Monday, August 13, 2012

Softwares for VFX and real life animation

Most of the people want to learn real life animation and Visual effects done in movies. But they don't have any idea where to get start from. Well this article is about the softwares which are used for visual effects and real life animation. these software are used in making big hollywood projects too. 

So lets begin knowing these softwares.

1. Adobe After Effects

After Effects is a very powerful video editing software from adobe company. Its latest version is CS 6 which offers powerful elements and tools to add special effects and motion graphics in your video. Roto, masking, layers, animation almost everything is possible through after effects. After effects supports 2D effects as well as 3D effects too. If you are familiar with youtube then you must have known Freddie Wong and watched his videos. If you are not, then click this link Freddie's youtube channel and watch some of his videos. Then you can get idea of what you can create through this amazing software. Almost every visual effects on his videos are done in After effects.

There are various plugins and effects in-built in the software but you can also add third party plugin and effects in the software.

2. NUKe

Another powerful software for video editing and putting special effects more advanced than after effects is Nuke. It is produces and distributed by The Foundry. For it amazing features, NUKE won an Academy Award for Technical Achievement in 2001. 



The work of nuke can be seen in big holly wood movies like District-9, Tron legacy, King Kong, Jumper, The Curious case of Benjamin Button. Big hollywood production companies like Dreamworks and Sony pictures use this saoftware. Nuke is a node based digital compositing software. Nuke is available for olll three major OS, linux, Mac OS X and windows. 


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