Reason CGI Animation Becoming Popular Animation Technique

Hope you all know that CGI stands for Computer-Generated Imagery.

Today we will try to find out the reason behind the popularity of CGI animation technique.

Before CGI two animation techniques were very popular one is hand drawn Traditional Animation and other is Stop-Motion Animation.

In Traditional Animation artists used to draw the images on a transparent celluloid or cel.

Traditional artists used to place cels on top of the background image to create multi-layered frame.

And in case of Stop-Motion Animation clay model puppets were used.

But with the digital technology animation artists switched to computer screens instead of pen and paper.

Animators can now place 3D models easily in three-dimensional space and can make then interact with each other.

In the current scenario CGI animation technique has become popular and the other two techniques have taken back seat.

CGI Animation Took The Front Seat

In the year 1993 Jurassic Park Movie changed the face of movies and entertainment.

Jurassic park proved that CGI movie not only look good but can become popular also.

Computer generated Dinosaurs with real actors created a fantasy world both for the audience and film industry.

In case of Jurassic park dinosaur’s models were scanned with lasers and imported within the computer.

For the first time animator added movement to bare-boned, wireframe models of dinosaurs and the audience could watch something beyond their imagination.

Skins were added on the Dinosaurs with the help of 3D software.

Animators built the scene frame by frame with the software tools.

CGI allows the animator to create huge possibilities.

Various user friendly 3D software are available in the market today which helps the artist to model any figure of their choice.

Computer generated 3D models look very similar to the real life figure as because of the depth dimension.

Previously Traditional animated figures had only two dimension i.e length and breadth; depth got added to the figures due to the 3D technique.

As because computer generated 3D figures looks more close to the real life character both the animators and audiences is preferring CGI techniques.

Until 1990s CGI was used in a restricted manner but in 1995 movie Toy Story became the first full-length CGI feature.

3D software became more user friendly by the time of Toy Story thus allowing small team of animators to give life to the Woody Character.

Reduction in the price of computer allowed the animators to have their own digital set ups to work with images and animation.

Young talented artists get interested towards the digital technology and they find this CGI animation technique less painstaking.

CGI Modeling Technique

Autodesk Maya or 3D Max helps the animator to create any model using polygon meshes.

3D models are gaining popularity in the entertainment fields due to their closeness with the real figures.

Animators can give movements to each body parts of the computer generated models something which is possible only in the CGI animation technique.

Detailing in the wrinkle skins, a blink of an eye, a lip movement looks more realistic in the CGI animation techniques.

Development of RenderMan; a photorealistic 3D rendering software by Pixar Animation Studio added more advancement in 3D technology.

RenderMan facilitates communication between 3D model, animation and render engine to generate high quality images.

This rendering process has been used to provide stunning visual effects for Hollywood blockbuster movies.

CGI is non-linear in nature; animators can work on different parts at the same time; one team may work on body movement while another can work with facial expressions.

Background construction to lighting effects almost everything can be divided to different artists to speed up the big project.

CGI Fur and Cloth Simulation

One of the toughest works of animator is to animate hair or fur of the creature.

But this work also became easy when Pixar developed fur simulation program called Fizt; with Fizt program animators gave motion to Sulley’s fur in the movie Monsters Inc.

Fur Simulation allowed the animators to animate the body fur in more real manner.

With CGI animators can give detailing touch to every each and every body parts of creature or human.

Similar to Fur Simulation; CGI allows cloth simulation.

CGI allows cloth modeling in the 3D space; with cloth simulation artist can manipulate colour, texture and crease of the cloth to make it look like real cloth.

CGI Simulation process has become very popular now and it has taken the animation technique to the highly advanced stage.

CGI Simulation was quite impossible in the previous or hand drawn animation technique.

CGI Motion Capture Technique

Motion Capture is another CGI technique where performance of the actors can be recorded and transferred to the computer generated models.

This technique came to use in the year 2001 with the film The Lord of Rings where master of motion capture director Andy Serkis used this technique for the character Gollum.

Motion Capture is no doubt an exceptional CGI technique which put life into the images.

Within few years facial capture joined motion capture to make sure that each facial expressions could be recorded and rendered.

Movie Avatar came into the theatres with the innovative facial capture CGI animation technique in the year 2009.

And then there is no looking back, today to get to watch movies with Motion Capture technique more often compared to last decades.

This technique not only portrays in-depth facial expressions but also human emotions.

In the year 2018 Andy Serkis thrilled the audience with his latest Motion Capture Movie Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle.

Presently CGI animation has received a great media attention due to success of the visual stunning movies at the theatres.

CGI Crowd Simulation

CGI technique can be used to create Crowd Simulation where huge crowd gets movements.

Crowd Simulation is a unique aspect of CGI that has been applied to many Hollywood movies like Lord of the Rings, Creed II and many more.

Hence here we gave you reasons about why CGI technique animation is becoming more popular in this modern world.

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Notable Achievement Of MAAC Alumni

Hello Readers, in this blog we are going to tell you about the achievement of Diganta Sethi who is a MAAC Ultadanga’s Alumni and who proved himself through determination and hardship.

From the beginning MAAC Kolkata has proved itself efficient enough to deliver dream jobs to the MAAC pass outs.

Each year thousands of students apply at MAAC (Maya Academy Of Advanced Cinematic) Academy.

MAAC Kolkata takes great care to each and every student who dreams to pursue their career in the professional industry.

MAAC Ultadanga Alumni Diganta Sethi’s life changed after joining this prestigious Educational Institute.

Like many other MAAC pass-outs, Diganta Sethi has also curved a niche for himself in the professional market.

Let’s have a look on how Diganta Sethi covered his path from MAAC student to a professional person.

Training At MAAC VFX Plus Course

After completing basis education Diganta Sethi joined VFX Plus course at MAAC Ultadanga Centre.

MAAC’s VFX Course proved to be a great eye-opener for Diganta because VFX or Visual Effect section provides wide range of working experiences with the computer technology.

With the growing digitalization Visual Effects or VFX has become a crucial section of filmmaking, television series, commercials and many others.

MAAC’s VFX Plus in-depth syllabus teaches students high-quality Visual Effects that are used in films and other entertainment industry.

Presently Hollywood as well as Bollywood industry uses VFX in almost every movie to give the audience a larger than life experience.

At Ultadanga Centre Diganta learned about every bits and parts of the VFX.

MAAC’s detail curriculum for each course is designed by the industry professionals to give the students a solid foundation for learning.

Diganta got the opportunity to work on small projects and assignments; he received practical trainings in the studio environment.

Ultadanga Centre is well equipped with hi-tech labs and wi-fi facility where the budding professionals can enhance their skills.

Under VFX Course students need to learn about different 3D software and Chroma-Key techniques.

Diganta learned about the software like Adobe After Effects, Autodesk 3D Max, Fusion, Nuke, Adobe Photoshop etc,

He also learned about digital composition, colour shading, lighting, and lot more.

The faculty members of MAAC help the students throughout their learning process.

Faculty members provide sufficient Theory materials to the students so that each and every concept gets clear in the mind of the students.

Diganta attended practical classes at Ultadanga Centres to get hands-on experiences about VFX.

Diganta expressed his gratitude toward MAAC Ultadanga as “I want to thank MAAC Ultadanga for helping me throughout my VFX Course.”
After completing small in house projects and workshops Diganta Sethi appeared for the placement interview.

Like any other students Diganta also had doubts about his placement, but he crossed the hurdles with flying colours.

Diganta got selected by Fourth Dimensions Production House during his interview.

He thanked MAAC Ultadanga for assisting him during the interview procedure; he also thanked the faculty for making his placement successful at Fourth Dimension VFX Company.

As he said “I thank MAAC Ultadanga for giving me placement at Fourth Dimension Production House.”
Placement At Fourth Dimension VFX Company

Diganta Sethi joined Fourth Dimension Visual Effects Company as Junior Motion Graphics Artist.

Fourth Dimension Visual Effects Company is a very reputed VFX company located at Kolkata.

It provides visual effects for different television episodes, commercials and films.

But the road to the Fourth Dimension was not smooth for Diganta, he had to prove himself to get a job here.

He is working at Fourth Dimension from the past six months and through these months he learned many news things at his work place.

At Fourth Dimension Diganta gets the opportunity to work on variety of projects.

Diganta works on projects on a team basis; he knows how to work within a team something that he learned at MAAC’s Institute.

MAAC creates professional environment for each and every student to teach them how to deliver your best while working under pressure.

In the professional fields where employees handle big projects; co-operations plays a big role; employees work on different part of the projects while keeping the communication flow intact.

In Diganta’s words “I get the chance at Fourth Dimension to deal with new challenges everyday to fulfil my goal”.
New challenges are part of the industry work culture and to face those challenges MAAC’s students are always efficient.

As Diganta has only covered six months at his new job so much more experiences are waiting for him ahead.

He is interested in to pursue his career in production house only in future.

As he says “This particular job has deliberately increased my interest in pursuing my career in production house”.

Mentors of Diganta Sethi are sure enough that he will definitely overcome every challenges of his life as they have trained him like that only.

Diganta Sethi is thankful toward the MAAC Ultadanga and his Mentors.

We wishes him all the best from our side.

MAAC Is An Exceptional

If somebody asks why go for MAAC Academy?

Then the answer is simply because MAAC is the best and leading Institute in Kolkata.

MAAC offers quality education.

It has dedicated Research and Development team behind the structure of the Course Materials.

Apart from trainings MAAC conducts events like 24 FPS, Seminars, Workshops, Competitions, Studio Visits and many more throughout the year.

MAAC has different programs for faculty members also; faculties are exposed to industry updates, they visit the production houses and studios on regular basis.

MAAC has International standard infrastructure to train the students for the global requirement.

MAAC Centres such as MAAC Ultadanga, MAAC Rashbehari, MAAC Chowringhee is under the directorship of Mr. Naveen Choudhary.

Mr. Naveen Choudhary is a great person; he makes enormous effort to guide each and every MAAC’s events.

Under his guidance and leadership MAAC has achieved great appreciations and popularity.

With all the efforts, hard-works and dedication we hope to see the success in future also.

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How To Make Your VFX Look Incredible With Pre-Visualization

Today through this blog we will see how to make VFX look incredible with Pre-Vis or Pre-Visualization.

Before making a movie the director needs to have clear visuals about the story in his/her mind.

Similarly to make final decisions about the VFX artists need to have a clear visual breakdown of the visual contents.

Actually Pre-Visualization is the process of visualizing the complex scenes in a movie before filming.

We know that storyboards provide a general look of each scene but Pre- Visualization indicates the scene that VFX artists need to have.

In case your film has lot of computer graphics and unique creatures then your filming will be within a background of blue or green screens.

But how your live actors will perform the way you want; it would be better if they could see the final version and here comes Pre- Visualization.

From mid-1990s digital Pre- Visualization became an essential tool in the big budget feature film.

Why Pre-Visualization For VFX Is Needed

Animated Pre- Visualization helps VFX Supervisors to improve and experiment on camera movements, lighting placement, staging and duration.

If virtual camera movement or action sequences are badly timed without Pre- Visualization then the film’s narration will miss the attention from the audience.

A good Pre- Visualization for VFX can differentiate between a good movie and a great movie.

A Pre- Visualization VFX Supervisor not only decides shots but the whole sequences, the camera angles, spacing, lenses and everything about a film.

Modern Pre- Visualization team uses computer animation to show the director’s choices in motion.

The Pre- Visualization starts at the pre-production stage and it provides entire cast and crew clear vision about how the actions would be during the shooting process.

Action sequences need to be choreographed and showcased in the form of Pre-Visualization animatics to the cast and crew before the shooting stage.

Pre-Visualization for VFX is usually created by 3D tool in virtual environment.

Pre-Visualization gives an opportunity to the director to look at his film being constructed in a virtual environment.

Pre- Visualization VFX artists make changes according to the wish of the director in the images.

A director can actually see their film’s storyline in the Pre-Visualization process.

Making Use Of Pre-Visualization In Movies

In the like Movie Rise of the Planet of Apes group of Pre- Visualization artists choreographed every shot featuring a digital ape; VFX artists created rough version of the complex shots.

Pre-visualization VFX artists created about 1500 shots for Pre-Vis with 50 artists working on different stages for this movie of Ape.

In case of this movie static storyboard failed to convey enough description because it had too much action.

Pre-Visualization animatics of Apes gave clear idea about the director’s vision to the VFX artists from focal length to lighting.

Why Pre-Visualization For VFX Is Needed

Animated Pre-Visualization helps VFX Supervisors to improve and experiment on camera movements, lighting placement, staging and duration.

If virtual camera movement or action sequences are badly timed without Pre-Visualization then the film’s narration will miss the attention from the audience.

A good Pre-Visualization for VFX can differentiate between a good movie and a great movie.

A Pre-Visualization VFX Supervisor not only decides shots but the whole sequences, the camera angles, spacing, lenses and everything about a film.

Modern Pre-Visualization team uses computer animation to show the director’s choices in motion.

The Pre-Visualization starts at the pre-production stage and it provides entire cast and crew clear vision about how the actions would be during the shooting process.

Action sequences need to be choreographed and showcased in the form of Pre-Vis animatics to the cast and crew before the shooting stage.

Pre-Visualization for VFX is usually created by 3D tool in virtual environment.

Pre-Visualization gives an opportunity to the director to look at his film being constructed in a virtual environment.

Pre-Visualization VFX artists make changes according to the wish of the director in the images.

A director can actually see their film’s storyline in the Pre- Visualization process.

For the above bridge shot computer generated Pre-Visualization was done on detail measurements, compositions and camera positions by Weta Digital’s previs VFX artists.

VFX artists used software like Maya and After Effects to create the Pre-Visualization of the shots.

Artists decided about camera angles, shot durations, focus point while working on pre-visualization.

In Pre-Visualization for VFX artists can handle digital cameras, colour, texture, characters and lot more elements to create stunning visual contents.

Pre-Visualization process also empowers the editor with the footage that they need to make the movie as stylised as possible.

The above Pre- Visualization image is from Robert Stromberg’s directed movie Maleficent.

Maleficent’s Pre-Visualization was handled by VFX Company The Third Floor and Supervised by Mark Nelson.

Pre-Visualization Supervisor Mark Nelson said in one of his interview that “We replaced creatures with various designs four or five times throughout the Pre- Visualization process and that is the kind of job during Pre- Visualization.”

Film Maleficent had 1,200 Pre-Vis shots and 30 different sequences.

Pre-Visualization may look like simple grey shapes with characters or it may look like sophisticated stunning video games.

Laurent Lavig did the Pre-Vis for the movie Matrix Reloaded.

In case of Matrix Reloaded Pre-Vis artists worked on set planning, stunt planning, shoot planning and VFX layout.

Pre- Visualization artist may add temporary music and dialogues into the edited rough version of the complex shots.

Pre-Visualization had been used in movies like Matrix Trilogy, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, X-Men and others.

Best Software For Pre-Visualization VFX

In case of complex VFX scenes, Pre-Vis has to be successful.

One can find great Pre-Visualization resources out in the market.

For big movie project director hires VFX Company to do the Pre-Vis.

But in case you are not in a position to hire Pre-Vis team then you can use Software like Lightwave 3D, Maya, Autodesk MotionBuilder, Softimage XSI which are commonly used for Pre-Vis.

Some artists also rely on less technically challenging 3D modelling and animation software like iClone, Real3d, Poser etc.

FrameForge 3D Studio is also the Pre-vis storyboard software widely used by VFX Supervisor.

FrameForge 3D Studio creates virtual sets, locations by using simulated cameras, actors and materials in the 3D environment.

With the help of Pre- Visualization software director along with VFX Supervisor can create the 3D animated sequences to analyse and measure the accuracy of the shooting material.

An outstanding Pre- Vis work can offer platform for more creativity and innovation in the VFX field.

Pre-Vis Saves Time And Money

Pre-Vis helps in communications process, when still storyboard fails to deliver the thoughts of the director to the production team at that time moving pre-visualization makes the concepts clear.

Many filmmakers are opting for Pre-Vis in the current scenario as it has great benefits.

Pre-Vis allows in selecting a shot through trial and error method and this saves time, directors get the planned and refined idea about what to shoot and this saves lot of time.

With Pre-Vis VFX artist can test out all the subtle camera options which could be quite impossible on the day of shooting.

Even Pre-Vis helps to cut out the unnecessary materials from the production stage; director can avoid the unnecessary props and save the money.

Pre-Visualization offers cheap and flexible test platform for experimentations.

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Chhota Bheem From TV To Commercial Products

Hello, Today in this blog we will take you to the fun-filled tour of cartoon character Chhota Bheem from Television Channel to Commercial products.

Chhota Bheem is an animated comedy television series created by Rajiv Chilaka.

It was premiered in 2008 on Pogo TV.

Chhota Bheem is inspired by the legendary Bheem from the Mahabharata and it’s an original co-production between Turner International India and Hyderabad-based Green Gold Animation Studios.

Pogo channel’s cartoon series Chhota Bheem focuses on adventures of a boy named Bheem (wearing orange colour Dhoti) and his friends in the fictional kingdom of Dholakpur.

Bheem and his friends Chutki, Raju, Jaggu, Kalia and Dholu-Bholu are usually involved in protecting Raja Indravarma (king of Dholakpur) and his kingdom from evil forces.

Chhota Bheem is one of the most popular, entertaining cartoon animated series for children in India.

Chhota Bheem won the Best Animated TV Series award at the Golden Cursor Awards 2009 held in Mumbai, India.

Chhota Bheem In The Advertisement of Savlon, Dettol, Parle-G and Kellogg.

Chhota Bheem character has become a phenomenon in India and it is Kid’s favourite cartoon character.

Bheem is fun-loving adventurous boy, gifted with extraordinary superhuman strength.

In the advertisement of Savlon Fresh plus Protect Soap from ITC, Bheem fights with the purple Germ.

When the villagers of Dholakpur feel uneasy by the bad smell of the germ at that time Bheem appears and gives a strong punch of Savlon on the face of Purple Germ.

With the slogan “Ab Germs Nahi, Freshness Failega” (No Germs only Freshness)Bheem kills the purple germ.

In Savlon Handwash 10 second advertisement, Chhota Bheem along with Jaggu and Chutki fights with Germs, as the slogan says “Savlon protects from 1 million germs”.

Kids love to see their favourite cartoon character in the advertisements.

Theme of Chhota Bheem is very much universal and is being liked by all kids irrespective of their religion and region.

As health and hygiene is much important issue, kids need to be educated regarding cleanliness.

When Chhota Bheem fights and kills the evil that brings joy and fun within children.

Children are quick learners, when it comes to teach any good habits to children Audio/Video medium plays a great role.

Through colourful illustrations, music and animated figure message can easily be delivered to the young kids.

Brand Dettol was also keen to run a campaign to reach out to kids and educate them about the importance of hand wash and hygiene.

Dettol did not want kids to watch a simple video; they wanted to engage the user.

GreedyGame Media offered a solution which allowed Dettol to push the product functionality at real life incidents.

Dettol reached out to kids through mobile games.

Dettol joined hands with GreedyGame, an in-game native advertising platform and Nazara Games, one of the largest mobile game publisher in India.

Dettol with GreedyGame and Nazara launched hygiene products hand wash and hand sanitizer.

Dettol’s campaign was successful in building a strong brand affinity.

In 30 days campaign, 1.7 million unique users were reached and the jingle was played around 131 million times.

Dettol team along with Nazara Games created 3 games Chhota Bheem –The Hero, Chhota Bheem-Jungle Run and Chhota Bheem-The Race.

In the Mobile Game Chhota Bheem –The Hero, Dettol Power was initiated, by accumulating the brand logo, the player would turn resistant to attacks by germs and ugly creatures for a couple of seconds.

In Chhota Bheem –Jungle Run, the theme song was played each time Bheem would have needed to sanitize his hands when he was attacked by a monster or when he was fell down.

It showed Bheem using Dettol sanitizer to clean his hands.

This game also shows Bheem collecting Laddoos which is his favourite food.

In Chhota Bheem-The Race, has Dettol power ups which give Bheem super powers to run faster and attack opponents.

Nazara Technologies previously integrated Dabur Real Juice with its game Chhota Bheem.

As Manish Agarwal CEO, Nazara Technologies says Mobile gaming platform is a medium that is highly interactive, one can create own brand proposition in a very non-intrusive contextual manner.

Nazara Technologies has 12 million monthly active users out of which 8 million are kids.

Chhota Bheem Himalayan Adventure –Parle G Ad shows Bheem along with his friend climbing the mountains and when Kalia says that it is impossible to climb anymore, Bheem takes out Parle G biscuits and says everything is possible with Parle G.

This advertisement was made for the publicity of the movie Chhota Bheem Himalayan Adventure (2016).

Nazara Games also launched Parle-G biscuits in the Jungle Run Games.

In this game Chhota Bheem’s Laddoos had been replaced by Parle-G biscuits and when the player wins the game a special jingle is being played.

The idea of introducing Parle-G biscuits along with Laddoos provided consumer to interact in an interesting way.

According to the report around 1.2 billion virtual Parle-G Biscuits were consumed on the Chhota Bheem Mobile Game.

The brand’s tune or song is being played as jingle in these games.

Chhota Bheem Mobile Games has been experienced by over 3.4 million gamers since its launch in November 2015.

Kellogg also signed unique promotion deal with Chhota Bheem TV series.

This advertisement shows Chhota Bheem in the Chocoland which is surrounded with river of milk, chocolaty waterfall and volcano.

There is a character Coco, the Kellogg Mascot.

In Rs 800 Crore organised Indian breakfast cereal market, Kellogg holds a more than 60% share and the competition is tough as companies such as GlaxosmithKline and others push products oats, Muesli etc.

Kellogg is also promoting its product in a unique way to give better experience to the children.

Therefore here we got to know how children’s favourite character Chhota Bheem has come out of the television box and reached to the breakfast table.

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New Features VFX Artists Can Benefit From Premiere Pro CC 2019

Dear Aspirants, today in our blog we will give an overview on some of the new features of Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2019 that can benefit VFX artists.

Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2019 is the video editing software developed by Adobe Systems.

Adobe Premiere Pro CC is the successor of Adobe Premiere first launched in 1991.

The new version of Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2019 will mostly be used by professional media houses, film studios to edit audio/video visuals.

This editing software supports high resolution video images.

It helps to turn raw footage into stunning cinematic products.

Video, audio and graphics can be imported using this software to create new edited video which can be export to the other medium or format for distribution.

New Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2019 will be a great help to the VFX artists as it has been launched into the market with some advanced features.

Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2019 supports both Windows and Mac platform.

New Features In Premiere Pro CC 2019 For VFX Artists

More Native Support Cameras

This feature will provide to work with various clips from different sources, so more camera support is better.

New Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2019 will support footage imported directly from cameras such as Arri Amira Camera, Arri Alexa LF footage, Sony Cameras, High-Efficiency Image Format (HEIF)/HEIC Capture format used by iPhone 8 and iPhone X.

Visual Effects artist could gather many images and visual from camera sources to work.

More camera support feature will allow professionals to capture the raw footage from different types of digital cameras.

Once the footage will be captured into the Premiere Pro CC software then the professionals can work with different visuals.

VFX artist can import the 3D projects in the Premiere Pro CC through cameras which has been prepared on other software.

Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2019 provides built-in-support for Arri Amira Camera and now it will allow to import from Arri Alexa LF (large footage) file format, Sony Venice V2 and iPhones latest versions.

Additional Selective Grading Curves In Lumetri Colour

Colour adjustment is an important part of any visual content.

The Colour Grading option has additional selective Colour Grading Curves in Lumetri Colour.

VFX artist can work on colour improvement of the visuals easily with this new Colour Grading feature.

Visual Effects artist can even fine tune skin tones by working on Lumetri or Luminance/saturation Curve.

This feature also allows naming of various Lumetri Colour effects on a single clip.

Artists can get faster experience while working with Lumetri Colour Effect.

Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2019 allows the VFX artists to have more control over cinematic colour grade.

Consolidate Duplicates

In case of big movie project multiple VFX artists works on the same project file.

In that case there is a chance of importing multiple duplicate files of the same clip into the project bin of every VFX artist.

Hence VFX artist can remove the unnecessary duplicate copies with the Consolidate Duplicates Command.

This feature can save lot of time and will avoid frustrations in VFX artists while working on same project.

The VFX artist will simply have to select Edit>Consolidate Duplicates to remove duplicates from the project bin.

Grouping For Team Project

Collaborator Grouping is another feature that has been added to latest version of Adobe Premiere Pro CC for the benefit of VFX artist to work in a large team.

VFX artist can simply share their project with the group.

Team project simplifies the work with multiple team members in post-production stage.

Collaborator Grouping will allow editors, motion graphic artists, VFX artists to work together.

They can share sequences, compositions among themselves with this feature without the need of additional hardware.

One can easily invite or add or manage new team members.

Team member can work from anywhere and can easily link the media.

This new feature will help in the creation of multiple versions and collaborates on shared material.

Projects can be shared without overwriting someone else efforts.

VFX artist can share their visuals with the team through Collaborator Grouping and can rectify their work based on the team member’s suggestions.

Improved Auto-Saving Option

It happens many times that while working on a project, suddenly Premiere Pro crashes down and you don’t remember the last time when you saved your project file.

New auto-saving feature allows to automatically save the current primary .prproj file of your work.

Thus you can have much better chance of retaining your recent work in the original project file.

This setting is off by default, one can activate this option by simply clicking to Edit>Preferences>Auto-Save>Auto-Save also saves the current projects.

Once the Auto-Save is enabled, Premiere Pro CC will create a backup project file for all open projects along with current working project file.

For VFX artist auto-saving is a great help as VFX artist deals with heavy visual contents which need to be saved immediately otherwise they have to go through again creating complex visual effects for the scenes.

This feature will add another layer of protection against losing work.

Virtual Reality Enhancement

Adobe Premiere Pro CC has added ability to create 180/Virtual Reality video for Monoscopic and stereoscopic content.

This will allow VFX artists to see the 3D contents more effectively.

Artist can play the complete video in the Google VR180 format for YouTube or other platforms.

While wearing HMD (Head Mounted Display) one can place markers on the media which was impossible earlier.

In previous Premiere Pro version one had to remove headset to add markers.

Also improvement has been made to reduce crashes and speed up render times.

This is a great help for the VFX artist as their work needs lot of rendering time.

The latest version of Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2019 has lot of practical benefits that can make the work easier for the Premiere Pro users.

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When To Use After Effects’s Roto Brush Tool

Today in this blog we will study about when After Effect’s Roto Brush Tool can be used.

Rotoscoping is a process of tracing and isolation objects within an image.

It is a laborious work because here one needs to create a matte for every individual frame.

To rotoscope one second of video, one would need to do 24 to 30 mattes depending on frames-per-second and each and every matte should match the movement of the isolating object.

Fortunately Adobe After Effects has come up with a wonderful Roto Brush Tool to make the task of rotoscoping easy and simple.

With the new Adobe After Effects Roto Brush Tool one can do many ventures.

Adobe After Effects Roto Brush Tool is very similar to Quick Selection Tool of Adobe Photoshop.

Roro Brush Tool will allow to brush over the area one would want to select, with easy roto brush tool one can add or remove from the selection.

But the difference is that with rotoscoping one is working on the abundance of images rather than one.

Application Of After Effects’s Roto Brush Tool

Adobe After Effects is a digital visual effects software developed by Adobe Systems.

It is widely used in post-production stage in filmmaking and television productions.

Roto Brush Tool is a tool which comes inside Adobe After Effects along with other tools.

Roto Brush Tool is a great help in case of visual effects and compositing.

The VFX artist can make use of this tool to the fullest.

Roto helps to create a matte that separate an object from its background and then one can change the background or can apply effects to the foreground.

Before working on rotoscoping; artist should study the footage carefully.

By studying the footage artist would be able to determine timeframe for the project.

Artist should have the clear view in mind about which section of the image he/she want to rotoscope.

Making A Selection With The Roto Brush Tool

Roto Brush Tool is used to draw line strokes on the indicative areas of the foreground and background elements.

After Effects uses the line strokes information to create a separate boundary between the foreground and background sections.

As Rotoscoping allows separating the subject from a background, it proves to be a great help when subject is not shot with green or blue screen; one can easily separate the subject using After Effects Roto Tool.

Once the subject is separate one can make adjustments to the subject like colour correction, changing the background, animated transitions and many more.

One of the main advantages of this After Effects Roto Brush Tool is that once a initial selection is made with the Roto Brush Tool .

After Effects will by itself introduce matte for the next 24 frames which will allow one to work at a sufficient pace of one second at a time.

After Effects makes use of each brush strokes to improve the results on nearby frames.

In case the subject changes shape from one frame to the next, the divided boundary created by the roto brush tool will adapts to match the subject.

To start with the Roto Brush Tool, first select the Roto brush tool then select the area and drag the brush tool to make selection.

Once the first selection is complete, it will serve you as base frame.

After Effects provides its users different view options to see the selection.

One can see the alpha option as black and white boundary or as a covering.

One can also see an X-ray view of edge selections.

Rotoscoping as VFX tool is used in almost every movie and television shows.

In case of feature film rotoscoping process may take hours or days to complete.

Rotoscoping is an art form so mastering it will need time, patience and skills.

Roto Brush Tool Used To Change Background

In the above picture we can see the effect of rotoscoping, in the right window box the subject is separated from the background by applying Roto brush tool.

On the left window box we can see the background image has been changed to more beautiful scenic view with sunset, clouds and trees.

The foreground subject is the same in both the pictures.

After Effects Roto Brush Tool has the ability to create complex curve lines.

Users can use Roto Brush Tool as a dragging brush tool.

The beginners can simply select the Roto Brush Tool in the toolbar and work to make the foreground bright or to darken the background.

This tool can also help to clone the people or to add text between components on screen or some other crazy visual effects.

Separating a very complicated shaped person or object with the help of Roto Tool could be very time consuming and tough job.

For example in case of two people fighting, it could be impossible to follow the actions of both the person correctly with one single selection outline.

After Effects Roto Brush Tool also allows the artist to fine-tune rotoscope in a simpler environment.

After making a rough selection through Roto Tool, Refine Edge Tool should be selected and applied.

Roto Brush And Refine Edge Tool

Refine Edge Tool is used to achieve a clean rotoscope along with Roto Brush Tool.

If the artist is not frequently rotoscoping the images then he/she can invest time in fine tuning the rotoscope image.

It is necessary for the VFX artist to learn the application of Roto Brush Tool and Refine Edge Tool so that he/she could work efficiently.

It is also necessary to select the motion blur in the Roto Brush Parameters, so that the edges can flow naturally if the subject has lot of motion.

After Effects Roto Brush Tool is a simple, fast and great option for clean VFX Rotoscoping rather than working on drawing and animating masks.

Previously Rotoscoping was a tedious work but now with the advent of users friendly software Rotoscoping has become fun and exciting.

Every VFX artist both professional and aspirant should learn this technique even if they are more interested to create the explosions effects.

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