I was today years old when I learned…

[johnt]

There are a lot of things. The below are only the first three that come to mind.

Warping UVs is very satisfying.

What are your favorite talent reshaping tools/methods?

If you pump a UV out of an action and pipe it into the action where you are using the deform mesh you can parent the UV to the deform mesh, as well as the plate, and pipe it out in a separate output. Then take this deformed UV into another action and apply it to the original plate. Then you can run the effect slider on the UV to increase or decrease how much deformation is happening. That way when your client says, “I like the way it looks but lets dial it back 50%”, you can reduce the effect on…

The archiving and path translation game changer

Publishing / unmanaged framestore workflow AKA how to make smaller archives for those that don't archive good

Let’s give this a try… First things first. This approach relies on having a fast cache for Flame which most people have. Conceptually the idea is that rather than managing your project hierarchy for shots inside of flame, you relegate flame’s management of the project to editorial only and setup a template based shot workflow based on a publish to compartmentalize each of your shots into a single external location, in this case your flame’s cache, in order to: Manage the filetypes you store…

Lens distortion solved finally shut up the cg dept

ST Maps for undistort

@johnt, here you go. I also simplified it even further…