Five Tips from Two Decades of Freelance Experience

August 19, 2015, 09:24 AM

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One of the best-known perks of freelancing is the flexibility, but all that freedom comes at a price. Managing your own schedule and every aspect of your career requires discipline. With nearly two decades of experience filming everything from QVC shows to live concerts and professional sports, Rodney Lane Butler has his share of tips, tricks, and hard-earned advice. 

Appending a node to multiple clips in Resolve 12

August 19, 2015, 09:23 AM

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Transcript: Digital Production Buzz – August 20,

August 19, 2015, 05:42 AM

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GUESTS Randi Altman, Industry Analyst and Editor Andy Bellamy, CION Product Marketing Manager, AJA Video Systems, Inc. Sean Mullen, CEO & Lead Creative, Rampant Design Tools Doug Sheer, CEO / Chief Analyst, D.I.S. Consulting The post Transcript: Digital Production Buzz – August 20, 2015 appeared first on Digital Production BuZZ.

The CG secrets of Poldark revealed

August 19, 2015, 05:41 AM

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Period drama has always been popular, but since Downton Abbey it's experienced an explosion in demand. And more recent examples like Wolf Hall, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell and Ripper Street have benefitted from a healthy dose of VFX mastery that helps bring these bygone eras to vivid life.

The Realities of Working in Virtual Reality

August 19, 2015, 05:41 AM

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Virtual reality presents the next big challenge in content creation. At The Foundry, we are focused on developing tools to help artists create immersive live-action content. Building on NUKE’s powerful multi-camera compositing and stereoscopic workflows, we are now taking on the unique challenges presented in developing high-quality, seamless VR experiences.

Growing Dendrites Using X-Particles in Cinema 4D

August 19, 2015, 05:40 AM

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Uwe Schweer-Lambers (Equiloud) shows how to use X_particles in Cinema 4D to create and animate neuron like cels.

Acquisition Meets Post

August 18, 2015, 04:06 PM

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7 Iconic Movie Look Color Grades FREE SmallHD’s Color Grade Pack Recreate Looks from Seven Iconic Films and Teaches Exactly How to Use Them SmallHD, known for compact, Full HD on-camera monitors is giving away a free set of color grades that recreate the unique look of seven different iconic films, and are also publishing […]

SIGGRAPH 2015: Xsens

August 18, 2015, 04:06 PM

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Xsens' Hein Beute walks us through what's new from the mocap company during Siggraph 2015

favorite features in CC versions of After Effects:

August 18, 2015, 04:06 PM

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One of my favorite changes to After Effects recently isn’t a flashy feature at all, but it’s a change that has already saved me thousands of clicks when dealing with expression errors. Beginning in After Effects CC 2015 (13.5), there are two major changes in what occurs when an expression fails to evaluate: Expression errors appear in a warning banner at the bottom of the Composition and Layer panels instead of in a dialog box. A failing expression is not disabled. The expression wi...

The Sound of Netflix’s ‘Wet Hot American Summe

August 18, 2015, 04:05 PM

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Supervising sound editor J.M. Davey weighs in about First Day of Camp. By Jennifer Walden David Wain’s homage to summer camp in the 1980s, Wet Hot American Summer (2001), managed to get away with casting actors in their late 20s and early 30s as teenage camp counselors – talk about suspending your disbelief. Well he took that premise a bit further recently. Wain’s latest offering, the Netflix series Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp, uses the same actors from the first film...