Magic Bullet Suite 13 (Software Review)

Posted by on Mar 6, 2017 in Featured, Reviews, Reviews (Software), Software | 0 comments

Red Giant’s Magic Bullet Suite has rightfully become one of the quintessential plug-in bundles over the years, primarily due to the popularity of plugins like Looks and Colorista. What you’re getting is several tools geared around the overall look and color of your footage - many of which I have come to consider indispensable, including Film and Cosmo.

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Keying and Background Removal in Photoshop, Part 2: Primatte Chromakey (Article/Tutorial)

Posted by on Feb 13, 2017 in Articles, Featured, General, Software, Tips, Tutorials | 0 comments

If you work in video, you may be familiar with Red Giant Primatte Keyer. Red Giant’s Primatte and Digital Anarchy Primatte Chromakey both use Primatte chromakey technology, developed by Imagica Corporation in 1982. [Wikipedia] The last update for Primatte Chromakey for Photoshop was January 2012, but it does work in current versions of Photoshop.

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Automating 2D Character Creation & Cartoon Animation: New Reallusion CrazyTalk Animator 3 (Industry Press Release)

Posted by on Dec 12, 2016 in Featured, Industry, News, Press Releases, Software | 3 comments

New CrazyTalk Animator 3 (CTA3) demystifies animation for anyone with new character design, scene building, and character motion tools to create studio-level 2D animation results on PC and Mac. Open the door to 2D animation for beginners and quicken the process for pros with innovative character templates, valuable motion libraries, a powerful 2D bone rig editor, face puppeteering, and audio lip-syncing tools to give users unparalleled control when animating 2D talking characters for videos, web, games, apps, and presentations.

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