PFTrack Solo: One Artist, All the Nodes
PFTrack Solo adds 37 previously restricted nodes, opening photogrammetry, stereo and depth workflows to individual artists.
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PFTrack update tidies Maya and LiDAR workflows
PFTrack update refines Maya export, LiDAR error handling and Survey Solver node logic for Studio and Enterprise users.
PFTrack 2025: Matchmoving gets its groove back
The Pixel Farm’s PFTrack 2025 delivers major lens, tracking, and mesh improvements plus new perpetual licence options.
3DEqualizer 8.1 Adds Piggyback Camera Solves
3DEqualizer 8.1 introduces piggyback rig solving, a rewritten Blender export script and new import and export options.
SynthEyes Essentials Training is here and Free for the Holidays
Boris FX unwraps a holiday gift: SynthEyes Essentials, a free, three-hour matchmove training course for VFX artists, free until 31 December.
Rendering the Inferno at RiseFX: The Lost Bus
128 shots, 15 sequences, and GPUs on the brink: RISE FX’s Oliver Schulz explains how his team built the burning world of The Lost Bus.
Matching Your Moves: Inside Vision Age VFX
Vision Age VFX specialises in high-end matchmove and rotoanim. Workflows, QC, case studies, and technical tips from Tunisia’s camera tracking experts.
SynthEyes at BorisFX
3D camera tracking, also known as "match moving" in the professional scene, is now offered by every better software for video editing or 3D. But when we compared a few such popular 3D trackers in DP 18:01, SynthEyes was already our high-end reference for good reason.
We Hunt Giants
The short film "We Hunt Giants" takes the viewer into a world in which humans and dinosaurs fight for survival. Action, drama and CGI - without a Hollywood budget in the millions. Here is a brief insight into the making of the film and its visual effects.
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.
VERTAGT – VFX for a dystopian satire
What does the cultural programme actually look like in a dystopia? The short film Vertagt depicts the end-time scenario of a humanity that has not achieved its climate goals. What could our future look like - if human life still exists?
SynthEyes is released in version 22.10!
The latest version of the 3D Tracking and Match Moving software has been released! Highlights include a curve-based colour correction tool, improved roto masking - and many quality of life updates.
Release of the beta of GeoTracker 2022.2.2!
How can tracking and power moving be made easier in After Effects? GeoTracker from KeenTools is one possible answer. Now with support for After Effects 17.0!
Back to the 70s – Cloud Atlas
Review: In DP 02 : 2013, we tracked down the mega-production Cloud Atlas - with export director Tom Tykwer and the Wachowski siblings in the director's chair. How did Rise manage the massive visual effects of the three-hour epic - and how did the VFX artists transform today's Glasgow into the San Francisco of the 1970s?
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…
Update for Fayin
Fayteq has released update 2.3.1 of the matchmoving tool, making it compatible with Adobe After Effects CC 2015.3.
Audio Sync Tool PluralEyes 4.0
The new version of Red Giant's audio/video synchronisation software adds features including seamless integration with Adobe Premiere Pro.
Autodesk Acquires REALVIZ Assets, Developer of Image-Based Content Software
The acquisition strengthens Autodesk's position in 2D and 3D design innovation.
The Pixel Farm: PF Hoe and PF Hoe Pro 2.0
The tracking specialist has updated the standard and Pro versions of its automatic matchmoving solution
SIGGRAPH: Low-Cost Tracker
SynthEyes 2007 can now also cope with obscured markers in greenscreen recordings
SIGGRAPH: 2d3 Brings Boujou 4 and Moujou
Boujou 4 matchmoving software can now also load 3D objects into the virtual scene
Realviz Brings Movimento to SIGGRAPH
The motion-capture application starts at €16,000 and supports two or more cameras.
Siggraph Follow-up 2004: 2D3 Boujou Three
The third generation of the Boujou matchmoving solution is based on a completely newly developed tracking engine that, according to the manufacturer, delivers three times the performance of its predecessor and works considerably more precisely.