In July 2008, I reviewed NewBlueFX's first foray into the AVX world...simply called NewBlueFX. This was at a time when third-party support for Media Composer was on a bit of a decline and I was intere ...
March 9, 2015
Do you like to dance? Well, while Mamba may sound like a Cuban dance, Mamba FX 2.0 is actually a new product from SGO with some powerful new visual effects moves of its own. I just had to give it a wh ...
February 6, 2015
I’m always excited doing display reviews because I’m such a screen-queen. When teaching in a lab with only a single monitor, I bristle and break into a sweat digging through stacked-up windows, steppi ...
January 9, 2015
The release of Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suite Ultimate 2015 marks the swan song for Softimage. It remains a superlative combination of efficiency, smart design, tight integration and tools ahea ...
December 9, 2014
As a VFX supervisor, a large part of my job is making order out of chaos. In my time at Rhythm & Hues, Prime Focus, and now Silver Pictures, I’ve worked on dozens of effects-driven films and the c ...
November 11, 2014
Video lights for on-camera or on-tripod use are hard to find with a CRI of 98, but Polish manufacturer Akurat Lighting makes them. The aluminum-cased, high brightness LL2120hc3 V-White fits in the pal ...