Blog / Tools | Chris Fryer

14 hours ago
1 min

Experiments with Blinkscript | ContourBlur

ContourBlur is a Blinkscript-driven gizmo that allows you to blur an image based on a set of vectors. This is especially useful for blurr...

Experiments with Blinkscript | Removing Chromatic Aberration

Chris Fryer

Feb 6
1 min

Experiments with Blinkscript | Removing Chromatic Aberration

Having added some new features to ChromaticBlink I was interested to see how it handles removing chromatic aberration. I think the result...

Experiments with BlinkScript | FloodBucket

Chris Fryer

Jan 5
1 min

Experiments with BlinkScript | FloodBucket

I set myself the task of making a flood-fill tool using BlinkScript. It was a fun little project to learn more about pixel processes with...

Chris Fryer

Nov 8, 2020
1 min

GodRaysProjector

GodRaysProjector is a 3D alternative to the generally 2D Godrays node. By connecting a renderCamera, projectionCamera and an image to pro...

Chris Fryer

Oct 13, 2020
1 min

BlinkPositionProject

After playing around a bit more with Blink, I decided to tackle position projection and specifically per-pixel motionblur. The results ar...

Decimal TimeOffset | Subframes Revisited

Chris Fryer

Sep 16, 2020
1 min

Decimal TimeOffset | Subframes Revisited

Following on from my previous post about TimeBlur, I decided to delve deeper and put together a gizmo that allows you to access a single ...

Chris Fryer

Sep 10, 2020
1 min

TimeBlur Tutorial | Subframes and Demos

My appreciation for the TimeBlur node is enormous, and I hope this explanation helps others learn to appreciate TimeBlur too. You can dow...

Chris Fryer

Aug 8, 2020
1 min

ChromaticBlink

Chromatic Blink is the blink version of a previous tool of mine Spectralize. This evolution of the tool is a single blink script and is o...

Experiments with Timeblur: Rolling Shutter

Chris Fryer

Jul 20, 2020
1 min

Experiments with Timeblur: Rolling Shutter

With projects shot on film or cameras with global shutter, rolling shutter doesn't come up that often. However, sometimes it can in those...

Chris Fryer

Jun 29, 2020
1 min

Splineblur

Several months ago I was dealing with plates that had a lot of sub-frame motion that wasn't being picked up with traditional tracking too...

Chris Fryer

Jun 18, 2020
1 min

GradePlus

GradePlus is something that I've been adding too and tweaking as I need more features in a jack-of-all-trades style gizmo. It's an altera...

Chris Fryer

Mar 12, 2020
1 min

cfCatsEyeDefocus

This gizmo uses default Nuke nodes to recreate the phenomena of 'Cats Eye' defocus. Internally there's an animated crop cycling through t...

Chris Fryer

Mar 7, 2020
1 min

DirBlur Intuitive

DirBlurIntuitive is a directional blur tool that takes two positions. These two points dictate both the scale and direction of the blur. ...

Chris Fryer

Mar 7, 2020
1 min

Auto Contactsheet

autoContactSheet is a quick little alteration on the default contactSheet node. Its got a few expressions to automatically adjust the num...

Chris Fryer

Mar 7, 2020
1 min

Monochrome Plus

Monochome workflows are a great standard for doing channel difference based operations (e.g. removing tracking markers) Monochrome Plus p...

Chris Fryer

Jan 25, 2020
1 min

cf_tools Demo Nuke Script

I've received a lot of requests asking for copies of my gizmos and some tips on how to use them. I decided the best solution was to put t...

Chris Fryer

Jan 5, 2020
1 min

Experiments with TimeBlur

Intro TimeBlur is one of my favourite nodes to play around with, just because it allows you to utilise sub-frame information. This means ...

Chris Fryer

Apr 4, 2019
4 min

Wings Comp RND

As part of my final year at Hertfordshire. We're required to do a few major submissions of our major project. For me, that's 'Wings'. Whi...

Chris Fryer

Mar 18, 2019
2 min

cf_animorph

cf_animorph is one of the tools I'm most proud of. Mostly because I spent so much time figuring out how to actually make it fully procedu...

Chris Fryer

Mar 18, 2019
1 min

cf_spectralize

cf_spectralize is probably the most visually dynamic tool I've made. Its brief was fairly basic: "Chris, do you think you could come up w...

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