Monday, December 20, 2010

NUKE and NUKEX 6.2 ships




NUKE 6.2

NUKE 6.2 gets the eagerly anticipated timeline Dope Sheet, making light work of manipulating animation key frames and interactively positioning and trimming read clips. It also brings significant improvement to rendering performance, flip book playback and 2D tracker interaction, along with enhancements to the expression editor and file browser - all core improvements contributing to improved productivity and workflow.

NUKEX 6.2

NUKEX 6.2 adds new image-based modeling tools allowing any artist to easily combine a tracked 3D camera with a selection of 2D image features, automatically creating simple scene geometry. When added to new dense point cloud generation and automatic calibration of projection cameras from 2D images and geometry, NUKEX 6.2 provides new ways to reference and re-apply composited elements more efficiently and realistically into live action scenes.

For those working with CGI rendered elements, NUKEX 6.2 brings Pixar RenderMan Pro Server support to the 3D compositing environment. As an alternative to the in-built scanline renderer, integration with RenderMan aligns NUKE-rendered scenes with the rest of the 3D pipeline, seamlessly matching motion blur and depth of field, whilst providing the compositor with more flexible control of new rendering capabilities such as ray-traced shadows and reflections.
Read the NUKE or NUKEX release notes to find out more.


Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Lightworks 2010 beta



Here's the another editing software from Editshare. Well, it is soon to be OPENSOURCE software.
It is only for Windows 7 but the company will release OSX and Linux version in 2011.

Thursday, November 11, 2010

New Nvidia Quadro Graphics Card for Mac


Nvidia Quadro 4000 for Mac

New Fermi technology finally brings to the Mac pipeline.
It has 2GB of video ram. Even if Apple tends to promote AMD graphics card, most VFX softwares prefer NVIDIA Quadro cards. It is a great news for Mac users who use Adobe After Effects, Foundry Nuke/Storm, Autodesk Smoke, Davinci Resolve. Let's see how it goes with Apple Support.


Trapcode Particular for NUKE















Particular, developed by Trapcode and distributed by Red Giant Software is now released for Foundry NUKE. This plug is probably one of the popular plugin for After Effects artists. The Foundry even posted the tutorial clip which is done by Steve Wright. Since NUKE is becoming the industry standard package, I think other plugin companies will follow Red Giant and Genarts.IMHO, I wish NUKE supports importing audio files like After Effects or Shake.

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Storm Beta is coming.


Storm by The Foundry, who developed Furnace, Ocula and Nuke, is coming in November 2010.
It will be beta release until February 1, 2011. Based on fxguide podcast/RED centre, it will be the RED only version of software but sooner than later it will be expanded for other formats such as Arri Alexa, Canon HDLRs. It looks like you can basic digital grade and debay your footage and send to FCP vice versa. I hope it eventually work as DI suite like Davinci Resolve or Lustre. The foundry is already well known for image science so let's see how it goes.

http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/products/storm/try/

Friday, April 23, 2010

Davinci Resolve by Blackmagic


Blackmagic accquired Florida based company Davinci System last year. They just released Resolve software for OSX from NAB 2010. It is only $999 for software. Let's see how Apple feels about Their own DI software, Color.


- Posted by Yunsik Noh

Monday, April 19, 2010

Storm by Foundry


It is definitely good news for people using Red camera. As far as I know, there is no standard workflow for Red footage. I've been using Crimson Workflow since 2008. It is still pretty good when you just need to debay RED media for FCP workflow. However, it needs to improve better GUI.
Foundry is one of the best VFX software company based in UK. They are well known fora developer of Furnace plugins and now Nuke. Storm will be useful for Nuke compositor out there. I also hope that it supports other primary editing softwares such as FCP, Media composer.


- Posted by Yunsik Noh