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Zeiss takes over NCam
Ncam joins Zeiss - the lens manufacturer takes over the camera tracker!
Photoshop und Express Beta – Refill my Picture?
As soon as the Adobe Firefly beta is officially available to every Adobe Cloud subscriber, the features are also being introduced in the Photoshop beta and then immediately in the Adobe Express beta.
Timeline Tools von The Foundry 2
Color, Comp und Conform! Nuke and Nuke X are the de facto-standard in node-based compositing. But even seasoned Nuke artists have often had little or no contact with the closely related reviewing and finishing products.
The Puppet Groove
The animated film "The Puppet Groove", which looks like a music video, shows a rocking puppet band on stage. In the background, the singer narrates their success story in an animated film sequence. But whether the musicians really have everything under control is only revealed at the end.
Trash, Dance & Robots
In winter 2021, we decided to make a film as a group of three under the guidance of our professor Jürgen Schopper about a robot whose purpose in life is to pick up rubbish. A lot has happened in the meantime: the robot is now controlled by an old lady and can - surprise! - dance very well. We have spent many enjoyable, stressful and also funny days at the HFF with our robot and the old lady. The original idea resulted in a four-minute animated film. We - three visual effects students (Valentin Dittlmann, Hannes Werner, Felix Zachau) at the University of Television and Film in Munich - developed, realised and completed this film in the course of our first year of study.
Daniel2 Dynamo? Next-gen Codecs!
„The fastest codec in the world“ is how the Munich-based broadcasting and production software developer Cinegy advertises its video codec Daniel2; it uses the computing power of the graphics processor to speed up image processing specifically and workflows in general. The codec promises: real-time film editing with Adobe Premiere CC, at a resolution of
of 8K - without any drop in frame rate. A conversation with Cinegy boss Jan Weigner about Content Creation with Power Codecs.
What’s New in Nuke 14?
"The next generation of Nuke" - the British developers from Foundry are confidently announcing their new version. Let's take a look at what's new between Copycat and Scanline Renderer, what's changed, what's completely new or what remains the same?
That girl is green!
For Marvel Studio‘s most recent streaming series, “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law”, the concept of a workplace dramewdy (think Ally McBeal, 90s kids!) merges with Superhero-battles (think all the Marvel movies, comic-book-geeks!) – leading to 6-foot-
7-inch-sized, gorgeously green,
super-powered viewing pleasures.
A conversation with VFX Production Coordinator Erika Feijoo Spena and Visual Effects Supervisor Chris Smallfield about Hulk-ifications at VFX-powerhouse Trixter.
Nuke Tools Vol. 3 – Channels, Passes and Mattes
While looking at the UI previously, we are now finally moving on to the node tree. More specifically, into Nuke's channel management. Here too, artists can make their lives much easier with a few tools and scripts. Because especially with a view
rebuild, you want to make life a little easier than constantly repeating the same steps.
The Wild Wild Witcher
Grabbing two Bafta (British Academy Television and Craft) Awards in 2022,
the second season of "The Witcher” has tons and tons of eye candy. Winning in the categories Make-Up & Hair and Visual & Graphic Effects, this colossal fantasy saga is filled to the brim with magic effects – but who did put the magic on the screen?
The Continuum plugin package gets an update!
Continuum 23 from Boris FX comes with over 250 presets - and Particle Illusion has been significantly accelerated. Suitable for artists in broadcasting, motion graphics and compositing.
News in After Effects?
The fun thing about IBC is that you meet interesting people - and as we were walking through Hall 7, we met Victoria Nece from Adobe!
Preview of useful Blender add-on released!
Architecture artist Antoine Bagattini and his team invite you to a preview. Presets for compositing promise a streamlined workflow.
Assimilate releases Live FX and Live FX Studio
The software of today - for the green screen and VP productions of tomorrow? Following the successful completion of the open beta, Assimilate is now releasing the elaborate software package.
Element-ary Asset Management
There's something with AI and industry relevance for asset management - and it's also from Munich. Do you already know the element?
Loveletter
Who doesn't know it: the portable games console that saw the light of day at the end of the 1980s and gave us endless hours of fun and games for many years. We are, of course, talking about the Gameboy. A time when the potential of computer-generated graphics was in its infancy. But what if a creative team back then had had access to today's production pipelines and technologies?
The Nuke Indie version is here!
The time has come - together with Nuke 12.2, Foundry is releasing an affordable "indie" version of the compositing package - with (almost) everything you need.
Foundry releases Nuke 12.0
Foundry releases the 12.0 update for Nuke, NukeX and Nuke Studio with many new features, including a new Inpaint Node and more!
DeepC | OSS for Nuke
Deep compositing for everyone! The open source plugin "DeepC" makes it possible.
Blackmagic Fusion: 9 becomes 16
The Fusion compositing tool is entering the next round together with DaVinci Resolve - and there are also some changes.
Mantras Mantra
The mantra of Mantra is to render what Houdini has created in terms of geometry, volumes or particles. And SideFX recently won an Oscar for this. So if you want to render at Hollywood level, you've come to the right place. Especially if the pipeline should and may be very compositing-orientated, Houdini offers exactly these tools and features. - by Olaf Finkbeiner
DaVinci Resolve 15 Public Beta 8
Blackmagic is stepping up the rapid pace of beta updates for its free grading/editing/audio/VFX and compositing programme DaVinci Resolve 15 and has now released beta version 8 in less than 2 weeks.
Allan McKay: Decay VFX Training
New free VFX training from Allan McKay: This time there's a ten-hour session on how to realise this decay effect.
Nuke and Hiero 11.0 are here!
Live Groups, VFX Reference Platform 2017 standards, GPU support for AMD, Denoise improvements and more in the new release of Nuke.
FMX 2017: Clarisse 3.5 from Isotropix
Fresh announcement from FMX 2017: Clarisse version 3.5 with new paint tools, scatter features, Cryptomatte support and more!
Music of the future at BMW
A robot walks towards a black-painted grand piano. Orchestral music begins and transforms the road tunnel into a…
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.
Cara VR for Nuke is here
With the new Cara VR toolset for Nuke, The Foundry is taking on the challenges of creating high-quality VR content.
The Nuke 9 versions are here!
Following The Foundry's announcement a few weeks ago, Nuke, NukeX version 9 and Nuke Studio are now available. Here is an overview of the new features.
Feature videos for Nuke 9
Following the release of version 9, The Foundry has added a few short clips on the most important functions.
Nuke Studio
The Foundry announced a new product at NAB: Nuke Studio is designed to combine the VFX, editorial and finishing processes in one application.