Visual Effects – What does it mean?
Visual Effects is taking an existing picture and manipulating it or adding an effect on top of it. This can be split into two groups.
The first is where the effect can, and should be seen. An example of this would be a
morph, an explosion or another transition that is visually appealing and adds value to
the end product.
The second is where the effect cannot and should not be seen. Here we use an effect to merge or hide two (or three or four...) separate images to make them appear seamless to the naked eye.
Visual Effects is our main line of business. It is in high end suites where we push our skill, creativity and imagination to the limit in order to achieve the impossible. All the suites “talk to each other” and we can therefore provide cost and time effective solutions by using either one or a combination of the following tools. |
Flame
At Ministry of illusion we use our Flame as a real-time online digital effects toolset.
This legendary toolset is ideal for creating visual effects for commercials, music videos, broadcast programming and promos, feature films and interactive media. Within its intuitive 3D Action design environment or Batch interface, flame delivers the instantaneous feedback required for complex client assisted production challenges as well as fast and simple broadcast graphics. Equipped with a advanced keying, tracking, warping and grading tools, Flame is the crème-de-la-creme of visual effects suites.
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Smoke
Smoke is the smaller sibling to the flame but just as powerful when it comes to compositing, grading, title animation and visual effects. A slightly more cost effective option than flame, Smoke is often the preferred online choice for the retail, longform and corporate projects.
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Flint
Flint is the smaller sibling to the smoke and is the ideal solution for the less complex online jobs, while still providing the advanced tools that are synonymous with the Autodesk family.
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Combustion
Combustion provides the production power to design, animate, composite, and render our creative vision. It allows us to work seamlessly in a unified non-destructive, paint and compositing environment to finish complex effects shots. It can be used for motion tracking, keying, colour correction, rotoscoping and compositing. At Ministry of Illusion we like to use the Combustion as a preparation and design tool to work hand in hand with either Smoke or Flame.
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Shake
The only Apple Mac suite at Ministry of Illusion, the Shake runs and is a perfect extension to the final cut pro giving the artist the ability to offline and online your entire project in one suite. With its use of Optical Flow technology, Shake leads the way in integrating the latest image processing breakthroughs into a single, affordable visual effects package. The results are cleaner, sharper and more natural-looking images. It also offers Unified 2D/3D compositing, advanced image processing and open, customisable architecture.
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