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lundi 4 avril 2011
Par Guillaume le lundi 4 avril 2011, 20:32 - Nouvelles / News
The Foundry montrera la semaine prochaine, au NAB 2011, les nouvelles fonctionnalités du prochain Storm, Mari 1.3, Nuke & NukeX 6.3 (nouvelles splines, grid warpers, 3d particles, planar tracker, denoiser, piste audio scratch track, deep 3d compositing ...), et une preview de Katana.
Retrouvez The Foundry au stand SL5625 du 11 au 14 Avril au NAB, Las Vegas.
mercredi 10 novembre 2010
Par Guillaume le mercredi 10 novembre 2010, 18:55 - The Foundry Nuke
La société Red Giant vient de rendre disponible le fameux plugin Particular, cette fois pour The Foundry Nuke, après le grand succès du plugin sur After Effects.
"Particular for Nuke will move you immediately into a powerful and creative
workflow. Particular is used widely in motion pictures such as Spider Man 3, Terminator:
Salvation and Angels & Demons and in TV shows like
Lost. Its realistic natural effects have long solved common visual effects challenges, like photo-realistic
rain, snow, clouds, smoke trails and sparks.
Steve Wright, master trainer for Nuke and VFX compositing, comments, "At last, Red Giant has closed the particle system gap for NUKE by
introducing Trapcode Particular for NUKE. After
years as the definitive particle system for Adobe After Effects, a 64-bit
version has been ported to NUKE to add photorealistic particle effects to NUKE's palette. Particular for NUKE
is an absolutely essential addition to any serious visual effects studio.""
Regardez le tutorial expliquant l'utilisation de Particular au sein de Nuke ici
samedi 2 octobre 2010
Par Guillaume le samedi 2 octobre 2010, 13:14 - S3D-Relief
jeudi 27 mai 2010
Par Guillaume le jeudi 27 mai 2010, 17:32 - Nouvelles / News
Industry-Standard Visual Effects Suite Introduces New Levels of Performance and Creativity and CS5 Compatibility At A Special Upgrade Price
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – May 27, 2010 – GenArts, Inc., the premier provider of specialized visual effects software for the film, television and video industries, announced today the immediate availability of GenArts Sapphire™ 5 for Adobe After Effects. Unveiled in April at NAB 2010, Sapphire 5 raises the bar in visual effects by coupling the creativity, quality and reliability Sapphire is known for with GPU-optimized performance, a range of new effects and transitions, and full CS5 compatibility.
GenArts Sapphire has gained a following among the world’s best visual effects artists as the industry-standard plug-in suite. Used in countless films, television broadcasts and commercials, Sapphire is the essential tool in the professional artist’s toolbox. Now, After Effects artists may take advantage of these key additional benefits:
“While visual effects are certainly essential in today’s film and television industries, artists are constantly challenged to create fresh, compelling content that sets them apart from their competitors -- on budget and on time,” said Steve Bannerman, CMO, GenArts. “With Sapphire 5 in their arsenal, After Effects artists will be able to push the limits of their creativity, generating one-of-a-kind looks without sacrificing deadlines.”
Pricing and Availability
GenArts Sapphire 5 for Adobe After Effects is now available for both Windows
and Mac. (Sapphire 5 AE for the Mac will be fully GPU accelerated at a later
date and will be available to Sapphire 5 AE Mac customers as a free update,
when available.) Floating licenses are priced at
$2,499; node-locked licenses are available for $1,699. Users may upgrade from
either Sapphire version 1 or 2 to Sapphire 5 for the special price of only
$299, and monthly rental licenses are priced at $169. Support for Sapphire
version 1 for After Effects will end effective August 31, 2010.
Since the company's founding in 1996, GenArts software has been utilized in thousands of films, television broadcasts and commercials, including more than 20 Oscar-nominated pieces such as Titanic; I, Robot; Armageddon; Star Wars Episode I, II and III; The Matrix trilogy; The Lord of the Rings trilogy; Pearl Harbor; Spider Man; Pirates of the Caribbean; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban; Transformers; The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; Avatar and many more.
jeudi 7 janvier 2010
Par Guillaume le jeudi 7 janvier 2010, 20:38 - Nouvelles / News
Nuke 6.0 is currently scheduled for release in January 2010.
Nuke 6.0 incorporates a completely new shape rotoscope and paint toolset based on a rewritten core curve library and new RotoPaint node. This release introduces a flexible, non-destructive, layer based paint hierarchy integrated with Nuke’s animation and tracking capabilities and supporting per-object attributes such as blending modes and motion blur.
In addition, The Foundry’s highly acclaimed Keylight keyer will be a standard feature included with Nuke 6.0.
Simultaneously, The Foundry plan to launch NukeX 6.0.
NukeX 6.0 has all of the tools and features of Nuke 6.0, but also aims to bring additional, powerful, technologies within the reach of visual effects artists.
Many of these tools and technologies are expensive to purchase and maintain, but would make a considerable difference to the overall speed, efficiency and quality of work produced by artists if they had access to them.
This first release includes a fully integrated 3D camera tracker. You can do your own camera solves, create 3D geometry and position objects and cards at the right place in the scene whenever you need to.
Lens distortion tools are another example of the advanced technology we are adding to NukeX 6.0 giving you multiple ways to analyse image sequences and lens grids resulting in a lens model and the ability to warp and un-warp in order to compensate for lens distortion.
NukeX will also incorporate FurnaceCore - 12 of The Foundry’s best Furnace tools including Kronos, the optical flow re-timer, grain and de-grain tools, rig-removal and more.
There are many more advances planned for NukeX. Watch this space…
Nuke will remain priced at $3,500/£2,300 with annual maintenance at $1,000/£650.
If you have any further questions, please email sales@thefoundry.co.uk.
lundi 21 décembre 2009
Par Guillaume le lundi 21 décembre 2009, 07:58 - Nouvelles / News
Autodesk® Smoke® software is a comprehensive solution for online editing and creative finishing. Smoke provides real-time, mixed-resolution interactivity for many types of editorial finishing work and client-supervised sessions. Smoke is now available as a software-only application for Apple® Mac OS® X operating system.
Easily handle a variety of projects―film, commercials, long-form episodics, bumpers, and promos―on a single system. In an era of project-based billing and increasingly complex client demands, your editing and finishing system software needs to do more―more efficiently.
Core features of Autodesk Smoke include:
Get more details about Autodesk Smoke features.
What’s New
Explore the latest developments in Autodesk Smoke 2010 editing and
finishing software.
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Une version d'évaluation est disponible en libre téléchargement ici !
mercredi 28 octobre 2009
Par Guillaume le mercredi 28 octobre 2009, 20:02 - Nouvelles / News
The Embassy team worked on 109 shots for District 9, including the scorpion-like
alien creature scenes and the sequences in which lead
character Wikis is forced to use alien weaponry to blow up various objects.
While all of the sequences required varied cameras
and visual effects to drive home the
authentic feel, the Exo-suit sequences stand out as a distinguishing use of
vfx software to further the
perceived reality of the film.
To start, CG Leads Matt Rouleau, Simon Van de Lagemaat and their team built and animated the Exo-suit in XSI and then rendered it in mental ray. The surfacing and texture painting was done in Zbrush and Modo, then it was composited and GenArts Sapphire plug-ins were added. Stephen Pepper, The Embassy's compositing supervisor for District 9 said details created with GenArts Sapphire were integral to achieving the film's convincing visual effects. Read more
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