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Quelques éléments de compositing intéressant dans cette Odyssée. Un film réalisé par Bruno Aveillan et l'agence Marcel :

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London, UK. December 2010. Leading visual effects software company, The Foundry, today launched an open beta of their brand new digital cinema camera workflow product, STORM.

 

STORM addresses the growing complexity of shooting digital, performing a variety of core tasks on and near-set and bringing camera and post production closer together.

 

Quick and easy to operate, STORM can rapidly navigate and playback footage allowing producers, directors and editors to view takes in high resolution without interruption or delay.  Anyone who has done basic colour correction and editing will feel comfortable sitting with STORM and cutting together a rough edit or exploring a ‘look’ interactively with the cinematographer. Supporting the digital technician, STORM provides simple and intuitive metadata tagging and timeline re-conforming to ensure the exchange with editorial and post production is sped up significantly.

 

The Foundry is making this public beta widely available in response to the huge amount of interest shown in STORM since it was first shown at IBC this year. “STORM has been developed in very close collaboration with users, and the open beta is a chance to gain wider feedback - ensure that STORM lives up to expectations and continues to develop to meet the growing needs of the digital camera community.  The Foundry looks forward to seeing the STORM platform grow to deliver new and exciting things in the future .”  said Richard Shackleton, Head of Product Development at The Foundry.


 

The STORM beta can be downloaded from http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/storm and is FREE to use until the 1st March 2011. It requires a MacBook Pro, Mac Pro or iMac with at least 2GB RAM running OSX 10.6.4 or later. STORM is optimised for RED R3D footage and will use a RED ROCKET card if one is installed.

 

Ted Schilowitz, Leader of the Rebellion at RED, adds:

“Having seen STORM in detail, I’d describe it as REDCine-X on steroids.  Well worth the time to investigate it's capabilities if you are involved in post production, working with RED footage.  The Foundry have looked at RED workflow in great detail and taken logical integration with RED to a very evolved state.  We’re very excited that those shooting and posting RED all over the world will soon have access to this software.”

 

More information about STORM including case studies and introductory videos can be found on our website http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/storm.

Une bande démo des studios vfx ayant utilisés le logiciel Vue pour leurs productions, telles 2012, Avatar, Benjamin Button, Indiana Jones IV, Pirates des Caraïbes, Terminator Salvation ...

Notre confrère CgSociety.org propose un papier sur le workflow utilisé pour la post-production du film District 9, avec images, textes, et vidéos à l'appui, montrant précisément les passes de rendu utilisées pour atteindre un degré de réalisme avancé.

Extrait en anglais : "Julianna Kolakis first worked on the look development of Christopher and little CJ with James as well as the look dev lead Joe Eveleigh, the lead lighter Robert Bourgeault, and later Anna Ivanova, the second texture artist who came aboard to help with maps for the aliens and other models. The artists all contributed to the character development gathering references and giving artistic feedback on how materials such as the skin, shells, and tentacles should look.

"There were 2026 texture maps for a variety of adult aliens (excluding clothes), and each model had 21 UV maps at 4096 pixels," explains Kolakis. "These maps included colors, bumps, displacements, various specs, wet specs, roughness, masks, multiple subsurface, and reflections for materials such as the shell, skin, eyes, fur, bruising, blood, dirt, dust, war paint, and stickers."

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GenArts a acquis les renommés plugins SpeedSix.

En anglais / In english :

 GenArts Inc., the leading provider of digital visual effects software for the film, broadcast and video industries, announced today it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire SpeedSix Software Limited. As of today, all SpeedSix employees will join the GenArts team and remain in the UK. In addition, SpeedSix's renowned Monsters and Raptors visual effects will be sold and supported in their current form alongside GenArts Sapphire, creating the industry's most compelling family of state-of-the-art image processing and synthesis effects software.

The acquisition is part of GenArts' aggressive growth strategy fueled by last year's investment from Insight Venture Partners of New York. CEO Katherine Hays took the reins in June, 2008 and announced her intent to accelerate the company's growth via acquisitions and strategic partnerships.

"We're excited to announce the acquisition of SpeedSix as an initial step in our growth plan," Hays said. "For over 12 years, GenArts has built a reputation for visual effects that inspire our customers to create the Academy Award-winning magic that has thrilled and delighted audiences around the world. We believe that the creativity and passion of our combined company will allow us to achieve new heights with our technology while leveraging our complementary businesses to create unequalled value for our customers in the years to come."

SpeedSix's Monsters and Raptors plug-ins feature powerful tools including retiming, particle effects, lens distortion matching, fire, and organic fluid backgrounds. Monsters and Raptors have been used throughout the film and video industry to create effects for some of the most popular movies, television and advertising produced in the industry.

Steve Hayes, Director of SpeedSix commented, "We've always admired GenArts and the outstanding reputation they have built over the last decade. We share their commitment to deliver the highest quality, most organic and most original visual effects tools in the world. We're proud to be joining the GenArts family and look forward to working together to create exciting new products that allow filmmakers and vídeo artists to explore the limits of their imagination and create the entertainment experiences that continue to amaze us all."

About GenArts
Founded in 1996 in Cambridge, Mass., GenArts, Inc. is the premier provider of digital visual effects for the film, broadcast and video industries. GenArts Sapphire equips digital artists with a collection of over 200 state-of-the-art image processing and synthesis effects such as: Glows, EdgeRays, LensFlare, Lightning, FilmEffect, Warps and Textures. The effects seamlessly integrate as software plug-ins into leading editing and compositing systems from Adobe, Apple, Avid, Autodesk, Assimilate, Digital Vision, Eyeon, FilmLight, The Foundry, Quantel and SGO.

Sapphire has become the industry standard for high-end visual effects creation by providing unrivaled image quality, a unique organic look, and ease of use. They have been used extensively in an array of television programs, music videos and feature films, including Iron Man, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, The Hulk, Spider-Man 1, 2 and 3, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Star Wars - Episode I, II and III, Sin City, The Matrix trilogy, X-Men 1, 2 and 3, Titanic, Lostand CSI.   www.genarts.com.

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