Film editor and FX artist, Alan Edward Bell shares some Hollywood secrets in this discussion of his recent job for 20th Century Fox and New Regency Pictures, "Little Manhattan." One tool he came back to again and again was GenArts' Sapphire Plug-ins -- both during the editing stage to create effects within Final Cut Pro, and during the finishing stage to finalize the effects at film resolution within Autodesk combustion.
Film editor and FX artist, Alan Edward Bell shares some Hollywood secrets in this review of particleIllusion 3 from wondertouch. Alan concludes ''...particleIllusion 3.0 is a 'must buy' for anyone needing a robust and powerful 2d particle engine.'' Read the rest of the review to find out why.
Alan Edward Bell takes a thorough look at Discreet Combustion 3 and concludes with, "...Many feature film and television effects houses use Combustion on a daily basis for doing everything from matte generation, color correction to full blown compositing, I cannot recommend this software enough, and this review only scratches the surface of what is possible."
In this tutorial, Alan Edward Bell demonstrates how to work with Cineon files and combustion. Generally speaking the rule of thumb is, that you should do all your color correction in Log space and the majority of your image transformations in linear space.
