Toolfarm Blogs

Looklabs is proud to announce its first digital film stock. SpeedLooks 3529 is now in production in the lab and is soon to be released! SL-3529 will be released in 6 distinct palettes - Clean, Punch, Gold, Blue, Noir and Bleach.

Tiffen, maker of the DFX Digital Effects Suite, has free Weekly Webinars.

An abstract 3D sculpture of a woman dancing and moving, recorded by three depth cameras.

In this special episode of Unplugged, John Dickinson of Motionworks chats with Zax Dow of Zaxwerks about After Effects CS6 and what the introduction of the 3D ray-traced features means to Zaxwerks flagship products 3D Invigorator and ProAnimator.

An intriguing showreel from Gidd Media of Norway. Lots of variety, including work created with Cinema 4D and After Effects, lots of compositing, and some motion graphics.

Simulate and customize the EAN-13 barcode used worldwide for FREE with Yanobox Barcode, available through FxFactory

The PixelLab has a free tutorial using a free plug-in called Nitro 4D Magic Slow Motion, a time remapping plug-in for Cinema 4D.

Two New Touch Apps for iOS and Adobe Muse Also Shipping

Mike Seymour of fxguide has lots of great info on Stereo Conversion, discussing issues, the keys to good conversion, and interesting case studies.

Post by Chris Schmidt at Greyscalegorilla- a great introductory video for newbies to Cinema 4D.

A boy with horrible parents owns a robot named Blinky. I wasn’t expecting THAT twisted of an ending!

Via Joren Kandel and Remco at the Pixel Lab. Product box models for Cinema 4D R12 and up.

V-Ray Latest Update Now Available with Support for 3ds Max 2013 and Major Feature Enhancements

Whether you are a freelancer or a large film studeio, we want to help you get set up so you are FULLY RealFlow operational. All RealFlow purchases now get a free upgrade to 2013 on release.

Unreal and Surreal animation of a face by Cyriak Harris.

It’s making waves- but if you haven’t seen it already- take a few minutes to check out this incredible short film by Mikey Please.

2 new tutorials using mocha v3! How to planar track a difficult whip-pan in a shot and drop 3D models into a composite in both After Effects and Cinema 4D; How to use the camera solver to get the 3D data of a moving planar object, 3D export to After Effects and attaching 3D particles from Trapcode Particular.

BCC v8.0.2 AE is a Free Update for BCC v8.x AE Users- for Macintosh and Windows versions of Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro CS6, CS5.5, CS5, and CS4.

This Mercury Transmit plugin adds support for the NVIDIA Quadro SDI Output card in Adobe Premiere Pro, Encore and Prelude CS6.

Tom Smith, a fan of Babylon 5, has put together a fantastic archive of behind-the-scenes VFX content from the artists who worked on the show.

RE:Vision Effects, acclaimed effects plug-in industry leader and makers of Academy Award winning software, announces support for Adobe After Effects CS6 and Premiere Pro CS6. In addition to CS6 support, all of RE:Vision Effects’ After Effects-compatible plug-ins now come with uninstallers.

The installers are now CS6 Compatible for all Red Giant products. This is a free upgrade for Red Giant plug-ins owners.

Wondering where your free CS6 Upgrade is? This should help answer questions.

Hello Savants! is a production company based in Amsterdam.

This is very entertaining from 1971, produced by the National Research Council of Canada.