Autodesk announced that it has started to distribute the Autodesk Combustion 4 program for Apple Macintosh. Combustion 4, the visual effects program of Autodesk, consists of a set of tools among which vector painting tools, particles, effects, animation and 3D composition.
This new version for mac operating system improves the creative process of visual effects, offering improved interoperability with applications from other companies, painting tools optimized and greater efficiency in workflows.
The Autodesk Combustion Program can be used in the process of creating effects complicated visuals for movies, TV series and high-tech ads. Among other recent projects in those that the Combustion program was used during its process Creative are found: The Fantastic 4 (Meteor Studios), Serenity and the TV series science fiction Battlestar Galactica (Zoic Studios), and Seven Swords (Digital Pictures Iloura, Australia).
The key features of Combustion 4 for Mac are:
- Diamond key insertion; second generation of sophisticated algorithms key insertion, used to delete data green/blue screen background in movies or videos, derivatives of Autodesk's Discreet Flame, a visual effects that add a new level to the advanced key insertion technology.
- Time-Warp: an operator with possibility of use with time manipulation keys to quickly create slow motion and motion effects speedy.
- Vector forms B-spline and a new points grouping system that achieves more effective and faster rotoscopies.
- Personalized capsules: creates and saves simple encapsulated operator nodes or Grouped.
- New "Blur" fast Gaussian" optimized; delete details thin of an image for a smoothing effect that simulates movement or blur of a quick shot.
- Merger operator: new operator optimized to quickly merge two layers of the same size using any of the nodes of transfer of the Combustion program.
- Advanced painting: new painting tools, grids and rulers, B-Spline in paint and new custom brushes.
