Category Archives: VFX/Animation

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Leitch VelocityQ updates

Leitch is offering a new software update for its VelocityQ standard-definition nonlinear editing system. Version 9.1 features new tools more »

Apple Has HD to Burn In Amped-Up Final Cut Studio

Filling in the remaining gaps in its suite of post tools, Apple demoed Final Cut Studio running on the "Tiger�? or 10.4 version of its OS X at NAB. Upgrades in FCP, Motion and DVD Studio Pro are combined in the $1299 package, more »

Gotta Have It!

The lore of filmmaking is full of great project financing stories-like the times when Orson Welles financed his movies virtually by the day in Europe or Spike Lee used his credit card to underwrite his debut movie She's Gotta Have It. more »

Gotta Have It

The lore of filmmaking is full of great project financing stories-like the times when Orson Welles financed his movies virtually by the day in Europe or Spike Lee used his credit card to underwrite his debut movie She's Gotta Have It. more »

60-Second Q&A

Cinematographer and director, until recently, on Star Trek Enterprise, Rush moved the Paramount Television sci-fi series, which has since been cancelled, to an HD workflow as a cost-saving measure. (Six episodes have yet to air.) We caught up with him … more »

Create Quick Rack Defocus Lights with GenArts Sapphire Plug-ins on Discreet flame

Step 1 Create a smooth and slow motion Generate a slowly undulating surface or texture to use as a basis for that gentle film weave or slow motion these lights often have. From GenArts Sapphire plug-ins, load more »

How to Create a 3D Motion Graphic Background using Adobe After Effects 6.5 3D Space

STEP 1: The first thing you need to do is create nine solids with varying opacity. These are the building blocks of our 3D structure. To start with, make a red solid that's 300 pixels wide more »

Graphics Get Glam for Cher’s Long Goodbye

Working Under A Constant state of deadline pressure for Cher's concert valediction (maybe), assistant video director and engineer Jason Harvey's job is to provide the pulsating sights and sounds that back more »

NewTek VT[4] LIVE!

The NewTek Video Toaster made its debut in 1991 and started the "desktop video" revolution. It's 14 years later and this product is now in version 4, dubbed VT[4], and is being offered in several more »

No Money? No Problem!

Nobody's paying you to play games for a living - yet. But there's a new crop of largely Web-based animators who've figured out how to make movies on the cheap by leveraging videogame engines to more »