January 28, 2020
Have you ever needed to track and attach something to a warping surface in After Effects? Enter Lockdown, an innovative plugin from the team at aescripts + aeplugins that allows you to not only track warped surfaces, but also to pin objects to them and even apply deformations from the warped surface to your object.
At ActionVFX, our blog was formed based on the idea of providing value to the VFX and filmmaking community. As we start off the new year, we want to give you our top 20 blogs heading into 2020! Without further ado, let's jump into the top posts for you to read in 2020.
ActionVFX will be holding a three-day (Jan. 10 - 12) fundraiser to help support the relief effort in Australia during their devastating bushfires. All revenue generated from our Fire Stock Footage will be donated to the non-profit organization NSW Rural Fire Service.
SideFX’s industry-favorite procedural VFX software has made the leap into its next iteration with Houdini 18. Today, we’ll take a look at just three ways Houdini 18 enables you to produce VFX with more power and control than ever before.
Maybe you’ve dabbled in Blender in the past, but you haven’t picked it up for a while. With this year’s milestone official release of Blender 2.8 (and now even 2.81), we’re going to take a look at five major reasons why now is a better time than ever to dive into the excellent open-source 3D modeling suite.
For pop-culture, Star Wars has been a staple of storytelling. For VFX, it means even more. From the birth of ILM to dozens of technical advancements and achievements, Star Wars will always be a foundational work in the history of cinema effects.
ActionVFX is home to the world's largest VFX stock footage library, holding over 3,300 individual elements trusted by professional Hollywood compositors and individual filmmakers around the world. Did you know that over 400 of these VFX assets are completely free?
This year has seen some incredible advancements in the VFX industry. We’ve covered so many new VFX tools and plugins on our blog throughout the course of the year, so we’re here to help you keep track of the top six that we found most exciting.
