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News: Autodesk Call for Scary Art
It’s the time of year for ghost, ghouls and goblins. Created any scary or creepy art work, or have ideas for something spooky? Autodesk wants your scariest 3D renders for a spook-tacular roundup.
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New: 3 New FxFactory FXPacks from Stupid Raisins, Idustrial Revolution & PremiumVFX
Build beautiful continuous scrolling presentations with Idustrial Revolution XEffects Scrolling Slideshow, create elegant, split-screen transitions with PremiumVFX Split Transitions, and design stunning descriptions, paragraphs or listings with Stupids Raisins Word Pop.
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Review: iZotope RX 7 Advanced & Insight – Studio Daily
Erik Vlietinck with Studio Daily took a hard look at RX 7 Advanced dialogue repair capabilities and found it to be, in some cases, “a faster and cheaper alternative to ADR.” He also checks out RX 7’s surround sound and assistive audio technologies, plus Insight 2.
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Contest: The FilmConvert Short Film Competition
Have you created a short film and used FilmConvert to grade it? Enter your film into the FilmConvert Short Film Competition where it will be seen by thousands of filmmakers all over the globe, and have your friends and fans vote for your piece for the People’s Choice Award, the ultimate Grand Prize!
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Review: Filmlight Baselight for Avid
Lily Kleinman with No Film School, used Baselight Editions V5 for Avid Media Composer, to help with color grading on a final episode in a television series, and found it to be a “powerful color tool in an AVX plugin.”
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Freebie: Free Track from Luca Visual FX Mystery & Suspense Music & Sound Library
Luca Visual Effects is giving away a free track from their recent Mystery & Suspense Music & Sound Library. Just in time for your Halloween short.
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Freebie Friday: Klanghelm MJUC Jr. Variable-Tube Compressor
The Klanghelm site describes that this free variable-tube plug-in has”very natural, dense compression characteristics of the early days of this type of compression with a more forward sounding approach and more harmonics creating of the variable-mu comps of the early 1960s. “
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Freebie: Audio Sound Effects and Samples
Blue Zone has a full 1 GB of royalty free audio freebies on their site. The sounds are from their packages and include lots of great ambient sounds for Halloween alien sounds, slams, sound effects, and ambient sounds… perfect for your Halloween soundtrack.
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Freebie: Cinema 4D: Top 5 Best FREE C4D Plug-ins – The Pixel Lab
Joren from The Pixel Lab has compiled a list of his 5 favorite Free Cinema 4D plug-ins, based on those he uses the most.
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Freebie: Cinema 4D Model of Underworld Bust Sculpt
The Pixel Lab has a free Cinema 4D model of an underworld bust sculpt by Eddie Robbertse. Thanks to Eddie for allowing the Pixel Lab to share it. They say you can use in whatever creepy video you want. I have some ideas for some Halloween fun!
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Beta: Wirecast 11 Public Beta Available
Download the Wirecast 11 beta to see the latest features, updates, and fixes in the upcoming version.
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Update: Sitni Sati FumeFX v5.0.2 for 3ds Max – V-Ray 4 & Arnold 5.2 Compatibility
Sitni Sati has released FumeFX™ 5.0.2 update for Autodesk® 3ds Max®. This release adds compatibility with VRay® 4, Arnold® 5.2 and support for several Arnold AOVs, plus several bug fixes.
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Midweek Motivations: BALLiSTIC, with Lots of Behind the Scenes
Writer/director Ryan Connolly released a film this summer with VFX Supervisor Andrew Kramer on his team. He not only created a great little film, but there are lots of behind the scenes videos at Film Riot. Watch and learn.
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New: Boris FX Mocha Pro 2019 – Now Available
The new Mocha pro combines the features of Mocha Pro and the Lumiere award-winning Mocha VR into one all-encompassing plug-in. Plus, they’ve added lots of new features like GPU-accelerated object removal, new spline creation tools, a mocha essentials workspace and more.
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Webinar: e-on Software VUE: Further Into the Distance: City Ecosystem Building
Sign up today for a Free VUE/Photoshop Masterclass on City Scene Building, happening on Saturday and Sunday, October 21 & 22, 2018.