Creating visual effects without Chalice is like camping without a pocket knife. Inevitably, every visual effects project requires unplanned digital image manipulation, and Chalice provides the perfect environment in which to accomplish those tasks. Silicon Grail’s latest iteration of Chalice, version 1.6, takes great strides in increasing usability while maintaining […]
Author: Kory Jones
Kory Jones is a partner at Reality Check Studios and a faculty member at the American Film Institute.
Puffin Designs Commotion
If you have used Commotion in the past you are probably aware 1.5 is a well-designed tool that fills a number of voids in the desktop production environment such as matte creation, rotoscoping and real-time playback of uncompressed files. Commotion 2.0 and the new filters from Puffin Designs continue the […]
Medea’s 4 and 6 Drive RAIDS Storage for Your Storage
The idea behind the Medea Drives is a very good one: put all the drives and RAID controller hardware in a single box so you can have a RAID without using one of the precious few PCI slots in the new Macs (or PC’s.) I got the new drive, opened […]