Owner of Sapphire, Continuum, and Mocha Pro - Boris FX has announced the acquisition of SilhouetteFX and Digital Film Tools Silhouette offers advanced rotoscoping and non-destructive paint tools in a standalone GPU-accelerated node-based compositing application. Top artists at the world’s most famous VFX studios — Weta Digital, Framestore, Technicolor, Deluxe, and many more — use Silhouette to help create epic visual effects on the biggest blockbusters including Avatar, The Hobbit, Wonder Woman, Avengers: End Game, and Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw.
“Silhouette has been an essential tool for us for over 15 years. It’s a robust, feature-packed tool that allows us to continually add to the sophistication of our roto and paint capabilities. We’ve developed a deep partnership with them over the years and look forward to continuing that partnership in this exciting new era.” — Matt Mueller, Head of Optical, Weta Digital
“The hand-paint capabilities, the automated paint strokes, and the smart integration with other apps make it my everyday software for any paint shot we have to deliver at Weta Digital.” — Eddie Soria, Digital Paint Lead, Weta Digital
Silhouette’s renowned advanced rotoscoping workflows and non-destructive paint tools have evolved into a full-fledged GPU-accelerated node-based compositing application featuring hundreds of features as well as integrated Mocha planar tracking
Silhouette founders, Marco Paolini, Paul Miller, and Peter Moyer, will continue in their current leadership roles and partner with the Mocha product development team to collaborate on delivering next-generation tools. “By joining forces with Boris FX, we are not only dramatically expanding our team’s capabilities, but we are also joining a group of like-minded film industry pros to provide the best solutions and support to our customers,” says Marco Paolini, Product Designer. “The Mocha planar tracking option we currently license is extremely popular with Silhouette paint and roto artists, and more recently through OFX, we’ve added support for Sapphire plug-ins. Working together under the Boris FX umbrella is our next logical step and we are excited to add new features and continue advancing Silhouette for our user base.”
Digital Film Tools (DFT)
Digital Film Tools (DFT) emerged as an off-shoot of a Los Angeles-based motion picture visual effects facility whose work included hundreds of feature films, commercials, and television shows. The team used their strong practical understanding of photography, film and video editing, and in particular visual effects, to design highly-specialized software.The Digital Film Tools portfolio includes standalone applications as well as professional plug-in collections for photographers, filmmakers, editors, and colorists. The definitive digital toolbox contains hundreds of realistic filters for optical camera simulation, specialized lenses, film stocks and grain, lens flares, optical lab processes, color correction, keying, and compositing as well as natural light and photographic effects. DFT plug-ins support Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, After Effects, and Premiere Pro; Apple Final Cut Pro X and Motion; Avid Media Composer; and OFX hosts including Foundry Nuke and Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve.
“This acquisition is a natural next step to our continued growth strategy and singular focus on delivering the most powerful VFX tools and plug-ins to the content creation market,” says Boris Yamnitsky, CEO & Founder, Boris FX. “Silhouette fits perfectly into our product line with superior paint and advanced roto tools that highly complement Mocha’s core strength in planar tracking and object removal. Rotoscoping, paint, digital makeup, and stereo conversion are some of the most time-consuming labor-intensive aspects of feature film post-production,” continues Yamnitsky. “Sharing technology and tools across all our products will make Silhouette even stronger as the leader in these tasks. Furthermore, the DFT product has developed a loyal following in the professional photography market as an incredible set of Photoshop plug-ins. We are very excited to be working with such an accomplished team and look forward to collaborating on new product offerings for photography, film, and video.”
If you’re heading to IBC next week (September 13-17, 2019), swing by the Boris FX stand (7.A65) to meet the team and see a sneak peek at the upcoming Silhouette 2020 release.
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