March 2011
Nuke plugin for automatic normal map generation from handmade celluloid used in the TV serie Tron Uprising
Polygon Pictures Inc. - http://www.ppi.co.jp
Development of a normal map generator for Nuke, created to bridge classical 3D rendering with hand-drawn animation, as the director wanted to combine both techniques in the same production. Hand-drawn artwork doesn't naturally include normal maps, something commonly relied on in a 3D pipeline for relighting, so a plugin was built to generate synthetic ones directly from the drawings.