Category - Visual Effects

Grading & Finishing Commercials

Creative DI in Commercials Studio Daily and Assimilate hosted this hour long webinar with Emery Wells, CEO & Founder of Katabatic, who walks through his colour grading, compositing and finishing...

How to create the perfect key

Learning how to key green-screen correctly If your approach to keying green screen shots is to slap on a plugin and hope for the best then Splice Vine’s August series on keying and matting by...

New Features in Assimilate Scratch v7

Assimilate Scratch 7 New Features Tutorials Assimilate Scratch is a compositing, colour grading and finishing tool which also doubles as a dailies creation system. Here are some short 2 minute...

Post Production on LOOPER

Cloud-based visual effects on LOOPER There are plenty of interesting goodies floating around the internet around the release of Looper and you can find some of the best ones compiled here. To kick...

Expand your skill set – Free Tutorials

Video2Brain – Free Tutorial Archive If you’re looking to expand your skill set and be able to say ‘yes’ when you get the classic client question: “Can you use...

2 & 1/2 Hours of free Smoke 2013 Training

Free Smoke 2013 Tutorials If you’re looking for a high end ‘finishing’ program editorial mashup then Smoke 2013 may be just what you need. The Smoke Training youtube channel now has...

Editing Tips from Alan Edward Bell

Editing Craft – Alan Edward Bell Alan Edward Bell editor of The Amazing Spiderman and 500 Days of Summer has started a blog where he shares some of his insights and tips into what it takes to...

Editing with VFX in mind…

Editing in your own VFX If you’ve not watched Alan Edward Bell’s 30 minute webinar on the visual effects that he temped into his offline cuts of The Amazing Spiderman, then sit down and...

TED: Filmmakers

Great Talks from Filmmakers on TED.com Ted.com is amazing and well worth a regular browse to inspire, entertain and enlighten yourself on many diverse and amazing topics. Its just brilliant from...

Adobe Speedgrade CS6 Video Tutorials

Learning Adobe Speedgrade CS6 SpliceNpost (via Jim Wicks) has a series of 8 good (and free) video tutorials on how to get started with Speedgrade CS6. Aimed at beginners, but useful for experienced...

Editing The Amazing Spiderman

The Amazing Spiderman post production Alan Edward Bell is the lead editor on Sony’s tent pole film this summer – The Amazing Spiderman. In this interview on the Digital Production Buzz...

Smoke 2013 Tutorials and Tips

Learning how to use Autodesk Smoke 2013 Autodesk Smoke 2013 is now available (download it here) so to learn how to get started with it, check out this extensive round up of tutorials, tips and...

How to be a VFX Assistant

What do VFX assistants do on big hollywood feature films? Anthony Snitzer has an interesting blog/journal documenting what he got up to as visual effects assistant working on The Avengers for five...