This week’s fxguidetv continues our “Masters of the Craft” series with a conversation with vfx legend Scott Squires. He sits down with Mike Seymour and chats about how he got started in the industry, starting on Close Encounters, and rising to a senior visual effects supervisor at ILM. Now freelance, Scott discuss both his career and also the latest developments in effects. We also feature a brilliant XSI tip with Lucas Martell.
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I was a beta tester for Commotion (1.5 and forward) and I loved the app. It was clean, fast and fast. Tracking was great, splines even better and it’s these tools that I still miss today. Though I have to use 4.1 when I use it nowdays – I actually still use it from time to time. I would prefer to ditch the compositing aspect of it and keep it clean, fast and fast.
Greater color depth would be awesome but just to load a bunch of frames into RAM to play and paint on is just what you need sometimes. Oh – especially the AWESOME USEFUL tool of loading a cropped area to work on!
Since Avid is ditching alot of stuff now, would they sell Commotion back to Scott as well?
Thanks for a great show.
Tobias Lind
Sweden
Let’s just say I continue to talk to Avid. You never know.
Thanks for XSI tip.