Nuke R&D challenge : Tell me... what do you need ?

[hassanvfx]

Hi friend !!

Some of you may know, that i'm currently trying to get in some major studios R&D department.

So i came with this crazy idea in the hope that many of you working in the High-End industry could find it cool .

The gameplay is this >

1. It's open to everybody currently using nuke in some High-end studio. ( if is needed i will post this in another forums )

2. Post in this thread your cool ideas plugins / scripts that you think could be great to improve the community work in nuke.

3. If we have succes in this brain storming, and depending on your feedback, i will pick ( also you can help me pick if you read another users amazing idea ):

a) Some quick-to-do projects, and
b) Only 1 great challenge.

4. In case your idea get selected you will provide me with previz footage, or even CG material needed to create the development. (dont need it in hyper-high res is just to put my hands on ).

5. At the end , and along development will release the plugin / scripts as openSource on my github. (just as this one: http://www.vfxtalk.com/threads/34996...-open-source-). )

6. ( I am totally open to make team , if some other developers wants to join me in this crazy road, i will feel very happy ).

What do you think guys ? is a good idea... or i am just getting insane ? =)

[boomji]

Dude that's pretty ^insane^ :P
Nice idea.

b

[pingking]

maybe i got one:

a Nuke Ocean Tool kit based on the papers by Tessendorf, similar to the Houdini Ocean Toolkit and the Blender Ocean Toolkit

dont know if it brings anything to a production enviroment, but could be a nice toy to play with
would be cool to have it as a deformer and a tool to create the map for the foam

[pingking]

religthing via spherical harmonics

this plugin would calculate the coefficents from the input HDR image and calculate the corresponding lighting information

paper

[hassanvfx]

yeah both are good candidates for the big challenge . =) keep on !

[metalrahul]

Well, something more simpler but useful on a daily basis, how about automating a way to find camera parameters from a photograph or shot plate?
http://www.fxphd.com/tips/finding-th...tion-tutorial/

[hassanvfx]

Well, something more simpler but useful on a daily basis, how about automating a way to find camera parameters from a photograph or shot plate?
http://www.fxphd.com/tips/finding-th...tion-tutorial/

hey metalraul ... had you tested this ? i find it absolutely cool !

[metalrahul]

Nope, I haven't but I believe it must work at least approximately to give us a starting point

[hassanvfx]

Nope, I haven't but I believe it must work at least approximately to give us a starting point

i am seriously considering your proposition as the Main Challenge, are you willing to make team and create a real-life use-case ?