Apple Shake 4 Tutorials - Manual (Page 12)

12 Chapter 1 Shake Basics
• Setting resolution
• Creating a new element
• Tuning parameters
• Working with layer nodes
• Transforming an image
• Applying a mask
• Rendering a sequence
A Tour of the Basics
In this tutorial you’ll create a composite with images created at Big Sister's Watching,
NY by Brandon Robinson and Melissa Graff.
You’ll start by layering the images for the composite. Then you’ll incorporate additional
elements for soft shadows and lighting. Before you begin, let’s review some basic
Shake operations.
Launching Shake
You can launch the Shake application from your desktop or from the command line,
assuming the Shake binary files are located in the directory created for Shake during
installation.
To launch Shake:
m On the Mac OS X platform, browse to the application directory and double-click the
Shake icon, or simply click the Shake icon in the Dock.
m On the Linux or IRIX platform, enter the following in any shell:
shake
For you Mac users, the Shake icon may appear on the Dock. If it’s not there, then you
can drag it to the dock from the application directory. You can also launch from the
Mac OS X Terminal, but you must type the complete path to Shake (that is,
Applications/Shake/shake.app/Contents/MacOS/shake), or set the appropriate
environment variables.
Note: For more information, see “Environment Variables for Shake” in Chapter 14 of the
Shake 4 User Manual.