Press Release:

OpaqueWhite.com Introduces Advanced Tools and Training for Compositors and Matchmove Artists

ORLANDO, FL USA – June 16, 2006 – OpaqueWhite.com today announced a broad collection of products, spanning tools and training for high end visual effects integration.  Building on four years of training and instruction, as well as independent R&D in both educational and commercial environments, these tools and training materials aim to transform the knowledge and abilities of users at all levels of experience.

"Shake users at any level of experience will find a wealth of new capabilities in our new toolkits," said Ed Offermann, OpaqueWhite's owner and principle developer.  "From the OneLight Toolkit which allows users to dynamically relight rendered scenes in Apple Shake, the ReMapper Toolkit which permits application of complete textures or damage and dirt to rendered elements, ReDistort to apply or remove real-world accurate lens distortion, and DynaCyc to dynamically generate vast panoramic elements composed of hundreds or even thousands of live action elements automatically, tools previously only available to the largest production houses are now available to everyone with an easy-to-master interface."

"In addition, with a growing collection of instructional DVDs covering matchmoving featuring Ssontech's affordable and robust SynthEyes software, as well as materials covering advanced topics such as using rendered surface normal information for lighting and reflection simulation and using rendered UV coordinate data to apply textures and texture elements during postproduction, OpaqueWhite will expand the technical vocabulary of artists throughout the world."

Upcoming roducts from OpaqueWhite:

OneLight - Surface normal based relighting toolset for Apple Shake
ReDistort - Accurately apply or remove lens distortion from elements
ReMapper - Apply textures or texture elements such as dirt and damage
Introduction to SynthEyes - a comprehensive overview (DVD)
DynaCyc - Shake toolset to Algorithmically create cyclorama-style elements composed of hundreds or thousands of CG or live action elements for use in panoramic composites. Create a vast forest from a few trees, a field of battle flags waving in the breeze from a few live or cg ones, scattered smoke and fires or even crowd scenes using only a small number of original elements. Accurately simulate the 3d trajectory of free-flying objects in a 2d environment.  One object or a thousand!
Intermediate SynthEyes – Using matchmoving to achieve awesome results
Relighting and reflection simulation using normal maps (DVD)
Retexturing during post using rendered UV coordinate data (DVD)
Advanced SynthEyes – Hardcore matchmoving techniques for professionals

Pricing

Toolsets are flexibly priced based on intended use with volume discounts available.  Educational and student licenses are available at a greatly reduced rate to allow artists at all levels to have access to the most advanced and friendly tools available.

OpaqueWhite aims to be the premiere source for bringing high-end tools, techniques and training to a wide range of artists in the visual effects community.