Releases, feature previews and how-to videos for the tools the industry was using at the time. Nuke, Mari, LightWave, Blender, DaVinci Resolve, Fusion and After Effects.
Part of the VFX Breakdown Archives. 18 entries on this page.
On this page
- What the new 3D addition to Adobe will mean for the DCC industry
- BOXX APEXX 4 Supercharges Productivity for Autodesk Maya Software Users
- The Foundry Demos Their New 3d Texture Paint Tool Mari.
- Lightworks Free Public Beta Now Available For Download
- Newtek Lightwave 11 Demo Reel
- Newtek’s Lightwave 11 Feature Showcase
- VFX: Open Source 3d Software Blender’s Project Mango – “Tears of Steel” – Trailer
- Nuke 7.0 Feature Preview
- Blender’s First Visual FX Movie Project: Tears of Steel
- The Foundry’s Nuke 8 Sneak Peek
- Will These 3 Real-Time Game Engines Eliminate Traditional 3d Rendering Once And For All?
- Blackmagic Design Releases DaVinci Resolve 15 with Fusion Visual Effects Integration
- The Foundry’s Ultimatte Keyer Video Tutorial
- Creating Urban Graffiti in Adobe After Effects
- Non-CG Zombie Make-Up Tutorial
- DaVinci Resolve Color Grading Tutorials
- Tutorial: The Headless Horseman Visual FX
- How to Use BMD’s Fusion 9 Delta Keyer To Make Awesome Composites
Software and tools
What the new 3D addition to Adobe will mean for the DCC industry
Originally posted 2/13/2006
Over the last week, Adobe came out with a rather significant announcement. For around $1,000, you can purchase Adobe software that integrates 3D Computer Aided Design (CAD) into Adobe Acrobat documents.
BOXX APEXX 4 Supercharges Productivity for Autodesk Maya Software Users
Originally posted 2/15/2006
BOXX Technologies Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of high-performance workstations and render nodes for visual effects professionals, today announced that its new BOXX APEXX 4 workstation has achieved another impressive performance benchmark(when running Autodesk’s Maya software).
The Foundry Demos Their New 3d Texture Paint Tool Mari.
Originally posted 5/28/2010
Mari is The Foundry’s new 3d paint and texture tool. Originally developed by Weta’s R&D department, It was used during the production of Avatar, King Kong and Lord of The Rings. Video 1 | Video 2 | Video 3 | Video 4 | Video 5.
Lightworks Free Public Beta Now Available For Download
Originally posted 11/30/2010
The Public beta of Lightworks 10.0 is now available for download.Lightworks Public Beta Watch on YouTube.
Newtek Lightwave 11 Demo Reel
Originally posted 11/24/2011
here’s a look at Newtek’s Lightwave 11 latest features and improvements. This LightWave 11 demo reel focuses on rendering and animation upgrades built to keep the software competitive as more studios shifted toward Maya- and Houdini-based pipelines, including faster instancing for crowd and environment work and an improved node-based shader system. Watch on YouTube.
Newtek’s Lightwave 11 Feature Showcase
Originally posted 4/25/2012
Newtek’s Lightwave 3d gets a whole lot of features and enhancements in this latest upgrade. This LightWave 11 features showcase covers a 3D suite with real film pedigree – earlier LightWave versions were used for the effects on Battlestar Galactica and the original Iron Man, before bigger productions increasingly moved toward Maya and Houdini pipelines. Watch on YouTube.
VFX: Open Source 3d Software Blender’s Project Mango – “Tears of Steel” – Trailer
Originally posted 7/17/2012
Proof that free software can turn out the same kind of visual effects people have been watching at the movies for years. Watch on YouTube.
Nuke 7.0 Feature Preview
Originally posted 9/10/2012
Here’s some dude -from The Foundry- talking about the awesome new features they threw into their flagship compositing tool Nuke 7.0. Watch on YouTube.
Blender’s First Visual FX Movie Project: Tears of Steel
Originally posted 9/26/2012
The most powerful and free 3d package, Blender, is set to release their first short film – Tears of Steel, highlighting the visual fx and compositing capabilities of Blender.UPDATE!Watch Tears of Steel Full Moviea quick process video showing the tracking and cg prosthetics capabilities of blender:Streaming online premiere feed: Video 1 | Video 2 | Video 3.
The Foundry’s Nuke 8 Sneak Peek
Originally posted 11/26/2013
Jon Wadelton from The Foundry, shows off the latest improvements to Nuke 8 release. He demonstrates various features that are all very impressive and incredibly useful. The improvements vary but include updates to: user interface, camera tracking, animation key handling, and improved color correction. Watch on YouTube.
Will These 3 Real-Time Game Engines Eliminate Traditional 3d Rendering Once And For All?
Originally posted 3/24/2016
Could this be the beginning of the end of traditional 3d rendering? These state of the art real-time game engines all render a 3d scene in a blink of an eye. What used to take weeks now takes less than a second. So, isn’t it time to kill-off the rendering process all together? Do you really need expensive render farms and patience to render the next Star Wars fan film? Video 1 | Video 2 | Video 3.
Blackmagic Design Releases DaVinci Resolve 15 with Fusion Visual Effects Integration
Originally posted 4/10/2018
BMD has released their latest update to DaVinci Resolve. New features include Fusion Visual Effects integration, Fairlight ADR tools and more. Check out the overview of the new features:DaVinci Resolve 15 Watch on YouTube.
Tutorials
The Foundry’s Ultimatte Keyer Video Tutorial
Originally posted 11/12/2010
The Foundry’s ultimatte keyer tutorial for nuke 6.1part 1: Video 1 | Video 2.
Creating Urban Graffiti in Adobe After Effects
Originally posted 11/23/2010
The Foundry’s two part video tutorial on how to create an urban graffiti scene using camera tracker and Red Giant’s Trapcode Particular in After EffectsPart 1: Video 1 | Video 2.
Non-CG Zombie Make-Up Tutorial
Originally posted 10/9/2012
Take a look at a cool Walking Dead style zombie make up tutorial and just in time for Halloween. Not all things can be done with cg, in those cases, you’ll just have to do it for real. Watch on YouTube.
DaVinci Resolve Color Grading Tutorials
Originally posted 3/10/2014
Here are some color grading tutorials for Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve. Grab the DaVici lite version, it’s free!Davinci Resolve Lite – Introduction Tutorial:DaVinci Resolve work flow tutorial:Intro to Color Grading with Davinci Resolve (for Free!): Video 1 | Video 2 | Video 3.
Tutorial: The Headless Horseman Visual FX
Originally posted 10/16/2014
Imagineer Systems shows us how to create a very convincing Headless Horseman using their planar tracker Mocha with After Effects. Watch on YouTube.
How to Use BMD’s Fusion 9 Delta Keyer To Make Awesome Composites
Originally posted 11/24/2017
In this video VFXstudy walks us through the processes of using Fusion 9’s new delta keyer. Watch on YouTube.