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Red Giant Universe 3.3 Adds Tools for Animated Light Trai...

Red Giant has just released an update to Universe, its collection of GPU-accelerated plugins for editors and motion graphics artists. Universe 3.3 delivers two brand new tools and an update to four current ones in the existing Universe suite. Visual...

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Published 18 August 2020

Maxon 3D and Motion Design Show for Siggraph to Feature A...

Maxon, the developers of professional 3D modeling, animation, rendering and motion design software solutions, today announced the speaker lineup and schedule for its upcoming 3D and Motion Design Show for Siggraph 2020. Running from Tuesday, July 21s...

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Published 14 July 2020

Maxon and Red Giant Debut New Tutorial on How to Create a...

Today, Maxon and Red Giant released a tutorial on how to create an alien invasion during the 4th of July. Inspired by the 1996 hit movie Independence Day, Seth Worley took on the challenge of replicating the invasion, sans the octopus-like aliens fro...

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Published 09 July 2020

Maxon, Red Giant and Redshift Announce Blowout Summer Sal...

Today, Maxon, Red Giant and Redshift announced their blowout Summer Sale - 30% off new annual subscriptions and Redshift licenses - will kick off on Tuesday, June 23, 2020. Running for 72 straight hours, customers will have access to sale prices star...

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Published 18 June 2020

New Red Giant Cheap Tricks Tutorial Shows off Cinema 4D a...

Red Giant has just released the newest episode of Cheap Tricks, their handy VFX tutorial series hosted by Daniel “Hashi” Hashimoto, the Action Movie Dad: “What’s Kraken? Fractured Ice Surface Tutorial.” Out now on the Red Giant YouTube channel, Hashi...

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Published 11 June 2020

Maxon Announces 2020 Virtual Events Calendar

Maxon, the developers of professional 3D modeling, animation, and rendering software solutions is pleased to announce its trade shows, road shows and special events for the remainder of 2020 will be free virtual events hosted on 3DMotionShow.com (for...

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Published 08 June 2020

Red Giant Debuts Tutorial on 3D Normalization in Adobe Af...

Red Giant has just released a short tutorial on how to “normalize” a 3D scene composition. The multi-step process is used to take random 3D coordinate results generated by the Adobe® After Effects® camera tracker and turn it into something useful for...

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Published 04 June 2020

Maxon and Red Giant to Combine Forces

Maxon, the developers of professional 3D software solutions and Red Giant creators of unique tools for editors, VFX artists, and motion designers, today cooperatively announced that the two companies have reached a definitive agreement to merge under...

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Published 18 December 2019

Recreate the Magic from Frozen II with a New Red Giant Ch...

Red Giant has released another Cheap Tricks episode: Frozen II VFX, in which Daniel “Hashi” Hashimoto of Action Movie Kid demonstrates how to recreate the magical visual effects from the newest Frozen film. Now available on YouTube for unlimited view...

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Published 06 December 2019

The Red Giant Year End Sale Returns Bigger and Better tha...

In just two weeks, Red Giant will kick off its Year End Sale, the 24-hour annual blowout on all Red Giant tools, running from 8:00 a.m. PST (11:00 a.m. EST) on Tuesday, December 10, 2019 to 8:00 a.m. PST (11:00 a.m. EST) Wednesday, December 11, 2019....

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Published 26 November 2019

Introducing: Red Giant Complete for Individuals, Students...

Red Giant today announced the availability of Red Giant Complete for individuals, students and teachers. Expanding its software licensing options, Red Giant Complete is a subscription service that gives editors, motion designers and VFX artists all R...

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Published 25 November 2019

Red Giant Releases Epic Finish to Game of Thrones VFX Tut...

Red Giant has just released the fourth and final installment of its special edition tutorial series for recreating the award-winning visual effects from Game of Thrones. In episode 11 of Cheap Tricks, Hashi shows viewers how to add a dragon into thei...

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Published 04 October 2019

Bring the Army of the Undead to Life On Screen with the H...

Portland, OR - October 1, 2019 - Red Giant, creator of filmmaking, visual effects and motion graphics tools, has just released the third installment of its Cheap Tricks special edition Game of Thrones tutorial series. In this latest episode, Action M...

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Published 02 October 2019

Red Giant Universe 3.1 Introduces Three Brand New Text an...

Red Giant today released Universe 3.1, an update to their GPU-accelerated plugins for editors and motion graphics artists. Red Giant Universe 3.1 introduces three new tools for animating motion graphics to the collection: Numbers, Array Gun, and Prog...

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Published 25 September 2019

Replicate the Intentionally Bad Opening Sequence from Bet...

Red Giant has just published yet another tutorial, this week’s being inspired by some of the (intentionally) worst motion graphics ever featured in an opening title sequence, those of Better Call Saul. Seth Worley is at it again, bringing his wit and...

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Published 20 September 2019