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Category: VFX Insight

VFX Insight

ActorCore: a new 3D mocap motion library

Posted onDecember 28, 2020December 31, 2020

Reallusion offers AAA motion capture for any project, game, film and budget.

VFX Insight

A Quick Tutorial on Digital Painting and Spatial Frequencies

Posted onDecember 7, 2020December 10, 2020

Understanding one of the most useful compositing techniques for quality paint and clean-up, in this tutorial from Escape Studios’ Allar Kaasik.

VFX Insight

Here’s how you can learn Python, online, right now

Posted onDecember 3, 2020December 7, 2020

This course, for CG and VFX artists and TDs, eases you into coding in Python.

VFX Insight

Get to know your volumetric video camera

Posted onDecember 2, 2020December 4, 2020

A deep dive into Volucam from IO Industries.

VFX Insight

Where USD is up to right now at Foundry

Posted onDecember 1, 2020December 4, 2020

How Nuke, Mari, Katana and Modo are adopting USD.

VFX Insight

A live mocap’d animated character could be what you need to ramp up your online sessions

Posted onNovember 24, 2020November 29, 2020

See how ASIFA-SOUTH is using Reallusion’s Cartoon Animator 4 to do just that.

VFX Insight

Boom-times: Australian animation and visualisation

Posted onOctober 30, 2020October 30, 2020

A look at the growth of these industries Down Under with the major players.

VFX Insight

What Katana’s new Foresight workflows can mean for your day

Posted onOctober 30, 2020November 9, 2020

The new features are here in Katana 4.0.

VFX Insight

Epic Games to host ‘Unreal Build: Virtual Production’ event

Posted onOctober 27, 2020November 10, 2020

The half-day event is happening November 10th.

VFX Insight

How KitBash3D helped Crafty Apes warp into the future on ‘Picard’

Posted onOctober 12, 2020October 14, 2020

The kits formed part of the studio’s VFX workflow on the show.

VFX Insight

Get a sneak peek at the lens flare overlays in newly launched CreatorVault

Posted onOctober 6, 2020October 8, 2020

CreatorVault offers curated stock elements for video creators.

VFX Insight

Making magic

Posted onOctober 5, 2020October 6, 2020

How Axis Studios used KitBash3D to go full vista on its ‘Magic the Gathering: War of the Spark’ trailer.

VFX Insight

How virtual production is transforming the art and craft of filmmaking

Posted onSeptember 11, 2020September 14, 2020

A run-down of Unreal Engine’s The Pulse.

VFX Insight

Hybride: adventures in crowds

Posted onSeptember 10, 2020September 11, 2020

The art and tech behind how the visual effects studio fills out stadiums and battle scenes.

VFX Insight

‘Schirkoa’ director Ishan Shukla on moving to a real-time workflow

Posted onAugust 31, 2020September 1, 2020

How the filmmaker has adopted Reallusion’s Character Creator, iClone and Unreal Engine.

VFX Insight

Hear direct from studios that have made cloud production work

Posted onAugust 19, 2020August 24, 2020

The AWS virtual event, on during SIGGRAPH, is for creative studios, teams and freelancers.

VFX Insight

KitBash3D is making world-building, bigger

Posted onAugust 18, 2020August 30, 2020

KitBash3D 4.0 goes big on Unreal Engine and Unity; here’s what else is new, and how you can try out a new kit for free.

VFX Insight

Before and after Covid-19, at Escape Studios

Posted onJuly 30, 2020August 19, 2020

Escape Studios VFX compositing lecturer Klaudija Cermak’s tips for jumping into the industry right now.

VFX Insight

Everything you wanted to know about the history of Nuke’s Smart Vectors

Posted onJuly 28, 2020August 19, 2020

Where it came from, how it was built, and why it was originally called ‘Smart Paint’.

VFX Insight

How you can implement a VFX workflow completely in the cloud

Posted onJuly 27, 2020July 28, 2020

A how-to video for integrating cloud renderer Conductor into Shotgun.

VFX Insight

How VFX and animation studios are using virtual workstations today

Posted onJuly 22, 2020August 19, 2020

Untold Studios, Tangent Animation, and Hive VFX among those embracing new ways to produce content.

VFX Insight

What you can do in Bifrost 2.1

Posted onJuly 14, 2020August 5, 2020

Behind the latest release and the latest features.

VFX Insight

How to crash a meteor

Posted onJuly 10, 2020August 5, 2020

Creating a real impact with ActionVFX stock elements.

VFX Insight

The art of crafting war scenes for previs

Posted onJune 4, 2020August 5, 2020

Previs director Mohammad Khalikh details role of iClone in visualizing Amazon Prime India’s ‘The Forgotten Army.’

VFX Insight

How does USD actually get used at a VFX studio?

Posted onMay 25, 2020August 5, 2020

Luma Pictures breaks down its Katana and USD implementation. 

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VFX Insight

Using VFX stock footage day-to-day: a studio case study

Posted onMay 6, 2020August 5, 2020

Video: How Crafty Apes utilized ActionVFX footage in projects like ‘Stranger Things 3’ and ‘The Walking Dead’.

Unreal Engine's Sequencer
VFX Insight

Create, edit and preview your real-time scenes in Unreal Engine’s Sequencer

Posted onMay 1, 2020August 5, 2020

A video guide to Unreal Engine’s Sequencer.

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