

The studio will provide CGI, animation, compositing, VFX, color grading, AR and experimental and virtual production. Kneale’s partners in this new venture are Melanie Wickham, former EP and director of production at The Mill New York, and Verity Grantham, former chief of staff of the same office. Preymaker uses an advanced custom cloud-based platform created in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to innovate and create content for brands and forward companies. Additionally, content created in the Flame family of products can now be exported in portable network graphics (PNG) format.Īngus Kneale, former chief creative officer and co-founder of The Mill New York, has launched Preymaker, a collective of creatives, technologists and producers. Autodesk has updated ARRI, Red, Codex HDE, Pixspan and Sony XAVC formats. Additional community-generated matchbox tools will also appear in the list.Ī new preference panel for the search tool allows artists to control which nodes they see and which they don’t based on a favoriting, tagging and hiding system. With this search tool, artists can add regular nodes in Batch, Action, OFX plugins and matchboxes.

This allows Flame artists to quickly search through all addable nodes and intuitively attach them to schematics. dual-panel UI layout, which intuitively displays all the tools at an artist’s disposal.Īutodesk has also added a new fast-access search tool that allows users to easily add nodes in the Batch, BFX and Action schematics as well as in the Image node and GMask Tracer tools.

Additionally, machine learning models now load on demand, caching is improved and storyboard thumbnail generation is optimized. This update also adds significant speed and ergonomic improvements within Flame’s Effects environment, a new in-context node-search tool and media format updates.īuilding on previous releases of semantic keying for sky, human body, head and face part extraction, the Salient Keyer uses object recognition and machine learning technology to identify and provide a matte for the most obvious or “salient” object in a bounding box, which can be animated.Īutodesk reports that this release offers enhancements in the speed of interaction for navigating and scrubbing larger, more complex timelines. One example is a new object-based keyer that identifies and provides a matte for the most obvious object in a bounding box.

This latest release features flexibility, performance and integrated finishing refinements. Autodesk has updated Flame to version 2021.2.
