In this video, we look at the Workspace via the Media Panel. We’ll go through the new tiles view as well as the various workflows now available in the Media Panel. Don’t miss the Dual monitor setup now available in Smoke 2016.

In this video, we cover the updated project and settings when starting up Smoke 2016.

In this video, we take a look at how you can create animation in separate parts and combine them together to create complex animations without writing expressions.

This includes instancing and mimicking in the Action schematic.

In this video, we take a look at a requested workflow of creating transitions from elements created elsewhere. Take an existing black and white animated clip and use it as a travelling matte between two shots in the sequence. Layers or Nodes.

In this video, we import a Photoshop PSD file into Smoke. You can than position the layers in 3D space and animate them to create a moving 3D environmentment. Great uses for motion graphics, bring stills to life and set extensions.

In honour of all things ghoulish, this video shows introduces a friend using a FBX 3D model, lighting, expressions and much more!

A bit of scary but and I laugh at myself … Sleep well…………

Happy Halloween!

This video shows a VFX workflow using the Auto-Stabilizer to stabilise an image, perform a composite in Action and bring back the camera movement but inverting the Stabilize data.

Very useful for screen replacements and plate clean-up.

Part 2 pick ups from after the first expression as you continue to set expressions for rotation and scale. Track the surface object as well as use another expression to offset the extended bicubic surface. Remodel using extended bicubics and composite.

Part 1 introduces the situation where you have been asked to do beauty work on a model. This video will show you the workflow as well as explain the reasons behind all the steps taken.

This video discusses how the resolution for a ConnectFX segment is created. We also look at what happens when you apply a ConnectFX to a segment with a different resolution to the sequence and how to deal with it.