Later today we will be releasing the behind the scenes video for our Demon Cam film. Now along the way, we tried to film everything that went into the production, unfortunately some scenes didn't make the cut.

Now that we have released our new promo video for 'Demon Cam', it's time to start sharing the fruits of the project to you! One of the most used elements was the mystical smoke found inside of the Orb, and now it's yours!

Be sure to mix it with additional particle effects like this crazy energy ball!
Download Smoke Elements

SPOILERS:
Now if you have not seen the film yet, please check it out first before reading on...
Watch Demon Cam Promo NOW!

So what's next?
Well, now that the film is out we are going to be sharing the secrets of our VFX compositing workflows for nearly all of the challenging VFX shots to help everyone see what is possible. Our goal was to make a promo video with as many impressive VFX shots as possible so we can try to push the limits of our tutorials and production values of a real-world project.

Now, I agree this was a lot of work to put into a 'VFX App', but what's AWESOME is that even if we don't hit it big like "Angry Birds", we still have some sweet real-world FX shots to make exciting new tutorials for months to come!

...Pretty clever

So get ready for a new tutorial or breakdown every week AND an impressive behind-the-scenes video covering various aspects of the production just for the Video Copilot community!

Here is an inside look at some of the shots we will be working on. Until then...
Watch The Demon Cam Promo

Discover the secret of the Orb! Unleash the demons... with Demon Cam.

In the beginning of the year our team decided we wanted to try something new and take on a project with creative challenges and help push the limits of our tutorials. Instead of making a single shot-effect, we wanted to try creating a real-world project with a bigger scope and difficult visual effects that we could share with the community... With a little inspiration from Sam Loya 2007, we created Demon Cam!

Don't let our secret be lost for centuries, help spread the word!

Turn up the speakers and watch in HD:

Watch Film Promo Now

OK. It's really happening, finally! Our crystal ball promo video is going online tomorrow! After many months of tinkering away in our extra time we have finished producing an odd but interesting new project and it all started here at Video Copilot

So before we launch the film, check out this short clip from our Behind-the-scenes action.

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Just saw this cool article on CGSociety about the work by Digital Domain on Transformers 3 and was amazed to see our plug-in Optical Flares mentioned!

From the Article:
"Michael Bay is big on lens aberration, lens flares. "He's always, 'Ping my lens man, don't be afraid to 'ping my lens'". Adobe After Effects has a great plugin called Optical Flares from Video Co-Pilot which is phenomenal for generating lens flares. We'd save it out, bring it into Nuke and worked a treat, he loved it."

Besides that fun bit, the article has some great production insights and a fun point about Hyper-Reality vs actual reality. Check it out at the end.

Of course the other interesting news, is that our plug-in Optical Flares is being ported to work natively inside of Nuke and we are entering the final stages of testing. We have added some innovated solutions for working with objects and lights within the Nuke 3D space that should be a nice time-saver. If anyone at Digital Domain wants to help beta test, just send us an email!