David Johnson Joins ACT Entertainment in New Post of Senior Vice President Sales

July 30, 2021, 04:59 PM

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JACKSON, MISSOURI ― ACT Entertainment, the new entity formed by the ACT Lighting, RapcoHorizon and AC Power Distribution brands, announces the appointment of David Johnson to the new post of Senior Vice President Sales. Johnson is well known for managing the Live Design International (LDI) franchise. “When we rebranded as ACT Entertainment, it was clear that we needed strong leadership in the sales department to bring all our world-class sales forces together across the organization and e...

ACT Entertainment Launches

July 30, 2021, 04:58 PM

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JACKSON, MISSOURI – ACT Lighting (RapcoHorizon/ProCo Sound/RHC Holdings) is pleased to announce the launch of ACT Entertainment, a new entity formed by bringing together the brands of the ACT Lighting and RHC Holdings family of companies. While deeply rooted in the heritage of its legacy companies, the value offered by ACT Entertainment is more than the sum of its parts. The new ACT is a streamlined organization that takes a holistic approach to the industries it serves, curating critical e...

Phosphene Uses Pocket Cinema Camera 6K for VFX on Hulu Original Film False Positive

July 30, 2021, 01:28 PM

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Blackmagic Design today announced that New York based visual effects (VFX) company Phosphene used a Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K digital film camera to capture VFX elements and plates for the new feature film “False Positive.”

Working With the Substance Workflow Plugins in Maya

July 30, 2021, 09:11 AM

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Academic Phoenix Plus shows how you can connect textures fast in Maya with the Substance Workflow Plugins. This new tutorial from Academic Phoenix Plus shows how you can quickly connect all the associated textures from Substance 3D Painter into

AJA Video Systems software with native Apple M1 support

July 30, 2021, 09:11 AM

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AJA rolled out Desktop Software v16.1 for KONA, Io, and T-TAP Pro products, alongside AJA SDK v16.1 for Developer Partners. Both releases include native support for the Apple M1 chip. AJA Desktop Software v16.1 is available now as a free download from the AJA support page. AJA SDK v16.1 is accessible to participants of the [...]Read More...

How to Model Butterfly Clutches With C4D

July 30, 2021, 09:11 AM

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New Plastic offers some insights into modeling butterfly clutches for pins. In a previous tutorial, New Plastic showed how to model and render realistic enamel pins with Cinema 4D and Octane. A new tutorial shows how to

How to Use Layer Maps in Ae to Help Control Particle Grids

July 30, 2021, 09:11 AM

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Robin Sinnaeve shows how to work with layer maps to use layer maps in Ae for Particles. Robin “Robstacle” Sinnaeve has a short and sweet After Effects tutorial that shows how you can use layer maps

Blackmagic Design Announces New HyperDeck Studio

July 30, 2021, 09:10 AM

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Blackmagic Design Announces New Blackmagic Web Presenter 4K

July 30, 2021, 09:10 AM

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VFX ARTIFACTS: ELASTIC REALITY

July 30, 2021, 09:05 AM

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On the latest VFX Artifacts podcast, Ian Failes from befores & afters chats to Paul Miller. Paul is one of the original developers of the Elastic Reality software. Today, Paul is Partner / Lead Software Engineer on the Silhouette paint, rotoscoping and compositing system, owned by Boris FX.