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VFX Investigation: Cracking the "Bosch" Case

Moving Target uses Fusion 9 Studio on the hit Amazon Prime Video streaming series

Visual effects (VFX) house Moving Target has worked on the long-running series since its first season. According to Compositor Jeremy Nelson, doing VFX for a streaming series allows for more creativity and refinement, since there aren't the same time constraints as other episodic work. "I prefer working on streaming shows because you're working on the whole season at once. The schedule is more like working on a movie, which gives you more time to refine your effects. When you're doing one episode per week, you can feel rushed at times. With 'Bosch,' we have time for creative freedom." Read More

Assimilate is now shipping Scratch 9.0, an aggressive, high-performance, and user-friendly product update that delivers a huge boost in creativity, efficiency and performance, saving enormous amounts of time for all creative functions. Known for its high-quality 2D/3D/VR tools in a single, streamlined workflow - dailies, conform, color grading, compositing, finishing & mastering - now includes support for over 200 Matchbox Shader effects and an easy connection to AfterEffects and Nuke compositing tools with a single click. Read More

Product Review: By Stephen Schleicher

Scratch Play Pro

If you are looking for a responsive camera format player and transcoder that is light on system resources, and supports looks and metadata management, then SCRATCH Play Pro from Assimilate may just be the all in one tool for all of your playback needs. The application was released in July 2018, and after using the software for a month, it is hard not to find a reason to add SCRATCH Play Pro to your workflow. Read More

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Stop, Collaborate and Listen: A Stop Motion Team Effort Brings "Two Balloons" to Life

Led by Director and Writer Mark C. Smith, a dedicated group of filmmakers from Portland, OR created a visually stunning stop-motion short that follows two intrepid lemurs and their adventures in the sky. "Two Balloons," which originally wasn't conceived as stop motion, took four years to complete and had many twists and turns along the way. The team spent 16 months storyboarding, building sets and securing space in a warehouse, and then started shooting. Read More

Feature: By Ko Maruyama

REVision FX's new tools

360 video production is quickly becoming part of your post production workflow, but there may be tools that you rely on in your 2D pipeline which weren't available until now. REVision FX has made both Twixtor and RSMB support 360 footage. RealSmart Motion Blur is a favorite in many pipelines, and now can be part of your 360 compositing as well. Read More

Events: By Ko Maruyama

BORIS FX showcase at NAB

BORISFX has announced some great news for NAB. With the NABShow just around the corner, it is exciting to see what video effects companies are offering artists this spring. Also at NABShow, attendees get an opportunity to see professional skills showcased and shared throughout the hall. Read More

Feature: By Ko Maruyama

PixelSquid Assets' New Price

PixelSquid is changing its subscription model, but in a good way. While it may be true that the price per month is going up, the customizable library of options has gone up as well. For an increase of $5/month over the current subscription cost, new users are coming to PixelSquid with about 4x the options to place 3D objects in their comps. Even better - - if you're already an active subscriber, there's no price change - - and you know about the regularly growing library options. (* if you're new, you can get in on the old price before the change(below)). Read More

Personal Profile: By Miles Weston

Animation Personified

Ed Darino has spent nearly all of his professional life bringing ideas in his mind to life. For more than 60 years he has developed many unique techniques that are standards today. Read More

Feature: By Ko Maruyama

RE:Vision Effects supports Silhouette

Plugins are a powerful way to get more creative possibility from your host applications. RE:Vision Effects makes a number of those powerful plugins that will help you to change your images. Until recently, Silhouette users weren't able to use some of those. Now, Silhouette artists can use some of the same creative tools that other host applications have access to as well. Read More

Feature: By Ko Maruyama

Cineware 3D for 2D Design

To call this a new way to design with 3D in 2D may not fully explain the power of the plugin. Taking advantage of the same Cinema4D bridge power that After Effects users enjoy, Illustrators are now able to easily wrap their 2D designs onto 3D objects as textures directly within Adobe Illustrator - working in the space that they're expert in. Using familiar language, this will open a new way of working with 3D objects for Adobe Illustrator CC artists. Read More

Feature: By Herald Keeper

Building Information Modelling Market Overview, Size, Top Key Players and Growth Analysis by Forecast to 2022

Feature: By Herald Keeper

3D Animation Market is expected to reach at USD 20 billion by 2022

study reveals that 3D animation is trending in media and entertainment sector. The updated animation technology with better features is the 3D animation. 3D animation has many benefits as great visual effects, greater product understanding, superior ability to portray movements, time management, easily grab attention and many more. Growing adoption of visual effects technology in movies is the key driving factor for 3D animation market. Read More

Case Study:

Lineage Solutions Creates Stereoscopic 3D VR 4K Video with Blackmagic Design

The Lineage team's primary project in the studio thus far has been a project called Intelligent Education. They film college professors in stereoscopic 4K using Micro Studio Camera 4Ks so that students and viewers can watch them later in a 3D VR experience via Google Cardboard and soon with the VR headsets HTC VIVE and Oculus Rift. In this environment, the stereo 3D video is displayed alongside a dynamic transcript as well as 3D models and scenes that relate to the learning. Read More

Feature: By Herald Keeper

Molecular Modelling Market – The Biggest Trends to watch out for -CAGR of 15.4% during forecasted period 2017-2023

Feature: By Ko Maruyama

7 QUESTIONS WITH FILMMAKERS ARIEL & MALLIN ALTER

Mallin and Ariel Alter create a new take on "Spinster" for the millenial generation in a show they're funding through IndiGogo. I had a chance to ask them a few questions about what their plans are for the project before they had to quickly get back to a busy production schedule. Read More

Feature: By Ko Maruyama

Digital Anarchy's Transcriptive

Digital Anarchy's newest offering is Transcriptive, a new extension/plugin for Adobe Premiere Pro does a bunch of things that you might expect. Yes, of course, it transcribes. It makes the creation of subtitles and closed captions very easy. But one of the hidden gems of the plugin is that it creates a metadata component that you can edit with, moving through your timeline easily. Read More

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