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Skin Retouch: Smoothing Skin Without Losing Fine Detail
The free Skin Retouch script uses frequency separation in After Effects to smooth skin while preserving texture and detail.
Flicker Free 2.0 Adds GPU Acceleration and Improved Motion Detection
Digital Anarchy’s Flicker Free 2.0 promises faster processing, improved motion detection and new presets for removing video flicker.
Mocha Pro 2021 Introduces PowerMesh Warp Tracking
Mocha Pro 2021 added PowerMesh sub-planar tracking, AdjustTrack 2.0, Alembic export, a Python editor and performance updates.
Boris FX Launches All-in-One Suite Subscription
The Boris FX Suite bundles Sapphire, Continuum, Mocha Pro, Silhouette and Optics in a single annual or monthly subscription.
More pixels in your pocket – the Blackmagic Pocket 4K
Many loved the inconspicuous Blackmagic Pocket HD despite all its weaknesses - from short battery life to fragile sockets and a very flat screen.
InstaLOD 2020: rendering and automation with InstaLOD Grid
InstaLOD automates the entire 3D workflow, including the tedious steps that no 3D artist likes to perform, such as UV unwrapping, manual retopo or baking.
Mocha Pro 2020.5 Release
Boris FX with a new update for Mocha Pro: Release 2020.5 includes an improved planar tracker, more support for Flame, new brushes and more.
Black Friday Deals | CG Industry
Anyone looking to expand their CG toolsets, assets or knowledge may find an offer or two in our Black Firday deals list.
Rotoscoping with Silhouette 2020
Silhouette 2020 is the first release under Boris FX, with new roto tools, Mocha integration, paint improvements and more!
animago Tickets Available Now
The ticket shop has opened and admission tickets at the attractive early-bird rate are now available.
Early Birds in a Nosedive | animago Tickets
animago 2019 takes place in Munich from November 2 to 5—the tickets are now available!
iClone plugins available free of charge
Reallusion has launched the iClone Plugin Marketplace, a new online library of add-ons for its character animation software iClone.
Blackmagic Design: DaVinci Resolve and Fusion turn 16
For young people, 16 is considered a rather problematic age, but the roots of Resolve and Fusion go way back into the last century and you can expect a certain maturity. Does this also apply to a public beta?
Specialist study on video software – take part and win!
Take part in the survey on video software now and win Amazon vouchers!
More pixels in your pocket – Blackmagic Pocket 4K in test
Many loved the inconspicuous Blackmagic Pocket HD despite all its weaknesses. The film images were simply too beautiful for a camera of this price range and size. As soon as 4K became an issue, many people wanted a new successor to the classic 16 mm camera with better resolution. Does the new camera have that much magic?
Let Your Creativity Grow: 40% Off Creative Cloud
Creativity is an oasis - Adobe Creative Cloud offers all the tools and features to turn ideas into unique designs. Secure a 40% discount!
Tangent Wave 2 Control Panel
So one decision is that people need to straighten something. We take a closer look at the new edition of the wave panel and analyse the advantages and disadvantages compared to its predecessor and the alternatives.
A Chameleon Wonders About Love
The short film “Darrel” was made entirely with open-source software over two years. The Darrel Squad explains how the private project came about. - by Mirja Fürst
MSI P65 Creator – Creative Power in a Slim Format
MSI's Prestige-series laptops target the high performance demands of content creation. The latest addition is the extra-slim P65 Creator.
Creative Cloud: Enjoy New Features and Save 40%
Creative professionals can now save 40 percent on Adobe Creative Cloud.
Extended to November 30 – 40% Off Adobe Creative Cloud
Adobe Creative Cloud includes the best apps and services for design, photography, video and the web. For a short time with a 40% discount.
Hand puppet craft and digital art
Svobodan goes to see a psychiatrist. He wants to finally get rid of this choleric, fat toad on his head, which is not so easy. The special design of the characters and their unusual animation style earned the short film "A Toad Song" an animago AWARD nomination in the "Best Character" category last year. Director Kariem Saleh told us how his graduation project at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg came about. - by Mirja Fürst
Adobe LIVE: Learn from Experts for Free
November 13-15: Learning from professionals does not always have to cost a lot. Watch various experts work by livestream from 10 am to 6 pm for three days.
“Project: Antarctica”: Fast Workflows in Ice
Postproduction on an expedition ship? Three young filmmakers ventured to Antarctica to shoot their film and edit it there with Adobe Creative Cloud tools.
IBC 2018 – Adobe Updates Creative Cloud AV Tools
With 57,000 trade visitors, 1,700 exhibitors and around 400 speakers from 170 countries, IBC is one of the world's most influential media and technology trade fairs.
MoCap, Characters, Reallusion
Reallusion has released three new tools for MoCap and character creation.
“Ingenium”: Creating Big Cinema with Limited Means – Part 2
How do you master the post-production of an independent mystery thriller that was shot over several years with a total of eleven different camera models without blowing the already small budget?
“Ingenium”: Creating Big Cinema with Limited Means – Part 1
Over five years, director Steffen Hacker worked on an independent mystery thriller and had to solve a series of tricky post-production tasks.
Let’s Go Crazy!
Even without extensive background knowledge in animation, quite a lot can be achieved with CrazyTalk Animator.
Grading on the Orient Express
When you look for an All-Star-Cast, you can’t top Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kenneth Branagh, Daisy Ridley and all the others who travelled this year’s “Murder on the Orient Express”. But what you might not have known is that for the Dailies Grading, DaVinci Resolve came into play. We wanted to know how the rich, saturated look was accomplished.
AI and Deep Learning Servers from CADnetwork
With devices in the CADnetwork Deep Learning Box model series, you train and establish neural networks in the shortest possible time – Set up. Connect. Train.
New HDR grading monitor from EIZO
At the IBC in Amsterdam, EIZO presented its ColorEdge PROMINENCE CG3145 HDR monitor for the first time - everyone is talking about HDR. Not least because many 4K televisions are already being sold with an HDR label and HDR is therefore a buzzword for end users.
Three Days of Video Editing and Motion Design with the Pros.
Moving images are booming – so it is time to get started with video or pick up the latest trends, workflows and tips. At the next edition of Adobe Live, professionals will show real projects with video, motion design and animation in a live stream for three days from December 12 to 14. Premiere Pro and After Effects are included, including new features such as VR and time-saving functions such as Motion Design Templates.
Mocha VR Beta Version
Mocha VR is looking for testers for the released beta version 5.6! The new features are stereoscopic support for 360°/VR video tracking, masking, stabilisation and lens removal.
Your Own Render Farm and Render Server – What Do I Need to Consider?
With your own render farm, you can render your projects flexibly in your own premises. But what differences are there and how do I select the right render servers?
VFX Plug-ins: Sapphire and Continuum 11
A major round of updates at Boris FX: the VFX plug-ins Sapphire and Continuum with many new features. For a small plug-in overview, there are also free articles from DP!
One for all? The Ursa Mini 4.6K Pro from Blackmagic
At NAB 2O17, the new version of the Ursa Mini 4.6K Pro (UM Pro for short) received a lot of attention, with Videomaker even honouring it as the "Best camera of NAB". But what does the "Pro" in the name mean? For whom is the new camera more professional than its predecessor with the same sensor? Can it satisfy in documentary and nature film or even in reportage?
Free Baselight Student Version
FilmLight wants to give the next generation of color graders access to Baselight and has therefore released a free version of the grading software, with some restrictions on its use.
The DIGITAL PRODUCTION App!
Do you prefer to read news, specialist information or entertainment digitally? Then here are a few good reasons to use the new DIGITAL PRODUCTION app…
Become RebusFarm Artist of the Month!
Every month, RebusFarm, the remote render provider, chooses an Artist of the Month – perhaps you will be next? Join in and pick up RenderPoints!
BaseGrade and the evolution of colour grading
At NAB 2O16, colour grading specialist Filmlight caused quite a stir in the colourist scene. BaseGrade - a completely newly developed grading operator for Baselight - was presented, which is intended to replace classic tools such as Lift, Gamma and Gain. That sounds like a small revolution. Filmlight promises more consistent results and a more natural way of working. Reason enough not only for Baselight colourists to take a detailed look at it.
Make the Cut: Edit a Music Video for Imagine Dragons and Win
Anyone fancy creating their own music video? Adobe offers editors and music fans the chance, on the occasion of
Premiere Pro's 25th anniversary, to edit the music video for the Imagine Dragons' new single “Believer.”
START NOW. 3D Tools for Creative Heroes
It has never been so easy and affordable to enter the Autodesk 3D world. Until April 21, 2017, you receive a 15% discount when purchasing selected AUTODESK subscriptions.
Sneak Peek – DP 03 : 17
One factor that makes working in the film and post-production industry so interesting: you never stop learning. That is why, in our first focus, we give you further-training tips and show paths into the CG industry beyond a traditional degree. To ensure that you also have enough time available for your education, in the second focus we present the most practical plug-ins.
Meet the Autodesk Experts! Maya for Triple-A Games
In the free webinars, Autodesk experts show what works best where and how—in January, you will get all your questions about Maya answered!
Meet the Autodesk Experts! Max for Games & Maya Motion Graphics
In the free webinars, Autodesk experts show what works best where and how—in December, you will get all your questions about 3ds Max and Maya answered!
Sharp as a 4K Raindrop
Digital Anarchy has released a new plug-in for improving blurry footage.
Firing from all projectors
Lightshows, trade fair stands, installations and art projects - as a screen worker, you are often amazed by the showmen from the projection sector. But how does it work?
360° VR Video Animation with iClone 6.5
With the 6.5 update to its 3D animation software iClone, Reallusion makes it easy and quick to create 360° VR content.
Something for the Eyes: BenQ PV270
Need a new monitor? Consider the BenQ PV270 - with varied colour spaces, 2.5K resolution and enough room for almost any node tree.
Baselight Version 5.0
Colour control on a completely new level – that is what Filmlight promisses with version 5 of the Baselight colour finishing system.
iClone Character Creator 1.4
Reallusion announces iClone Character Creator 1.4, which can create 3D characters in infinitely many morphs.
Now Read DIGITAL PRODUCTION Digitally Too
DP in your pocket? Difficult with the print magazine—but why not as an eMagazine on your smartphone or tablet?
Speed Up Your Renderings with the RenderCube Family
Affordable, fast and easy to set up. Whether you are a freelancer or a large VFX studio, the RenderCubes help you render your projects.
New Beauty Tool Kit from Boris FX and Imagineer
Insights into the new Boris Continuum Complete (BCC) and Mocha Pro 5 as an integrated plugin. Webinar on the new tool kit with prize draw.
Broadcast Finishing with Premiere
Tutorial on broadcast finishing techniques for Adobe Premiere Pro with the Boris FX Continuum Complete plug-in.
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More Functions, More Formats, More Freedom
Why filmmakers, motion designers and game developers should now switch from Creative Suite to Creative Cloud.
Tidy Elements with the Rageboard
The grading panels of the "Element" series can be found in many grading suites - and usually in a hopeless mess. But now there is a chassis for this: the "Rageboard".
iClone 5 Free
Act quickly: Reallusion’s real-time animation engine iClone can still be downloaded until March 31.
Boris Works with Resolve
Blackmagic's DaVinci Resolve now supports Boris Continuum Complete (BCC) and Boris RED.
Visualising barley juice
Looking back: In DP 04 : 2013, we were thirsty for beer, because pilsner brand Warsteiner was celebrating its 260th birthday with an advertising campaign. The post-production studio nhb and the agency Kolle Rebbe created bottles in 3D for the Warsteiner brewery. Cheers!
Beauty Box Video 3.0 Released
Digital Anarchy announced a new version of its digital make-up and skin-retouching plug-in for After Effects, Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro users.
Color-Correction Plug-in for Avid Tools
FilmLight has now released a plug-in for the two Avid tools Media Composer and Symphony that is intended to make real-time color correction possible.
Film Festival Premiere
Fassbinder classic digitally restored with the involvement of Michael Ballhaus.
PICTORION das werk Buys Company Licence for Nuke
dve Digital Video & Effects GmbH reports the sale of a company licence for The Foundry’s Nuke compositing software to PICTORION das werk.
L4 and Reallusion Cooperate
According to the company, the Berlin-based L4 – Institute for Digital Communication is cooperating with American software producer Reallusion and will become Germany's first ‘Reallusion certificated training center’.
Digital Film Cameras Compared at CinePostproduction
“Digital Cameras Compared” project led by Michael Ballhaus
Kino-Grading in a New Dimension
CinePostproduction now offers new suites for digital color grading, including installations in Munich, Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne.
Red Giant: ToonIt! 2.0
Red Giant ToonIt, originally available from Digital Anarchy, gives videos the appearance of animated cartoons.
CINE PLUS Expands Its Camcorder Inventory
CINE PLUS adds eight Sony PDW-700 XDCAM HD 422 camcorders with SD options to its nationwide rental inventory.
Digital Anarchy Releases 3D Invigorator for Photoshop
3D Invigorator for Photoshop converts Illustrator outlines and text into editable 3D logos and objects with multiple render modes.
Sebastian Gassner Takes Charge of Sales at CinePostproduction Geyer Cologne
Sebastian Gassner will take over sales at CinePostproduction Geyer Cologne on January 1, 2009. He previously spent four years at ma.ja.de. filmproduktion, where he had led the Leipzig office since 2007. As production manager, Gassner was responsible for the development, production, post-production and controlling of numerous national and international cinema and television documentaries.
iClone, Take Three!
Tired of cheap soap operas, poorly animated cartoons and boring vacation videos? With iClone 3, anyone can become a director and produce their own 3D film.
Press Release: Autodesk Solutions Support This Fall’s Most Popular TV Productions
The fall TV series House, True Blood, Bones, CSI and Californication were created with the help of Autodesk solutions.
Acht Frankfurt Wins Eyes & Ears Award
Service provider wins for “ZDF Unsere Besten — Die Größten Fernsehmomente” and sports title sequences for Swiss Television.
MW: Video interview with digital anarchy
Plug-in manufacturer digital anarchy presented new video plug-ins at the Macworld Expo.
Digital Anarchy: Knoll Light Factory 3.0 for Photoshop
New version with improved user interface, real-time preview and support for Intel Macs and 64-bit Windows
NAB: Filmlight Shows Projector Probe and Baselight 3.3
New measuring and calibration device for projectors appears after NAB / Baselight also as software-only version for Mac-OS X
Pictorion das werk Invests in Düsseldorf Film Location
Branch is being expanded / Data grading new in the portfolio
Upscaled: Resizer 2.1
Digital Anarchy's conversion tool scales SD up to HD / now native for Final Cut Pro and Motion
Digital Anarchy Microcosm 1.2 Encodes on All Macs
The lossless 16-bit video codec for Quicktime is now available in a Universal version for Intel and PowerPC Macs
IBC: BorisFX Blue Steps on the Gas
The update of the compositing tool to version 1.1 brings no new features, but instead more speed and a significant price reduction
IBC: Filmlight with Baselight 3.2 and Projector Probe
The grading specialist shows an improved Baselight software package as well as a device for calibrating projectors
NAB: Filmlight shows Northlight successor
Film scanner now four times faster / New solutions Baselight HD and Truelight Colorist Package
Pictorion das werk Builds Fully Data-Based Postproduction
Pictorion das werk adds an Imagica Imager XE Advanced scanner and FilmLight Baselight
Price Drop: Media 100 Cuts Prices for the 844/X by up to 60 Percent
Shortly before the new software release announced for January 2004, Media 100 has massively reduced the prices of the high-end online finishing system 844/X.
Comprehensive Filter Collection for After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Combustion and Red from Boris FX
“Boris Continuum Complete” Is the Name of a Filter Package from Boris FX That Leaves Hardly Anything to Be Desired.
Boris RED Upgrade Offer for Commotion Owners
Jocomp offered Boris RED to Pinnacle Commotion owners, highlighting editing-system integration, titling, 3D compositing, time effects and reusable presets.
MacPower Opengate Expands Video and Compositing Plug-in Range
The distributor’s catalogue brought Boris, The Foundry, DigiEffects and Automatic Duck tools to Final Cut Pro and After Effects users.
Digital Anarchy Releases Psunami and Aurora Sky for Final Cut Pro
Psunami and Aurora Sky brought ray-traced water, volumetric clouds and other 3D effects to Final Cut Pro on Mac OS 9 and OS X.
Digital Anarchy Aurora Sky Creates Photorealistic Clouds
Aurora Sky added volumetric cloud and sky effects to After Effects, with a Final Cut Pro version then in beta.
Boris Continuum Complete AVX Released for Avid
Boris Continuum Complete AVX integrated more than 90 effects filters directly into Avid editing systems on Mac and Windows.