good at inventing new VFX techniques and I hoard them, and they’re all yours if you help the orphans.
These are the user bin setups/techniques I would be sharing:
(There maybe a couple of things that can’t be released for legal reasons)
Some highlights
Make it look like you’re shooting through a prism
Beauty work setup, ML automated and manual
Make 3D photo real clouds in action
Some interesting graduated DoF techniques
My custom light wrap technique
Some interesting 3d object action setups, reflections, refractions etc
Workflow for setting up grading in flame
Workflow for selecting key scenes in a film for initial grading look dev
A quick way to colour correct in ACES in a rec709 environment (much better)
Some machine learning face selection object selection workflows
How to denoise an image, do the work then add exactly the original noise back in
Setup to create a tracking markers screen
Add motion blur to the edges of greenscreen comp elements
Give REC709 (AI) generated footage a slightly softer ARRI feel
Setup to add ARRI noise of film grain
And loads loads more!
Here’s my insta with a few recent AI/VFX projects and my reel:
My VFX reel, although all pre AI:
COMFYUI
For a separate $50 donation I will share all the useful techniques I have built up for comfyui
This is my ComfyUI user bin
Loads of useful VFX related nodes, techniques and up to date knowledge. As well as the user bin I will also share 2 key setups; one for retexturing midjourney stills to be much more photo real. And one for retexturing Kling/VEO/Runway videos to be much higher quality. From crappy AI 720p quality to pixel sharp 3072x1728. It’s not always perfect but it’s greeeeeat when it works. (this requires a massive GPU, but I’ll show you how to hire one that it works on). I’ll create an alt one that at least does HD and works on a smaller GPU. I use these techniques virtually every day now and it blows people away. I will include a video explainer detailing as much info as possible on how these setups work.
I will also answer any questions anyone has about all these setups and techniques in this chat or as DM.
Give another 50 bucks to the orphans and I’ll do a video call explaining in detail anything you want.
If you’re a junior flame artist, or for any reason can’t afford $50, make a smaller donation, let me know, I’m fine with it, I’ll still give you the link. Anything helps.
Here’s the link to my just giving page, please donate the $50 for a Flame or ComfyUI package, or $100 for both. You can donate anonymously You can also donate the rough equivalent in a different currency. Then DM me here with a screen grab of the donation, or a receipt or whatever and my wife has very kindly offered to do all the organisation. Let her know the package(s) you want and give her your email address and as soon as it’s ready (will take a bit of time to put it together) she’ll send it out.
This is who we would be helping:
TL;DR Help Orphans Get VFX
Please Please Help!
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