FilmLight fl-enhance: Baselight Tools Escape Into Python
FilmLight’s fl-enhance repository brings Baselight and Daylight scripts, shaders and FLAPI tools to GitHub, including LUT wrapping, ACES EXR transcoding and colour utilities.
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From Animatic to Art Direction: Previs Pro Adds Video Styling
Previs Pro introduces Video Style Grade, bringing AI-driven visual styling to animatics, combining storyboard, previs, and art direction in one workflow.
Analog Soul, Digital Body: ARRI Film Lab Arrives
ARRI’s new OpenFX plugin Film Lab emulates analog film’s grain, halation, and weave in real time for any camera. Free trial now via RE:Vision Effects.
Look development between DoP & colourist
There's a word on everyone's lips at the moment: "look development".
DoP Matthias Bolliger and colourist Louise "Lou" Temmesfeld take a look behind this term.
After Effects Tutorial Recreates a-ha’s ‘Take On Me’ Pencil Look
VFX Side Quest demonstrates how to recreate the hand-drawn pencil aesthetic of a-ha’s Take On Me music video in After Effects.
Cinema 4D Tutorial Builds Thor’s Hammer
Motion designer Sean Dove demonstrates how to create a comic-style version of Thor’s hammer in Cinema 4D.
Colour Grading with Premiere Pro and SpeedGrade
Adobe’s Direct Link workflow connected Premiere Pro and SpeedGrade, enabling round-trip grading, broader format support, masks, layers and Lumetri looks.
Foundry Previews Katana 4.0
Katana 4.0 previews artist-facing lighting, TML controls, interactive network rendering and Hydra Viewer improvements.
MaterialX Beta Connects Substance Tools
A beta MaterialX plug-in linked Substance Designer and Painter through portable OpenGL viewport shaders and material networks.
100+ Free 4K PBR Textures
And even more material for the texture collection: You can find over 100 free PBR texture sets on Texture Box.
Free Lookdev Setup | Maya
Free Maya lookdev setup with Arnold: Artist Dusan Kovic gives us the kit including HDRs, Macbeth charts and more!
Into The Spider-Verse | FX Design
Particles, machine learning, simulations and destruction: a new and final VFX breakdown for Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse has been released!
Free LUT Library for VariCam and EVA1 Cine Cameras
Panasonic has released some useful things here.
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.