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How Cartoon Network's Juniper Lee Uses a New Codec to Keep Post Under Control
Working in TV means looking at all the angles to simplify a hectic workflow. When your parent company mandates that all your programming be archived to film, your SD deliverables become HD and the angles multiply.
Building the War Zone With Invisible FX
When principal photography began on the film Jarhead , the visual effects crew at Industrial Light & Magic expected they would create 89 shots during a scheduled 10 weeks of post-production.
If You Think You Know VFX, Then You Don’t Know Jack
This Jack is officially out of the box and wants to change the way you think about visual effects. Scott McNiel, a VFX artist formerly with Method Studios and 525 Studios, has launched the Venice-based
Blend Modes with Filters in Avid Xpress Pro on Tiger
Blend modes produce dramatic looks, but they're processing-intensive. By harnessing the power of the Tiger OS and your computer's graphics card (GPU), Avid provides real-time compositing power.
Create 3D Synchronized Swimming
In Adobe After Effects
The goal of this tutorial is to get multiple 3D layers in After Effects to move, rotate and otherwise dance along a 3D path.
Kids in Space! Otherworldly Zathura VFX
If you're 12 years old, Zathura may be the coolest movie of the year. The fantasy shows what happens when the rules of a sci-fi adventure game become real.
High-End Plug-Ins Hit the Desktop
For visual effects artists, a software plug-in - a small piece of code that adds new, often spectacular, capabilities to your editing or compositing application - can be the trick that pushes a show up to a Spinal Tap 11.