Breakdowns
Goodbye Kansas Studio’s Outlander Season 3 VFX breakdown
Goodbye Kansas Studio has released a VFX breakdown reel for their work on Season 3 of Outlander. Watch it on Vimeo.
| Posted
Thu Jan 25, 2018
1
Reviews
Blackmagic’s DaVinci Resolve 14 for editing
Brady Betzel has reviewed Blackmagic Resolve 14's capabilities as an editor, concluding that “it has all the makings of becoming someone’s choice as a sole post workflow solution. Blackmagic has really stepped up to the plate and made a workable and fully functional NLE. And, oh yeah not to mention it is one of the top colour correction tools being used in the world.”. Read the article in full on the PostPerpspective blog.
Comments (1) | Posted
Thu Jan 25, 2018
Software
Silo 2.5.2 released
Nevercenter has announced a new release of Silo, continuing the incremental improvements being made to the modelling tool since development was rekindled last year. New features since we last reported include: (more...)
| Posted
Thu Jan 25, 2018
Tutorials - 3DS Max
Making snow with Forest Pack
iToo Sofware has released a new 20 minute tutorial demonstrating how Forest Pack Pro can be used in conjunction with meshing plugins like Blobmesh or Thinkbox's Frost to add snow to objects, including high poly assets like trees. The tutorial then demonstrates how the snow covered assets can be used to populate a winter scene. See the tutorial in full on iToo Software's website. (more...)
Add Comment | Posted
Thu Jan 25, 2018
Resources
Epic release free assets from its 2015 Soul demo
Epic Games has released a free collection of assets from its Soul demo, originally released in 2014 to demonstrate Unreal Engine's mobile capabilities. The assets are divided into two packs: Soul: City which is includes props, materials and textures.; and Soul: Cave which includes rock and water props, materials and textures. You can see the original Soul demo on YouTube and read more about the release on Epic's blog.
| Posted
Wed Jan 24, 2018
Tutorials - After Effects
Creating mattes and compositing large scale explosions in After Effects
ActionVFX has recently released two tutorials demonstrating how to create a composite using their explosion stock footage in After Effects. Creating Mattes in After Effects demonstrates how to create masks in After Effects so that layers can be placed behind items on a backplate. This is followed by Compositing Large Scale Explosions that uses the mattes to add stock explosion footage and blend it against a bright sky. Both tutorial provide the backplates required (but not the explosion asset) should you like to follow along.
Add Comment | Posted
Wed Jan 24, 2018
After Effects
Adobe updates Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere, and Media Encoder
Adobe has announced updates to Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere, and Media Encoder, bringing several new features, enhancements and bug fixes. Photoshop gets the new Select Subject feature, an AI powered selection tool that enable users to isolate prominent objects in one click and then refine the selection using standard tools. To go alongside this there are some improvements to Select and Mask tools including a new slider that allows users to adjust the amount of colour decontamination that's applied to an image. Finally hardware support is improved with improvements to the scaling of the UI on high resolution monitors and improved integration with Microsoft Dial.
(more...) | Posted
Wed Jan 24, 2018
Industry News
Epic Games acquires Cloudgine
Epic Games has acquired Cloudgine, a cloud-computing company whose development based around Unreal Engine 4 will specialise in providing massive computing power to drive advances in physics simulation and networking. Read the announcement on the Unreal Engine blog.
| Posted
Wed Jan 24, 2018
