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Ocular results (vfx) is the term given to the sub-category of special effects in which images or film frames are created or even manipulated for film & streaming video. Ocular results commonly require a integration of live-action footage with computer generated imagery or even even even other elements (like pyrotechnics or model functiin) sequentially to produce environments or scenarios which look naturalistic, however would exist as unsafe, costly, or only impossible to capture on film. It use at times turn into progressively park within heavy-budget films, & keep close at hand besides recently get accessible to a amateur film producer sustaining the introduction of low-priced animation and compositing software.

Timing
Ocular results come oftentimes integral to the motion-picture show's story & appeal. Although virtually all visual-results function is completed in the period of post-production, it usually must become carefully planned & choreographed inside pre-production and production.

Categories
Ocular results can be divided into at least 4 categories: Models: miniature sets and models, animatronics Matte paintings and stills: digital or even even traditional paintings or exposure which help when background plates for keyed or rotoscoped elements Live-action results: keying actors or system across bluescreening and greenscreening Digital animation: modelling, lighting, texturing, rigging, animating, & rendering computer generated 3D characters, particle effects, digital sets, backgrounds, etc..

Nothing Real
Lightning fast 2-D compositing software called Shake.

Avid Technology
Provides information on all-digital solutions for capturing, creating, editing and distributing digital media. Avid products are used to produce films, television programs, special effects, broadcast news, and audio recordings.

IZware
Technology tools for the creation of 3D content for game development including Mirai, Nendo and N-World.

StageTools
MovingPicture is a tool for performing smooth pans and zooms on hi-res stills. It is available as a standalone app or plug-in for most popular nonlinear editing systems on Mac and Windows.

Hammerhead Productions Software
Creators of ras_trak 3D camera tracking software and roto motion-blurred rotoscoping software.

Project: messiah
Advanced character animation plugin for Lightwave 3D

Impulse Inc.
Developers of the Illusion digital special effects package for professional or amateur animators, web designers, video producers and artists. Windows 95/98.

Motion Capture by Metamotion
Easy to use and cost effective motion capture hardware and software.

Soluciones Gráficas por Ordenador (SGO)
Developers of software for digital production and post production including Jaleo, Natural Tools, Maya, and Toon Boom. View site in English or Spanish.

TimeBrush Studios
Makers of BlackMagic photo colorization software for Windows. Also provides motion picture and video colorization services.

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