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Imagineer Systems is doubling down on Mocha Pro. It was late 2010 when Imagineer consolidated its product line so that all of the features from different applications were available in a single product, dubbed Mocha Pro. With version 3, the … more »

Creating a Field of Clover with Hair

Greyscale Gorilla highlights a tutorial showing how to use CINEMA 4D to create a clover field from scratch using hair simulation.

Digital Domain Stereo Group Head Jeff Barnes Talks Business

In 2010, Digital Domain acquired In-Three, creator of the proprietary Dimensionalization technology for 2D-to-3D conversion, and moved the bulk of its staff to Florida, where it was renamed the Digital Domain Stereo Group and became a key part of the … more »

Create Titles Straight Out of Spider-Man in After Effects

Nancy, from Mettle, makers of ShapeShifter AE, shows you how to create the die-cast title effect seen in the most recent trailer for Sony/Columbia Pictures' The Amazing Spider-Man, coming this summer. more »

VFX Supervisor Rob Legato on Hugo

Rob Legato began his career in television, working as a visual effects supervisor on The Twilight Zone, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and receiving five Emmy nominations and two Emmys before joining Digital Domain in 1994. more »

VFX Supervisor Tim Burke on the Final Harry Potter

Tim Burke spent the last ten years immersed in the magical world of Harry Potter, a world that could not have been created without visual effects. He was visual effects supervisor at Mill Film for the second film, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, and has been the visual effects supervisor on each film since in the series of eight, receiving an Oscar nomination as co-visual effects supervisor for the third. more »

VFX Supe Joe Letteri on Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Rise of the Planet of the Apes stars a chimpanzee named Caesar, a CG character performed by Andy Serkis and created at Weta Digital, who acts alongside actor James Franco, a scientist who raises Caesar like a child. more »

VFX Supervisor Erik Nash on Real Steel

Real Steel, set in a near future where high-tech robots have replaced boxers, tells the story of an errant father and clever son who team up to train a junkyard robot. more »

VFX Supervisor Scott Farrar on Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Scott Farrar received his first Oscar nomination for best achievement in visual effects for Cocoon, and went on to win the Oscar in 1996 for his work on that film. At that time, he was a visual effects cameraman at Industrial Light & Magic. Since then, as a visual effects supervisor at ILM, he has stacked up five more Oscar nominations, the sixth for Transformers: Dark of the Moon, an award he shares with Scott Benza of ILM, Matthew E. Butler of Digital Domain, and special effects supervisor John Frazier. more »