Category Archives: VFX/Animation

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Playing It Safe with CG Cars

For a NASCAR sequence in a recent Ford spot, lensed by director Jaume (Collet-Serra) out of production company Believe, KromA took on the job of creating photoreal cars that would be indistinguishable from more »

Stalking the Wild HD Beast

HD spots are still rare animals- uncommon enough that Bausch & Lomb decided to make an HD finish a selling point for contact lenses. "See your world in High Definition" is the tag line for a more »

3ds Max 8

3ds Max 8 is the latest version of Autodesk's 3D modeling, animation and rendering software, which has been used during post-production on such recent films as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Fantastic Four. more »

Digital Reality: In Your Face Animation

Eschewing subtlety, a technology preview by Avid's Softimage division at last week's Siggraph conference in Los Angeles more »

Animate 2D Camera Moves in After Effects

Import files to your project Import your image or image collage into After Effects. We will use this file as a landscape and create an aerial camera that will fly over it. Drag the file into your more »

Automatic Duck Pro Import AE 3.0

Automatic Duck Pro Import AE 3.0 is a plug-in for Adobe After Effects (Mac or Windows) that lets users import sequences from Avid or Apple Final Cut Pro editing systems or from Apple's Motion with complete more »

What I’m Using Now

Colin Hess Designer, UV/PHACTORY, New York Favorite gear: Trapcode Particular, an After Effects plug-in List: $299 Why I love it: It's so much quicker and easier to manipulate particle systems using more »

Nvidia Gelato 2.0

Version 2 of Nvidia's Gelato software rendering system will support Sorbetto, an optional relighting technology that dramatically speeds up the process of lighting scenes. After lights are moved or changed more »

Giving Digital People That Human Spark

Fox's newest blockbuster franchise, Fantastic Four , is a superhero saga that's all about characters- that's why it was critical that the film's lead VFX house, Giant Killer Robots (GKR), figure out more »

Flash Equals Financial Freedom

Cartoon Network's Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi may just reinvent the way animators think about 2D. Many animated TV shows are still based on pencil-and-paper drawings, which are scanned into conventional animation more »