Falalalala 4K
If there were only socks under the tree this year, Blackmagic Design has added something to play with—10 GB of 4K data from the new Production Camera.
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Guerilla Render
Mercenaries Engineering has announced the release of Guerilla Render version 1.0, a professional rendering, look development and lighting solution.
Breakdown Video from Russia
The VFX for the Second World War drama "Stalingrad" were created by the Russian studio Main Road Post—here is an extensive breakdown shot video.
US Documentary Filmmakers’ Favorite Equipment
In a survey of filmmakers, cinematographers and editors, the Point of View platform found out which film equipment is most popular for documentaries.
Metadata Overlay in Premiere Pro CC
The new and practical Monitor Overlays feature was added in the October update of Adobe Premiere Pro CC, version 7.1.
Free Lighting App from Arri
With the Arri Photometrics iTunes app, lighting designers can examine the light-output details of Arri lighting products in advance.
DP Issue 01/14 Released
The new DP is here! With a focus on motion capture, "The Hobbit", calibration devices on test, "The Physician" and much more. Enjoy reading.
VFX Shortlist for the Oscar
The first selection of films, in the form of the shortlist, that could receive an Oscar for best VFX work next year has now also been announced.
Nuke 8 Release
Hotly anticipated, yesterday was the day: The Foundry released Nuke version 8. Here are sneak peek videos of some of the new features.
Autodesk Maya LT with MEL Support
Autodesk has released Extension 2 of Maya LT 2014: One crucial new feature is support for Maya Embedded Language (MEL scripting).
Face Cream Ad VFX
The VFX studio Important Looking Pirates from Stockholm created an astonishing macro shot and a VFX tear for a face cream commercial.
Nominated for an Annie Award
The nominees for the 2013 Annie Awards have been announced, and it was not only familiar Hollywood studios that managed to secure a nomination.
Maxwell Render 3 Is Here
Next Limit Technologies has released version 3 of Maxwell Render and is launching with 30 new features.
Visualizing Screenplays
A screenplay in the drawer? But no time for elaborate filming? The Plotagon tool automatically turns screenplays into 3D animated films.
Houdini Engine Plug-in for Maya
The Houdini Engine plug-ins are now in public preview. They are intended to integrate Houdini technology into Autodesk Maya and the Unity Editor.
V-Ray Feature Films Showreel 2013
Chaos Group has compiled its official feature films showreel for this year with the best work created using V-Ray.
Commercial Film Award 2013
On Saturday, the 2013 Commercial Film Award was presented in 15 categories. Filmaka dominated the young talent category. Polynoid won with its Nike spot.
Nuke 8 Event
There will be something on December 5: The Foundry is presenting Nuke version 8 in a live event—including live demos from Framestore, Digital Domain and Encore Hollywood.
Pixar’s RenderMan Version 18
New features in RMS 18 include new light controls, geometric area lights, accelerated re-rendering, a shading library with SSS and much more.
Reference Monitor for 4K Content
4K with no end in sight—at the beginning of 2014, Canon will release the first reference monitor for 4K resolution with 4,096 x 2560 pixels on a 30-inch LCD display.
Pixar’s Downward Slide—Without End?
Hardly any good news is coming out of Pixar these days: Around five percent of Pixar's workforce in Emeryville, California, has now been laid off.
Vue 2014 Out Now
Version numbers 9, 10 or 11 are a thing of the past. With the new version, e-on software also introduces new names: Vue 2014 xStream and Vue 2014 Infinite.
Open Source 4K RAW Images
It has been over a year since we reported on the launch of Apertus's open-source 4K camera Axiom Alpha—now the community has published its first RAW images.
DaVinci Resolve 10 Available
Blackmagic Design is making the new version available to all DaVinci Resolve users as a free download.
Sony’s Dream of Blossoms
"For me, it should rain petals," Sony apparently thought. To launch its 4K Ultra HD television, the company made this dream come true for a TV spot.
Making of Ender’s Game
"Ender's Game" is not only a film adaptation of Orson Scott Card's science-fiction book classic, but also a project crucial to the future of Digital Domain.
BMPCC with RAW Update
Owners of a Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera can look forward to the current software update 1.5: It allows the camera to record CinemaDNG RAW 12-bit.
SpeedLooks with SpeedGrade Update
The new version 7.1 of Adobe SpeedGrade CC includes the SpeedLooks preset package, including Camera Patches from LookLabs, as well as several other features.
animago Winner Is an Oscar Candidate
The animago jury showed good instincts: "Mr Hublot", which received an animago AWARD this year, is on the preliminary selection list for an Oscar for best animated short film.
DAF Upgrade for Canon EOS C100
Canon has announced an upgrade for the EOS C100 that equips the film camera with DAF functionality for automatic focusing.
Tool Update in the Adobe Cloud
Adobe has released a comprehensive tool update with more than 150 new functions for the video products and Adobe Anywhere in Creative Cloud.
Ice-Cold 3ds Max Tutorial
Artist "Beso" shows how to create a freezing effect in live-action footage with 3ds Max and finalRender in these tutorials.
Faster Slow Motion with Twixtor 6
The slow-motion tool Twixtor has been released for Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro in version 6. GPU support is intended to provide significantly faster calculation.
Search Google Images Directly in Maya
The StockCG asset-manager tool has a new feature: Google images can now be searched more quickly, directly within Maya.
E-Book About Smoke
Autodesk is publishing a new e-book with Wiley: Smoke Essentials by director and colorist Alexis Van Hurkman.
An Indian Success Story
Prime Focus is a rags-to-riches story. Find out here how the company made it from India into the Hollywood market.
Turning a 2D Still into a 3D Space
Premiumbeat.com shows how to create a 3D room in After Effects from a still photo of a room in one of its video-editing tutorials.
Shade VFX Demo Reel
The current Shade VFX demo reel features many breakdown shots from Hollywood projects from this year and last year.
More Battery Life for the BMPCC
The new Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera has an operating time of around one hour. Accessory manufacturers such as Switronix are now offering several add-on accessories.
Replacing Content with Photoshop
The Content Aware Fill Tool has existed in Adobe Photoshop since version CS5. It also enables amusing options for moving images, as this example shows.
A Life in Stock Footage
Imagine you lead a life in stock-footage clips and do not belong at all because you are not good-looking and are really creepy.
Sensible 4K
Here comes a system for the 4K market that makes sense: AJA Video Systems' TruZoom can scale into an interesting area of 4K/UHD material in real time.
Light Kit for Maxon Cinema 4D
Motion Squared has released its free Cinema 4D Light Kit Infinite. It is intended to make realistic renderers faster and easier to create.
Maya Pipe Script
The Maya script zPipeMaker allows CG pipelines to be created faster and more easily. Two versions are available for this.
RenderPal V2 2.9 Released
Shoran Software has released a new point release of the professional render-farm manager. In addition to Big Fixes, there is also a 20% discount.
VLC Player at the Forefront of Codecs
The VLC open-source community is one of the first to integrate the new H.265 video codec, also known as HEVC, into its development branch for the new player version.
So Many Airplanes!
At Video Copilot, from today there are no Disney airplanes with amusing googly eyes, but realistic-looking 3D models—the Jetstrike model pack has been released.
ftrack 2.0 Is Here
Version 2 features various updates, including a revised UI, new planning and review tools, and workflow updates.
RED Basics
Learn RED—under this motto, RED offers more than just training. Basic articles are also available on the platform.
Mari for Mac
After The Foundry released version 2 of the Mari 3D painting tool in March of this year, Mac users can now also use the software.
Compositing at Mamba Pace
Nuke is ubiquitous as a compositing tool. But it is nice to have less expensive alternative software too—Mamba FX will soon step into this gap.
Stylish Rig for the BMCC
Anyone who wants to stylishly upgrade their Blackmagic Cinema Camera can take a look at the new rig from Tilta in preparation for the next shoot.
News from “Keloid”
Barcelona's Big Lazy Robot wants to live out its creativity with the "Keloid" project without constraints. The studio has now released a sensational new trailer for it.
HD Test Image
We have already mentioned Michael Radeck's HD test image several times in tests—here it is to download.
Update for FilmConvert
The FilmConvert plug-in is intended to give digital film footage the good old analog-film look again. The utility tool has now received a major update.
Innovative Art in the “Box”
Studio Bot & Dolly is a specialist when it comes to robotics and motion control in filmmaking. Its short film "Box" shows the company's high technical level.
ACES Learning Day
The Academy Color Encoding System promises to become an important standard in film postproduction. A seminar in Utrecht helps with getting started on the subject.
Brute-Force Modeling with Mike Kuhn—Part IV, Box Mapping
Mike Kuhn, 3ds Max author for Digital Production and Certified Instructor, shows alternative ways to reach the goal quickly. The fourth lesson is all about box mapping.
Best Work from the Gnomon School
The best work by Gnomon students from the last semester was honored by professionals from the industry.
Camera Exam Passed
The Canon EOS-1D C camera performed very well in an independent test by the European Broadcasting Union, or EBU, for recording Full HD film content.
Arri’s Reporter Camera
Arri presented the Amira camera at IBC 2013: It is intended to be particularly suitable for reportage and documentary shoots and can record up to 2K.
Nuke 8 Is Coming …
... this year, The Foundry announced at IBC. Users can look forward to an improved Dope Sheet, a new Text Node and a new In-Panel Colour Wheel.
Autodesk Flame Premium 2014
IBC is currently taking place in Amsterdam—Autodesk is presenting the 2014 version of its Flame Premium VFX and finishing software there with its new capabilities and features.
VFX Reel for “Continuum Sesaon 2”
Artifex Studios from Vancouver has released an impressive VFX reel for the second season of the science-fiction series "Continuum".
Making of the Star Trek Title
Andrew Kramer has published a making-of clip about the main titles of "Star Trek Into Darkness". He shows how he pushed Element 3D to the limits of space.
Sensor Blooming Problem Solved?
Blackmagic Design has addressed the sensor-blooming problem with the Pocket Cinema Camera—the solution is said to be software recalibration performed by BMD support.
Call for Entries—21st ITFS
The golden Trickstars will once again be presented at the Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film next April. Entries can already be submitted.
Lucrative University
Education pays off—"Monsters University" has proved to be a lucrative film project for Pixar and Disney. Box-office receipts have broken the 700-million-dollar mark.
V-Ray 3.0 Beta
A new UI, Progressive Production Rendering, Cross-Application Shader Format—these are the buzzwords of the 3.0 beta. And: more rendering speed.
Autoretopology Algorithm for 3D-Coat
Andrew Shapgin, the developer of 3D-Coat, is working on a new autoretopology algorithm for his modeling tool and has shown it using initial examples.
More Linux for Modo
Linux users and penguin friends can rejoice: Luxology has expanded its offering for Modo with several kits and plug-ins in Linux versions.
Scratch Play
Assimilate, the makers of Scratch, are now introducing a new tool: the free multi-format player Scratch. It handles RAW formats from a wide variety of cameras, web formats and image formats—practically everything needed in the VFX workflow—and its playback is based on CONstruct technology.
Building the Future
A taste of DP issue 06:13: For it, we spoke with set designer William Cheng about "Pacific Rim". First, here is his impressive "Total Recall" work.
News from the BMD Pocket Cinema Camera
The new Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera offers pocket-sized HD recording—here you can find an original file to download and experiment with.
V-Ray Showreels Teaser 2013
Now there are even teasers for showreels. All right. Here is a brief (!) insight into what 67 companies in 25 countries are doing with V-Ray. All five showreels are expected to be online soon.
Brute-Force Modeling: Substance Maps
The third part of Brute-Force Modeling is about Substance Maps and how to create them cleverly. So: off to procedural modeling!
Siggraph Video on V-Ray RT
Konstantin Gaytandzhiev of Chaos Group provides an insight into the V-Ray realtime rendering engine on a 5-GPU 3DBOXX 8950 workstation, including integration into the Maya viewport. With a brief (!) outlook on V-Ray 3.0.
Eyeon Production Pipeline
The eyeon tool is now available and is intended to really simplify workflows between filming and film launch. Eyeon relies on open source for this.
Feels Like Heaven
So much sky! And completely free, too. HDRMaps is now making 100 different backplates of a wide variety of sky situations available to artists.
Point Cloud Support in 3ds Max
Autodesk has announced the 3ds Max 2014 Extension: One of the main features is Point Cloud Support, which offers new, interesting possibilities for real-world references.
Submit a Building of the Future
Since yesterday, buildings can be submitted to Video Copilot for the Future City Pack—until September 15.
Slow Motion for the F5
Sony has made an update to its upgrade roadmap: Not only the F55 but also the F5 is intended to receive a 2K RAW slow-motion recording capability at 240 fps.
RayFire 1.62 for 3ds Max
Two new features are intended to make RayFire for 3ds Max even better in version 1.62: the Voxels Modifier and the Clusters Modifier.
Free Vintage
Not retro, but Vintage Paper Textures: Andrew Kramer may not impress any hipsters with them, but certainly many artists, because they are free and in 4K.
Jim Jannard Hands Over RED Leadership
Jim Jannard will only work behind the scenes at RED in future. His amicable farewell can be read here.
Learning at Pinewood Studios
Sony is opening a training centre at Pinewood Studios near London. The Digital Motion Picture Centre is intended to attract European filmmakers.
CinePostProduction Files for Insolvency
CineMedia subsidiary CinePostproduction GmbH files for insolvency proceedings. CineMedia is technically over-indebted due to the required impairment.
Motorola Presents Moto X
Motorola's new Moto X smartphone is currently making the press rounds. It is said to record in 4K resolution, although the phone is initially available only in the USA.
RenderMan Enters Round 18
Pixar Animation Studios has announced RenderMan Pro Server 18. This major version update is intended particularly to improve the lighting workflow.
What Is New in Edius 7?
The nonlinear video-editing solution targets editors in fast-paced broadcast news and data-intensive post-production environments. Version 7 brings several improvements.
Cinema Camera Gets Cheaper
Australian company Blackmagic Design has reduced the price of its long-awaited camera to 1,995 US dollars, which will certainly attract attention again.
Red Giant Releases BulletProof
The Oregon company had been working on BulletProof for a long time. The software is now available and is intended to close the workflow gap between cinematographer and editor.
Premiere Works Better with SpeedGrade
Premiere Pro now also handles lock-up tables thanks to SpeedGrade's Lumetri Engine, which is now available as a Lumetri effect in Premiere Pro.
First Update for Premiere Pro CC
The first update for Adobe Premiere Pro CC, released quickly after launch, primarily brings important Anywhere support and many other features.
Mocha v3.2 Available
The new version is available to every registered user: mocha AE v3.2 and mocha Pro v3.2. Imagineer Systems particularly highlights improved international character and keyboard support.
Digital Hairstyle Adviser
Bad Hair Day? The Dynamic Hair Manipulation in Images and Videos algorithm presented at Siggraph is intended to allow hairstyles to be manipulated selectively.
Anniversary Pack Extended
According to Isotropix, the celebration can continue. At the end of Siggraph, it was announced that the Anniversary Pack would remain available for another month.
Shotgun Releases Pipeline Toolkit
At Siggraph, the manufacturer presents numerous useful tools for fine-tuning workflows and making developers' hearts beat a little faster.
Alembic Reaches Release 1.5
ILM and Sony Picture Imageworks have released Alembic 1.5. New features are intended to improve application-independent scene exchange.
Blender 2.68 Is Here
The current release of open-source software Blender has received new mesh modelling tools, improved Cycles render performance and many other features.