Digital Domain uses Optical Flares!

Posted by on Aug 2, 2011 in Blog | 9 comments

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Just saw this cool article on CGSociety about the work by Digital Domain on Transformers 3 and was amazed to see our plug-in Optical Flares mentioned!

From the Article:
“Michael Bay is big on lens aberration, lens flares. “He’s always, ‘Ping my lens man, don’t be afraid to ‘ping my lens’”. Adobe After Effects has a great plugin called Optical Flares from Video Co-Pilot which is phenomenal for generating lens flares. We’d save it out, bring it into Nuke and worked a treat, he loved it.”

Besides that fun bit, the article has some great production insights and a fun point about Hyper-Reality vs actual reality. Check it out at the end.

Of course the other interesting news, is that our plug-in Optical Flares is being ported to work natively inside of Nuke and we are entering the final stages of testing.  We have added some innovated solutions for working with objects and lights within the Nuke 3D space that should be a nice time-saver. If anyone at Digital Domain wants to help beta test, just send us an email!

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9 Comments

  1. JJ | August 2, 2011

    Mmmmm… no.

  2. loocas | August 2, 2011

    Dude, I can imagine being first matters with your girlfriend, but what the hell is so important about being first in a comment thread?! I’ll never get this… especially just shouting “first!!!!!!1111oneeleven”…

  3. Lucho | August 2, 2011

    wise choice Digital Domain… wise choice

  4. bwoogie | August 2, 2011

    well, duh, why wouldn’t they? it’s awesome :P

  5. Scott Attula | August 2, 2011

    Andrew said he was working on Super 8, so there’s a good chance we was using his own plugin

  6. badhon | August 2, 2011

    great.congrats man………………

  7. Sam | August 2, 2011

    I’m really happy for all that video copilot does and has achieved, but I gotta admit I’m not a fan of this whole lens flare movement in film. I find it kinda annoying and distracting. I like to feel like I’m THERE, not looking through a lens. Anyone else with me here?

  8. Leon Sanginiti | August 2, 2011

    Congrats Andrew and Video Co-Pilot!! I figured companies like DD and ILM, and others were using your products. I am assuming that Optical Flares was also used on “Cowboys and Aliens”…there were a LOT of alien flare blasts…even Freddy Wong mentioned using it on his Youtube video that Universal and Jon Favreu commissioned to tie in with the movie. Freddy mentions Optical Flares, assumed they used it on the actual movie…and let me tell you, the work he did with “OF” looks IDENTICAL to those in the movie…so I’m betting on the software was used! Good for you guys!!!