eyeon Software: Fusion 6

eyeon made the release candidate of long-awaited Fusion 6 available to their subscription customers this week. In this special guest column, fxphd prof Matt Leonard walks us through the major new features in the software which include some serious enhancements to its 3D capabilities. Leonard is a long time Fusion user and spent time on the software's beta program...

The Foundry: Nuke 4.7

In March 2002 Bill Spitzak, Paul Van Camp, Jonathan Egstad and Price Pethel, of D2 Software a subsidiary of Digital Domain, where awarded an Academy Award for Scientific and Technical Achievement for their development of Nuke a high-end desktop compositing system. Five years on Nuke has been used on nearly a hundred films such as Transformers, Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End, King Kong, Letters to Iwo Jima and The Wild along with countless television commercials and music videos...

Skymatter: Mudbox 1

Every once in a while a really innovative and extraordinary new software package is released. Mudbox, created and distributed by Skymatter is one of these packages. A pioneering new brush-based sculpting package aimed at the high-end visual effects, games and design industries, originally written by a group of artists from Weta Digital and Electronic Arts, Mudbox was used extensively on ‘Lord of the Rings’ and ‘King Kong’...

eyeon Software: Fusion 5

eyeon Software’s Fusion 5 is a high-end, node based compositing system and the perfect tool for film, broadcast or corporate work, being both resolution and colour depth independent.

Fusion’s interface is sleek and uncluttered while allowing the artist full access to its suite of tools, supporting multiple OpenGL display views. Networkable Bins can store your footage, effects and comps making them available to a large production team...